October 14, 2003

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU FROG

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU FROG AND TIMBERLAKE: Supplying further evidence that Jim Henson's children were stupid enough to either let the Kermit the Frog character fall into the public domain or sell him off without anyone finding out, "Saturday Night Live" this week featured yet another really disturbing bit involving our favorite talking frog that- like Conan O'Brien's "Vomiting Kermit" bit- emanated from 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Towards the end of yet another middling episode Saturday, SNL ran a sketch that purported to be a duet of "The Rainbow Connection" between Kermit himself and the evening's guest host, Justin Timberlake. It started out as a normal version of the song, that is until Justin stepped on the Frog's "toe," leading to a scuffle between the two in which Kermit's table was knocked over, revealing SNL cast member Will Forte holding the Kermit puppet- which was, I believe, the first time in the 30-odd-year history of the character that Kermit has been "outed" as a puppet.
Then, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, Forte-in-Kermit's-voice calls the former 'NSyncer a "douchebag," then they make up and finish the song, with Forte-as-Kermit actually singing the line, "the lovers, the douchebags, and me." I was under the impression that Kermit was a children's character- I'm not sure what NBC paid for the rights to perform that sketch, but it better have been a lot.
After the infamous Weezer video and Vomiting Kermit, we've now got the sorry hat trick complete, with Douchebag Kermit. They weren't allowed to do the Snoop Dogg duet, but somehow all three of those things are okay? I think maybe we've got some John Henry Williams types in the Henson family…

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 14, 2003 10:23 AM
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Wow, you're a tightwad. Get a sense of humor and quit smoking all that pot.

Posted by: at May 5, 2005 10:31 AM
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