Submitted 1 day ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Makes perfect sense
First off, Hank Green, it’s The Muppet Christmas Carol. Second, it is the best film version of A Christmas Carol hands down. I will die on this hill. Finally, we pretty much kicked any scientific accuracy to the curb, starting with pretending that Gonzo is Charles Dickens.
Got the most actual quoted lines from the book of any film version, plus you’ve got all of Dicken’s direct-to-reader moralising delivered by Gonzo. And as well as being very faithful to the book, it is a superb film as well.
Michael Caine excels as Scrooge, too. I wouldn’t say that he was better than Alastair Sim was in his version - that’s a performance that would take some beating - but there’s not much in it.
Got the most actual quoted lines from the book of any film version…
I think you forgot about the Patrick Stewart version.
en.wikipedia.org/…/A_Christmas_Carol_(1999_film)
This is my favorite without muppets. Which means it’s my second favorite.
I prefer my Dickens to be as dour and melancholy as possible. Which is why I’ve always liked the George C. Scott version the best myself. Other than sound volume issues with the blaring horns of doom I think it’s great. But that’s just me.
May be they couldn’t have kids because, i don’t know, being entirely different species, so they adopted.
Or they’re sexually dimorphic. They all do seem to have a single cloacal-like cavity…
That’s better than those demon dragon-donkey hybrids from Shrek.
It’s like how in the Shrek universe, dragons and donkeys are the same species.
Nope, all the dragon children are sterile cross species offspring like mules.
Sometimes this happens with dogs though doesn’t it. Maybe they just took it to the extreme for puppets
Of course it’s Hank Green who would question it lol. But you’re not the only one!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Which only mean they aren’t a frog nor a pig, they’re an entirely new species where the male have a frog-like form and female have a pig-like form.
The_v@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A form of sexual dimorphism. Honestly compared to real examples like the angler fish it’s not even that weird.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
Maybe it’s like Messor ibericus and a form of xenoparity, where one species is giving birth to an entirely separate species alongside its own.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Or they’re all chimeras, but the frog part is hemizygous and the piggie part is X recessive and requires two alleles
jimmux@programming.dev 1 day ago
I never heard of xenoparity before, this is fascinating.
Supposedly it only evolved about 5 million years ago, and some colonies still rely on external populations? Nature is constantly finding new ways to undermine our attempts to think we know how shit works.
rapchee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
holy wtf
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
First, thank you for pointing this out. I had to go and fill my brain hole with a bunch of information about this absolutely fascinating discovery. I really thought you were discussing some science fiction concept initially.
Second, what in the actual fuck did I just read?!?
affenlehrer@feddit.org 1 day ago
Like puppets or Muppets