Italy is a country in southern Europe, famous for having blessed the world with the Latin alphabet, Roman culture (see Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Sanzio, Giovanni Bellini and Sandro Botticelli), as well as with spaghetti and pizza.
Other notable Italian Muppet connections include:
- Sesamo Apriti began airing in 1971.
- Sesame English has aired there since 2004, as has Il Mondo di Elmo.
- Spaghettini, a worm from Italy, was one of the brave worm astronauts who traveled to the Moon in the wormship Wiggleprise. He also participated in the Worm's Summer Games.
- Scoop and Skip visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa in a Wilson's Meats commercial.
- Sesamstrasse character Wolf vom Wörtersee originally hails from Italy, as evidenced by his strong Italian accent and love for the country's cuisine.
- Rizzo the Rat once visited the Leaning Tower of Pisa as documented in a photo hung on the wall in PizzeRizzo.
Italian worms watching Spaghettini on his Wiggleprise mission.
Grover reading about the Leaning Tower of Pisa in The Magical Wand Chase.
Muppet Babies: Bumping into the Leaning Tower of Pisa with their hot air balloon...
...and whizzing though Venice's water ways in their car in "Around the Nursery in 80 Days"
Rizzo at the Leaning Tower of Pisa in a framed photograph at PizzeRizzo
Animated Dr. Teeth (as Galileo) on the Tower of Pisa, in a "Muppet Labs Field Test" segment on the Muppets Now episode "Getting Testy"
