Kermit is a frog and Miss Piggy is a pig, so lose the felt jokes.
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Without that core, the risk of Miss Piggy spiraling into an untenable sty of callous words and consistent mistreatment of subordinates is all too real.
And within the same dynamic, Miss Piggy's affections for Kermit, even affections tempered by occasional abuse, always have been a key softening factor for Miss Piggy.
And if you didn't know that you wanted to see Groban and Miss Piggy dueling on "If I Loved You" from "Carousel, " you were foolish to doubt.
Jane Henson helped design many puppets for the hit TV show, whose characters include Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, and also worked as a puppeteer.
The characters for which he wrote, Miss Piggy, Big Bird, the Cookie Monster, the Old Geezers, Oscar the Grouch and so on, are splendid parodies of people.
At any rate, at a press conference for the U.K. premiere of the movie, Kermit and Miss Piggy had a chance to respond to the Fox News allegations.
Famously he was attacked by glove puppet Emu when children's personality Rod Hull was on his programme in 1976, and he also interviewed Muppets star Miss Piggy two years later.
Structurally, "The Muppets" is simple: Miss Piggy is the star of a late-night show, Kermit is her executive producer, and some assortment of available Henson characters, both new and old, are working behind the scenes.
Miss Piggy and Kermit get to be the A-story every week, which makes sense because they're the money Muppets, but doesn't always set the best of tones because frenzied Piggy and surly Kermit are not necessarily native incarnations of either character.
In that tight and often-funny tease, we learned that the Muppet gang was reuniting to work with Miss Piggy on a new talk show and that things were going to be awkward because Kermit already had moved on to a new girlfriend in Denise, the pig running ABC's marketing department.
The Miss Piggy-Kermit news that you read about was never even really news because it was always part of the proof-of-concept presentation that convinced ABC to order "The Muppets, " co-created by Bob Kushell and Bill Prady, in the first place a presentation that ABC made available to the public.
Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the Museum of the Moving Image, which is building a new gallery to house them, the institution announced Tuesday.
"The only major item that I know will not be represented is the Muppet that they made of me, " Mayor Michael Bloomberg joked at the news conference, where he bantered with Miss Piggy about the city's film and television industry and reminisced about their joint work in the 2008 TV special "A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, " which featured Bloomberg as himself.
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