I’m sure I’m not the first person to have this realization, but it just occurred to me today that the Muppets and professional wrestling fundamentally operate on the same principle.

One of my favorite Muppet stories is how more than once, when Kermit was on a talk show, the production crew was confused by how bad the sound was for Kermit only to realize that they had put the mic on Kermit, because of course you would put the mic on Kermit.