As many people have heard over the past week, official news that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn have broken up hit the pages. And while I, like many other girls between the ages of 17 and 35, was heartbroken by the news, I began to think of yet another media power couple who had broken up: Kermit and Miss Piggy.
Kermit and Miss Piggy first met back in 1976 as co-stars in “The Muppet Show,” and tied the knot in 1984 with debated legality due to the frocking of ministers.
The couple had a public break up on the “Today” show in 1990 but got back together in a “domestic partnership” in 1993, which was revealed and then denied on various talk shows.
In 2005, the couple finally agreed that they were “married in their hearts” during the publicity tour for the 25th-anniversary edition of the original “The Muppet Movie.”
That is, until the 2011 movie, which includes Kermit and Miss Piggy living separate lives, and getting back together in the movie, and seemed to be planning an official wedding, according to a profile from People magazine that included official wedding details.
However, that seemed to be for naught, when in 2015, the couple announced their final split via a joint statement published on their personal Twitter accounts.
And the couple appears to be staying apart, in an interview with Entertainment News during the promotional tour for “The Muppets’ Haunted Mansion,” Miss Piggy affirmed that she and Kermit were not seeing each other, despite playing opposite each other once again.
But this is a travesty. Miss Piggy is what many women of my age and generation want to be: feminine, outgoing and (when they are together) absolutely in love with her man. And she deserves it. And as much as Kermit pretends he is annoyed with her antics, he clearly keeps coming back to them.
The one time Kermit did date someone who wasn’t Miss Piggy, he dated another pig, so it’s clearly not that he is unattracted to her.
And Miss Piggy would keel over to make him happy, saying herself in the People magazine tell-all after their first breakup in 1990, “Moi has devoted my life to making Kermit happy and never received anything in return.”
The couple has spent 47 years in a beautiful professional partnership, and has had some of their best moments together, proving that love really does have a beautiful power over conflict.
Shouldn’t they patch things up, for America?
Abigail Spencer can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @ABairdSpencer