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[โ€“] Alice@beehaw.org 17 points 11 hours 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€“] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 hours 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€“] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 points 5 hours ago

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

[โ€“] Alice@beehaw.org 7 points 9 hours 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€“] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago

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

QED

[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 9 points 11 hours ago

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

[โ€“] samus12345@lemmy.world 29 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] 200ok@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Me too! ๐ŸŽ‰

[โ€“] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

None. Go nuts.

[โ€“] samus12345@lemmy.world 32 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 17 points 15 hours ago

Let's gooooo!

[โ€“] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 46 points 16 hours 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€“] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

At the very least we have Bulbasaurus phylloxyron

[โ€“] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

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

[โ€“] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours 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€“] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

And the Hitler beetle.
[edit] Here is the eyeless Hitler beetle.

[โ€“] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago

the platonic ideal doesn't exi-

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Kermit de Frog

[โ€“] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago

Kermi Tree Frog

[โ€“] gjoel@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago

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

[โ€“] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

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