Massachusetts is the 6th state of the United States of America.

• Caroll Spinney was born in Waltham, MA in 1933. He later attended The Art Institute of Boston's College of Art & Design.

• Joe Raposo was born in Fall River, MA in 1937.

• Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are located in Cambridge.

• The Boston Pops orchestra has featured in several Sesame Street productions.

• The Boston Tea Party, a protest held in 1773, was the subject of a Wilkins Coffee ad, as well a Sesame Street News Flash.

• A group of Pilgrim Penguins sing "Alabamy Bound" as they land at Plymouth Rock in episode 321 of The Muppet Show.

• Scooter's bedroom in "Six String Orchestra" has a "BOSTON" flag on the wall.

• Muppet Babies Visit the Fifty States features Baby Kermit landing on Plymouth Rock.

• Several tourist locations are featured in footage for the Sesame Street song, "Say Cheese."

• A 2014 Toyota Highlander ad showed Animal and Zoot pointing out the Old North Church in Boston, the location from which Paul Revere's famous "one if by land, two if by sea" signal was sent.