Evolution of Miss Piggy - A Muppet DIStory Ep. 43

[@unknown_limes]

Kermit didn't run out of ideas on gifts in the old age part, he knows what his Piggy wants. That frog knows exactly how to spoil his lady- strings of pearls and a ridiculously extensive wardrobe!

[@sojoboscribe1342]

Insert "Pearls before Swine" joke here.

[@lyra1139]

Absolutely.

[@callanightshade8079]

Remember in the Muppet Family Christmas when he got her a mink. She thought it was a fashion accessory but it was a live mink who worshipped Miss Piggy and fawned over her. Piggy immediately went from being excited, to irritated, to ecstatic because Kermit really does know her lol. He probably was looking for the accessory but found something even better for his lady lol

[@brandoniswhoiam]

The ultimate queen. A fashionista.

[@Putabowonitt]

Yessssssss

[@DistoryDan]

Thank you. Piggy is pretty cool too.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Truly she the diva for real a Lil self center lol

[@clarktooncrossing3975]

@@DistoryDan Disney Dan? More like Disney Diva! Simply fabulous! XD

[@joshfisher9711]

@@DistoryDan hahaha you had me rolling!

[@Sarah-mo8mb]

'She's just so tiny, and so thick, and so aggressive' that is what i want someone to say about me someday haha. Miss Piggy was my role model from a young age, I loved her attitude and tenacity.

[@amandahahl1561]

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[@delete---7593]

Yep. .🤔😑.

[@alanraphael5895]

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[@arturoskylar9334]

@Alan Raphael Flixportal :P

[@alanraphael5895]

@Arturo Skylar Thanks, I went there and it seems like a nice service :D I really appreciate it!!

[@jzanderk]

The pig on skates moment is one of the best things to ever happen in film history

[@donnap401]

Agreed

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

I think it was an actual stunt person with dwarfism that they fired to dress like Miss Piggy. They dressed him in the same outfit, wig, and added the snout prosthetic, then strapped a pair of skates on him. Also, like how late 80s was it to have a chase scene involving someone wearing roller skates? 🤣

[@Lars_E_Mou]

I agree!

[@niconico486]

What I understood is "literally every decade was a good decade for Miss Piggy" and honestly I didn't expect less

[@TroublesomeSlateTruck]

7:20 Miss Piggy’s Got A Dress.

[@broadway331]

Muppets Most Wanted had some of my favorite Piggy outfits. They’re all inspired by the city she’s in. That Vivienne Westwood wedding dress? Stunning! It’s interesting that you didn’t mention that Piggy’s gotten more blonde over the years (with the exception of the brunette phase). Her 1970s hair is much more of a natural honey blonde. She tends to have more of a platinum blonde nowadays.

[@tornadodee148]

this reflects Barbie and how she got blonder over the years too. Remember Miss Piggy is a sort off parody of that.

[@craisins95]

Miss Piggy’s 70s Farrah Fawcett waves will always be my favorite. Her outfits in The Muppet Movie were stunning and I loved the part she played in it. The jump from the 70s feathered wavy hair to the early 80s perm in Muppets Most Wanted was the most striking to me and the most fun.

[@AikoSilver]

Agreed! Her 70s waves looked the most glam, romantic, and diva to me. I think the sleek bleached blonde is a little too hard and aggressive to me.

[@pink_demon6052]

My second favorite character. My favorite line is always when she says "hiya!" When she's destroying someone

[@bronxbearbud272]

Your favorite line is when she makes a homicidal shriek to bully and intimidate any more talented performer who crosses her path? You must love Karens, huh?

[@Doodlebob108]

I love Ms. Piggy with curly hair. I think she looks so good with all those big blonde curls.

[@aplushieworldoutthere5293]

That kermit yay was on point.

[@Putabowonitt]

Lol yes 👌🏼

[@TheCottonCandyQueen]

I love that even though Ms. Piggy wants the spot light to herself, shes still willing to share the stage with other actors and her friends

[@megangeorge9257]

I was a character attendant at WDW in 2005 and often worked with Kermit and Piggy. One time a family came up for a photo and the teenage son didn't want to be in the photo. Miss Piggy went up and made sure he got in a photo with just her. As they walked away, the son said "If that's a guy in there, I'm hurting someone." 🤣😂🤣 Piggy is almost always a guy in the parks.

[@princesspeachfan100]

And the fact she was voiced by guys too. XD

[@TroublesomeSlateTruck]

5:09-5:10, 5:11-5:12 And 5:13-5:14 A Man With A Microphone: And Here She Is, Folks. This Year’s Miss Bogan County, Miss … Piggy!

[@maldon3659]

It always make's me feel weird when they show the Muppets legs, it almost feels uncanny

[@SpongeB00b_is_a_savage]

it make me uncomfortable too

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

Same here. Any time I go back and watch Muppet Christmas Carol or Muppet Treasure Island, I just get so weirded out when I see full body Muppets with legs! It's so unsettling!! OMG Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas is weird too! Not just to see moments with a full body Kermit riding a bike, but also of Ma and Emmett Otter walking down the street showing their legs and feet and it's sooooo weird watching it because you can see they're being puppeted with marionette strings, and you'll see the legs moving and the body just floats along-- it's just, it gives me the willies! I know I keep using the word _"weird"_ , but really that's the word that just comes to mind when talking about Muppet legs! ("Unsettling", "strange", "odd", "unnatural", and "wrong" could also apply.)

[@adambraun1990]

This

[@TroublesomeSlateTruck]

8:25 New Model Of Miss Piggy? Shocking To See This.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

I love Miss Piggy in all her variations (except the beady eyes, yikes), but 1980s Piggy is probably the best era. She was an actual icon that women looked up to and theres a great essay on her in the book "Jim Henson and Philosophy." Plus look at how much 1980s Muppet merch was just Piggy!

[@NathanSpies]

Even though they're not Disney you should do A history of the Sesame Street Muppets!

[@Grover1234]

Mine will always be 80s Piggy. That's the years I would of been introduce to her and the gang. I was more into Kermit then her but she'll always be one of the gang. I'd say the Muppet Caper is my favorite movie with her.

[@gwynfromRARE]

Casual reminder that Whoopie Goldberg is canonically god in the Muppets universe. No, she doesn't *play* god, she literally *is* the Muppet's god.

[@DistoryDan]

I’m fine with this.

[@maximusprime3459]

FLASH FACT: There is also a godlike being in the Marvel Comics universe which very much resembles Whoopi Goldberg as well. Full circle if there ever was one.

[@aaronjames3228]

@@maximusprime3459 really?

[@maximusprime3459]

@@aaronjames3228 She showed up in an issue of Power Pack, I think the character's name was Numinus.

[@raczgreen6053]

I remember when Whoopie was a Muppet on a t.v show called Washington D.C follies. I loved that show. Lol

[@kaylaandmarkalan]

“Thick crispy pork rinds” I’m dead! 😂

[@shysensei2348]

Made me lol

[@christopherwall2121]

So is Dan, if Piggy ever sees that part. _HIIIII-YA!!!_

[@jamesoniris2647]

I really wanna hear Dan sing a lot more!!! HE HAS SUCH A PRETTY VOICE!!! If he can sing Sit Down You’re Rocking The Boat, I would buy 15 candles.

[@johnsanders1978]

“The muppets:Sex and Violence” something that would not fly today lol

[@groofay]

Thanks for reminding me to watch the first Muppet Movie again. That was one of the movies I grew up with, and your breakdown of Piggy's evolution over the years gave me a new appreciation for how expressive her puppet was in that film.

[@dexx600]

Richard Hunt's early performances on The Muppet Show as Miss Piggy was also the same voice as Gladys The Cow on Sesame Street.

[@MamieBelle775]

I still have my Miss Piggy paper dolls from the 80's with all her outfits.

[@AJ17_]

I had that Miss Piggy puppet you have on your desk back in the 80s. I played with it until it basically fell apart.

[@jtehmain8261]

Dan your laugher cures my depression. 😂

[@petersavieri]

👑🐷 I consulted on the build of Miss Piggy in pre production for The Muppets. Jason Siegel and James Bobin wanted to get the characters looking closer to their halcyon days, and Piggy in particular needed a lot of work. She’d slipped into a very preschool looking build, with cheap wigs and very unfocused, flat eyes. The eye construction was a major focus of my consultation, as well as wig placement to give her a bit more forehead. I also painted the portrait of her that’s seen at the end of Kermit’s Pictures In My Head song.

[@JordanMccaff]

Miss Piggy terrifies me. Ever since I was a kid. Her melting in Wizard of Oz is horrific and season 1 Muppet Show Piggy still haunts me. I watched it last night as a 21 year old and had to hide behind my fingers

[@Baldjotarokujo]

Puppets do be terrifying

[@sophiedanon7491]

Same here. She wouldnt take no for an answer and kept harassing my poor Kermit ! Lol !

[@OriginalTolerableHusky]

Miss Piggy in 1976 is just her without makeup 😂 She just starts to wear more makeup as time goes on 🤣🤣

[@andrewvarney5687]

"You gotta watch out for a pig on skates." -Dan 2021

[@nawalalwedaei6743]

I love how he explains every little detail

[@CarolinaMouse]

There is nor ever will be any denying the fabulousness that is Miss Piggy!! She's just a true queen!

[@laurendouglas6452]

The first Piggy I remember was as Benjamina Gunn in "Muppet Treasure Island " (aka the BEST muppet movie ever made second only to A Muppet Christmas Carol)

[@carnigob42069]

i was hoping you would elaborate on "miss piggy's guide to life"! my favorite image from that book is def the one titled 'how to avoid weight loss in the coming lean years' where she is pointing to a pie chart consisting of various types of pies 🥧 truly sound advice!

[@benfisher1376]

She looked at her best in the 80s imo

[@ashantighania225]

My favorite Piggy design is late 70's-early 80's. Her eyes just gorgeous and she sports a terrific mop of hair!

[@clarktooncrossing3975]

How to tell the video's gonna be awesome: when it starts with Dan busting a gut laughing. XD Also, careful man, don't diss the Pig! You've seen what she can do with her karate chops. Forget Peggy Lee, Piggy might be the pork equivalent of Bruce Lee! If there was a Muppet version of Kill Bill, you know Piggy would be The Bride. Also, is it kind'a weird I wanna see a Muppet parody of that movie now? XD Like instead of all those assassins, Piggy's just karate chopping a room full of those Muppet penguins that show up in everything? Disney, get to work! XD

[@aaronjames3228]

Dang

[@clarktooncrossing3975]

@@aaronjames3228 I have a very odd imagination. XD

[@rhiley5097]

muppet fight club would be funny as well

[@fightingfaerie]

Okay but seriously, they haven't already done this?? Its perfect

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

@@fightingfaerie They sort of did in the Muppet Wizard of Oz? (I think it was that movie) The scene cuts to Kermit interviewing Quentin Tarantino himself, trying to pitch Kermit on having a sword fight between Dorothy and the Witch, and he pulls out a katana and starts swinging it wildly much to Kermit's chagrin.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

All I know is, I'm still pissed that Disney refuses to release the last 2 seasons of the OG 'Muppet Show', (or any of the later versions) on DVD!! I want to complete my collection! Make it happen already, Disney!

[@Dhampir101980]

The majority of the show( except two episodes) is on Disney+ right now

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

I hope they have 'Muppets Tonight' too!

[@Dhampir101980]

@@BuckarooBanzai84 They don’t currently. It’s probably due to licensing issues. That’s the reason that the rest of the muppet show hasn’t been released on DVD

[@kingoffists]

torrent it thats what i did ive got every season and ep of the muppet show

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

@@kingoffists I still want the DVDs, but that's good to know.Thanks. =)

[@1Sam2728]

Ok but the Reverse water shot with the sparkler crown in Great Muppet Caper was always so wild to me.

[@Ireton06]

Disney+ Presents DisneyDan’s Evolutions. It’s got a good ring to it. Brilliant episode

[@crow-t-robot]

Ever since I was a kid in the 90s she's always been one of my idols lol.

[@ShimmyShimmyK8]

I love these evolution videos! My parents and I were rewatching the original Muppet Show and loving it, but the full size people Muppets are so creepy on that show! I will always love Sweetums tho!

[@roselakegaming]

I loved the intro!

[@glenpreece]

I always loved the version of Miss Piggy from A Muppet Family Christmas. She reminded me of Barbra Streisand with that short curly blonde hair.

[@moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115]

My favorite pig on frog violence scene is in Muppet Treasure Island, (1996) when Miss Piggy karate chops Kermit and he goes flying into the gong. The rats cheer and Kermit gets up (vibrating) and says, "Ex-girlfriend." 🥰🐷🐸🏝😂🤣

[@luthientinuviel3883]

Yes

[@2can99]

Therapist: Miss Pigging on skates isn't real you don't need to worry about it Muppet Take Manhattan:

[@Hessed3712]

10:53 This is how I was introduced to Miss Piggy. I loved that show!

[@emmad8533]

Unfortunately you’re right I will never be able to unsee the decapitation of miss piggy in muppet vision 3d

[@perrilewis180]

16:47 the kids are adorable. Like a pink frog is adorable

[@sunnyquinn3888]

Aww, this is the first time I've seen Miss Piggy and Kermits babies! The pink frog and green pig are so so cute!

[@jimboeeek]

The thumbnail killed me 💀

[@lyndafeustel4861]

Miss Piggy in great muppet caper is probably my favorite. The sequence in the nightclub is one of the best muppet scenes in my opinion!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Loved her on those skates lol n rip to Gregory Hines loved him that movie he gave her the skates lol.

[@eliassmeke3991]

Question 🙋‍♀️ please 🙏 Disney Dan, you forgot to mention starting in the second season of The Muppet Show Frank Oz fully took over as performing Miss Piggy

[@margaretwilliams1370]

This might be my most favorite video. I love her. And probably the early 80’s version.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Please do my main man Gonzo or muppet he has a few different look.

[@PixieHikoRaen]

Favorite Miss Piggy look will always be her dancing number in Great Muppet Caper at the club. There are so many great Miss Piggy outfits (and stunts) in that movie, but getting to watch her tap always stuck with me! 🥰

[@contessalouannec8064]

Dan Thank You for doing all the research and history on the Evolution of Miss Piggy and all the Muppets. Great stream

[@skechy_gauntlet]

Right off the bat this video is wonderful. Good vibes only

[@laragallahue7127]

Dan I’m jealous of your set up and great video!

[@wizzwamf]

love her the babies of kermit of piggy is that a frig or a prog lol it was always the bike scene in the great muppet caper that got me in awe

[@MARIOPOWERUP]

Didn’t I do it for you 😢 Didn’t I do it for you 😭 When all I do is for you…Kermie💔

[@denisekegler2425]

Thank you for these wonderful Muppet evolutions! My 5-year-old son asked for Fozzie next!

[@devinmckay9764]

Piggy chasing down the pick pocket has ALWAYS freaked me out. Thank you for bringing attention to it!

[@MoffinMouse]

I used to watch this channel ALL THE TIME when I was little now I have finally found it again I missed you

[@MCRgrrl4ever]

I've always LOVED Piggy!!! I think that's why I always make some sort of noise before I hit anything xD

[@kanniekosplayyes2799]

Treasure Island where Angelina (MIss Piggy) karate chops The Captain (Kermit) into a gong, Captain slowly rising up while still shivering and hearing the ringing in his ears as he turns to the native "Uh, old girlfriend" I loved that movie x3

[@emiller2619]

Dan is like that dad who would laugh just about anything😄he seems so fun hearted and his laugh is very contagious 😆

[@fullerbeyer7448]

That Elton John episode is amazing

[@pink_demon6052]

My favorite episode was the one with Alice cooper but I mean every episode of the muppets are awesome

[@fullerbeyer7448]

@@pink_demon6052 I like that one too, when I was little I had a few DVDS with I think 3 shows on each, and I would watch them over and over😂

[@pink_demon6052]

@@fullerbeyer7448 my parents put a few seasons of the muppets on dvd so I could see it and that's how I saw that episode 😂

[@fullerbeyer7448]

@@pink_demon6052 Nice😂

[@pink_demon6052]

@@fullerbeyer7448 thanks 😂

[@Pixis1]

Gotta love Miss Piggy. I've been binge-watching The Muppet Show and watching the evolution of all the characters. By the way, I think the word you were looking for at the end is "porcine."

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

OMG, that pink baby frog at 16:46 is so adorable!! 😍😍

[@RPena98]

Yes! Another wonderful day when you upload!! I cherish that laugh of yours 😂

[@ermagerhd6140]

My favorite piggy is from the Muppets Wizard of Oz. We first found out about the movie after seeing a clip of it play when they guest starred on AFV. I remember that clip had my family and I rolling and we immediately purchased the movie ASAP to watch it. I think biker piggy is one of my favorites

[@kamryn1911]

Miss Piggy on those skates is too much for my eyes to handle 😭😂

[@drekfletch]

In the promos for the first of the new Muppet movies, it came up in an interview that Miss Piggy does scarily accurate Fozzie and Animal impressions (because obviously). It was just so surreal watching Miss Piggy screaming "WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN."

[@jonathanbailey8646]

That intro was everything to me

[@Mandi_mayhemm]

The miss piggy goes bananas scene from the muppet movie has lived rent free in my head since i was a kid. The part where she turns around and her eyes are suddenly MASSIVE lol. I ended up here because I'm trying to decide what iconic piggy look I want to use for a tattoo to be forever on my body. It's so hard to choose.

[@alexanderspeer8139]

15:47 It's like if someone isn't wearing there mask you start coughing on them.

[@lilycat3318]

Miss Piggy in Muppets Most Wanted was definitely most memorable for me. I absolutely adored her wedding dress and I loved the scene when she beats up Constantine in the helicopter. Just classic Miss Piggy. She's 100% my favourite Muppet of all times.

[@CharliXCXismymom]

Good way to celebrate woman’s history month with the most iconic woman of all time!!!

[@robertorivera5401]

I just love the into 0:03

[@bellaknightR597]

My favorite Miss Piggy moment was when she preformed with Celine Dion

[@damonika09]

That’s my mom’s favorite moment too!

[@ARedMagicMarker]

Yup, you're right, my eyes did look like that at Muppets, Sex and Violence. XD

[@ichasepaper954]

fell into a youtube nostalgia wormhole... N i stumbled across u.. U have such a fun warm energy.. U made me smile after a 63 hour work week.. Thank u❤

[@carlisleorama]

I loved her so much in the Great Muppet Caper when I was a kid. 80's Icon!

[@seatspud]

Disney Dan finally answers that eternal question, "Do you have a Miss Piggy?" (guy in Toys R Us, The Blues Brothers)

[@logangaley870]

Bravo Dan, I was truly blown away with that intro!!!

[@caitiemoriarty]

In the middle of a project that has to do with Muppets, thought to myself “I wish there was a good source of how the design and personality of the main muppete cast has changed over time.” Can’t believe this exists but I’m so happy it does

[@Putabowonitt]

OH MY GOSH YAY!!!! I LOVE THE MUPPETS!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Edit: “her ears when from flat, curly, Doritos to thick, *crispy* pork rinds” LOL 😂 Edit 2: 8:47 THAT WOULD BE TERRIFYING 😳 😂 Edit 3: (I’ll stop now lol) I TOTALLY FORGOT THE MUPPET SHOW IS BACK ON DISNEY PLUS!!! IMMA WATCH IT AFTER THIS!

[@DistoryDan]

Don’t stop ever calling out your favorite jokes. ❤️

[@Putabowonitt]

@@DistoryDan 😄❤️

[@riohayes8289]

Awesome doc Dan! I can’t wait to see the next thing they do with the muppets. There’s a meme circulating begging Disney to do a rendition of the princess bride using the muppets… be still my beating heart🙏🏼😍 Finally got to see muppets 3D in person last week!🎉 my son “Henson” loved it as much as I did.🥰

[@marillama]

my life is ruined. ive always love muppet vision 3d and now I cant unsee ms piggy head flying off her XD

[@Caitlin288]

Sorry bout that lol

[@aaronjames3228]

I can't see it lol

[@nastassjaklipsch1175]

@@aaronjames3228 me either! I've rewatched that clip like 10 times now, no idea what he's talking about lol

[@ravenbrye5582]

@@nastassjaklipsch1175 you have to watch real closely her head is right next to bean bunny and the it falls of

[@Silver_wind_1987_]

@@ravenbrye5582 I see it. The curls just kind of fly away

[@redyoshi3696]

"It's like that with hair on a pig" Sounds like one of those end of a conversation joke

[@Nakia11798]

Sounds like you're walking by some loudly conversing strangers imo

[@redyoshi3696]

@@Nakia11798 i should've added "in movies"

[@QueenTJ1991]

Miss Piggy is the ultimate Queen of Fashion, Glam and Sass

[@petersavieri]

Great video! And always wonderful to see this truly iconic character getting her due✨💖✨ I consulted on the fresh build of Miss Piggy for 2011’s The Muppets, working with the production designer and director to get her looking more in line with her glory days. I also painted the prop portrait of her that Kermit gazes at in the Pictures In My Head number, and I consulted on the sculpt of the Diamond Select Piggy action figure. Needless to say, I know my stuff re La Pig, and I really appreciate well informed accounts of her legacy. Overall this was SO good, but there were some inaccuracies I’ll list below. Let me be super clear before I go into detail… I LOVE this character. She was one of my earliest childhood obsessions and remains one of my all time favourites so, as I get critical below, just know it’s all because I want Miss Piggy to shine on forever! I’m gonna go into a LOT of detail, so get ready for a full Piggy TED Talk 🐷💬 One small thing is that Moidonna isn’t pronounced “Moydonna” but is pronounced “MWAHdonna” after Piggy’s key use of the French for me: Moi. Also the pic you had on screen for that moment is her in mermaid costume which is a visual reference to Bette Midler’s mermaid look she’d worn for her own stage show since 1978. I love that you shouted out to the genius of Bonnie Erickson for designing Piggy. But it would’ve been cool if you’d mentioned illustrator and designer Michael K Frith too, who was absolutely key in designing and defining her ultra glam looks during the highest height of her popularity in the late 70s and 80s. More importantly though, Miss Piggy’s head, face and ears were never covered in Antron fleece (though her body has always been). In her earliest forms she was, as you said, hand carved from foam rubber (so roughly early on that the inside of her mouth split to reveal Richard Hunt’s hand during the Muppet Glee Club sketch!), but her peach fuzz look was always the result of flocking. The technique was simply refined and perfected over the years, and when they began sculpting her in clay to make a mold that was used to cast her in liquid foam latex, the surface became so smooth and uniform that the flocking just sat better on it, creating her iconic fuzzy but flawless complexion. I would’ve loved to see you go into more depth on her aesthetic development. I love that you talk about her evolving looks reflecting and parodying our relationship to fashion and glamour, but her look also went through the tonal and textural transformation most of The Muppets did, from deeper, heavier 70s colour schemes to lighter more vivid hues in the 80s and beyond. Her flocking and airbrushing reflect this, with her 70s look, even at its most perfected, using longer flock, stronger airbrushing and a pinker complexion, then evolving to the smoother shorter flock with less airbrushing and a more pale orange hued peachy skin tone. Her overall size has changed over the years too. Not only in terms of her level of plumpness, but her actual scale. Part of the visual humour of she and Kermit’s relationaship came from how much she dominated him in size, but she has by now been scaled down slightly to seem less imposing. This has not only diminished the optics of her comedy value but it created a problem once Eric Jacobson began performing her, that I’ll describe in more detail a few points down… Another issue has been the way her clothing went from flowing and voluminous in the 70 and 80s to more tailored and rigid in the 90s and beyond. Jim Henson would talk about how key it was for muppet characters to have what he called “secondary movement”. Think Gonzo’s feathery head tufts, Kermit’s floppy hands and Piggy’s wonderfully expressive hair and dynamically flowing clothes. There were occasions where she wore tighter outfits in the 70s and 80s, but she always had the high quality voluminous and dynamic hair to give her this secondary movement. Unfortunately for many appearances across the 90s, 2000s and beyond, she lacked movement in both her hair and costumes. A karate chop, dramatic turn or a tantrum isn’t quite the same without the swishing follow through from her wig and outfit, and the way her hair gets thrown messily over her face. On the issue of her hair, her wigs have also gone through transformations beyond just different hairstyles. They also went from gorgeous real hair wigs in the 70s and early 80s, that could be hot curled and styled professionally, to depressingly cheap shake-and-go synthetic wigs that produced these hot spots of shine under lights and barely moved, even when they were longer. I’m definitely not a fan of her flat straight hair looks, especially when the cheap wigs are too short to move at all. Thankfully she’s now mostly in higher quality wigs, though still synthetic, since that was a major change I advised for The Muppets film in 2011. Major too is the evolution (or, in my opinion, somewhat devolution) of her eye build. Your coverage of her early eyes was excellent and I’m glad you mentioned at least one of her “sat-on” moments in the late 80s/early 90s! But her eye design peaked way back in The Great Muppet Caper, and has never been as good since then. It’s had some much improved moments, but never bettered that design. There have been times when her lids have been too thinly skinned, her lash line too straight, and when her eyes have lacked any focus (getting that blank stare that Jim Henson would never have allowed because he and his builders always insisted on the slightly cross-eyed “Henson Triangle” to give the Muppets their amazingly engaging eye focus)… But the biggest problem has been that her eyelashes have been angled backwards, making her eyes look doll like and flat. In her best moments her eyelashes angled forwards, giving her eyes a sultry heavy look, and making them appear very 3D looking with an amazingly directional gaze. I insisted this be amended for The Muppets film, and it was corrected, so I’m glad to see that since 2011 her eyes have often looked better, but the Piggy puppets wear out much more often than other characters due to the foam losing elasticity and tearing along her complex stress points, and the flocking wearing off from dynamic movement, and this means that they also get rebuilt often… so the eyes are sometimes better and sometimes they slip back into the build errors I mentioned. Which brings me to a final point about her changing looks. She went through a stage between 2000 and 2010 where her head sculpts varied quite a lot, with some fuller faces, some much too small faces, as well as some lacking a forehead or having a too rectangular snout in profile. As you know during this time the franchise was in flux in terms of who owned it, so these hiccups in her build were no doubt the result of too many cooks. Most of those issues have been resolved, but I still think her head sculpt is too small overall, and the proof of this is noticeable in the way the heal of Eric Jacobson’s thumb visibly bulges in her chin area, distorting her lower face and schewing it to her left. Once you see this detail you can never unsee it! And it frustrates me as a designer because a slightly larger head sculpt, and piggy build overall, would rectify both this problem and her relative scale to Kermit. A company in New Jersey called Puppet Heap have built the Muppets for many years now, and they do a mostly great job. But, as listed above, there have been quiiiiite a few shortfalls and inconsistencies in the way the characters look, with Piggy suffering these most because her construction is one of the most complex. I often wish the brilliant Bonnie Erickson was overseeing her builds, or that the great Michael K Frith was once again designing her looks! Or that Jim was still here for quality control. But until then it’s up to us, the devoted fans and designers who grew up with these iconic characters, to help ensure they look their best. If anyone’s interested in seeing more of my Piggy (and other) art, give my instagram a follow @savieri ✨ Thanks for reading! If you got this far I hope you got something out of it!

[@adrianarosas9983]

💯 never forget the piggy in water scene and From Muppets most wanted the piggy on the wall who knows why but that scene always makes me happy.

[@No1MuppetFan]

Great Muppet Caper Piggy is and will FOREVER be the superior version of how Miss Piggy looked and was portrayed.

[@lovethenightair]

Can I just say, excellent singing, Dan! This was excellent. Miss Piggy is not only a fashionista she is also one hell of a actress! Btw, I would love to see a Distory on the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.

[@alexinitalics188]

I recently watched the original muppet show for the first time and, although most of the characters look pretty much the same, I was not prepared for how different Miss Piggy looked to how I knew her

[@jessicaperry8448]

Me and my bf love watching the old muppet show together. She is so funny and love her as a character

[@juliavilla8088]

Thank you for sharing this. I Love the Muppets and Miss Piggy is my little diva!! I hope your having a great day!!

[@lucaservin6768]

That early 90's Piggy was really a bit of trial-and-error in terms of her evolving into new looks for a new decade. She ended up looking beautiful but, just like in the clips you've shown, there are versions of Piggy where it looks like the eyes are about to fall off lol