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. 😐
Clothing?? Why would he wear only one piece of clothing, barely covering his frog body, in the same color as his skin?
To be fair many dogs and cats dress the same way.
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.
He's a frog, they breathe through their skin.
QED
fashion
This is legit very fascinating. Thank you for sharing your experience.
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.
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.
And the Hitler beetle.
[edit] Here is the eyeless Hitler beetle.
At the very least we have Bulbasaurus phylloxyron
So is that thing going to start suing palaeontologists that discover similar species?
This was 9 years ago, though. What's the statute of limitations on good news?
Never, apparently I'm one of today's Lucky 10,000
Me too! 🎉
My brain: 9 years ago? So 2007 right?
No that's 2015 :'(
I always hated his pupils.
the platonic ideal doesn't exi-
Kermit de Frog
Kermi Tree Frog
I don't know, I think I've seen a frog it might look like more than Kermit...
The person who found him marked the event by saying, "Hi ho! Kermit the Frog here"
