Texas

Texas is the 28th state of the United States of America. The capital is Austin and major cities include Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso.
*Muppets, Inc. produced a series of ads for Taystee Bread in 1963 to air in Texas markets.
*A second American Sesame Place park existed in Dallas in the early-1980s.
*SeaWorld San Antonio features the Sesame Street Bay of Play area (since 2011). 
*Kermit the Frog visited Kermit, TX as part of his 50th anniversary world tour.
*Kermit visited NASA's Johnson Space Center as part of his 50th anniversary world tour.
*On January 22, 2006, Henson held a special Fraggle Rock screening event in Dallas, TX. 
*Heather Henson and the Henson Company held "Handmade Puppet Dreams," a screening of independent puppet films, The Muppet Movie, and early Jim Henson works in Houston, TX on February 25, 2006 and Austin, TX on February 26, 2006. 
*Jim Henson's Creature Shop built a large scale Witch puppet for the Houston Opera's production of Hänsel und Gretel in 2006.
* In the book The Muppets Make Puppets!, the mechanical puppet Millicent Meatball has her birthplace listed as Texas.
* In a Twitter posting on January 4, 2011, Big Bird tweeted that he was hoping to become the state bird of Texas, since they like big things there. 
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