He should be a tadpole at that age. Is he, like, actually much older than the others or something? * Well, you couldn't very well do the show with him like, swimming around in a tank in the nursery while all the other Muppet Babies are out walking around. It definitely wouldn't be very cute (hey, there's a trope idea: Rule Of Cute). * We sort of have that trope. * We do now. * Maybe he's just out of the tadpole stage. His nephew Robin is similarly small and young and surprisingly non-tadpole. * Robin was absolutely a tadpole in "Muppet Babies", which gets awkward. * Robin is young but a frog on The Muppet Show, and the younger Robin who appears in one episode of Muppet Babies is a tadpole. Kermit is past the tadpole stage; nothing awkward about it other than anthr