So, imagine running a theater. Now, imagine running a vaudeville theater. In the 1970s. You can’t afford to regularly employ anyone other than your friends, and they work for peanuts. You’re so hard up for butts in seats that you can’t even turn away the two old men who consistently harass and disrupt every performance you stage.
Welcome to the life of Kermit the Frog.
Kermit’s eternal hang-up is that he feels that the Muppets’ failures are his failures. Every friend who joins him in his dream to find show business stardom is one more friend whose dream he has to make true. The loveable frog has a little difficulty with delegation, to say the least. This sense of responsibility is a major heart-wrenching plot point in It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Speical (aired with only a little fanfare on NBC in 2002), when, while the Muppet Theater undergoes financial hardship, Kermit decides that his friends would be better off if he had never been born.
I invite you, instead of dwelling on the purposeful reference to It’s A Wonderful Life, to reflect on what your life would have been like without the Muppets.
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