![]() In Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet, an allusion is made to "Lil' Orphaned Piggy" a Broadway play that Miss Piggy starred in, a spoof of the Annie musical.The tagline reads, "The Sun Will Twinkle Tomorrow!" In the waiting area for the Sesame Place stage show Elmo the Musical, a poster for " Abby" is used on the wall.Baby Piggy imagines herself as Annie in " This Little Piggy Went to Hollywood" with Baby Rowlf as Sandy, singing a parody of " Tomorrow." Their eyes are blanked out, as in the original comic strip.In the sixth season Muppet Babies episode " Comic Capers," Baby Fozzie manipulates Baby Scooter in a computer drawing program, at one point turning him into Annie.A stylized version of Annie appears in a Sesame Street cartoon by Bruce Cayard about carrots, illustrating people referred to as "carrot tops" because of their red hair.The song " Tomorrow" from the musical Annie was performed on The Muppet Show and A Special Sesame Street Christmas.In The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, Annie's is one of several rotating portraits seen in a corner of the control room (along with Mona Lisa and Big Bird).Billy has deliberately blanked out eyes, accompanied by the caption "Sue and Billy: He loves Little Orphan Annie" (the "blanked eyes" joke had previously been used by Walt Kelly in Pogo.) In the Jissue of TV Guide, Billy and Sue appear. ![]() ![]() Gray's trademark was the pupil-less eyes of his characters. Little Orphan Annie is a comic strip character created by Harold Gray in 1924, and since adapted for radio, animation, film, television, and most notably, the 1977 Broadway musical Annie. Little Orphan Annie's portrait, hanging over a dozing Brewster. ![]()
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