. . . . "He should be a tadpole at that age. Is he, like, actually much older than the others or something? \n* 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). \n* We sort of have that trope. \n* We do now. \n* Maybe he's just out of the tadpole stage. His nephew Robin is similarly small and young and surprisingly non-tadpole. \n* Robin was absolutely a tadpole in \"Muppet Babies\", which gets awkward. \n* 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 anthropomorphizing the rate of his aging, which is nothing new. \n* It is actually a good metaphor for the relatively immobile infant stage versus the more active toddler stage."@en . . "He should be a tadpole at that age. Is he, like, actually much older than the others or something? \n* 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). \n* We sort of have that trope. \n* We do now. \n* Maybe he's just out of the tadpole stage. His nephew Robin is similarly small and young and surprisingly non-tadpole. \n* Robin was absolutely a tadpole in \"Muppet Babies\", which gets awkward. \n* 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"@en . "Muppet Babies/Headscratchers"@en . . . . . .