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Published: 2011-09-26 15:03:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 6572; Favourites: 125; Downloads: 98
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I drew this cartoon as a tribute to Jim Henson's birthday (Sept. 24th), which ran on the Muppet fan site Toughpigs. For those who don't know, Jim created the original Kermit in 1955 by using his mother's old spring coat as building material. It's always been assumed that the coat was discarded, but I thought it'd be a hoot if Betty Henson hadn't been aware of her son's use of it.Related content
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if he said it was discarded then I believe him.Β
what material was Miss Piggy, who debuted decades after Kermit, made ofΒ
but I do get this is all a joke
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So basically Jim was still a teenager when he created Kermit for Sam and Friends.
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Yeah, more or less. He created them in his first years of college, so he wouldn't have even been twenty by the time Sam and Friends premiered.
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he got his first gig when he was only seventeenΒ
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Awesome tribute to a great man, Jay
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"...So, she looks over to her husband, then sets it back down in her lap and says, 'Honey, this one's eating my popcorn.'"- Agent K ("Men in Black", 1997)
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Absolutely priceless - and yet, indeed, very inspiring
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Good one! Proving it can be, uh, interesting (in the Chinese curse kind of way) to be around creative types.
If we ever meet for real, remind me not to set my jacket aside.
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This made me GOL (giggle out loud). Brilliant!
I have to admit, working at Walmart as I do, every time someone buys a bathmat or other shaggy area rug, I say something to the effect of "Ah, this is 100% genuine Muppetskin right here..."
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Ha! In my years of trying to build puppets and buying unconventional building supplies at places like Walmart, I often took comfort knowing where Jim got his earliest materials!
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I think Jim would say you did a great job, Jay. Thanks for sharing!
-- Stephen
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Your Muppet funnies are done out of love. With the cash flow Jim was enjoying from the Muppets, she could buy herself more coats. Nice work.
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They certainly are done out of love! Thank you for noticing!
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This is magnificent. Were he still here, I suspect that this is the sort of thing he would hang up on his wall and laugh at every time he looked at it...
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Thank you. That's very kind of you to say!
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From everything I've heard of the man, from his friends, it's nothing but the truth. He'd have laughed his head off at that one.
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I just glue googley eyes on my fist and call um FISTEY!
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Just so long as you don't call him for a date! =0)
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nah Fistey only speaks chinese we would have nothing to talk about
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You may not know Chinese, but you speak Zombie Chick fluently! =0)
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Brilliant! ^_^ I got a huge chuckle out of this one.
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