Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

[ThatOneGuy]

New Muppet Thought of the Week!

They're really pushing Matt as Kermit now either to get him more practice or to get us used to him. Not saying that either is a bad thing, I'm just glad to see more Kermit.

 

[muppetlover123]

This one was pretty good! Sure another like 15 seconds of Matts Kermit but it sounds decent especially next to Fozzie! I wonder if this was shot 9 months ago with Kermits first thought or more recent?

 

[xSunnyEclipse]

I'm glad there's more of Matt's Kermit, but Kermit looks kind of..dead in that video. And some of the expressions scream Constantine than Kermit.

I'm sure Matt will keep improving.

 

[ThatOneGuy]

I'm glad there's more of Matt's Kermit, but Kermit looks kind of..dead in that video. And some of the expressions scream Constantine than Kermit.

I'm sure Matt will keep improving.

I thought that too, my guess is that Matt's hands are probably a different size and shape than Steve and Jim's. Maybe he needs more practice with the puppet or maybe they'll just make a new one to accommodate his hand (but that's just my odd theory.)

 

[LittleJerry92]

Yeah, Matt does sound a bit tired in this one. Props to Fozzie for the joke though.

 

[RowlfFan12]

I'm starting to get more and more impressed with Matt's performance of Kermit. His little yelp when Fozzie ran into him was very good and Kermit like. I'm sure Matt will improve with time.

 

[rexcrk]

Personally I think Matt just keeps sounding better and better as Kermit.

 

[animalrescuer]

Matt is still improving, but needs to work out creating facial expressions to the degree Jim and Steve did. Definitely more of a combination of Jim and Steve, but Matt definitely made Kermit his own.

 

[Old Thunder]

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......... still not 100% impressed with Matt's Kermit. If it remains this way then I think it's gonna be a completely different frog we'll have to get used to.

 

[JimAndFrank]

It's getting slightly better with every new video. This time the performance felt more natural, however the voice still throws me off a tad.