A wooden bear, blue vintage car and guitar sit beside a black felt poodle leaping above felt snow and three wooden goslings on cupped wooden hands.

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Fozzie

A bear in his natural habitat. A Studebaker.

— The Muppet Movie · 1979

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Calling a Studebaker a bear’s natural habitat turns a car into the bear’s supposed home. It is a fictional joke about the incongruous setting, not a zoological claim.

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