Something Something Being Green

April 21, 2015 7:28 AM

Newly discovered glass frog looks just like Kermit
posted by Johnny Wallflower (27 comments total)

Oh Kermie!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:35 AM on April 21, 2015 [7 favorites]

NOPE THIS IS HORRIFYING
posted by ominous_paws at 7:40 AM on April 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

You think that's disturbing? Just wait till they find the glass-frog/pig hybrids.
posted by Poldo at 7:45 AM on April 21, 2015 [12 favorites]

Hyalinobatrachium dianae

Bullshit. This is Hyalinobatrachium hensonae and everybody knows it.
posted by mrjohnmuller at 7:50 AM on April 21, 2015 [19 favorites]

Yeah, but Greg, when this frog gets excited it flails its arms wildly and goes "Yaaaaay!"

It also plays the banjo.
posted by bondcliff at 7:55 AM on April 21, 2015 [35 favorites]

#YESALLFROGS
posted by graymouser at 7:59 AM on April 21, 2015 [13 favorites]

‘[T]he frog has already been named “Diane’s Bare-hearted Glass Frog,”…

Its Kermitisimilitude notwithstanding, that’s a marvellously euphonious name.
posted by misteraitch at 8:00 AM on April 21, 2015 [4 favorites]

Of course they look alike, in the way that Kermit looks like any green frog.

No. There's a big, big Kermity difference here: The eyes. Most other green frogs' eyes aren't white.
posted by Sys Rq at 8:02 AM on April 21, 2015 [6 favorites]

Get back to me when this frog begins reporting on fairy tale scandals while wearing an excellently tailored and no-nonsense trenchcoat
posted by a fiendish thingy at 8:07 AM on April 21, 2015 [13 favorites]

If it wasn't for the Disney purchase, an entire generation of kids might know Kermit only as "The 'None of my Business' Frog".
posted by Rock Steady at 8:11 AM on April 21, 2015 [3 favorites]

Robin. It looks like Robin, not Kermit.
posted by Ashenmote at 8:41 AM on April 21, 2015 [12 favorites]

Hi-ho!
posted by papercake at 9:07 AM on April 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Gross

You're not supposed to be able to see through skin

That's like the best thing about skin
posted by Ray Walston, Luck Dragon at 9:07 AM on April 21, 2015 [14 favorites]

Yeah, it has the ping pong ball eyes, and the funny shaped pupils, which presumably are intended to evoke nictitating membranes. Since this was a big shock for me to realize a few years ago, I'll also remind people that only the froggier of the muppets have those and everyone else just has dots for pupils.
posted by aubilenon at 9:07 AM on April 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

My Google search history now has "flowers that look like swiper from dora the explorer" so thanks Greg.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:23 AM on April 21, 2015 [11 favorites]

(don't waste your time btw)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:23 AM on April 21, 2015 [13 favorites]

Gross

You're not supposed to be able to see through skin

That's like the best thing about skin

My translucent pallor would like a word with you. (Please tell it to fuck right off.)
posted by Sys Rq at 11:09 AM on April 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

Wait until you see the eggs hatch out of its back.

[dies]
posted by jbickers at 11:42 AM on April 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

you know, why does kermit have that fringe around his neck
i mean, besides the fact it's stylish
It's like some weird skin/clothing combination, and it's sort of freaking me out the more i think about it
posted by angrycat at 1:09 PM on April 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

Kermit's 13-point fringe represents the original 13 colonies and the secret knowledge that Kermit is the 13th Apostle, here to prepare the world for the end-times.
posted by blue_beetle at 1:28 PM on April 21, 2015 [10 favorites]

Diane’s Bare-hearted Glass Frog
Isn't that an Of Montreal b-side?
posted by cottoncandybeard at 1:56 PM on April 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

seemed like the real thing/
but it had gross translucent skin
posted by angrycat at 2:07 PM on April 21, 2015 [6 favorites]

Yeah, but Greg, when this frog gets excited it flails its arms wildly and goes "Yaaaaay!"


EVERY FROG DOES THAT

posted by Greg Nog


I didn't know that I could love Greg Nog any more than I already did. And now there is this.
*wipes tear*
posted by blurker at 2:59 PM on April 21, 2015

angrycat: "you know, why does kermit have that fringe around his neck
i mean, besides the fact it's stylish
It's like some weird skin/clothing combination, and it's sort of freaking me out the more i think about it"

Because otherwise HE'D BE NAKED! You can't have a naked frog on children's television.
posted by double block and bleed at 6:31 PM on April 21, 2015 [3 favorites]

This thread is delight
posted by sweetkid at 9:54 PM on April 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

I don't know if it's "canon," but according to some sight gags on The Muppet Show (and maybe some other places too) Kermit's fringe is some kind of collar he wears, it's not part of his body.

LET THE FROG WHO DOESN'T LOOK LIKE KERMIT do his its OWN GOD DAMNED THING already jesus CHRIST why is this making me SO ANGRY

I don't know. Why is it? This cute little frog's Kermit-y-ness is a fun coincidence.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 10:07 PM on April 21, 2015

Drivers are statistically far more likely to brake for frogs that look like famous TV characters, so I'm not sure it is just a fun coincidence.
posted by Ashenmote at 12:37 AM on April 22, 2015