Sock Puppet Conspiracy

A friend of Hiroko's was sending us links to old Muppet Show clips on YouTube when it hit me: Kermit's no frog! He's a kappa! I mean, c'mon...

Frog.

 

Kermit and a suspiciously similar-looking lifeform supposedly recovered off the coast of Mito in 1836:

You make the call. Hey, it wouldn't be the first time a famous American icon was found to have yokai skeletons in his closet...