Mostly, Jim saw both himself and Kermit as the steady eye of the Muppet Show hurricane, the center around which the storm wildly raged and revolved—though steady didn’t necessarily mean staid. “Me not crazy?” Kermit once exclaimed. “I hired the others!” Jim, too, often saw himself as the ringleader of a group whose members unapologetically referred to themselves as “a bunch of goddamn lunatics!”
