Whilst conducting serious research on Wikipedia (really), I ran across this ancient 2003 Onion column: I Appreciate the Muppets On a Much Deeper Level Than You.

Please recall, if you will, the night I first showed you The Muppet Movie. It’s bad enough that you hadn’t grown up loving the film, but afterwards you called it, and I quote, “funny.” Not “a deeply spiritual and highly personal statement of ambition tempered by ethics,” but “funny.” Was it “funny” that Kermit refused to Judas his race to a corrupt corporation, even though it meant giving up his dream of stardom?