Scientific namesĪs you know, one of the first things I like to do when deciding whether or not two things are related is to look at their scientific names. Sam the Eagle: bald eagle, harpy eagle, or shoebill stork? Naturally, I’m now questioning everything I thought I knew about Sam the Eagle. There’s only one thing I can possibly do to resolve this: compare and contrast. Now, I have no evidence to suggest that Sam the Eagle would ever eat a toddler, but he’s definitely both very large and exceptionally judgmental. Their argument, while entertaining, essentially boils down to the fact that the harpy eagle is the largest, most judgmental looking eagle on the planet, who, by the way, might also be interested in eating your toddler. (Image by Clément Jacquard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

The harpy eagle is the largest eagle in the world. Captain America in the occasional Marvel parody poster.A formal and deeply disapproving evening news anchor at WGF news in The Muppets.A CIA agent tasked with solving a string of burglaries in Muppets Most Wanted.

The producer charged with ensuring his fellow actors adhere to their home network’s broadcast standards and practices on the TV series The Muppets.Thanks to his crankiness, he is regularly assigned roles such as:

In all the hours I spent watching Kermit the Frog trying to corral the Muppet gang into some sort of coherent production, the fact that Sam the Eagle is blue never once made me question whether he was really meant to be an American bald eagle.įor those of you who have put your Muppet days behind you, Sam the Eagle is a tall, frowny, greyish blue bird who regularly condemns his fellow Muppets for frivolity and actions unbecoming of patriotic Americans. Like many Gen Xers I spent my formative years watching the Muppets. (Image via the Sam the Eagle Muppet Wiki.) Sam the Eagle and Jean Pierre Napoleon in a still from Muppets Most Wanted. Sam the Eagle: Bald Eagle, Harpy Eagle, or Shoebill Stork?

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