Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy's offspring

Kermit tells Miss Piggy what you get when you cross a frog and a pig: "bouncing baby figs!"

Kermit and Miss Piggy play the parents of Cratchit family in The Muppet Christmas Carol.

While Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy's relationship has been the subject of debate and turmoil throughout the years, the idea of the couple creating a family of their own has arisen. The logistics of an inter-species relationship has presented its own share of challenges and discussion.

• In episode 104 of The Muppet Show, a robotic Kermit impersonator tells Miss Piggy: "Let me take you away from all this. A marriage made in heaven. A frog and a pig. We can have bouncing baby figs!"

• In The Muppet Movie camera tests, Miss Piggy tells Kermit she wants him to buy a house for her and their future children (the first of which she has named "Samuel"). Kermit responds: "You know what you get when you cross a frog and a pig? A bouncing baby fig, that's what you get!"

• In episode 422 of The Muppet Show, Miss Piggy tells guest star Andy Williams that she and Kermit are getting married. Williams cracks himself up by responding: "The frog and the pig getting married, soon there'll be the patter of little figs."

• On the April 2, 1979 broadcast of The Tonight Show, psychologist and a practicing veterinarian Dr. Michael Fox talked with with Kermit and Miss Piggy. Dr. Fox told the couple, "I would advise some genetic counseling. You know, a pig and a frog could give rise to all kinds of strange things." Miss Piggy said "Yes, I'm hoping so." Kermit replied "Yeah, bouncing baby figs... or pogs." Later, after Dr. Fox described the mating habits of frogs, Piggy responded "Oh, I'd better remember that!" (Transcript)

• In The Muppets Take Manhattan, Miss Piggy, in an attempt to revive Kermit's lost memory, says "You love me. You want to marry me. You want to have children with me!" The memory-impaired Kermit laughed at this idea.
• While promoting The Muppets Take Manhattan, Kermit and Miss Piggy appeared on The Merv Griffin Show.  When Merv asked "If you married, what would the children be like?"  Piggy says they would be loved and adored.  Kermit would rather not talk about it... "little green figs."

• While brainstorming ideas for a fourth Muppet film, Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl considered a proposal for a film where Miss Piggy might be pregnant. Henson dismissed the concept outright, calling it a little too "specific and explicit."

• In The Muppet Christmas Carol, Kermit and Piggy play the role of Bob and Emily Cratchit. Their offspring follow common cartoon convention—the boys (Peter and Tim) are frogs, like their father, while the girls (Betina and Belinda) are pigs, like their mother. A 1992 review in New Statesman did ponder this result: "But why are the girls healthy ringleted sows and the boys wizened, decrepit froglets? And did anyone imagine that children wouldn't ask?"

• In the film The Muppets, Miss Piggy says she built Kermit a house in the hopes that, after their marriage, they would raise tadpoles and grow old together.

• In a 2011 interview promoting The Muppets, Kermit and Miss Piggy were asked if there were any tadpoles in their future. Piggy asks Kermit: "Would they be tadpoles or would they be pollywogs?" Kermit responds: "I think they'd just be confused." Piggy suggests calling them "piggywogs." The interviewer suggests perhaps adoption would be the way to go; however, Piggy says she's taking a biology class. (YouTube)

• In a 2013 video from the set of Muppets Most Wanted to congratulate William and Kate on the birth of the "Royal Baby", Miss Piggy says, "Kind of makes you want to have a Royal child of your own; can't you just hear the little pitter-patter of tadpole feet?" Kermit points out that "Tadpoles don't have feet." (YouTube)

See also

• Are Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy married?