Towels

Towels are a type of linen which serve a variety of functions, usually depending on size and location. Kitchen towels dry dishes, protect a cook's hands when removing hot trays, and can be decorative. Bathroom towels dry skin after bathing or washing. Beach towels can dry but also serve as blankets on which to suntan or nap. 
Any and all varieties of towels are often decorated, including with licensed characters such as the Muppets (several of whom may technically qualify as linen themselves). Towels occasionally are in fact Muppet characters, as in the Sesame Street song "Soap Opera." 
Linen towels originated in Turkey, so when a tourist (Hashim) speaks admiringly of them in The Muppet Show episode 103 (as a Turkish bath joke), he's being historically accurate. Hygienic purposes aside, towels can be useful as capes to aspiring superheroes, or for that matter pretend vampires. They can also be useful for purposes of modesty, although Rudolf Nureyev found it somewhat insufficient in fending off Miss Piggy in The Muppet Show episode 213.
As defined by authority Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a towel is a "massively useful thing" which serves practical and psychological functions. One should always know where one's towel is.
==Merchandise towels==
===The Muppets===
*Muppet towels (Belina)
*Muppet towels (Bibb)
*Muppet towels (Blackstaff)
*Muppet towels (Cecil Saydah)
*Muppet towels (Disney)
*Muppet towels (Franco Manufacturing)
*Muppet towels (Jay Franco)
*Muppet towels (Lady Pepperell)
*Muppet towels (Martex)
*Muppet towels (R.A. Briggs)
*Muppet towels (Riegel)
*Muppet towels (Sony)
*Muppet*Vision 3D towels
===Sesame Street===
*Sesame Street cup towels
*Sesame Street hooded towels (Jay Franco)
*Sesame Street hooded towels (Little Navy)
*Sesame Street towels (Cannon)
*Sesame Street towels (Japan)
*Sesame Street towels (JC Penney)
*Sesame Street towels (Sesame Place)
*Sesame Street towels (Universal Studios Japan)
===Other===
*Bear in the Big Blue House towels (Franco Manufacturing)
*Bear in the Big Blue House towels (Jay Franco)
*Die Fraggles towels
*Dinosaurs towels
*Fraggle Rock towels (Belina)
*Fraggle Rock towels (Franco Manufacturing)
*Muppet Babies towels (R.A. Briggs)
*Plaza Sésamo hooded towel sets
*Plaza Sésamo towels (JP Imports)
*Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss towels
==Notes==
*Paper towels, designed to clean-up household messes, fall into a different category entirely. They are less than useful for breaking into iron bars around museums as well.
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