Miss Piggy is 50 years old this year!

Congrats to Miss Piggy!

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If Miss Piggy was an adult on the Tonight Show in 1974 she should be at least 70 years old this year.

I just looked it up and there is a show called Jim Henson's Muppet Babies or plain Muppet Babies (1984-1991). It depicts a number of Muppets as toddlers.

The series stars Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Scooter, Skeeter, Rowlf the Dog, and Gonzo as the main characters in their baby counterparts. Supporting characters include Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, and Camilla in the form of Gonzo's stuffed baby chick. In the final two seasons, Bean Bunny and Statler and Waldorf began making regular appearances. Several Muppets made guest appearances, including Janice as an older preteen and Kermit's nephew Robin as a tadpole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet_Babies_(1984_TV_series)

If a character appears to be X years old when they first appear in a production in year Y, they must have been born about X years before year Y.

So according to Muppet Babies each of the main characters in that show must have been about the same ages as the others, and each must have been born and grown up to be an adult before the first one of them appeared as an adult in any production.

I always consider a fictional character to have been born in their fictional birth range and not when they first appeared.

When I was a kid I learned that Superman first appeared in a comic book in in 1938 and that had been sent to Earth as a baby and raised by the Kents. So I figured that Superman must have been adopted by the Kents about 1915-1918 or so and been maybe a year or so old at the time, and that there was no comic book evidence to calculate possible time dilation on his voyage.

On the other hand, Superman and other long lasting comic book characters exist in Comic Book Time where they don't grow older. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComicBookTime

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