2013

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==Television & Movies==
* Sesame Street season 44, September 16
* Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular, November 28
==Appearances==
* The Swedish Chef in SportsCenter commercials on ESPN, January
* Big Bird with Michelle Obama in "Let's Move!" PSAs, February
* Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Animal on Good Luck Charlie, April 28
* Gobo and Red Fraggle host the Fraggle Rock-athon on The Hub, April 21
* Rosita, Oscar the Grouch, Telly, and Ismael Crúz Cordova on Good Morning America, May 10
* Rosita and Mando, ¡Despierta América!, May 13
* Eric Jacobson and the Muppet Workshop on CNN, July 7
* Rosita, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, and Lola, with Mando, ¡Despierta América!, July 12, first televised performance by Ryan Dillon
* Kermit the Frog and Steve Martin on Funny or Die, August 21
* Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby, Rosita, Cookie Monster, Murray, The Count, and Big Bird on Good Morning America, September 13
* Cookie Monster on The Wendy Williams Show, September 25
* Elmo, Grover, Zoe, Abby, Cookie Monster, Murray, The Count, Big Bird and Snuffy on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, September 25
* Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on The Colbert Report, September 26
* Grover and Bert on #5Facts, October 9
* Frank Oz and Brian Jay Jones promoting Jim Henson: The Biography on Today, October 15
* Count von Count on Katie, October 31
* Kermit and Pepe on The View, November 13
==Live Appearances==
*Big Bird at Qualcomm's CES 2013, January 7
*Alan, Bob, Gordon, Maria, Gina, Rosita, Grundgetta, and Herry Monster at From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook, January 28
* Sonia Manzano, Joey Mazzarino, supervising producer Nadine Zylstra and researcher Autumn Zitani, "Master Class with Sesame Workshop: Inspiring the Global Child", TIFF Kids International Film Festival, April 19 (full event April 18 to 21)
* Miss Piggy, Gobo Fraggle, Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney, Eric Jacobson and John Tartaglia at MOMI, May 21
* Rosita and Abby Cadabby, with a walkaround Cookie Monster, Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration event
* Maria (Sonia Manzano) and Cookie Monster (David Rudman), and walk-around characters of Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Grover,http://voices.suntimes.com/arts-entertainment/the-daily-sizzle/cookie-monster-to-chicago-sun-times-me-love-deep-dish-pizza/http://interactive.wttw.com/funandrun 10th Annual WTTW Kids Fun and Run, August 25
* Red Fraggle, Mokey Fraggle, Karen Prell, Kathryn Mullen, and Michael Frith at Dragon Con, September
* The cast of Sesame Street on a float for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 28.
==International Appearances==
*Ernie on DAS!, January 2
*Pferd & Wolle on DAS!, January 3
*Ernie and Bert on DAS!, January 4
*Elmo on DAS!, January 5
*Finchen and Wolf on DAS!, January 6
*Ernie & Bert on German NDR Info radio (video available), January 6
*H. Melvin Ming, Cookie Monster (David Rudman), Pferd, Wolle, Finchen, Elmo, Ernie & Bert at Sesamstrasse's 40th anniversary press conference birthday party, Samson, Ernie & Bert at the 40th anniversary live concert (Hamburg, Germany), January 7 (live appearances)
*Ernie, Bert & Elmo on Hamburg Journal, January 7
*Ernie & Bert on German N-JOY radio (video available), January 8
*Ernie & Bert on TV Total, January 31
*Miss Piggy on Red Nose Day (Pepe in promos), March 15
*Ernie & Bert on SWR3 latenight (Germany), April 12
*Oscar the Grouch on Sunrise, April 26
*Ernie on Hamburg Journal, May 14
*Ernie at 40 Jahre Sesamstrasse exhibition opening night launch party in Hamburg, Germany, May 14 (live appearance)
*Samson, Ernie and Bert on Wer hat's gesehen?, June 16
*Ernie at the 10th annual Hamburg Animation Awards, August 6 (live appearance)
*Ernie, Bert, Elmo, Wolf & Preston Rabbit on Das Herbstfest der Träume, October 12 (live TV appearance)
*Elmo on Sunrise, October 15
*Ernie, Bert, Elmo, Wolf & Preston Rabbit on Das Magazin zum Herbstfest, October 18
*Kermit and Miss Piggy at Robbie Williams: One Night at the Palladium in London, November 8 (live appearance)
==Books==
*Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet: Where No Muppet Has Gone Before, May 14
*Jim Henson: The Biography, September 24
==Storybooks==
*The Muppets: For the Love of Miss Piggy, January 2
*Elmo's Daddy, January 8
*It's Time!, January 8
*The Muppets: Easter Eggstravaganza!, February 5
*Elmo at the Zoo, February 5
*The Muppets: Fozzie's Funny Business, April 2
*The Muppets: Bunsen and Beaker Save the Show, September 3
==Home Video==
*Elmo's World: All Day With Elmo, February 5
*Fraggle Rock: The Complete First Season (re-release), March 12
*Fraggle Rock: The Complete Second Season (re-release), April 16
*Elmo the Musical, May 7
*Fraggle Rock: Meet The Fraggles, May 14
*Fraggle Rock: The Complete Third Season (re-release), May 14
*Fraggle Rock: 30th Anniversary Complete Series Collection, May 14
*Fraggle Rock: The Complete Fourth Season (re-release), June 11
*The Jim Henson Collection, June 11
*Arts and Crafts Playdate, July 9
*The Muppet Movie: The Nearly 35th Anniversary Edition, Blu-ray, August 13
*C is for Cooking, September 10
*Being Brave, October 1
*Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas and The Christmas Toy, October 8
*Fairytale Fun, November 5
*Muppet Treasure Island & The Great Muppet Caper: Of Pirates & Pigs Collection, Blu-ray, December 10
==International Home Video==
*Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 7: Die neue Brille, February 8
*Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 8: Alles Schrott?, February 8
*Sesamstrasse - Classics: Die 70er Jahre, November 29
==Video games==
* Kinect Sesame Street TV, season 2, January 7
* My Muppets Show app, June 17 (in Australia), August 1 (worldwide release) 
==Comics==
*Sesame Street Issue #1 - I is for Imagination, May 1
==Merchandise==
*Muppet Wacky Wobblers
* Muppet Vinylmation, series 3, July 26
*Plushy Pencil Pals
==Albums==
*The Muppet Movie (CD reissue), August 13
*Dream a Dream and See, September
==Theme park==
* Spaghetti Space Chase, indoor Sesame Street ride at Universal Studios Singapore, March 1
==Web content==
*"Can You Tell-y Me How to Get to a Billion?", February 14
*"Ricky Gervais and Pepe the King Prawn on the Set of Muppets Most Wanted", February 25
*"Counting the "You"s in YouTube", March 6
*"Sesame Street Explores National Parks", June 4
*"Royal Baby Congratulations from Miss Piggy & Kermit the Frog!", July 22
*"Me Want It (But Me Wait)", August 5
*"Sesame Street: Little Discoverers: Big Fun With Science, Math and More", September
*Muppisode, December 5
==People==
*Jane Henson dies, April 2
*Faz Fazakas dies, September 30
*Leonard Jackson dies, December 22
==Events==
*40 Jahre Sesamstrasse anniversary exhibition
**Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen (Berlin, Germany),December 13, 2012 - April 7 May 5, 2013 (extended)
**Altonaer Museum (Hamburg, Germany), May 15, 2013 - March 16, 2014(as Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 40.! Ein Ausflug in die Welt der Sesamstraße)
*Sesamstrasse 40th anniversary birthday party & concert (Hamburg, Germany), January 7
*Original National Children's Museum opening; the museum and its Sesame display were bumped up to December 2012.
*Fraggle Rock 30th Anniversary boutique at FAO Schwarz in New York City, April
==Sources==
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