Or they're all chimeras, but the frog part is hemizygous (so has to express the gene) and the piggie part is X recessive heterozygous (so has another allele that can suppress the gene), and the gene controls which end of chimeric scale (frog to pig) the body tips
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.
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?!?
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.
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.
Uh yeah because it's a movie. They couldn't pass up on casting Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy as Bob and Emily Cratchet (what with Miss Piggy's sheer talent and star power) which left them in a bit of a casting bind. Realistically they had to cast pigs and frogs as the Cratchet children instead of searching high and low for talented half-pig half-frog child actors. Even then they went out of their way in casting Kermit's actual nephew Robin the Frog as Tiny Tim and the other child actors (Peter, Miranda, and Melinda) pretty closely resembled their 'parents'.
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psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 79 pts · 254d
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 · 42 pts · 254d
A form of sexual dimorphism. Honestly compared to real examples like the angler fish it's not even that weird.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 33 pts · 254d
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 254d
Or they're all chimeras, but the frog part is hemizygous (so has to express the gene) and the piggie part is X recessive heterozygous (so has another allele that can suppress the gene), and the gene controls which end of chimeric scale (frog to pig) the body tips
jimmux@programming.dev · 14 pts · 254d
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 · 10 pts · 254d
holy wtf
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 254d
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 · 21 pts · 254d
We could call them sometime like puppets or Muppets
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 60 pts · 254d
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.
addie@feddit.uk · 26 pts · 254d
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.
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 254d
I think you forgot about the Patrick Stewart version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(1999_film)
This is my favorite without muppets. Which means it’s my second favorite.
halvar@lemy.lol · 9 pts · 254d
and like also frogs totally cant speak
Klear@quokk.au · 15 pts · 254d
You have to lick them first.
halvar@lemy.lol · 9 pts · 254d
the comment i made my own comment for
Klear@quokk.au · 5 pts · 254d
Perfect setup.
halvar@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 254d
aww thank you
GheeButtersnaps@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
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.
tankplanker@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 254d
May be they couldn't have kids because, i don't know, being entirely different species, so they adopted.
optissima@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 254d
Or they're sexually dimorphic. They all do seem to have a single cloacal-like cavity…
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 254d
It's like how in the Shrek universe, dragons and donkeys are the same species.
snooggums@piefed.world · 9 pts · 253d
Nope, all the dragon children are sterile cross species offspring like mules.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 253d
That’s better than those demon dragon-donkey hybrids from Shrek.
fox2263@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 254d
Sometimes this happens with dogs though doesn’t it. Maybe they just took it to the extreme for puppets
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
Of course it's Hank Green who would question it lol. But you're not the only one!
azi@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 247d
Uh yeah because it's a movie. They couldn't pass up on casting Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy as Bob and Emily Cratchet (what with Miss Piggy's sheer talent and star power) which left them in a bit of a casting bind. Realistically they had to cast pigs and frogs as the Cratchet children instead of searching high and low for talented half-pig half-frog child actors. Even then they went out of their way in casting Kermit's actual nephew Robin the Frog as Tiny Tim and the other child actors (Peter, Miranda, and Melinda) pretty closely resembled their 'parents'.