Veep is a political sitcom which began on HBO in 2012, focusing on Vice President (and later President) Selina Meyer.

Muppet Mentions

• In the first season episode "Helsinki," Dan asks Mike, "How do you do that Fozzie Bear happy guy 'Wocka Wocka' bullshit to get the press to like you?"

• In the second season episode "Midterms," Selina refers to Jonah as Big Bird.

• In the third season episode "Alicia," Selina's daughter Catherine talks about her lack of a childhood: "Posing for Christmas cards, watching C-SPAN instead of Sesame Street, going to memorials of old Israeli men that I've never even heard of."

• In the fourth season episode "B/ill," Mike is again compared to Fozzie, less flatteringly, by Tom James: "You're Fozzie Bear that's been ripped up and used to smuggle heroin."

• In the fifth season episode "Mother," Richard carries a sign to a "count the vote" rally. The sign depicts the Count only wrapped like a mummy and wearing a cowboy hat. Actor Sam Richardson (Richard) explained the sign more fully in a tweet, that Richard was warned of copyright infringement, changed him to a mummy, and the hat "was for panache."^[1]

References

• At The Muppets Take the Bowl, a thumbnail for a show staring Beaker titled Meep was shown.

Connections

• Diedrich Bader played Bill Ericsson (2014-2019)
• Brian Doyle-Murray played George Huntzinger in three episodes (2016-2017)
• Stephen Fry played Nikolai Genidze in "Georgia" (2017)
• Allison Janney played Janet Ryland in "First Response" (2013)
• Mimi Kennedy played Mary King in "Andrew" and "New Hampshire" (2014)
• Phil LaMarr played Paul Graves in four episodes (2014-2017)
• Hugh Laurie played Tom James (2015-2019)
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus played Selina Meyer
• Christopher Meloni played Ray Whelans in "Detroit" and "Special Relationship" (2014)
• Kathy Najimy played Wendy Keegan (2014-2019)
• Patton Oswalt played Teddy Sykes (2014-2019)
• Randall Park played Danny Chung (2012-2017)
• June Diane Raphael played Helen Wright in "Library" (2017)

Sources