A pig replaces the Newsman in a Muppet News Flash sketch from episode 224 of The Muppet Show. Like the Newsman, the Newspig was performed by Jim Henson. In his report, he mentions a Dr. Bunsen Honeypig, who was said to have successfully converted a sow's ear into a silk purse and became the object of a massive civil and criminal suit by the wife of Vincent van Gogh Pig.