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so he can rub her in Miss Piggy’s face),” Megan Carpentier, the U.S. opinion editor for The Guardian, wrote in a piece titled “Kermit the Frog’s New Girlfriend Is Younger, Thinner — and ...

At the time, the character was known as Miss Piggy Lee, but soon she was in a sketch that called for her to argue with Kermit the Frog. The puppeteer Frank Oz was performing with her at the time.