My scattered thoughts about Muppets:
- What is it about the medium of colorful puppets that allows messages of hope to stowaway into the brain? I didn’t watch the Muppet growing up, but I’ve seen a suspicious number of very touching Kermit the Frog monologues. Maybe we can all take heart in the idea that having a silly voice and literally being a frog with a hand for a face isn’t enough to superficially deter us from good writing.
- Chaos Muppet Theory confuses me. Not because I disagree with it — I mean, the writer is very tongue-in-cheek and I don’t think they’re intending to guide public thought or anything. Just that, despite all this “everyone’s unique” jazz, it actually ends up really easy to separate everyone into two categories. We do it all the time. Logically (“likes ketchup” and “doesn’t like ketchup”), perceptually (“Chaos Muppet” and “Order Muppet”), dishonestly (“teachers deserve more credit” and “teachers deserve less credit” — no one actually believes teachers deserve less credit, that’s not what’s happening here).
- Huh. I actually don’t have any more thoughts on Muppets. This is pretty funny.