Characters and actors who have served as doppelgänger to Kermit the Frog in Muppet productions.
Picture | Impersonator / Production | Notes |
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Big Bird Sesame Street Episode 0521 |
During his Alphabet Show, Big Bird performs a feat beginning with the letter I - an "impersonation of an impressionist." After doing an Ernie impression, he follows up with a Kermit voice saying his traditional "Hi ho" catchphrase. | |
David Sesame Street sketch "The Cursed Prince" |
Grover narrates a fairy tale starring Maria as a princess and David as a prince with a curse that can only be broken by Maria's kiss, which turns him into Kermit the Frog. | |
Mr. Snuffleupagus Sesame Street Magazine, April 1976 |
Snuffy stands in for Reporter Kermit in an April Fool's Day spread illustrated by Joe Mathieu. | |
Robot Kermit The Muppet Show episode 104 |
A robot built to look and act like Kermit, to take the place of Kermit the Frog. The robot version had a key on his back, and openly showed affection for Miss Piggy. | |
Peter Ustinov The Muppet Show episode 112 |
During the closing curtain call, Peter confesses to Kermit that he's always wanted to be a frog, and imitates Kermit saying good night to the audience. | |
Gladys the Cow Sesame Street Episode 1052 |
Gladys attempts to get into Big Bird's variety show by showing off her impressions, including one of Kermit. | |
Rich Little The Muppet Show episode 204 |
In his opening act, Rich impersonates Kermit, Fozzie, Piggy and Statler. Kermit is astonished by Rich's impression: "I was in the dressing room and I heard you on stage, and for a second I thought I had grown a new me." | |
Koozebanian Phoob The Muppet Show episode 205 |
The Phoob is the tastiest creature on the planet Koozebane, but Phoobs survive by "evolving" very quickly to blend in with other creatures. Before Kermit's astonished eyes, the Phoob transforms into a Kermit duplicate. "It's called the survival of the trenchcoated," the Phoob explains. | |
Lenny the Lizard The Muppet Show episode 208 |
Lenny auditions for the job of an emcee, imitating the show's standing host just a little too closely for Kermit's comfort. | |
Kermit the Pig The Muppet Show episode 224 |
When the theater is taken over by pigs, this green pig with bulgy eyes and a spiky collar impersonates Kermit while the real Kermit is held prisoner. | |
The Swedish Chef The Muppet Show episode 314 |
When Dr. Strangepork's dissolvatron malfunctions, Kermit the Frog ends up trading bodies and voices with the Swedish Chef. | |
Danny Kaye The Muppet Show episode 316 |
In a quiet moment between guest and host, Danny confesses that he's begun to talk like Kermit, who acknowledges that he approves of his impression. | |
Pigs The Muppet Show episode 406 |
In a tribute to Kermit's birthday, the cast sings "Be a Frog". | |
Cow The Muppet Show episode 406 |
A cow sings a line of "Be a Frog". | |
Horse The Muppet Show episode 406 |
A horse also chimes in on "Be a Frog". | |
Miss Piggy The Muppet Show episode 406 |
Piggy rounds out the finale of "Be a Frog" and appears backstage in her Kermit getup. | |
Kermit the Protozoa The Muppet Show episode 409 |
A single-celled organism stands in for Kermit's role when Sam the Eagle peers through a microscope. | |
Robin the Frog The Muppet Show episode 410 |
With his Uncle Kermit "falling down on the job", Robin introduces Kenny's number "The Gambler" by waving his arms and shouting "yay!" | |
Miss Piggy The Muppet Show episode 410 |
Kermit is temporarily on crutches, so Miss Piggy assists with his introduction by waving her arms and yelling, "Yaaaaaay!" | |
Gypsy The Muppet Show episode 416 |
A gypsy decides to introduce the closing number, so she waves her arms and yells, "Yaaay!" (something she's always wanted to do). | |
Mark Hamill The Muppet Show episode 417 |
When Kermit is looking for a guest star he asks Mark what he can do. Mark, doing a Kermit impression, says he can do impressions. Kermit, oblivious to the fact he was being mimicked, asks who he does. Mark goes on to impersonate Fozzie Bear with a similar response. | |
a rabbit The Muppet Show episode 421 |
Kermit introduces Doug Henning's final act and a rabbit mimics him as they exit the stage. | |
Rizzo the Rat The Muppet Show episode 503 |
After Kermit lets the rats in as members of The Muppet Show cast, Joan Baez warns that they might try to take over. Indeed, they carry Kermit offstage and Rizzo steps into Kermit's role to say good night. | |
Mac Davis The Muppet Show episode 514 |
Mac Davis passes for a close enough Kermit look-alike, with his green attire and flippers, to attract Miss Piggy as the two sing "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me." Piggy comments that if he'd just paint himself green, he'd be her kind of guy. | |
Statler The Muppet Show episode 517 |
As co-host of The Muppet Show, Statler introduces a number with Kermit's signature "Yaay!" and arm-flailing. | |
The Swedish Chef The Muppet Show episode 523 |
After Miss Piggy locks Kermit in Gonzo's trunk of fungus, she then sends the Chef on stage to introduce "Blue Bayou", with him even flailing his arms and yelling "Yaaay!" | |
Fozzie Bear The Great Muppet Caper |
As Kermit's identical twin brother, Fozzie is often mistaken (even by himself) for Kermit. This often happens when he is not wearing his hat. | |
Gonzo The Muppet Show promos |
Gonzo implores Australian viewers to watch The Muppet Show and performs Kermit's "yaaay!" flail, calling it a foolish gesture. | |
Central Park lovers The Muppets Take Manhattan |
After Kermit goes missing, Piggy looks for him in Central Park. Recalling a previous scene in which she'd shared a romantic moment with him in a horse-drawn carriage, Piggy approaches a couple dressed in familiar attire. | |
Sherman the Hoppity-Hop Sesame Street News Flash |
Dr. Nobel Price creates a mechanical automaton fashioned after Kermit (played by Richard Hunt). | |
Plácido Domingo Night of 100 Stars |
Plácido Domingo tries out his Kermit the Frog impression to cheer up a depressed Miss Piggy. | |
Frog "I'm Gonna Always Love You" music video |
A live frog, evading the prowl of a live pig, wears a Kermit collar in the music video for "I'm Gonna Always Love You." | |
Jim Henson "I'm Gonna Always Love You" music video |
Jim Henson wears large Kermit feet in a music video for "I'm Gonna Always Love You." He also sports slim shades and a slicked-back hairdo. | |
Child Fraggle Rock "Sir Hubris and the Gorgs" |
In Uncle Traveling Matt's postcard, two children go trick-or-treating as Kermit and Miss Piggy. | |
John Candy Muppet Magazine Spring 1986 |
Miss Piggy isn't amused with John Candy's deception in the Easter Parade. | |
Fay Ray Sesame Street |
In a 1988 episode, Fay Ray is disguised as a frog. Two girls, in voice-over, refer to Fay as "Kermit the Dog." | |
Gladys the Cow Sesame Street |
Inspired by Kermit, Gladys dresses up as a frog to see what it's like to be someone else. | |
Elmo Sesame Street sketch |
Elmo wants to help Kermit with a demonstration, doing an impression of how he usually introduces one of his lectures. | |
Elmo Sesame Street Episode 3607 |
Elmo pretends he is "Green," Kermit's role in the "Gone with the Wind" sketch. Although he uses a stereotypical Southern accent in lieu of a Kermit voice, he still quotes Kermit's "froggiest...er, foggiest" slip of the tongue. | |
Don Rickles Muppets Tonight episode 205 |
Don Rickles fills in for Kermit on Muppets Tonight by wearing a frog suit, playing the banjo and singing "Bein' Green". | |
Whatnot Odyssey Channel promo |
A Whatnot addresses an audience reading a script as if he's Kermit. He has Kermit pupils and wears a green, pointed collar. | |
Topo Sticky Disney Xtreme Digital |
Topo Sticky performs his imitations of Kermit, Gonzo, and Miss Piggy. | |
Jamie Foxx Access Hollywood |
When asked by Shaun Robinson if he'd watched Sesame Street as a kid, Foxx responds, "I wanted to be everybody," before doing an impression of Reporter Kermit introducing a Sesame Street News Flash. | |
Kismet the Toad The Treasure of Peg-Leg Wilson |
Kismet the Toad works for a celebrity impersonators service. He was hired as a Kermit the Frog lookalike -- the only actor of his kind. | |
Ernie & Bert Ernie & Bert Märchensongs |
Ernie and Bert turned into frogs, closely resembling Kermit, in the narrative of "The Frog Prince." | |
Miss Piggy Moviefone's Unscripted |
After doing dead-on impressions of Fozzie Bear and Animal, Miss Piggy does a less than accurate impression of Kermit. | |
Walter The Muppets |
Walter dresses up as Kermit the Frog for Halloween. | |
Kermoot The Muppets |
The Moopets, a Muppet tribute band, employ a Kermit look-alike. | |
Sackboy/Sackgirl LittleBigPlanet |
Players can don a Kermit costume to play through any of the level of the game. | |
Donald Duck Micky Maus Magazin |
Donald dressed as Kermit (in a carnival costume) on the cover of an issue of Germany's Micky Maus Magazin, along with his girlfriend Daisy Duck, dressed as Miss Piggy. | |
Constantine Muppets Most Wanted |
The world's number one criminal bears a striking resemblance to Kermit, and impersonates him for a majority of Muppets Most Wanted. | |
Club Penguin characters/avatars Club Penguin |
In promotion of 2014's Muppets Most Wanted, costumed avatars were able to assume the roles of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal and others. | |
Rizzo the Rat Facebook/Instagram video |
In promotion of 2015's The Muppets, Rizzo the Rat used a commercially available Kermit the Frog hand-puppet for his Halloween costume in a social media video. This angers the real Kermit when Rizzo uses the disguise to take Kermit's parking space. | |
The Swedish Chef The Muppets episode "Little Green Lie" |
The Swedish Chef uses a stalk of broccoli and imitates Kermit while demonstrating the break-up with Miss Piggy to Robin. | |
Link Hogthrob "Pigs in Space" video |
In "The Gravity of the Situation," as a part of an elaborate April Fool's prank on First Mate Piggy, Link uses a "frog puppet" to pretend to be Piggy's former love, Matt Kewaterski. | |
Constantine A Very Pentatonix Christmas |
Constantine once again impersonates Kermit in an attempt to ruin his reputation, as he's jealous that he's been reduced to internet memes. | |
James Corden The Late Late Show |
Corden dresses as Kermit to sing "Rainbow Connection" before he's joined by Kermit himself. | |
Scooter The A.V. Club |
In a promotional interview for Muppets Now, Scooter, having been asked to do an impression of a Muppet, performs a typical Kermit impression; "Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here! Yaaay!" | |
Walter The A.V. Club |
Similarly to Scooter's interview, Walter is asked to do an impression of his favorite Muppet, complying with his own Kermit impression. | |
Baby Fozzie Muppet Babies episode "Fozzie Can't Bear It" |
Fozzie imitates Kermit, with a rather unconvincing "Hi-ho, Fozzie!" Visually, his pupils change to resemble Kermit's. | |
Baby Gonzo Muppet Babies episode "Fozzie Can't Bear It" |
Gonzo imitates Kermit, with a very convincing "Hi-ho, Fozzie!" Visually, his pupils change to resemble Kermit's. | |
Miss Piggy Muppets Haunted Mansion |
Piggy dresses as Kermit for Halloween. | |
Flatmit Topps DigiCon 2022 |
While promoting the Muppet digital trading cards found on the Disney Collect! app, Kermit acknowledges a cartoon rendering of him is actually his "two-dimensional stunt double, Flatmit," who he claims stands in for him should he need to be hit by an anvil or run over by a steamroller. | |
Robin (as Tiny Tim) 2022 Web Video |
Robin (dressed as Tiny Tim) mimics Kermit's signature "Yaaay!" when congratulating Danny Trejo for being named Grand Marshal of the 2022 Hollywood Christmas Parade. Gonzo (as Charles Dickens) remarks, "That's cute!" [1] |