2012

==Television & Movies==
* Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, television debut on PBS series Independent Lens, April 5
* Sesame Street Season 43, September 24
==International Television & Movies==
*The Muppets is released in Australia, January 1
*The Muppets is released in New Zealand, January 1
*The Muppets is released in Dominican Republic, January 5
*The Muppets is released in Slovenia, January 5
*The Muppets is released in Costa Rica, January 6
*The Muppets is released in Panama, January 6
*The Muppets is released in Serbia, January 11
*The Muppets is released in Argentina, January 12
*The Muppets is released in the Czech Republic, January 12
*The Muppets is released in Hungary, January 12
*The Muppets is released in Colombia, January 13
*The Muppets is released in Iceland, January 13
*The Muppets is released in Romania, January 13
*The Muppets is released in Uruguay, January 13
*Die Muppets is released in Germany, January 19
*The Muppets is released in Hong Kong, January 19
*The Muppets is released in Bulgaria, January 20
*Muppety is released in Poland, January 20
*The Muppets is released in Vietnam, January 20
*The Muppets is released in Croatia, January 26
*The Muppets is released in Slovakia, January 26
*The Muppets is released in Indonesia, January 27
*The Muppets is released in South Africa, January 27
*The Muppets is released in Greece, February 2
*The Muppets is released in Portugal, February 2
*The Muppets is released in Switzerland, February 2 (German)
*I Muppet is released in Italy, February 3
*The Muppets is released in Spain, February 3
*The Muppets is released in Switzerland, February 3 (Ticino)
*The Muppets is released in The Netherlands, February 8
*The Muppets is released in Ireland, February 8
*The Muppets is released in the United Kingdom, February 10
*The Muppets is released in Belgium, February 15
*The Muppets is released in Malta, February 15
*The Muppets is released in Korea, February 16
*The Muppets is released in Turkey, February 17
*The Muppets is released in Sweden, March 16
*The Muppets is released in The Philippines, March 21
*The Muppets is released in Ukraine, March 29
*The Muppets is released in Russia, April 12
*The Muppets is released in Lithuania, May 18
*The Muppets is released in Japan, May 19
* Sesamstrasse season 40, October 1
* The Muppets All-Star Comedy Gala, December 24 (Canada)
==International Commercials==
*Fisherman's Friend, January (Germany)
*Cravendale, February 6 (United Kingdom)
==Appearances==
*Abby Cadabby on The Sunny Side Up Show, January 4
*Cookie Monster and Elmo on Good Morning America, January 5
*Kermit the Frog on Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll with Stuart Davis & Kandyse McClure, January 12
*Miss Piggy on Project Runway All-Stars, January 19
*Kermit and Miss Piggy at the 84th Academy Awards, February 26
*Oscar the Grouch on Jimmy Kimmel Live, February 26
*The Swedish Chef on Walmart online video, March 8
*Kermit, Miss Piggy and Walter on Good Morning America, March 13
*Miss Piggy on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, March 13
*Kermit and Miss Piggy on The View, March 14
*Kermit on The Colbert Report, March 14
*Miss Piggy on Anderson, March 15
*Kermit and Walter on Entertainment Tonight, March 19
*Miss Piggy on The Talk, March 21
*Statler and Waldorf on The Soup, March 21
*Miss Piggy on Entertainment Tonight, March 21
*Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem on Jimmy Kimmel Live, March 21
*Miss Piggy on Fashion Police, March 30
*Cookie Monster on The Chew, April 2
*Kermit and the Swedish Chef on The View, April 12
*The Puppet Up! cast on The Celebrity Apprentice, April 15
*Kermit, Miss Piggy and the Muppets on The Bachelorette, May 21
*Grover and Telly Monster on Fox & Friends, May 31
*Elmo and Rosita on Coming Home, June 1
*Elmo on Today, June 7
*Murray and Ovejita on Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, July 5
*Elmo, Grover and Abby Cadabby on Today, August 9
*Elmo and Kevin Clash on Barefoot Contessa, August 18
*Grover on Good Afternoon America, August 22
*Miss Piggy on E! News, September 12
*Kermit and Miss Piggy on Best in TV, September 18
* Elmo, Big Bird, Murray, Grover, Bert, Abby, Rosita, Oscar, and Cookie Monster, with Carol-Lynn Parente, Good Morning America, September 19; Maria, and the letter J both appear in a pre-taped segment
* Elmo, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, September 19
* Cookie Monster, Fox & Friends, September 20
* Elmo, The Talk, September 20
* Elmo, Extra, September 20
* Big Bird and Roscoe Orman (Gordon), The Wendy Williams Show, September 21
* Elmo, The Chew, September 21
* Elmo, E! News, September 21
* Elmo, Today, October 2
* Cookie Monster, The Chew, October 23
* Elmo, Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, WNYC radio, October 30
* The Muppets on Good Morning America, November 27
* The Muppets on The Voice, November 27
* The Muppets on Christmas in Rockefeller Center, November 28
* The Muppets on Cee Lo's Magic Moment, November 30
* Kermit on 30 Rock, December 6
* Elmo on Michael Bublé: Home for the Holidays, December 10
* Kermit on VH1 Big Morning Buzz Live, December 14
==Live Appearances==
*Grover at Qualcomm's Consumer Electronics Show 2012 keynote, January 11
*Carmen Osbahr and Pam Arciero, Westport Cinema Initiative screening of Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, January 28
*Elmo at the Drama League of New York gala, February 6
*Scooter at TED2012, February 29
*Statler and Waldorf at The Secret Policeman's Ball, March 4
*Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, Pepe, Walter, and Sweetums at The Hollywood Walk of Fame to receive The Muppets' star, March 20
*Elmo, Abby Cadabby, and Gordon at The White House Easter Egg Roll, April 9
*Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo and Pepe at the NYC & Company Visitor Center in Midtown Manhattan to become the official 2012 NYC Family Ambassadors, April 13
*Characters from Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas appear at the Jim Henson's Musical World concert at Carnegie Hall, April 14
*Kermit and Miss Piggy at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 24
*Cookie Monster at TEDMED2012, April
*Elmo, Rosita, and Abby at The Children's Cancer Foundation benefit Child-Fest, Fulton, Maryland, May 5
*Elmo at Jamie Lynn's Kitchen, May 20
*Elmo, Rosita, Gordon, and Matt Rogers on the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, May
*Eric Jacobson and Super Grover 2.0 at San Diego Comic-Con, July
*Miss Piggy at New York Fashion Week, September 6
*Gordon at South Street Seaport Children's Day, September 30
*Big Bird on Saturday Night Live, October 6
*The Muppets appear with Cee Lo Green in his Las Vegas show, October 10
*Elmo and Gordon at New York Comic Con Kids Day, October 14
*Kermit and Pepe at Disney Store Times Square, November 27
==International Appearances==
*Kermit the Frog & Miss Piggy at Die Muppets premiere press conference in Germany, January 18 (live appearance)
*Miss Piggy at Michael Michalsky's studio for Berlin Fashion Week, January 18 (live appearance)
*Statler & Waldorf on Upps - Die Muppets sind los!, January 19
*Kermit on Radio Energy Berlin, January 19
*Kermit & Miss Piggy on SAT.1 Frühstücksfernsehen, January 20
*Kermit & Miss Piggy at Los Muppets premiere press conference in Spain, January 23 (live appearance)
*Kermit at the National Television Awards, January 25 , 
*Kermit & Miss Piggy at The Sun, January 26 (live appearance)
*Kermit & Miss Piggy at The Muppets premiere press conference in the United Kingdom, January 26 (live appearance)
*Miss Piggy on neoParadise, January 26
*Kermit, Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy on The Chris Moyles Show, January 27
*Kermit & Miss Piggy on The Jonathan Ross Show, January 28
*Kermit, The Swedish Chef, Statler & Waldorf on Albert Heijn commercials, January & February
*Miss Piggy & Kermit on Verleihung der Goldenen Kamera, February 4
*Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Rizzo the Rat & Beaker on T4 Muppet Takeover, February 5
*Kermit on Daybreak, February 10
*Miss Piggy hosting the red carpet at The Orange British Academy Film Awards, February 13 (taped February 12)
*Statler and Waldorf at The Secret Policeman's Ball, March 9
*Pferd, Wolle, Carsten Morar-Haffke and Martin Paas on DAS!, March 20
*Ernie on Kikaninchen (KIKA), May 28
*Oscar the Grouch at the Philippine Pediatric Society's annual convention, May
*Kermit & Pepe the King Prawn on Daybreak, June 11
*Kermit & Pepe the King Prawn on Loose Women, June 11
*Kermit & Pepe the King Prawn on Heart Breakfast, June 12
*Kermit & Pepe the King Prawn at the HMV Oxford Circus, June 13
*Kermit & Pepe the King Prawn on Magic 105.4 FM, June 13
*Kermit & Pepe the King Prawn on OK!, June 13
*Kermit & Pepe the King Prawn on Empire Podcast, June 15
*Elmo & Cookie Monster on The Project, July 2
*The Muppets at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, Canada, July 26
*Elmo, Grover & Abby Cadabby on This Morning, August 9
*Abby Cadabby on Milkshake!, August 10
*Elmo on Kikaninchen (KIKA), September 3
*Ernie & Bert on Krömer - Late Night Show, September 22
*Ernie (Martin Paas) & Bert (Carsten Morar-Haffke), Horst Janson and Samson at 40 Jahre Sesamstrasse exhibition opening night launch party in Berlin, Germany, December 12 (live appearance)
==Books==
*Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet: Clash of the Class Clowns, spring
*Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet: The Good, the Bad, and the Fuzzy, summer
*The Muppets: The Doodle Book, September 18
*Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal, November 7
*The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson, November 26
==Storybooks==
*Grouchy Hugs, January 3
*The Muppets: Lights, Camera, Action! Fact File, February 6
*Bert and Ernie Go Camping, February 14
*Cookie Monster's Busy Day, February 14
*The Muppets Read-Along Storybook and CD, March 13
*Elmo's Mommy, March 27
*Miss Piggy in the Spotlight, April 3
*Green and Bear It, April 3
*Simple Science Experiments with Elmo and Friends: Water and Earth, April 19
*Elmo Goes to School!, June 5
*The Sesame Street Learning Library, June 21
*Elmo and Ernie's Joke Book, June 26
*Is My Face Red!, June 26
*Over on Sesame Street, June 26
*Kermit's Costume Caper, summer
*Firsts!, July 24
*Starry Songs, August 1
*Elmo's Rockin' Rhyme Time!, August 7
*Get Moving with Elmo!, August 7
*Presto, Gonzo!, September 18
*Circle of Friends, September 25
*Elmo's Christmas Hugs, October 2
*Sesame Street Holiday Gift Set, October 16
*The Twelve Days of a Muppet Christmas (and a Chicken in a Pine Tree), October 16
==Home Video==
*Elmo's World: Favorite Things!, February 7
*The Muppets, March 20
*Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, April 3
*Big Elmo Fun, April 3
*Elmo's Magic Numbers, July 10
*Elmo's Alphabet Challenge, August 14
*Best of Friends, September 4
*Making Friends, October 2
*The Muppet Christmas Carol Blu-ray, November 6
*Sesame Street: Old School: Volume 3, November 6
*A Special Sesame Street Christmas, November 6
==International Home Video==
*Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 1: Der Arztbesuch, March 16
*Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 2: Alles meins!, March 16
*Los Muppets, March 23
*Os Muppets, March 28
*Les Muppets, le retour, May 2
*Die Muppets, May 24
*I Muppet, May 30
*Los Muppets, June 6
*Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 3: Immer nur Möhren, June 8
*Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 4: Haarige Zeiten, June 8
*布偶历险记, July 10
*ザ・マペッツ ブルーレイ, August 22
*The Best of Red, August 27
*Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 5: Der schönste Beruf, September 14
*Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 6: Pferd ist fernsehkrank, September 14
==​Video Games==
*LittleBigPlanet level pack, January
*Disney Universe add-ons, March
*Elmo's Musical Monsterpiece, June 15
*Kinect Sesame Street TV, September 18
*Just Dance: Disney Party; "The Muppet Show Theme" from The Muppets is one of the featured songs, October 23
==Comics==
*Fraggle Rock Classics Volume 1, January 3
*Die Muppet Show Band 3: Auf Tour, January 12
*Die Muppet Show Band 4: Familientreffen, February 9
*Die Muppet Show Spezial 2: Muppet Robin Hood, March 8
*Die Muppet Show Band 5: Gruselgewusel, May
*The Muppet Show Comic Book: The Four Seasons, July 4
*Die Muppet Show Spezial 3: Muppet Schneewittchen, September
*Fraggle Rock Classics Volume 2, October 16
==Merchandise==
*The Muppets PEZ dispensers, January
*Muppet puppets (Build-A-Bear)
*Disney Racers, spring
*The Muppets Collectible Figures, spring
*Muppet Pop! Vinyl figures
*Classic ABC/123 Wood Blocks & Cart featuring Kermit the Frog block, summer
* Popcorns Vinylmation Kermit figure, fall
==Music videos==
*"Share It Maybe"
*"Do It Anyway" with Ben Folds Five
*"All I Need is Love" with Cee Lo Green
==People==
*Judy Freudberg dies, June 10
*Jerry Nelson dies, August 23
*Kevin Clash resigns from Sesame Street, November 20
*Emily Squires dies, November 21
*Diana Birkenfield dies, November 22
==Business==
*The Jim Henson Company ends its partnership with Chick-fil-A, July
==Attractions and Events==
*Jim Henson's Fantastic World
**The Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, Queens, NY), January 1 - March 4, 2012
*ToonSeum presents "Animating Haring!", featuring art by Bill Davis, created for Keith Haring-inspired animation on Sesame Street, October 22, 2011 - February 26, 2012
*"Man or Muppet" wins the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 84th Academy Awards, February 26
*The Muppets receive a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame, March 20
*The Case of the Stolen Show, interactive Muppet game debuts aboard the Disney Fantasy during its maiden voyage, March 31
*Jim Henson's Musical World concert at Carnegie Hall, April 14
*40 Jahre Sesamstrasse anniversary exhibition
**Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen (Berlin, Germany),December 13, 2012 - April 7 May 5, 2013 (extended)
* 3 & Under, a Sesame Street-themed exhibit at the new National Children's Museum at National Harbor, Maryland, December 14
==Theme Parks==
*Sesame Street characters and attractions at Universal Studios Singapore, May 27
==See also==
* 2012 United States presidential election debates
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