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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I always hated his pupils.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Kermit's froghood baffles me, mainly due to the neck frill. I was down a Muppet history rabbit hole recently and realized that he was originally just named "Kermit", and didn't become "Kermit the Frog" for some years. So he was probably designed as a frill-necked lizard of some kind and got retconned into a frog. Mystery solved, right? Well no, because then I realized he got the frill the same time they started calling him a frog.

I was so distraught I turned to Muppet Wiki, which it turns out has an entire section on his collar. It's an article of clothing. ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Clothing?? Why would he wear only one piece of clothing, barely covering his frog body, in the same color as his skin?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

To be fair many dogs and cats dress the same way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

In episode 402 of The Muppet Show, the Prairie Dogs steal Kermit's collar and he laments that he feels naked without it.

Per the wiki. Surely that explains everything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

He's a frog, they breathe through their skin.

QED

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

This is legit very fascinating. Thank you for sharing your experience.

[โ€“] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hyalinobatrachium dianae

Which is bunk. There's, like, a spider species named sonicus hedgehogidae or some shit like that, for the lulz, but heaven forbid we name this guy after his lookalike.

Yeah yeah, rules and conventions, blah blah blah. Some rules need to be broken.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that when it comes to newly discovered species the person that discovers it gets to name it which is why we have stuff like sonicus and the Beyonce fly and the Obama spider and stuff like that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Well that was probably a mask off moment holy shit lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

At the very least we have Bulbasaurus phylloxyron

[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This was 9 years ago, though. What's the statute of limitations on good news?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

My brain: 9 years ago? So 2007 right?

No that's 2015 :'(

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never, apparently I'm one of today's Lucky 10,000

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Me too! ๐ŸŽ‰

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Good news, everyone! The Allies won the war and fascism has been defeated!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

the platonic ideal doesn't exi-

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Kermi Tree Frog

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I don't know, I think I've seen a frog it might look like more than Kermit...

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The person who found him marked the event by saying, "Hi ho! Kermit the Frog here"