Kermit the Frog Will Be the University of Maryland's 2025 Commencement Speaker: 'It's Me'

The University of Maryland’s graduates are getting a unique Sandoff this spring.

The university has just announced that this year, graduate students will be visited by no one else than Kermit the Frog, who will give their initial speech on Wednesday, May 21st. The performance of the “world’s most famous amphibian” is followed by a sold out to the College Park campus in the fall.

At the beginning of the video, revealing a big surprise, the University teased that the speaker had a successful resume and was an international superstar, the best -selling author, an environmental advocate, winner of the Peabody Award, “Amphibitarian” and “Friend of All Creatures”.

For anyone who did not pick up all the hints, he concluded the video with the famous dolls that appeared on the screen and saying, “Uh, I suppose this is me.”

“Nothing could make those feet happier than talking at Maryland University. I just know that the class 2025 class will jump into the world and make it a better place, so if a few encouraging words from a frog can help, then I’ll be there!” Kermit added in a statement provided by the school.

Kermit Frog in Spicewood, Texas on March 14, 2024.

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The university noted that a sympathetic puppet look “respects the long history between the UMD -and the creator of Muppets Jim Henson.” Henson, who graduated from UMD in 1960, also has a bronze statue from himself and Kermit in a campus garden outside the Student Center.

Henson made the first version of Kermit from his mother’s old coat and a ping-pong ball cut in half eyes and served as the original voice of Kermit until his death in 1990. When the day of graduation is rolled, Kermit will express Matt Vogel, a puppet who took over Steve Whitmire in 2017.

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Memorial to Jim Henson at Maryland University.

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“I am delighted that our high school graduates and their families will feel optimism and insight into the world-renowned Kermit Frog in such a meaningful time in their lives,” UMD President Darryll J. Pines said in a statement.

“Our pride on Jim Henson does not know the boundaries, and it is my honor to welcome Kermit a frog in our campus, 65 years after Mr. Henson graduated from Maryland University. I sincerely thank the Muppets Studio, Disney and their creative teams what they enabled,” Pines added.

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Kermit Frog on May 21, 2016 in New York.

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Although the unexpected speaker, this is not Kermit’s first time a talk about the beginning. In 1996, he handed over the initial processing of Southampton College graduated class at Long Island University, and graduated with an honorary doctorate for amphibious letters for help raising environmental awareness, according to CNN.

“Let success and smile always be yours, even when you are your knees deep in a sticky life,” he said during the 1996 speech, according to CNN.

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