--- title: Chrissy Teigen Just Got Expertly Trolled by Kermit the Frog description: The cookbook author learned the hard way not to speak negatively about Kermit after tweeting about the Muppet and getting a sassy response. canonical: https://time.com/4953150/chrissy-teigen-kermit/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-22T15:26:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:28.096Z og:title: Chrissy Teigen Just Got Expertly Trolled by Kermit the Frog og:description: She learned the hard way not to troll a Muppet og:url: https://time.com/4953150/chrissy-teigen-kermit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd572379673e7b732/6988deec22fb8502fee22f76/chrissy-teigen.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 5th Annual Beautycon Festival Los Angeles - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chrissy Teigen Just Got Expertly Trolled by Kermit the Frog twitter:description: She learned the hard way not to troll a Muppet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd572379673e7b732/6988deec22fb8502fee22f76/chrissy-teigen.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chrissy Teigen Just Learned the Hard Way Not to Troll Kermit the Frog  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 22, 2017 3:26 PM UTC  LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 13: Chrissy Teigen attends the 5th annual Beautycon festival at Los Angeles Convention Center on August 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 13: Chrissy Teigen attends the 5th annual Beautycon festival at Los Angeles Convention Center on August 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 22, 2017 3:26 PM UTC Do not mess with a Muppet. That’s the lesson [Chrissy Teigen](http://time.com/4947946/chrissy-teigen-trolls-john-legend/) learned the hard way this week, after casually subtweeting [Kermit the Frog](http://time.com/4921794/new-kermit-frog-matt-vogel/) — and getting a cutting response. It all started out innocently enough; the model, cookbook author and [active Twitter user](http://time.com/4827106/chrissy-teigen-ivf-troll-response/) sent a casual query to the internet, wondering what tattoos people once wanted, but had the foresight to refrain from actually getting. “Mine is Kermit,” she wrote without explanation. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/910722853149990913) The tweet led to a slew of funny responses from followers. But when you come for a Muppet, the fuzzy guys don’t let you lie; Kermit clearly knows his way around Twitter, and wasn’t about to let Teigen off the hook with her suggestion that his image didn’t belong on her body for eternity. “Whew! Glad to hear it. Now I don’t feel so bad about not getting that @chrissyteigen tattoo,” Kermit responded with expert-level sass. > [](https://twitter.com/KermitTheFrog/status/910959730251542528) To which Teigen could only bow down, accepting that he may have taken the win in this round of the battle of Twitter clapbacks. Shade master respects shade master. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/910989018963177472) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4953150/chrissy-teigen-kermit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4953150/chrissy-teigen-kermit/"},"headline":"Chrissy Teigen Just Learned the Hard Way Not to Troll Kermit the Frog","datePublished":"2017-09-22T15:26:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:28.096Z","description":"The cookbook author learned the hard way not to speak negatively about Kermit after tweeting about the Muppet and getting a sassy response.","url":"https://time.com/4953150/chrissy-teigen-kermit/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","twitter","Chrissy Teigen","Muppets"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd572379673e7b732/6988deec22fb8502fee22f76/chrissy-teigen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd572379673e7b732/6988deec22fb8502fee22f76/chrissy-teigen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"5th Annual Beautycon Festival Los Angeles - Arrivals","caption":"5th Annual Beautycon Festival Los Angeles - Arrivals","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4953150/chrissy-teigen-kermit/","name":"Chrissy Teigen Just Learned the Hard Way Not to Troll Kermit the Frog"}}]}] ```