Movie/TV Appearances
In The Muppet Movie, she has just won a beauty contest when she first meets Kermit and joins the Muppets. In The Great Muppet Caper Piggy proves she has a talent for tap dancing, seemingly without knowing it. She and Kermit also kiss (on the lips, yet slightly covered) while Miss Piggy is a prisoner in jail; Miss Piggy ends up wearing Kermit's fake mustache, while Kermit has X-marks on his upper lip.
Eventually in the films, Kermit started returning her affections and (unwittingly) marries her in The Muppets Take Manhattan, though subsequent events suggest that it was only their characters in the movie that married, and that their relationship is really the same as ever.
In 1987, Miss Piggy was a guest star on Dolly Parton's musical variety show, Dolly, singing and performing with Parton, while at the same time secretly attempting to steal the show from her host, mostly by sabotaging Parton's musical segments and attempting to trick producers into giving her more solo spots. Parton, annoyed at being undermined by Miss Piggy, told another of her guests, Juice Newton, that they might be "having ham sandwiches after the show".
In The Muppet Christmas Carol, she appears as Mrs. Cratchit, to Kermit's Bob Cratchit.
In Muppet Treasure Island, the part of crazed Ben Gunn was adapted to fit Miss Piggy, and "Benjamina" Gunn was revealed to be Captain Smollett's (played by Kermit) former lover. The two share a tender moment dueting on "Love Brought Us Here".
Her part is significant but supporting in Muppets from Space, as the plucky news reporter eager to scoop the news on her friend Gonzo's bizarre alien encounters.
In the TV movie It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, a take on the classic It's a Wonderful Life, the characters are seen in an alternate universe, one without Kermit. Miss Piggy becomes a spinster cat lady, doing "psychic" readings on the phone.
In The Muppets, Miss Piggy is shown after the Muppets "broke up": jilted at the altar by Kermit at some indefinite point in the past, she has since moved on to become the plus-size editor for Vogue Paris. The other Muppets must beg her to leave her highly successful new life and rejoin them for another performance.
Miss Piggy (along with Kermit) was featured on the #88 UPS Ford of Dale Jarrett in the 2002 Tropicana 400 in an advertising campaign in which she and her fellow Muppets were featured on a select few NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race cars.
Miss Piggy appeared in the TV movie The Muppets' Wizard of Oz as all four witches.
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