Kermit the Forg

PERFORMER	various
DEBUT	1980
DESIGN	Caroly Wilcox designer

Kermit the Forg is a tall gray Anything Muppet monster with a long green nose. His name comes from a Sesame Street sketch in which Kermit the Frog is frustrated in his attempts to buy a personalized t-shirt from the T-Shirt Salesman. The sketch also features Kermit the Gorf and Kermit the Grof.

In some later appearances, the puppet gains lavender eyelids and brown eyelashes. The monster has been performed by Jerry Nelson (The Wonderful World of T-Shirts), Richard Hunt ("We Are All Monsters"), Michael Earl ("Near Far Monsters"), Martin P. Robinson (Monsters of Venice), and Alice Dinnean (Monsters in Day Care), among others.

The puppet has also been recycled for other named characters, including Suzy (Episode 3869) and Sally, and as an alien (with purple hair, sans nose) in Episode 4504.

Notes

• The "Kermit the Forg" wordplay was first used in Episode 314 of The Muppet Show, with guest star Harry Belafonte. The episode included a running gag involving Fozzie Bear writing the script for the show as it went along, with several spelling errors as the result of Fozzie's handwriting. Kermit's opening monologue began as follows: "Lagies and Jecklefins, [...] my name is Kermit the Forg -- The Forg?!"

Appearances

• Sesame Street
  • Sketches: We Are All Monsters, The Wonderful World of T-Shirts, Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco, Near Far Monsters, Easy Listening Band, In and Out, Monsters of Venice, Monsters in Day Care, C is for Cookie (1998 remake), Furry Happy Monsters
  • Episodes: 2037, 2686, 3318, 3333, 3395, 3760, 3825, 3869, 3885, 3890, 3908, 3910, 3927, 4019, 4021, 4026, 4176, 4504, 4732
• Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting
• Sesame Street Stays Up Late
• Big Bird Gets Lost
• CinderElmo
• Talk, Read, Write
• Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic
• The Furchester Hotel
  • Episodes: 114, 119, 121, 122, 126, 127

See also

• Sesame Street monsters