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

I always hated his pupils.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 month 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] 10 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month 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] 13 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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] 6 points 1 month ago

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

QED

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

My brain: 9 years ago? So 2007 right?

No that's 2015 :'(

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

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

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

Me too! ๐ŸŽ‰

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Let's gooooo!

[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (3 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] 1 points 1 month ago

There is also minos phrime, a bacteriophage named after, well , minos prime, the former hardest boss in ultrakill

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At the very least we have Bulbasaurus phylloxyron

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So is that thing going to start suing palaeontologists that discover similar species?

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well that was probably a mask off moment holy shit lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

the platonic ideal doesn't exi-