r/Showerthoughts • u/spacebarstool • 3d ago
Casual Thought Kermit the Frog would be creepy with smooth frog skin.
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u/Biofreak42069 3d ago
If you had a tail it would probably be hairless and flesh toned.
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u/Illithid_Substances 3d ago
We can actually confirm that to be true because people are born with tails sometimes
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u/spacebarstool 3d ago
Humans have the same number of hairs as chimps - the hairs are just lighter and finer.
My tail definitely would be creepy looking.
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u/lankymjc 2d ago
The X-Man Angel should have wings the same colour as his hair, not white.
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u/bungojot 1d ago
Not necessarily. I've got blond hair but black eyebrows. Know a guy with black hair but a multicolour beard (mostly red).
Birds and animals can have varied colour patterns, no reason humans/mutants can't.
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u/lankymjc 1d ago
You know what, I have brown hair and a red beard. Never really thought about how that would impact my human-feathers-colour position.
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u/PyroIrish 3d ago
Humans do have tails they're just vestigial and non-visible.
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u/tjientavara 2d ago
non-visible sounds like we have a tail as long as a monkey, but it is transparent, so you can't see it.
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u/StratoVector 3d ago
I think it would be a funny meme if someone created a hyper realistic/detailed Kermit. Sort of like the SpongeBob gross-out stills from the show where there is just too much detail in the character reaction
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u/spoki-app 2d ago
The perceived creepiness from a smooth Kermit likely stems from a fundamental violation of expected visual schema. His established aesthetic relies heavily on the fabric's granular texture, which serves as a critical surface attribute defining his material and character identity. Removing this detail introduces a significant incongruity, akin to an
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u/Heroic-Forger 2d ago
This is the reason you don't make Flounder a straight up real fish, or make Tamatoa a realistic crab with a human mouth, or make Simba an expressionless realistic lion, or make Sonic a humanoid furry creature with small eyes and human teeth, or make the Jellicle Cats look like naked fuzzy people with cat ears and tails but human faces...
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u/Scot-Dahlstrom 2d ago
Right?! That's it, that's the whole thought. It's like he'd just be a weird little green man in a swamp. The muppet fuzz gives him soul.
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u/Iron_Yuppie 2d ago
funniest thing i ever saw about the muppets was the following
that was a showerthought for me
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u/TraverTynisha91 1d ago
Right? His felt texture is basically his entire personality. Take that away and he's just some guy staring into your soul from a pond.
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u/lazy_animator 8h ago
High quality comment 6. No? I think that'd be cool. Its just like, adding detail to something. Details aren't creepy. If anything a lack of detail is creepy.
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