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Kermit the Frog
The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Sam and Friends character
Kermit the Frog.jpg
First appearance Sam and Friends (1955)[1]
Created by Jim Henson
Voiced by
  • Jim Henson (1955–1990)
  • Steve Whitmire (1990–2016)
  • Matt Vogel (2017–present)[two]
  • Other:
    • Frank Welker (Muppet Babies (1984), blithe segments in Little Muppet Monsters, Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, Family unit Guy)
    • Matt Danner (Muppet Babies (2018))
Performed past
  • Jim Henson (1955–1990)
  • Steve Whitmire (1990–2016)
  • Matt Vogel (2017–present)[ii]
In-universe data
Species Muppet frog
Gender Male person
Occupation Entertainer, stage manager, testify producer, managing director, reporter
Family unit Robin the Frog (nephew)
Significant other Miss Piggy (1976–2015; on-and-off since)
Nationality American
Musical instrument Banjo

Kermit the Frog is a Muppet character created and originally performed by Jim Henson. Introduced in 1955, Kermit serves as the everyman protagonist of numerous Muppet productions, most notably Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, too as in other television serial, feature films, specials, and public service announcements through the years. He served as a mascot of The Jim Henson Company and appeared in diverse Henson projects.

Kermit performed the striking singles "Bein' Green" in 1970 and "Rainbow Connectedness" in 1979 for The Muppet Moving picture, the first characteristic-length pic featuring the Muppets. Kermit's original operation of "Rainbow Connexion" reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry in 2021.[3] Henson performed Kermit until his death in 1990, and then Steve Whitmire performed Kermit from that fourth dimension until his dismissal in 2016. Kermit has been performed by Matt Vogel from 2017.[2] He was also voiced by Frank Welker in Muppet Babies and occasionally in other blitheness projects, and is voiced by Matt Danner in the 2018 reboot of Muppet Babies.

Kermit's look and voice accept been recognizable in pop culture worldwide for many decades, and in 2006, the grapheme was credited every bit the author of Before You Leap: A Frog's Centre View of Life's Greatest Lessons, an "autobiography" told from the perspective of the grapheme himself.

History and development

Kermit the Frog beginning appeared on May nine, 1955, in the premiere of WRC-Tv'due south Sam and Friends.[4] This prototype Kermit was created from a discarded turquoise spring coat belonging to Jim Henson's mother and two ping pong brawl halves for optics.[5]

Initially, Kermit was a vague lizard-similar animal. He later on made a number of television set appearances before his condition as a frog was established in the tv set special Hey, Cinderella! in 1969.[6] His triangular-pointed neckband was added at the time to make him seem more than frog-like and to conceal the seam between his head and body.[7] According to Michael M. Frith, the relatively simple structure of the Kermit puppet allows the performer'southward arm and mitt to produce a broad range of expression and gestures.[eight]

Naming

The origin of Kermit'due south proper noun is a discipline of some argue. It is often claimed that Kermit was named afterward Henson's childhood friend Kermit Scott, from Leland, Mississippi.[9] [10] All the same, Karen Falk, caput archivist and lath of directors member for the Jim Henson Legacy organization, denies this claim on the Jim Henson Company's website:

While Jim Henson did have a babyhood acquaintance named Kermit, information technology was not an uncommon name at the time, and Jim always said that the Frog was not named subsequently this child from his unproblematic school.[11]

Joy DiMenna, the only daughter of Kermit Kalman Cohen who worked as a sound engineer at WBAL-TV during Jim Henson's time with Sam and Friends, recalls that the puppet was named afterwards her male parent. According to Kermit Cohen's obituary, besides as DiMenna and Lenny Levin, a colleague of Mr. Cohen'south at WBAL:

The late puppeteer had been the host of a bear witness, Sam and Friends, at WRC-TV in Washington when he was invited to tour WBAL's studios. Both were NBC affiliates and so, and WBAL carried the show, Mr. Levin said.

Mr. Henson was introduced to members of the sound and photographic camera crew, including Mr. Cohen.

"When he heard his name, Jim turned around, snapped his fingers and said to his wife, 'That'southward what we call the frog – Kermit.'"[12]

Another common belief is that Kermit was named for Kermit Beloved, who worked with Henson in designing and constructing Muppets, peculiarly on Sesame Street, but Dear's association with Henson did not begin until well after Kermit'southward creation and naming, and he always denied any connection between his proper noun and that of the character.[thirteen]

Equally Sesame Street is localized for some unlike markets that speak languages other than English, Kermit is oftentimes renamed. In Portugal, he is chosen Cocas, o Sapo (sapo means "toad"), and in Brazil, his name is like: Caco, o Sapo. In most of Hispanic America, his name is la rana René (René the Frog), while in Spain, he is named Gustavo.[14] In the Standard arabic version, he is known as Kamel, which is a common Arabic male name that means "perfect". In Hungary, he is called Breki (onomatopoetic).[15]

Label and performers

Jim Henson originated the character in 1955 on his local goggle box series, Sam and Friends.[16] Henson himself described Kermit as "kind of easy-going, very likable...sometimes slightly a wiseguy."[8] Frank Oz remarked that Kermit possesses a natural sense of leadership within the Muppets, explaining that "he has all these zany characters and a world effectually him and he tries to be the center and concur everything together...sometimes he gets too much and blows his top, simply essentially he kind of goes with the flow."[viii] Brian Henson described his father'southward functioning as Kermit every bit "coming out of his own personality—was a wry intelligence, a little bit of a naughtiness, just Kermit ever loved everyone around and also loved a good prank."[17]

Kermit has often been referred to as Henson's "soft-spoken change-ego."[18] Many of Henson'southward colleagues have confirmed how close and inseparable Jim and Kermit'south personalities were. Henson's agent Bernie Brillstein has stated straightforwardly that "Kermit was Jim".[19] Author Brian Jay Jones described the relationship accordingly: "The more Jim performed Kermit, the more the two of them seemed to become intertwined…it was becoming harder to tell where the frog concluded and Jim began."[19] Henson continued to perform the character until his death in 1990.[4] Henson'southward last known operation as Kermit was for an advent on The Arsenio Hall Show to promote the television set special The Muppets at Walt Disney World. Henson died twelve days afterward that appearance.[xx]

Post-obit Henson'due south death, veteran Muppet performer Steve Whitmire was named Kermit's new performer.[21] Whitmire claims that Henson had seemingly intended to pass on the role to him earlier he died, though information technology was Jane Henson and son Brian who had selected him after her father'due south death.[22] Whitmire'due south first public performance every bit Kermit was at the cease of the television receiver special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson in 1990. Whitmire explained that his principal intent when he inherited Kermit, "was to make sure the character stayed the same and consistent, simply didn't become dried and just a copy."[23] Kermit's personality during Whitmire'southward tenure was widely described as more wholesome, lighthearted, and Pollyanna-ish than Henson'southward.[24] [25] Several critics of Whitmire's portrayal have come up from the Henson family. Brian Henson stated that while Whitmire'southward performance was "sometimes fantabulous, and e'er pretty good", he likewise elaborated that "Kermit has, as a graphic symbol, flattened out over time and has become too square and not as vital every bit it should have been."[26] [27] Cheryl Henson stated that Whitmire performed the character as a "bitter, angry, depressed, victim".[28] He remained Kermit's principal performer until October 2016, when he was dismissed by The Muppets Studio.[29] [25] The Walt Disney Company (owner of The Muppets Studio) cited "unacceptable business conduct" as reason for the dismissal, while Whitmire claims the decision was made due to creative disagreements over Kermit's characterization and prolonged labor union negotiations that delayed his involvement in Muppet productions.[25] [30]

Disney announced that Matt Vogel would get Kermit's new performer on July 10, 2017.[two] Vogel'south first official advent every bit Kermit was in a "Muppet Thought of the Week" YouTube video.[31]

John Kennedy performed Kermit for Muppets Ahoy!, a 2006 Disney Cruise Line stage show (though Whitmire performed Kermit for the first few shows). Muppet performer Artie Esposito briefly performed Kermit in 2009 for a few personal appearances (an appearance on America'south Got Talent, the MTV Video Music Awards, and at the 2009 D23 Expo). Phonation histrion Frank Welker provided the vocalization of Baby Kermit on the animated Saturday morning cartoon, Muppet Babies.[32] He also provided the voice of an adult Kermit for a short-lived spin-off, Piddling Muppet Monsters. Matt Danner voices Baby Kermit on the 2018 reboot of Muppet Babies.[33]

Character biography

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A biography has been developed for Kermit the Frog as if he was an actual living performer rather than a puppet grapheme. According to this fictional biography, he was born in Leland, Mississippi, alongside approximately 2,353 siblings,[one] though a 2011 "interview" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show has him state that he was from the swamps of Louisiana.[34]

Equally portrayed in the 2002 flick Kermit's Swamp Years, at the age of 12, he was the offset of his siblings to leave the swamp, and 1 of the start frogs to talk to humans. He is shown in the motion picture encountering a 12-twelvemonth-old Jim Henson (played by Christian Kriebel) for the outset fourth dimension.

Co-ordinate to The Muppet Movie, Kermit returned to the swamp, where a passing agent (Dom DeLuise) noted he had talent and, thus inspired, he headed to Hollywood, encountering the rest of the Muppets along the style. Together, they were given a standard "rich and famous" contract by Lew Lord (Orson Welles) of Wide Globe Studios and began their showbiz careers. In Before You Leap, Kermit again references encountering Jim Henson sometime after the events depicted in the course of The Muppet Movie and details their friendship and their partnership in the amusement industry, crediting Henson equally existence the individual to whom he owes his fame. At some signal after the events of The Muppet Movie, Kermit and the other Muppets brainstorm The Muppet Prove, and the characters remain together as a group, earlier starring in the other Muppet films and Muppets This evening, with Kermit normally at the core of the stories equally the lead protagonist. Kermit is shown in The Muppet Movie as stating that the events of the film are "approximately how it happened" when asked past his nephew Robin almost how the Muppets got started.[35]

Fozzie Bear is portrayed as Kermit's best friend—a fact reiterated by Kermit in Before You Leap—and the two were oft seen together during sketches on The Muppet Prove and in other Muppet-related media and trade.[36]

On August iv, 2015, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy "appear" that they had ended their romantic relationship.[37] [38] On September 2, 2015, Kermit was stated to take found a new girlfriend, a sus scrofa named Denise,[39] merely around Feb 2016, Denise supposedly broke upwardly with Kermit after nigh half-dozen months together.[40]

Operation

Kermit the Frog is a rather uncomplicated hand-rod Muppet, and is usually controlled by one puppeteer. His creator and original performer, Jim Henson, actually built Kermit'due south head effectually the size of his own hands (later builds of Kermit have actress padding inside the head to accommodate puppeteers whose hands were smaller than Henson's). The flexibility of the fabric used to brand Kermit ways the frog can pull off a broad range of expressions. For instance, with a slight adjustment of their fingers, the puppeteer can make Kermit convincingly smile, frown, or act worried.

When it came to creating Kermit's vox, Henson actually took inspiration from an impression by Stan Freberg of Marlon Brando, one that can be heard on some of Freberg's one-act records, including vocals on his versions of "Sh-Nail" and "The Night Earlier Christmas". Over time, still, Henson's phonation for the frog would evolve into an extension of his ain natural voice.

Career

Kermit has been featured prominently on both The Muppet Show and Sesame Street.[41] All the same, he had a prominent career before Sesame Street 's debut in 1969, equally he starred in Sam and Friends, and numerous Muppets made guest appearances on Today from 1961 and The Ed Sullivan Bear witness from 1966.[42]

Sesame Street

Kermit was one of the original main Muppet characters on Sesame Street.[43] Closely identified with the show, Kermit usually appeared as a lecturer on unproblematic topics, a straight human to another Muppet foil (usually Grover, Herry Monster or Cookie Monster), or a news reporter interviewing storybook characters for Sesame Street News.[41] He sang many songs on the show, including "Bein' Green",[41] and appeared in the 1998 video The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street.[44]

Unlike the rest of the bear witness'due south Muppets, Kermit was never whatsoever property of Sesame Workshop and has rarely been a part of the prove's merchandise. When Sesame Workshop bought total ownership of its characters from The Jim Henson Company for $180 1000000, Kermit was excluded from the deal.[45] The character at present belongs to The Muppets Studio, a division of The Walt Disney Company.[46] His first Sesame Street advent since Disney ownership was in an Elmo'southward Globe segment in the prove'southward 40th-flavour premiere on Nov x, 2009. His near recent appearance was in the 2019 television special Sesame Street'due south 50th Anniversary Celebration, where he performed "Bein' Green" with Elvis Costello.

With the Muppets

In The Muppet Show television serial, Kermit was the fundamental character, the showrunner, and the long-suffering stage manager of the theater show, trying to keep order amidst the anarchy created by the other Muppets. Henson once claimed that Kermit'south job on the Muppet Show was much similar his own: "trying to get a agglomeration of crazies to actually get the job done."[47] It was on this bear witness that the running gag of Kermit beingness pursued past leading lady Miss Piggy developed.[4]

On Muppets Tonight, Kermit was still a primary grapheme, although he was the producer rather than frontman. He appeared in many parody sketches such every bit NYPD Green, City Schtickers, Flippers, and The Muppet Odd Squad, as well as in the Psychiatrist'south Office sketch.[48]

Kermit too served as the mascot for The Jim Henson Company, until the sale of the Muppet characters to Disney.[49] A Kermit boob can be seen at the National Museum of American History.[50]

Kermit appears in Muppet*Vision 3D, an attraction that opened in 1991 and continues to run presently at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.[51] The graphic symbol was also formerly featured in the aforementioned allure in Disney California Gamble Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California until its closure in 2014. Kermit as well appeared in The Muppets Present...Smashing Moments in American History at the Magic Kingdom from 2016 to 2020.[52] He also appeared in two parades; Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade which ran at Disney'due south Hollywood Studios from 2001 to 2008 and Disney'due south Honorary VoluntEars Cavalcade which was held during 2010 at the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland.[53]

Filmography

Kermit the Frog has appeared in near every Muppet production, equally well as making guest appearances in other shows and movies.

Below is a listing of his more well-known appearances:[54] [55]

  • Sam and Friends (1955–1961) (TV)
  • Sesame Street (1969–1990, 1996–2001, 2009) (TV)
  • Hey, Cinderella! (1969) (TV)
  • The Muppets on Puppets (1970) (Goggle box)
  • The Frog Prince (1971) (TV)
  • The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (1972) (TV)
  • The Muppets Valentine Evidence (1974) (TV)
  • The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975) (TV)
  • The Muppet Evidence (1976–1981) (Television set)
  • Emmet Otter's Jug-Ring Christmas (1977) (Idiot box)
  • The Muppet Moving-picture show (1979)
  • The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
  • The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
  • Muppet Babies (1984–1991) (Television receiver)
  • Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird (1985)
  • The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986) (TV)
  • The Christmas Toy (1986) (TV)
  • A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) (Tv set)
  • The Jim Henson 60 minutes (1989) (Television)
  • Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) (TV)
  • The Muppets at Walt Disney World (1990) (TV)
  • The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990) (Tv set)
  • The Muppet Christmas Ballad (1992) – Appearance as Bob Cratchit
  • Muppet Classic Theater (1994) (Direct-to-Video) – Appearance as King Midas and the Male monarch in Rumpelstiltskin.
  • Muppet Treasure Island (1996) – Advent as Captain Abraham Smollett
  • Muppets Tonight (1996–1998) (Idiot box)
  • Muppets from Space (1999)
  • The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (2001) (Television)
  • Kermit's Swamp Years (2002) (Direct-to-Video)
  • It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Motion-picture show (2002) (TV)
  • Saturday Night Live (1975/76, 2004, 2011) (Television receiver)
  • The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) (Television receiver) – Appearance as Himself and The Scarecrow
  • Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) (cameo)
  • Studio DC: Almost Alive (2008) (Tv)
  • A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008) (Boob tube)
  • The Muppets (2011)
  • "xxx Rock (2012) - Appearance as Himself in "My Whole Life Is Thunder"
  • Good Luck Charlie (2013) (TV) – Advent every bit Himself in "Duncan Dream Business firm"
  • Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular (2013) (TV)
  • Muppets Virtually Wanted (2014)
  • The Muppets (2015–2016) (TV)
  • Muppet Babies (2018–present) (Boob tube)
  • Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Commemoration (2019) (TV)
  • Muppets Now (2020) (Tv set)
  • Amphibia (2020) (TV) – Appearance as the phonation of Crumpet the Frog in "Swamp and Sensibility"
  • The Masked Vocaliser (2021) (Boob tube) – The Snail
  • Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) (Boob tube) – Appearance as Himself and a Ghost

Cultural impact

Accolades and commemorations

Kermit was awarded an honorary doctorate of Amphibious Messages on May 19, 1996, at Southampton College, New York, where he as well gave a outset oral communication.[56] He is also the but "amphibian" to have had the honor of addressing the Oxford Union.[57] [58] A statue of Henson and Kermit was erected on the campus of Henson'south alma mater, the University of Maryland, College Park in 2003.

Kermit was besides given the honor of being the Thou Align of the Tournament of Roses Parade in 1996. The Macy's Thanksgiving Mean solar day Parade has featured a Kermit airship since 1977.[59]

On November 14, 2002, Kermit the Frog received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star is located at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.[60] Kermit has ii stars on the Walk of Fame, the other as a member of the collective The Muppets.[61]

On Kermit's 50th birthday in 2005, the United States Postal Service released a set of new stamps with photos of Kermit and some of his fellow Muppets on them.[62] The background of the stamp sheet features a photo of a silhouetted Henson sitting in a window well, with Kermit sitting in his lap looking at him.

Kermit was also the chiliad marshal for Michigan Land University's homecoming parade in 2006.[63]

In 2013, the original Kermit boob from Sam and Friends was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. for brandish in the pop culture gallery.[64] In 2015, the Leland Bedroom of Commerce in Leland, Mississippi opened a minor museum containing puppets and memorabilia dedicated to Kermit.[65]

Kermit'southward legacy is also securely entrenched in the science community. One of the famous WP-3D Orion research platforms flown by the NOAA Hurricane Hunters is named later Kermit. The other is named afterward Miss Piggy.[66] In 2015, the discovery of the Costa Rican drinking glass frog Hyalinobatrachium dianae also attracted viral media attention due to the creature's perceived resemblance to Kermit, with researcher Brian Kubicki quoted as saying "I am glad that this species has ended up getting so much international attending, and in doing and so it is highlighting the amazing amphibians that are native to Republic of costa rica and the need to keep exploring and studying the state's amazing tropical forests".[67]

Guest television appearances

Kermit has made numerous invitee appearances on popular telly shows, including co-hosting individual episodes of a number of long-running talk shows; among other television media. On April 2, 1979, Kermit invitee-hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to promote The Muppet Movie.[68] From 1983 to 1995, the French political satire bear witness Le Bébête Testify used copies of various Muppets to parody primal political figures, and Kermit renamed "Kermitterrand", embodied President François Mitterrand.[69] On May 21, 2018, Kermit and contestant Maddie Poppe performed "Rainbow Connection" live on American Idol.[seventy]

A still photo of Kermit sitting in his Director's chair with his megaphone in his manus from The Muppet Show appeared on a technical difficulties telop graphic on Metromedia endemic-and-operated station KTTV Channel 11 in Los Angeles during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

As an Apr Fool'due south joke, Kermit hosted CNN'southward Larry King Alive in 1994 and interviewed Hulk Hogan.[71] [72] Kermit was besides a semi-regular during diverse incarnations of Hollywood Squares,[73] with other Muppets such as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch too making appearances on the original Hollywood Squares.

In 2020, Kermit appeared on Monday Night Football game with other Muppets characters as it was briefly rebranded "Muppet Dark Football game."[74]

On March 10, 2021, Kermit was the first celebrity to be unmasked on the fifth season of The Masked Singer, having performed in costume as "Snail".[75]

Merchandising

Jim Henson's characters, including the Muppets, have inspired trade internationally, with Chris Bensch, principal curator of Rochester, New York'southward The Strong National Museum of Play, reporting "In that location seems to have been a particular craze for Kermit the Frog in Nippon," probable due to the "cuteness appeal".[76] Baby Kermit plush toys became popular in the 1980s after the success of Muppet Babies. [77] In 1991, ane twelvemonth after Jim Henson died, trade featuring Kermit and other Muppet characters was being sold at Disney theme parks, causing Henson Associates to file a lawsuit against Disney for copyright infringement. Henson declared that the "counterfeit merchandise" falsely indicated that the characters belonged to Disney, although the latter company had the right to exercise utilize of the characters due to an before licensing understanding.[49] The Henson Assembly highlighted a T-shirt displaying Kermit, the Disney make, and a copyright symbol. Disney representative Erwin Okun said the lawsuit was "outrageous" and "an unfortunate break with the legacy of a fine relationship with Disney that Jim Henson left behind".[78] Disney afterwards caused the Muppets, and thusly, clothes, toys and souvenirs depicting Kermit and the Muppets continued to be sold at Disney theme parks and stores.[79]

The Leland Sleeping accommodation of Commerce's small Kermit-themed museum set out to preserve some of the dolls and merchandise.[65] In 2016, The New Zealand Herald reported a lid featuring Kermit sipping Lipton tea, associated with the "But That's None of My Business" Net meme, became a popular seller[lxxx] after basketball player LeBron James drew attention for wearing ane.[81]

Kermit in Cyberspace culture

In March 2007, Sad Kermit, an unofficial parody, was uploaded to the website YouTube, showing a store-bought Kermit puppet performing a version of the Nine Inch Nails vocal "Hurt" in a style similar to Johnny Cash'south famous cover version. In contrast to the existent Kermit character's usual family-friendly antics, the video shows the puppet engaging in drug abuse, smoking, alcoholism, performing oral sex activity on Rowlf the Domestic dog, smashing a picture of Miss Piggy (with a chest exposed) and attempting suicide. The video became an Internet meme. The Victoria Times Colonist chosen it an "online sensation".[82] The Chicago Dominicus-Times said it "puts the high in 'Howdy-ho!'"[83] The London Free Press said "Sad Kermit is in a world of pain".[84] The Houston Press described it as the "earth's nearly revolting web phenomenon".[85] SF Weekly described the unauthorized video equally "ironic slandering".[86] Clips have been featured on the Canadian tv set series The Hour, where host George Stroumboulopoulos speculated that the Kermit version of "Hurt" was inspired past the Cash version rather than that of Nine Inch Nails.[87]

Kermit has also appeared in a pop meme in which he is shown sipping tea, "one used when yous sassily point something out, and and so slyly dorsum away, claiming that it'due south not [your] concern".[88] The photo is taken from "Be More than Kermit," a Lipton advertisement that aired in 2014, and was adapted into the "But That'south None of My Business" meme by African American comedians on the Tumblr blog Kermit the Snitch, making appearances on Twitter, Instagram[89] and Facebook.[xc] Charles Pulliam-Moore of the Tv set station Fusion praised "But That's None of My Business" as "a symbol for the comedic brilliance born out of black communities on the internet,"[89] only Stephanie Hayes of Bustle mag criticized the memes as racist and obscene.[90]

In 2016, a Good Morning America post on Twitter referred to the "But That'southward None of My Business concern" meme as "Tea Lizard", becoming the subject of viral online derision. New York mag replied that, "Kermit is a frog. A frog is an amphibian. A cadger is a reptile. It's just so insulting. Beyond a frog and a lizard both being clearly ectothermic, they couldn't be whatsoever more different. Not all green things are the same, you ignorant bastards".[88] Popular Science also addressed the misnomer, writing "Frogs, which are amphibians, accept quite a few significant differences from reptiles in how they breathe, their life cycles, whether they have scales or not... there's a lot to absorb here".[91]

In November 2016, a new meme surfaced of Kermit talking to a hooded version of himself which represents the cocky and its dark inner thoughts. It involves captioning of a screenshot taken from the Muppets Most Wanted movie of Kermit and Constantine looking at each other.[92] In the meme, Constantine is supposed to represent a Sith Lord from Star Wars.[93]

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External links

  • Kermit the Frog'south character contour at Disney.com
  • Kermit'south commencement address at Southampton Higher in 1996
  • Birthplace of the Frog: An Exhibit of Jim Henson'southward Delta Boyhood
  • Kermit the Frog at IMDb (as himself)
  • Kermit the Frog on IMDb

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