Lady Gaga and the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular is a Thanksgiving television special featuring Lady Gaga and The Muppets. The program aired on ABC on November 28, 2013 and featured guest stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elton John and RuPaul, with an appearance by Kristen Bell. Lady Gaga and the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular is the second of Lady Gaga's Thanksgiving television specials, following A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, which aired on ABC in 2011. Gaga and The Muppets have collaborated in the past. In 2009, Kermit the Frog was her date to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Gaga also featured Jim Henson's Creature Shop pieces in The Monster Ball Tour.