As you may have heard, recently Miss Piggy was awarded a monstrous mouthful of a thing called âThe Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art First Awardâ for being a woman who has spent âmore than forty years blazing feminist trails with determination and humor,â or some shit like that. The truth about the famously pretentious thespian is, of course, much darker, and recently I met with the one man who knows more than any other what Miss Piggy truly is, for he is the man who has seen the ugliness behind the glamour, the monster behind the pig.
We meet deep in the Louisiana Everglades, where my interviewee lives in a modest albeit high security wooden cabin surrounded by a twenty foot high electric fence topped with razor wire, a yard full of savage guinea pigs, and minefields on all sides. Indeed, so wary is my host of outsiders that I have to be lowered into his yard by helicopter, and then only after the guinea pigs have been safely locked up. My host is a small man, green and friendly, though one canât help notice that there is a certain haunted look in his eyes and that he isnât actually wearing any pants. Or anything else for that matter. Yes, my host is the Green Prince of Comedy, the entertainment worldâs most famous amphibian — the one, the only, Kermit The Frog! And today he is going to spill the beans on feminismâs latest poster girl. Yes, today Kermit is going to tell us about Piggy â all about Piggy.
âTrailblazer? Sure sheâs a trailblazer, a trailblazer in the abuse of frogs! She was totally psycho, like the chick from Basic Instinct except 100 pounds heavier and slightly prettier. And she didnât even hide her abuse! She used to beat me up on television, when the cameras were rolling! The karate chops and flying kicks were all over the place! She once threw me threw a plate glass window, there was blood everywhere. And everybody just laughed! Why didnât they call an ambulance instead!?!?! I was in pain!
And you know all those jokes about the frog in the blender? That was me, you bastards! The bitch shoved me in a fucking blender! It took weeks for the vets to put me back together! And I wasnât the only victim, either, She was just insanely jealous. She once beat up my mother for saying âHiâ to me! She broke Fozzieâs legs after some tabloid claimed that he and I were involved in a secret gay relationship. She also harassed a lot of the male guests we had on the show! For example, she once told Stallone, âHey, muscles, how about some bacon on your sausage?â And she refused to let me appear on stage with Alice Cooper because she couldnât understand that he was actually a man. And donât get me started on that time she took advantage of a falling-down drunk John Denver! The poor bastard had no idea what he was doing. I mean, he kept passing out, for fuckâs sake! Oh, no, wait, that was Amy SchumerâŠâ
After pausing to down half a bottle of Valium, Mr. Frog continues his tale of woeâŠ
âBut Iâll get her. Oh, yes. This is one frog whoâs had enough of running. Next month, thatâs when it will all come to an end. See, thatâs when sheâs going to be receiving another feminist award, this time the âLena Dunham Award for Excellence in the Field of Child Molestation.â Itâs being held at Rockefeller Center, and Iâm going to sneak in disguised as Joss Whedon â- so everyone will think Iâm just another hydrocephalic moron â- and loaded for pig. Iâll blast the abusive little cow to pieces, then decapitate her and bring the head back to my cabin where I will spend a few days throwing darts at it. Then, before it gets too ripe, Iâll boil it down and make me some good, old fashioned head cheese! Oh,yeah! And the rest of her carcass will be turned into ham and pork sausages! Howâs that for trailblazing? First Hollywood star to end up on the wrong side of a sandwich — howâs that for a first, hey? When itâs ready you can come on over and have some head cheese for free Pigman, itâs great on bagels!â It is at this point that I notice there is a suspiciously large number of M16s and grenade launchers lying around the cabin, and start to wonder if years of abuse have finally driven the worldâs most beloved frog over the edge of sanity and if maybe I should call Bellevue. Still, someone who blew the head off Dick Cheney and turned several Wall Street types into haggis is in no position to be getting all uppity at one manâs plans for revenge, so I keep my counsel to myself.
A few minutes later, as the helicopter hoists me out of the yard, the guinea pigs barking furiously below me, I wonder to myself if Kermit will really go ahead with his threats. Will Miss Piggy end up as head cheese and pork sausages? Will Joss Whedon get the blame and be devoured by Twitter feminists? Only time will tell and I, for one, am looking forward to that day, though for obvious reasons I wonât be partaking of the ensuing feast â I will, however, be quite happy to bring the beer.