Mount Rushmore

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Mount Rushmore is a national monument located in Keystone, South Dakota. A Muppet caricature appears in 1975's Muppet Show pilot, Sex and Violence telling jokes. They are played here by Jim Henson (George Washington), Jerry Nelson (Thomas Jefferson), Frank Oz (Teddy Roosevelt), and John Lovelady (Abraham Lincoln). The oblivious Washington frequently said "I don't get it."
A subtitled version of this clip, along with its intro of Sam, Nigel and Floyd, plays in a montage video loop at the actual monument's Lincoln Borglum Museum, showcasing Mount Rushmore's appearances in popular culture over the decades.
They would appear twice more, rebuilt as different puppets. In the 1980s, they could be seen in a PSA for the National Wildlife Federation with Kermit the Frog (in his Sesame Street reporter's outfit). In 1996, they reappeared in Muppets Tonight episode 106. They laugh in a Beavis and Butt-Head style, after having seen Gonzo zoom past them on a rocket. In this appearance, they were performed by Brian Henson (Jefferson), Steve Whitmire (Roosevelt), and Jerry Nelson (Lincoln).
Several sketches were written and shot starring the monument in 1983 for an unrealized 60 Minutes segment called "Muppet Minute."
A draft of The Muppet Movie script featured a scene where the heads of Mount Rushmore agree to let Henry Kissinger join them. Although this scene wasn't filmed,Tough Pigs Anthology: "The Road to Hollywood" by Danny Horn, August 2002 the real Mount Rushmore was seen in the movie, during a montage for Fozzie's rendition of "America."
In 2004, a computer animated version of Mount Rushmore co-starred with Miss Piggy in a Pizza Hut commercial. In The Muppets, Crazy Harry is seen at Mount Rushmore, using explosives to replace Lincoln's head with his own.
Image:Mount Rushmore.JPG|Sex and Violence
Image:Rushmore.pinball.jpg|Pinball Number Count
Image:Commercial.nwf-rushmore.jpg|National Wildlife Federation PSA
Image:Sesamerushmore.jpg|Sesame Street Magazine issue 243
Grover_mt_rushmore.jpg|The Sesame Street 1976 Calendar
Image:Calendar79-rushmore.jpg|1979 Sesame Street Calendar
Image:Mountrushmore.jpg|The Muppet Movie
Rushmore-Shalom.jpg|Shalom Sesame intro
piggy statues in MM15.png|Muppet Magazine, Summer 1986
Image:Rushmore-spoons.jpg|Muppet Magazine, Summer 1988
Image:Rushmore-mtonight.jpg|Gonzo rockets past in Muppets Tonightepisode 106
Image:Mtrushmore-inyourimagination.jpg|"In Your Imagination", Sesame Street
Image:Mbrushmore.jpg|Muppet Babies "Dental Hyjinks" Bye-Bye
MB713-12.png|Muppet Babies"Whose Tale Is It, Anyway?"
Romancing the Weirdo Mount Rushmore.jpg|Muppet Babies"Romancing the Weirdo"
MB802-MountRushmore.png|Muppet Babies"Get Me to the Perch on Time"
Image:South dakota.jpg|Muppet Babies Visit the Fifty States
Muppets on the Road Mount Rushmore.jpg|Muppets on the Road
4011-Rushmore.jpg|Sesame Street Episode 4011
Image:Rushmore-Piggy.jpg|Pizza Hut commercial
Image:Stripes-rushmore.jpg|Stars & Stripes FOREVER!
Image:ebMountrushmore.JPG|Let's Take a Trip!
Image:mountrushmore-crazyharry.jpg|The Muppets
Image:mup rushmore.png|muppets.com game, "The Muppets: The Great Search!" 
Image:Seuss-Rushmore.jpg|The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss episode "Norval the Great"
Image:TheSecretPolicemansBall-S&W-ViralMtRushmore-(2012-03-04).png|From Statler and Waldorf's Secret Policeman's Ball viral video (2012)
Rusmore-Album.jpg|Travel Songs
MMW map Mount Rushmore.png|Muppets Most Wanted
Sesame Rushmore Presidents Day 2017.jpg|Sesame Street Facebook post for Presidents Day 2017
4813-Rushmore.png|Sesame Street Episode 4813
MB Rushmore Disney Junior Instagram 2018.jpg|Disney Junior's Instagram for Presidents Day 2018
MuppetBabies-(2018)-S02E01-TheFroginizer-MountRushmore.png|Muppet Babies episode "The Froginizer"
5001-Rushmore.png|Sesame Street Episode 5001
==Verbal references==
* Oscar the Grouch has referred to the large-statured Mr. Snuffleupagus as "Mount Rushmore" occasionally on Sesame Street, such as in Episode 2140.
* In the Dog City episode "The Dog Days of Summer Vacation," Artie Springer mentions a potential vacation destination is Mount Ruffmore.
* John Crichton, in the Farscape novel Ship of Ghosts, says his father looks like "he'd been chiselled on Mount Rushmore out of Right Stuff granite."
* In The Muppets episode "Too Hot to Handler," Fozzie uses Mount Rushmore to think of an answer to a trivia question.
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