TMC
06-14-2026, 04:37 AM
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Kermit the Frog has had three different voices. Miss Piggy's original performer walked away. And for six years after Jim Henson died, Rowlf the Dog said almost nothing at all. These aren't casting decisions. They're identity crises.
We investigate the real stories behind every major Muppet Show departure — from Jim Henson's death in 1990 and Frank Oz's quiet retirement from performing, to Steve Whitmire's firing by Disney and the failed Muppets Tonight era that erased an entire generation of characters. This is the question nobody fully answers: who owns a character when the person who gave it a soul is gone?
Kermit the Frog has had three different voices. Miss Piggy's original performer walked away. And for six years after Jim Henson died, Rowlf the Dog said almost nothing at all. These aren't casting decisions. They're identity crises.
We investigate the real stories behind every major Muppet Show departure — from Jim Henson's death in 1990 and Frank Oz's quiet retirement from performing, to Steve Whitmire's firing by Disney and the failed Muppets Tonight era that erased an entire generation of characters. This is the question nobody fully answers: who owns a character when the person who gave it a soul is gone?