So on Sunday, I was a big lump and was strewn about the sofa watching TV. The Muppet Christmas Carol was on and I caught the tail end of it… long enough to see something that worried me. Kermit the Frog, playing Bob Cratchet, and his blushing bride, Miss Piggy (if she’s married why is she Miss?) have children… a veritable posse of small frogs and small pigs. My question is where were the progs and the frigglets? I mean, I can suspend disbelief as much as the next Muppet fan, but I mean where were the green bacon flavored creatures?
Oh, yeah, I forgot the other scary thing in the movie. Towards the end, as we all know, Scrooge buys the prize turkey from the butcher and delivers it to Bob Cratchet. But, OH MY GOD, in the Muppet version of this, the have a stuffed and cooked Big Bird on a trolley deliver to Kermit. THEY KILLED BIG BIRD!!!