Statler and Waldorf are Fozzie's own insecurities speaking to him
- Why do they always watch the Muppets perform if they don't like them? Why do they heckle Fozzie in particular, when his jokes are hardly the worst act the Muppets have ever offered? Why, in A Muppet Family Christmas, does it turn out that they're friends with Fozzie's mother, of all people? Explanation? They're not real. They represent Fozzie's fear that he's not funny and the fact that they're friends with his mother in the Christmas special represents his fear of disappointing his mother.
- Then why does everybody else react to them?
The entire franchise is actually from a puppeteer's fantasy.
- Have you ever noticed that neither Kermit, Miss Piggy, nor Fozzie Bear ever refer to themselves as puppets but instead "Muppets"? Could it be that the Muppet movies, shows, specials, and the entire franchise is from a puppeteer's mind of puppets coming to life without humans controlling them? Here is the theory:
- Basically, all of the Muppet characters don't exist and in reality, they were all fantasy characters made by a puppeteer named Jim. You see Jim is a puppeteer who creates human and animal puppets. One of his puppets Kermit the Frog is Jim's popular puppet and is asked to come to Hollywood to show off his Kermit puppet. But then his puppet breaks into fluff and Jim depressed cancels his trip to Hollywood so he imagines his puppet Kermit coming to life and having a mind of his own! In fact The Muppet Movie is actually a dream by Jim imagining his Kermit puppet walking and traveling to Hollywood and imagines a villain named Doc Hopper defeating his puppet. Not only that but he adds his other puppets Fozzie Bear Miss Piggy Gonzo Statler and Waldorf and Bunsen Honeydew into his fantasy franchise and gave them personalities. Jim also based them on people he knew. For example, Fozzie's lame jokes and personality are based on Jim's friend named Harold who also told unfunny jokes. Miss Piggy is meant to represent his neighbor who is plump and has a crush on him (With Jim calling her a pig). Statler and Waldorf are based on his uncles who both always laugh and make snarky comments in real life. Now last but certainly not least, Kermit is meant to represent Jim himself! For example, In The Muppet Movie Kermit pursues a career in Hollywood to become a star. In reality, Kermit is actually representing his own puppeteer's career of becoming a puppeteer star. Jim starts imagining all his puppets talking and going on adventures. After that Jim decides to imagine his puppets in their own TV Show at then starts creating other non-existent media for his puppets. At this point, he starts to go insane and decides to change his last name to Henson instead of Johnson. Thus the Muppet franchise was born and never existed. Even the Muppet Babies are also Jim imagining his puppets as living babies and also decides to not name the characters Puppets, but Muppets instead! Because the whole point is the imagined franchise never existed, to begin with!
The Swedish Chef was born in a country that was an ersatz of Japan, then moved to an ersatz of Sweden.
Hence why he usually speaks "Mock Swedish" but his mother tongue is "Mock Japanese".