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On August 7, 2008, the official ''Sesame Street'' YouTube channel posted a clip from [[Episode 2895]], where Kermit asks Cookie Monster to identify the object in a box based on three clues. The famous exchange involves Cookie Monster declaring without fail that the object in the box is a cookie, despite Kermit's increasingly exasperated denials. As of December 2016, the clip has over eight million views. |
On August 7, 2008, the official ''Sesame Street'' YouTube channel posted a clip from [[Episode 2895]], where Kermit asks Cookie Monster to identify the object in a box based on three clues. The famous exchange involves Cookie Monster declaring without fail that the object in the box is a cookie, despite Kermit's increasingly exasperated denials. As of December 2016, the clip has over eight million views. |
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On August 10, 2012, a 4chan thread featured an image of Kermit introducing the segment, announcing that the readers had to guess what was in the box. Upon giving the first clue that the object was green, another user proposed that it was weed. The response was an image of Kermit's exasperated expression from the same sketch, with the words "ITS NOT FUCKING WEED YOU PIECE OF SHIT STONER" below it. The screencap of this reaction quickly gained popularity, and has been used as a reaction to various marijuana-related posts. |
On August 10, 2012, a 4chan thread featured an image of Kermit introducing the segment, announcing that the readers had to guess what was in the box. Upon giving the first clue that the object was green, another user proposed that it was weed. The response was an image of Kermit's exasperated expression from the same sketch, with the words "ITS NOT FUCKING WEED YOU PIECE OF SHIT STONER" below it. The screencap of this reaction quickly gained popularity, and has been used as a reaction to various marijuana-related posts. |
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A meme is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." On the internet, a meme can take the form of an image macro, video, hashtag, quote, or a screencap of a movie or television scene.
In recent years, especially in reaction to increased media presence, Kermit the Frog has become the subject of various internet memes.
Sad Kermit
Sad Kermit
In March 2007, Sad Kermit, an unofficial parody, was uploaded to YouTube showing a store-bought Kermit puppet performing a version of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" in a style similar to Johnny Cash's version. In contrast to the real Kermit character's usual family-friendly antics, the video shows the puppet engaging in drug abuse, smoking, alcoholism, performing oral sex on Rowlf the Dog, smashing a picture of Miss Piggy (with a breast exposed) and attempting suicide. The video spread virally across the Internet.
The Victoria Times Colonist called it an "online sensation".[1] The Chicago Sun-Times said it "puts the high in 'Hi-ho!'"[2] The London Free Press said "Sad Kermit is in a world of pain".[3] The Houston Press described it as the "world's most revolting web phenomenon".[4] SF Weekly described the unauthorized video as "ironic slandering."[5] Clips have been featured on the Canadian television series The Hour, where host George Stroumboulopoulos speculated that the Kermit version of "Hurt" was inspired by the Cash version rather than that of Nine Inch Nails.
The video spawned other parodies of "Sad Kermit" performing darker and more "adult"-oriented material, including "Creep" by Radiohead, "Twilight" and "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith, "The Rainbow Connection" (referred to as "The Rainbow Disconnection"), "Something I Can Never Have" by Nine Inch Nails and "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen.
The original video was removed from the YouTube due to a copyright claim by The Jim Henson Company according to a message on the site[6].
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Kermit Mystery Box
The original sketch.
On August 7, 2008, the official Sesame Street YouTube channel posted a clip from Episode 2895, where Kermit asks Cookie Monster to identify the object in a box based on three clues. The famous exchange involves Cookie Monster declaring without fail that the object in the box is a cookie, despite Kermit's increasingly exasperated denials. As of December 2016, the clip has over eight million views.
On August 10, 2012, a 4chan thread featured an image of Kermit introducing the segment, announcing that the readers had to guess what was in the box. Upon giving the first clue that the object was green, another user proposed that it was weed. The response was an image of Kermit's exasperated expression from the same sketch, with the words "ITS NOT FUCKING WEED YOU PIECE OF SHIT STONER" below it. The screencap of this reaction quickly gained popularity, and has been used as a reaction to various marijuana-related posts.
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"But That's None Of My Business"
#TeaLizard
“But That’s None of My Business” is a sarcastic expression used as a postscript to an insult or disrespectful remark said towards a specific individual or group. The phrase was popularized through an image macro series in 2014 featuring Kermit the Frog and punchlines poking fun at a wide range of faux-pas and questionable behaviors in everyday social situations, punctuated with the passive-aggressive comment "but that's none of my business" and the image of Kermit relaxing while sipping a drink. The most popular image used is a still of Kermit sipping tea from a Lipton Tea commercial . Another popular image is of Kermit sipping through a straw from the first episode of The Muppet Show.
Kermit the Frog commented on the meme in a 2015 interview with BuzzFeed saying "you can't get publicity like that - I tell you." Before taking a sip from a cup and remarking "But that's none of my business."[7]
Charles Pulliam-Moore of the TV station Fusion praised "But That’s None Of My Business" as "a symbol for the comedic brilliance born out of black communities on the internet,"[8] but Stephanie Hayes of Bustle magazine slammed the memes as racist and obscene.[9]
The meme saw a resurgence in 2016 when LeBron James and Good Morning America referenced the image using the hashtag #TeaLizard. New York magazine replied that, "Kermit is a frog. A frog is an amphibian. A lizard is a reptile. It’s just so insulting. Beyond a frog and a lizard both being clearly ectothermic, they couldn’t be any more different. Not all green things are the same, you ignorant bastards."[10] Popular Science also addressed the misnomer, writing "Frogs, which are amphibians, have quite a few significant differences from reptiles in how they breathe, their life cycles, whether they have scales or not... there's a lot to absorb here."[11] Kermit himself responded to being confused as a lizard on Twitter, tweeting: "Don't you hate when you get mistaken for someone you're not? Kermit #TeaFrog > #TeaLizard #ButThatsNoneOfMyBusiness"[12]
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Evil Kermit
#Evil Kermit
Evil Kermit is a captioned image series that started in 2016 featuring a screenshot of the scene in Muppets Most Wanted where Kermit is attacked by his evil doppelgänger Constantine. Similar to the trope of psychomachia, the meme pits a reasonable impulse ("me") against a more sinister or destructive indulgence ("me to me" or "also me").
Kermit commented on the meme when it trended on Twitter in November 2016, stating:
- "#Constantine from #MuppetsMostWanted is trending as #EvilKermit. I’m very happy for him... which is how you can tell I’m #NotEvilKermit."[13]
The meme has spawned various imitations, which generally call back to the original image. One such variation uses a photoshopped image of Miss Piggy facing her "Evil Miss Piggy." This version of the meme specifically references the original image, but tends to relate to topics of pettiness or boredom.[14] Another variation includes a gif of the same freeze-framed Muppets Most Wanted scene, showing Constantine slapping the fake mole onto Kermit. As used in this variation, this is "me" chastising "myself" for an ignorant action.
Examples
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Sources
- ↑ 'Sad Kermit' bares his soul online December 9, 2007
- ↑ Parody video puts the high in 'Hi-ho!' September 30, 2007
- ↑ "Sad Kermit is hurting" April 12, 2007
- ↑ The Sad Kermit Video May 24, 2007
- ↑ It's so easy being green: Jim Henson's lasting music legacy
- ↑ Sad Kermit
- ↑ 29 Burning Questions, Answered By Kermit The Frog
- ↑ How ‘Good Morning America’ calling a popular Kermit the Frog meme ‘Tea Lizard’ whitewashes Black Twitter’s comedic genius
- ↑ #Kermit the Frog #ButThatsNoneofMyBusinessTho Memes Are Annoyingly Taking Over the Internet
- ↑ The Real Reason GMA’s ‘Tea Lizard’ Tweet Was Problematic
- ↑ Why #TeaLizard Kermit The Frog Is Not a Lizard Popular Science. June 2016
- ↑ @KermitTheFrog on Twitter
- ↑ @KermitTheFrog on Twitter
- ↑ 18 Hilarious Miss Piggy Memes That Are So Relatable It Actually Hurts