George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He was kinda scruffy and goofy-looking. He resembled a Muppet version of a pirate.
Not one of those traditional hand-puppet Muppets. You know, the ones with the puppeteer crouched under the stage, or one puppeteer working the hand and mouth while a second puppeteer works the other hand.
Or that stupid prawn, the one that uses rods and sticks to manipulate.
He was more of a big ol scruffy freestanding Muppet, like the Sweetums monster or Big Bird or Snuffleupagus.
The rest of the crew, they looked like pirates.