Celebs Who Look Like Puppets. Twenty years ago this summer, humanity produced one of its greatest achievements ever: the film "The Great Muppet Caper." In honor of this feat (and with a nod toward the new Muppets movie headed to theaters this year), Wonderwall is celebrating the stars who just happen to remind us of our favorite pop culture puppets.
(And a big thanks to TotallyLooksLike.com and TMZ's Celeb Muppets gallery for getting our juices flowing.)
Take Jessica Simpson, for example. The hair, the predilection for pink, the, um, reputation as a style icon? That's all Miss Piggy right there. And in our heads, at least, it's a compliment.
When he wears his hair down, Jorge Garcia -- best known for playing Hurley on "Lost" -- bears an uncanny resemblance to "The Muppet Show" house pianist Rolf. May we suggest that a duet is in order?
We're not saying he's hankering for a cat sandwich, but something about Josh Groban -- maybe his dark eyes, maybe his general nose region -- reminds us just a bit of '80s sitcom puppet ALF.
Janice -- the other girl Muppet, the one with the deep voice and the Valley girl accent -- looks like a lot of people, including Suzanne Somers, Donatella Versace and Betsey Johnson. But we're calling out Nicki Minaj for jacking Janice's bright-lipped, heavy-lashed look.
In the Muppet world, Guy Smiley is a TV personality. And maybe that's why he got us thinking about Matt Lauer. However, you have to admit that the "Today" host -- especially in his earlier, pre-balding years -- looked a lot like Mr. Smiley.
It's not so remarkable that the very Howdy Doody-looking Scott McCreery won his season of "American Idol." What's strange is that he was the second Howdy Doody lookalike to do so, with Clay Aiken being the first.
We will let these images of Steve Buscemi and Pepe the Prawn speak for themselves.
This Olsen twin -- oh, let's say it's... Mary-Kate -- looks enough like Kira, the heroine from the 1982 Muppet fantasy epic "The Dark Crystal," that we're surprised she hasn't incorporated Gelfling fashion into her regular rotation
Vain, smart-mouthed, campy, always a little mean -- hell, Wayland Flowers' "sidekick" Madame doesn't just remind us of Joan Rivers. We think she is Joan Rivers.
You might describe both Fozzie Bear and "American Idol" contestant Casey Abrams as being lovable, huggable and fuzzy. But you'd only describe Abrams as being "Fozzie Bear-like." (It's insulting to Fozzie's long showbiz career to call him "Casey Abrams-like.")
Lady Elaine Fairchilde, one of the puppets from "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" always creeped us out. Today, it's clear that she looks like director Quentin Tarantino. And that's extra creepy.
If you're a "Top Chef" fan, then you must know chef-testant Carla Hall. She's love incarnate, and it's maybe no coincidence that love incarnate bears a resemblance to a Fraggle. In certain lights, she also can look like Big Bird. Just another reason to love her.
It's the eyebrows -- and not a habit of saying numbers out loud -- that makes us think that "Modern Family" star Ty Burrell looks just a bit like the Count Von Count of "Sesame Street" fame.
In the Muppet world, bespectacled Scooter is one of the more boring inhabitants. But his human world doppelganger, Andy Dick, more than makes up for Scooter's blandness.
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