kermit, texas
Been there.
(Born there actually.)
funny how Kermit on Heroes
has mountains just like the ones in SoCal.
And hee:
“No, not the frog. My hometown. The cheerleader who was saved so that the world could be saved is from Kermit, Texas!
Kermit_city_limits_sign_larger_3_1 It was just too personally freaky to be watching the already freaky NBC show “Heroes” last night and see Claire, the indestructible cheerleader, discover that she was born in my hometown.
It gets better. Her birth mom still lives there. If only my cousin and I had known when we rolled through Kermit last summer!
Apparently, no one in the town knew what was coming. There was no buzz. Everyone in my small West Texas burgh was still basking in the glow of having Kermit the Frog come through on his birthday tour a year earlier.
Yep, Texas, and West Texas in particular, are hot TV properties this viewing season.
I was already cracking up that Claire lived in Odessa. It’s about 45 miles east of Kermit and was the “big city” we used to drive to in order to see first-run movies when I was a kid.
Up until last night, I thought the goofiest thing about part of the series being set in part of my old stomping grounds was the fact that it obviously was not actually shot there. Almost all of the program’s exterior shots of the Permian Basin include hilly terrain. There ain’t no hills in the area, folks, unless you’re talking the sand hills that blow across the road like in this photo.
Even better, in one episode, a body was dumped in a river. Lots of dry draws, but nope, no rivers out there either.
But it was fine. It’s only TV and the hubby and I were getting a kick out of the choice of Odessa as home for one of the key characters. Then Hiro, the hottest Hero, heads to Midland, just the other side of Odessa, and hooks up with a café waitress. And Peter, whom Hiro instructed to save the cheerleader, also headed to West Texas to protect Claire.
And now we’re in Kermit, or at least it looks like we will be next week when Claire presumably will hit the Kermit Highway to meet her real mom. Too, too funny.”
[Kermit: Star of hot new TV show!]
Watch Heroes?
Yeah, Kermit in the limelight again.
And for the record, I don’t know anyone named Gordon there and I don’t remember an apartment building burning down (or even being there for that matter… frankly, I think they have long term motels… but no real apartments.) Its a really small town.
heh.
…and I laugh every time I see those mountains they say are in Odessa. (Can you say “We save a lot of money by filming just outside of LA?”)
There are no hills.
Hell, there are no mounds in Odessa. That beer can in the middle of the road is the high point in town.
Kermit, Texas.
Kermit, Texas.: “KERMIT, TEXAS
Winkler County, West Texas
‘The only town in Texas to be named after one of Theodore Roosevelt’s Sons’
Hwys 18, 102 and 302
6 or 7 miles NE of Wink
47 miles from Odessa
22 miles from Monahans
10 miles from New Mexico
Population: 5,714 (2000)”
