All morning , folks on the net have been chuckle heartily over this faceplant of a tweet from Good Morning America :
Does#CryingLeBronjoin other meme great like#tealizard,#CryingJordanand#smockin/ the masquerade party ? Tweet us!pic.twitter.com/4xoDahAk1Q
— Good Morning America ( @GMA)June 21 , 2016
The “ tea lizard ” in question is , of course , Kermit the Frog . In the very off chance you do n’t know , he ’s arguably the most well - known of the Muppets characters make by professional puppeteer Jim Henson . A picture of Kermit sipping teabecame a popular meme two twelvemonth ago .
Disney bought the Muppets in 2004 . The House of Mouse also owns ABC , the internet on which Good Morning America airs . Moreover , Kermit has appeared multiple time on the program , both as a newspaperwoman and as a subject of interviews himself .
Another tweet from the GMA account seems like it ’s trying to obliquely decline the mistake but it was too late . It ’d be like me calling Deadspin “ NutTwist ” or “ BallBounce . ”
When you learn that your employer really DGAF about you 😑 # TeaLizardpic.twitter.com/xQeta2AxQd
— KameronKeele_Screen ( @KamKeele_Screen)June 21 , 2016
Mediaitenotes that “ Camellia sinensis lounge lizard ” might be a reference to another out - of - pinch meme anti - joke from months back .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/690286545883021312
https://twitter.com/embed/status/745277671219789824
Nevertheless , that first GMA tweet still hail off poorly because it does n’t work the reference well — if that ’s what they were seek to do — and betrays a misunderstanding of how humor scan on Twitter . Gon na be a real awkward Disney employees ’ holiday party .
GMA / tea lounge lizard thing is weird b / one C they ’re both Disney entities . It ’s like going to a family reunification and retrieve your cousin is a stranger
— Evan Narcisse ( @EvNarc)June 21 , 2016
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