History Film / MuppetTreasureIsland

* HeelFaceTurn: Parodied with Sweetums. While he participated in the mutiny, he comes to the captain and Mr. Arrow's rescue when they're fighting pirates. When Smollett asked why he saved them using a log and some brute force, Sweetums laughs and says, "I love you guys!"  

* ImprobableWeaponUser: How does a starfish-wielding Muppet sound to you?
* InsistentTerminology: Blind Fiends prefer Visually Challenged Fiend according to Gonzo.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: During the song "Professional Pirate" Long John Silver begins addressing "misconceptions" about pirates, how they'd never stab you in the back (someone falls dead a split second later with a knife in his back) or lie or cheat (as one of them picks another's pocket).
* IronicNickname: Big Fat Ugly Bug-Faced Baby-Eating O'Brien and Angel Marie, who are a beautiful lady and an incredibly ugly muppet respectively.
* IntersceneDiegetic: The "Love Led Us Here" number is heard while the camera cuts away to the pirates.

** Despite her bossy and overbearing demeanor, Mrs. Bluveridge does genuinely care about Jim, Gonzo and Rizzo, telling them not to worry about her and run to safety.

** Billy Bones dies at the start of the film. According to his biography, Billy Connolly is apparently very proud of his record as the only character ever to die on screen in a Muppets film.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After Silver gets away with part of the treasure, Arrow comes up behind Jim and Smollett and mentions that the boat he just took was unsafe. Sure enough, it and the treasure sink, forcing Silver to swim to Treasure Island.]]

--> "He died? And this is supposed to be a kids movie!" \\

** Mr. Arrow has spent most of the movie as a stick-in-the-mud first mate. Then in the climax, he helps Jim retake the Hispaniola with some clever trickery, and goes to rescue Smollett when Silver's pirates corner the latter and Benjamina. He swings to the beach with two swords, tosses one to the Captain, and fights alongside him.

* LosingYourHead: Headless Bill's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin current status]] does not get in the way of him faithfully saluting during the roll call, though it obviously prevents him from speaking (but not ''hearing'', oddly enough...)

-->'''Rizzo:''' I've gone waaay beyond afraid! Right now I'm somewhere between bed-wetting and a near-death-experience!

* ManipulativeBastard: Long John. He befriends Jim and gets him to fess up about the map's whereabouts, tricks Arrow into giving him the keys and removing himself from the ship, and then when the other pirates turn on him, he wins them back by literally putting the fear of God into them 'cause they defaced a Bible.

** There's also some Muppet-fied characters from the book. For one, the Muppet version of Black Dog is... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, a black dog]].

--> '''Smollet:''' Well, thank you. But aren't you supposed to fighting ''against'' us?
--> '''Sweetums:''' Are you kidding? I ''love'' you guys!

* NamedAfterTheInjury: A couple of the cutthroats sailing on the ''Hispanola,'' including One-Eyed Jack (who wears an eyepatch), Black-Eyed Pea (who sports two shiners) and Headless Bill (take a guess). Exaggerated with Dead Tom.
* NearMissGroinAttack: In the last fight scene, Gonzo pins one of the pirates to the side of the ship using starfish as throwing stars. Shortly after, various other pirates get their swords knocked out of their hands, and each time the sword flies towards the pinned pirate, landing disturbingly close to his crotch.

* NightmareFetishist: Gonzo.

--->Rizzo: ''[[NeverSayDie He died?]] [[WrongGenreSavvy And this is supposed to be a kids' movie]]!''

--->'''Statler:''' Take a cruise you said.\\

'''Statler:''' See the world you said.\\

'''Statler:''' Now here we are stuck on the front of this stupid ship!\\

'''Both:''' DOH-hohohohoho!

* ObviouslyEvil: Smollet and Arrow come to this conclusion after the [[MeaningfulName roll call]].
** And even those audience members who've never read or heard about ''Treasure Island'' reach that conclusion upon seeing Tim Curry. Then there's Long John's one leg and Billy's previous warning about the one-legged man and not to mention the occasional ominous music....

* OffhandBackhand: Arrow [Sam the Eagle] does this to Polly Lobster. Twice. Once while in mid-''FacePalm''.

** Black Dog utters "Oh woof..." in shock before the powder explodes and destroys the inn.

** Also when they saw the pirates captured Jim just when they plan to leave Long John and his crew on the island. Though it wouldn't do much good since other pirates are still on his ship and outnumber Smollet's crew.

* PlayedForDrama: Though the entire movie is fairly dark, especially for a Muppet movie, the confrontation between Jim and Silver when Silver is leaving the ship for the last time and threatens to shoot Jim could very well come from a completely different movie given the dead serious tone it has.

** Mr. Arrow calls Captain Smollett a "raging volcano". While Captain Smollett is more a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, he does get raging angry when provoked, and is not someone to be underestimated.

* PowderTrail: Gonzo and Rizzo meander all around the cellars with a leaking powder barrel when pirates attack the inn... which, of course, gets ignited by a falling candle. Cue MassOhCrap from them and the pirates.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The story is pretty much left untouched - Billy Bones is still TheAlcoholic, but he only has the one drunken fit on-screen, and whilst he's not exactly shy about letting people know he was the first mate of one of the most bloodthirsty pirate crews who ever sailed the Seven Seas, [[IgnoredConfession everyone thinks he's making it up]]. Meanwhile, Squire Trelawney is replaced by '''Young''' Squire Trelawney, and the pirates' camp from the original novel is left out entirely.

-->'''Billy Bones:''' Beware lads! Beware!
-->'''Jim:''' What? The one-legged man?
-->'''Billy Bones:''' Aye! But also, beware running with scissors, or any other pointy objects! It's all good fun, until someone loses an EYYYYEEEEE...! <dies>

* PutOnABus: Scooter does not appear in this movie following the passing of Richard Hunt. He also does not appear in The Muppet Christmas Carol either.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Polly, Mad Monty and Clueless Morgan.
* RefugeInAudacity: Mr. Arrow while covered in seaweed and stage makeup should not be convincing as a ghost. He's convinced to go along with it because Smollett's crew is outnumbered four to twenty, and a peaceful deception is more beneficial than a fight. Dr. Livesy reassures Jim that pirates are very superstitious and have guilty consciences. It actually works when Mr. Arrow rises and says in a deadpan voice, "Boogie. Boogie. I am the ghost of Samuel Arrow." Then he turns around to face them and lunges. It does have the benefit that they believe he's dead.
* RRatedOpening: The opening song "Shiver My Timbers" explicitly makes clear what pirates do and ends with Flint murdering his own crew, showing that this may be a Muppets movie, but it ''will'' deal with themes not normally considered child-friendly.

* RunawayBride: Or in this case Groom. Before the movie, Smollett left Benjamina standing at the altar.

** Samuel Arrow (played by Sam the Eagle) is presented as an over-the-top disciplinarian who "paraphrases" all of Abraham Smollett's NiceGuy comments into DisproportionateRetribution for minor infractions, such as threatening to lash Sweetums and make him walk the plank for not dusting the deck properly and claiming that anyone that slacks will be shot on sight. Abraham will then point out that he said nothing of the sort, belaying the threats.
** In the beginning Mrs. Bluverage can apparently hear anything said in or near the inn regardless of what's going on and will occasionally yell out so her own comments will be heard, leading the other characters to wonder "how does she do that?!"

* TheScream: When Billy Bones receives the Black Spot, he screams in terror. The film cuts to a distant shot of the inn, with his scream still audible.

** The pirates on the ''Hispaniola'' flee upon seeing Mr. Arrow disguised as a ghost.
** Benjamina's tribe flees upon realizing that Silver and his men are armed with "boom-boom sticks".
** A thwarted example occurs when Silver's men try escaping after realizing the ''Hispaniola'' is coming towards them, but Silver stops them from doing so.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Inverted with "Cabin Fever". Smollet, Long John, Jim, and Mr. Arrow are all absent from the lunacy. (In fact, it's almost all of the canonical ''Treasure Island'' characters, except that Fozzie-as-Trelawny and Honeydew's Livesy are there.)

-->I could have been in politics, cause I've always been a big spender./And me... I coulda been... [[Film/OnTheWaterfront a contender.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mr. Arrow]], which even becomes a plot point later on.

* StrippedToTheBone: After slaughtering the men who buried the treasure, Flint hanged the bodies from a tree to mark the way to the treasure (according to Long John, at least). By the time Long John and his crew found the tree, there was nothing left of the bodies but bones and cartilage.

''[{{beat}}]''
-->'''Sam:''' BOOGIE!
-->''[[[AbandonShip cue all the pirates jumping ship]]]''

* ThatsAnOrder: After the incident with Polly, Clueless Morgan, and Mad Monty, Smollet asks Jim to give the map into Smollet's keeping. When Jim asks to keep it, Smollet makes it an order.

-->"Angel Marie said that later on he'd throw a line out the back and let me drag along the bottom!"
-->[Probably how he got those [[BrickJoke pants full of starfish.]]]

-->'''Tour guide:''' And here's a photo opportunity you will not want to miss: the actual jungle location for the movie ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall Muppet Treasure Island]]''.

-->'''Rizzo:''' Okay, all right, so I'm a rat, and you're a human being, and Gonzo's a... uh...
-->'''Gonzo:''' Whatever.
-->'''Rizzo:''' Yeah! I mean, we're still -- we're still family!
* UpperClassTwit: Squire Trelawney is the half-wit son of a ship-financier who doesn't know what the ocean is and thinks that he has a super-intelligent person living in his finger named Mr. Bimbo. He is one of the more benevolent examples of the trope, as he is shown to be a NiceGuy and finances the search for the treasure himself.

* VillainHasAPoint: Jim has no response when Long John asks him if he thinks Smollet and Trelawney will share the treasure with the crew. Long John recalls that they are Flint's former crew, who "shed our blood" for him, so they deserve the treasure. Yeah they're evil, but he's not wrong. And he's perfectly correct when he points out that to the Spanish, Sir Francis Drake is an evil villain, while to the British, he's a hero.

-->"Upstage, lads! This is my ''only'' number..."
%%* TheVillainSucksSong: "Shiver My Timbers".

* VisualPun: During the "Shiver My Timbers" intro, the upcoming betrayal and murder of Flint's crew are portended in song by local fauna... including two snakes... in the grass.
* VocalDissonance: Big Fat Ugly Bug-Faced Baby-Eating O'Brien is actually a beautiful woman... and she has a deep voice that's completely at odds with her appearance.
* TheVoiceless: Janice and Dr. Teeth are the only members of the Electric Mayhem to not have any lines in the movie though their lack of dialogue is understandable; Jim Henson and Richard Hunt, their puppeteers who played them before died so as to pay tribute to the two late puppeteers, the two were given background roles in ''The Muppet Christmas Carol'' and ''Muppet Treasure Island''.
* WackyWaysideTribe: The island boars
* WhatTheHellHero: Benjamina lays into Smollet for leaving her at the altar. She tells him that "sorry" isn't enough for jilting her and "cold feet" isn't an excuse because he's a frog and frogs are supposed to have cold feet.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite saying that he would let Gonzo stand by Jim's side when Jim seeks adventure, Rizzo shows he's brave even when scared to death. He goes with Gonzo and Smollet to save Jim from the pirates when Silver takes them hostage.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: During the "Cabin Fever" number.

* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: When Kermit grabs Miss Piggy when she falls off a cliff.
* WingdingEyes

* WomanScorned: Benjamina is not too happy to reunite with her ex-boyfriend Captain Smollett who left her at the altar.

* WouldntHurtAChild: Take a child hostage? Yes. Tie him up and toss him around as part of a game with his crew? Yes. But Silver could never physically harm Jim. He genuinely offers him part of the treasure, and refuses to [[spoiler:shoot him when Jim catches him escaping with all the treasure.]]

--> ". . .The Spanish all despise him / But to the British, he's a hero, and they idolize him."

** Done by Captain Flint at the end of the intro. ''"SHIVER MY TIMBERS, SHIVER MY SAILS, '''DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES!'''" [BANG]''

-->'''Smollett:''' '''''WHO HIRED THIS CREW?!?''''' This is ''undoubtedly'' the ''seediest'' bunch of ''cutthroats'', ''villains'' and ''scoundrels'' I have ever seen, so '''who hired them?'''

** The Swedish Chef, who appears towards the end of the film wearing a fake pig snout on the island of the "cannibal pigs". Lampshaded by the Singing Fruit who break the fourth wall to address the audience, asking "How else d'you think we were gonna get him in this movie?"

** Several characters from ''Series/FraggleRock'' appear throughout the film Sprocket appears briefly at the start as a patron at the Admiral Benbow Inn. Murray, Brool and Wander Mcmooch are among the pirates that raid the Inn. Mudwell and Begoony are members of Long John Silver's pirate crew. The small Inkspot creatures sing in "Shiver My Timbers". Aretha can be seen briefly as a townsperson at the docks.
* CanonForeigner: Due to Jim’s mother being [[DeathByAdaptation absent in the movie]], the Admiral Benbow Inn is instead run by a woman named Mrs. Bluveridge, who is portrayed as (initially) the primary guardian of the orphaned Jim Hawkins.
* CaptainObvious: "Dead Tom is dead!"
-->'''Mudwell:''' Long John shot him!
-->'''Walleye Pyke:''' But Dead Tom's always been dead. That's why he's called 'Dead Tom.'
-->'''Mudwell:''' Oh. [Drops him.]

"And me? [[Film/OnTheWaterfront I coulda been a contender.]]"

-->'''Mrs. Bluveridge:''' Don't forget to come back tomorrow for our lunchtime special! Roast suckling...\\
'''Pigs:''' Huh?\\
'''Mrs. Bluveridge:''' ...[[LastSecondWordSwap potatoes]]!\\

--> ''Shiver my timbers, shiver my soul/ Yo-ho, heave ho!/ There are men whose hearts are as black as coal/ Yo-ho, heave ho!''
--> ''Shiver my timbers, shiver my sides/ Yo-ho, heave ho!/ There are hungers as strong as the wind and tides/ Yo-ho, heave ho!''
--> ''Shiver my timbers, shiver my bones/ Yo-ho, heave ho!/ There are secrets that sleep with old Davy Jones/ Yo-ho, heave ho!''
--> ''Shiver my timbers, shiver my sails/ '''Dead men tell no tales!''''' '''*BANG*'''
* CharacterNarrator: The first scene is narrated by Billy Bones: "I was Flint's first mate, that voyage. Three days east of Tortola in the Caribbean, Flint knew an island..."

** Also, the keys Silver takes from Mr Arrow. [[spoiler:He finds them in his pocket at the end while in his cell in the brig, and is able to escape from it and load part of the treasure into a lifeboat before Jim catches him]].

* ClothingDamage: During the final battle against Silver and his crew, Kermit ruined Silver's coat and hat.

'''Gonzo:''' Yeah, that. And my pants are filled with starfish.\\

'''Rizzo:''' You and your hobbies....

-->'''Fozzie:''' "Oh, Mr. Bimbo lives in my finger. He's very smart. He's been to the moon. [puts finger to his ear] Oh, thank you... twice."

* CowardlyLion: Rizzo keeps going DidntWantAnAdventure and says he'll hide from danger if Jim courts it. When Silver takes Jim, hostage, however, Rizzo comes without hesitation when Smollet and Gonzo go to rescue him. He says of course he does, Jim is family, even if he is terrified.

* CurbstompBattle: And with Sweetums of all Muppets no less.
* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Mr. Arrow does this briefly with Captain Smollett's sword near the end.

** Long John tells his fellow mutineers that {{Satan}} is heating his pokers for their heresy of tearing a page from the Bible to give him the black spot.

* DelayedOhCrap: When Billy dies for good, Jim, Gonzo, and Rizzo stare in shock... and then Rizzo realizes "We're standing in a room with a ''dead guy!''" They immediately start screaming and run out of the room.
* DemotedToExtra: Dr. Livesey is far less prominant than his book counterpart with pretty much all of his notable scenes from the book being cut.

* DisneyDeath: Nope, turns out Mr. Arrow's lifeboat was actually completely shipshape. [[spoiler:Silver's, however...]]

* ElongatingArmGag: The pirates try to torture Gonzo by stretching him in the rack. Instead of begging for mercy, [[TooKinkyToTorture Gonzo enjoys it]], even bragging that he's now tall enough to play in the NBA. Afterwards, Gonzo is seen showing off his now elongated limbs, which Bunsen then fixes by pulling him out until he rolls like a window shade.

** A pig at the Benbow is startled when his own beer stein chimes into a conversation.
* EvilLaugh: Tim Curry unleashes the ham with a couple of exceptional ones.

** Benjamina when her tribe decides they're not going to tangle with "boom-boom sticks."

** And Mr. Arrow when [[spoiler:he's told that the crew was hired by a man in a bear's finger based on the advice of the cook]]
** Dr Livesey does this when he sees Big-Fat-Ugly-Bug-Face-Baby-Eating O'Brien.

* FinishDialogueInUnison: When Bones finishes telling the story about Flint, he says "Now isn't that story worth the hearin'?" - as do most of the guests, followed by one of the patrons complaining, "It was the first dozen times we heard it!"

* {{Flynning}}: Mocked; when Kermit tries it the sword flies out of his hand (almost skewering another muppet), leaving him defenseless.
* ForScience: Dr. Livesy, played by Bunsen Honeydew. The first we see of him is an exploding lab with Beaker flying into the wall.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A very small one, but is it any surprise that the three muppets we have singing about 'walking the plank', 'cutting throats' and 'hanging people' in "Sailing For Adventure" [[spoiler:all turn out to be a part of the pirate crew in the end? The only reason Clueless Morgan says "[[JustJokingJustification Just kidding]]" is because Mr. Arrow comes up behind them as they're singing!]]

* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: When Silver introduces himself, he says that friends call him "Long John". This gets a CallBack at the end of the movie, where Jim refers to his ''actual'' friends and pointedly calls John "Mr. Silver" instead.

* FrivolousLawsuit: Happened in real life. Hormel, makers of Spam, [[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/26/nyregion/hormel-sues-over-a-boarish-film-muppet.html actually sued Jim Henson Productions over the boar named "Spa'am"]] - [[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-10-03/features/9510030085_1_spam-spam-spam-spam-hormel-foods-corp-shoulder-and-ham and lost]].

* FurryReminder: Sort of. Smollet/Kermit is showing off with his sword by cutting off Long John's clothing decor while swinging his sword about then [[spoiler:the sword flies out of his hand. He blames his slippery hands on account of being a frog]].
* GenderFlip: The original maroonee Benjamin Gunn becomes ''Benjamina'' Gunn [Miss Piggy], and is also the [[PromotedToLoveInterest love interest of Captain Smollet]] [Kermit].

-->''Ach du lieber''[[note]]''Oh, you dear''[[/note]]
-->''Volkswagen karr''[[note]]''Volkswagen car''[[/note]]
-->''Sauërbräten''
-->''Wienerchnitzel''
-->''Und a wunderbar!''[[note]]''And wonderful!''[[/note]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: As per the source material, the titular treasure is the accumulated loot of the brutal and treacherous Captain Flint, and the pirates in the story proper are his old henchmen.

* HatDamage: The chief boar's big, elaborate headdress gets blown off his head when Long John Silver shoots it.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Implied in the ending scenes and clearly a factor in Long John's IgnoredEpiphany: As a known pirate who had hijacked a British ship, he was at severe risk, very real and explicitly mentioned, of being executed for piracy if the British ever got their hands on him.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Invoked by Silver in the song Professional Pirate, where he insists pirates are victims of bad press.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Arrow knows Silver's lifeboat was unsafe because Silver disposed of him earlier by stoking paranoia about leaky lifeboats and persuading Arrow to take one out for a test run. At the time it looked like Arrow had been killed by this.]]

* ActuallyThatsMyAssistant: After Mr Arrow talks up Captain Smollett as a disciplinarian with a raging temper, Smollett's carriage pulls up and out steps a large, grim-looking man who looks every inch the way Arrow has described -- who then steps aside to reveal the actual Smollett, a small mild-mannered individual played by Kermit the Frog.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the book, the heroes return to Bristol, Captain Smollett retires from the sea, and Jim has no more desire for adventure, admitting in his narration that he still has nightmares about Treasure Island. The ending here is more lighthearted, with Jim and friends still happily sailing on the Hispaniola [[AndTheAdventureContinues in search of new adventures.]]

* AdaptationalContextChange: In the book the incident with Silver getting the Black Spot takes place before they find the missing treasure, while here it occurs afterwards leading in the film's orginal ending.

** Squire Trewlany was slighly foolish in the book, but his counterpart here is a self-admitted half-wit who belives a little man lives in his finger.

* AdaptationalWimp: Squire Trelawny in the book was a military veteran and a crack shot with a musket, by constrast this Trelawny far less cabable through he does at least join in the final battle.

** In the original novel, Jim Hawkins's mother was around. In this movie, [[MissingMom no such luck]] (although her role is effectively filled by Mrs. Bluveridge).

** Most of the supporting loyalists such as Trelawny's servants and Abraham Gray are cut.

-->'''Clueless Morgan:''' Well... you know, I for one feel better about myself. Yeah, and I believe that I have learned a valuable lesson...
-->''[other pirates just beat him up]''

-->'''Billy Bones:''' I've got the horrors! Give me rum! Rum! Rum 'til I float!

--> Starring Creator/TimCurry as Long John Silver
--> with Kermit the Frog as Captain Smollett
--> Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn
--> The Great Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat as [[CharacterAsHimself Themselves]]
--> with Creator/BillyConnolly as Billy Bones
--> and Jennifer Saunders as Mrs. Bluveridge
--> introducing Kevin Bishop as Jim Hawkins

--> "My mother came all the way from France! I was wearing her white lace dress! ''The cake was filled with LEMON! CUSTARD!''"

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Mr. Arrow shows ''why'' he is the first mate in the climax. He rows to an island he finds, after the Hispaniola accidentally strands him in the middle of the ocean, which helps Jim, Gonzo and Rizzo take back the ship from Silver's men. Then when he sees his Captain cornered, he swings into battle, tosses Kermit a sword, and battles by his side. Captain Smollett says he's glad to see his first mate alive.
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: The island Boars show up and are about to [[TheCavalry provide reinforcements]] against the pirates, but are scared off when Long John Silver shoots off the headdress of the lead boar.
-->'''Chief Boar:''' Stop! Give up now, weak and tiny pirate mans, or die like stinking dogs!
-->''[Long John Silver [[HatDamage shoots off the chief's headdress]]]''
-->'''Chief Boar:''' Hmm. We see you have [[ThisIsMyBoomstick boom-boom sticks]]. ''[{{Beat}}]'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Bye-bye]].
-->''[tribe runs away]''

* BadBoss: Captain Flint. In the opening of the film, he has his crew bury his treasure on a deserted island and, while they're right in the middle of it, he kills them all in order to keep the location a secret. Pretty dark for a Muppets movie.
* BaitAndSwitch: During the final battle, Captain Smollett sees Sweetums charging in their direction with a huge log. He shouts at Mr. Arrow to watch out but they can't retreat while fencing away. Sweetums runs forward...and hits the pirates that were attacking the captain and first mate, curbstomping them. Smollet is confused because he thought Sweetums was on the pirates' side. Sweetums replies, "Are you kidding?! I love you guys!"

-->'''Smollett:''' '''''WHO HIRED THIS CREW?!?''''' This is ''undoubtedly'' the ''seediest'' bunch of ''cutthroats'', ''villains'' and ''scoundrels'' I have ever seen, so ''who hired them?''
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Before the pirates took Jim as a hostage, Smollett was planning to maroon them for a year to proactively prevent the mutiny. Smollett is also fairly competent with a sword and, given that he's a frog in this adaptation, has the added ability to leap extremely high for pounce on an opponent. If only his fingers weren't so slippery...

** Sweetums shows what happens when you ask the GentleGiant LargeHam of the group to participate in the battle against his friends. He charges with a log...and knocks aside the pirates that were fighting Captain Smollett and Mr. Arrow. 

* BigBad: Long John Silver finds out about the voyage, invagles himself with Trelawny and has the crew filled with his fellow shipmates from Flint's old crew, and masterminds a mutiny in which the crew will let the ''Hispaniola'' take them to Treasure Island and mutiny once they're there. Along the way, he gets Mr. Arrow to abandon himself at sea and then takes Jim hostage, forestalling Smollet's plan to just sail off and leave the pirates to rot on the island. He stays the villain up to the end, when he abandons his shipmates and rows away with the treasure.

** Hilariously parodied by the island Boars, when Long John Silver shoots off the headdress of the lead boar. "Me see you have [[ThisIsMyBoomstick boom boom sticks]]... [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bye-bye.]]"

-->'''Gonzo:''' I'm Gonzo... and the guy in the chicken is Rizzo.
-->'''Rizzo:''' <nom nom nom nom> Yo! <nom nom nom nom>

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Cabin Fever. Acknowledged in-universe, as only Clueless Morgan seems to even remember it.

** During the "roll call" scene, the list of sailors includes Old Tom, Really Old Tom, and Dead Tom. There's also [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Headless Bill]], who ''is'' present...but can't speak for himself because [[DontExplainTheJoke he doesn't have a head.]]

* BlackSpot: One is delivered to Billy Bones in the beginning [[spoiler:and he dies.]]

* BrawnHilda: Mrs. Bluveridge personally hands several vicious pirates their butts [[BattleAmongstTheFlames as her Inn burns down.]]

** Those life boats look decidedly... unsafe.
** As Arrow [[spoiler:is rowing safely to the island, he's STILL gauging the boat's safeness.]]
** Pants full of starfish.

---> '''Jim:''' "But we're just cabin boys, Mr. Silver."
---> '''Long John:''' "''Long John'', [[FriendlyAddressPrivileges to his friends]]."
** Then, towards the end of the movie...
---> '''Long John:''' "Oh, hell, Jim. I could never harm you. You're honest and brave and true. You didn't learn that from me."
---> '''Jim:''' "I learned it from my friends, ''Mr. Silver.''"

--->'''Jim:''' "Wherever the wind may take us!"
--->'''Gonzo:''' "Off to Zanzibar to meet the Zanzi-barbarians!"
--->'''Rizzo:''' "Here they go again...."

--->'''Statler:''' Take a cruise you said.
--->'''Waldorf:''' Huh?
--->'''Statler:''' See the world you said.
--->'''Waldorf:''' Huh.
--->'''Statler:''' Now here we are stuck on the front of this stupid ship!
--->'''Waldorf:''' Well it could be worse. We could be stuck in the audience!
--->'''Both:''' [[CatchPhrase DOH-hohohohoho!]]

--->'''Statler:''' Waldorf you old fool! We're heroes! We saved the pig and the frog!
--->'''Waldorf:''' Well, it was too late to save the movie!\\

* OneHitPolykill: Assuming he doesn't reload offscreen (or finish off the survivors through some other means) Captain Flint manages to kill all his crew, which is something like a dozen guys at least, with two flintlock shots. Although he does seem to have gullied[[note]]stabbed[[/note]] at least two before the digging.

--> "What else are rich half-wit sons ''for?''"

* VillainHasAPoint: Jim has no response when Long John asks him if he thinks Smollet and Trelawney will share the treasure with the crew. Long John recalls that they are Flint's former crew, who "shed our blood" for him, so they deserve the treasure. Yeah they're evil, but he's not wrong.
** And he's perfectly correct when he points out that to the Spanish, Sir Francis Drake is an evil villain, while to the British, he's a hero.
* VillainRecruitmentSong: "Professional Pirate".
* VillainSong: "Professional Pirate". Lampshaded by Long John Silver as the second verse starts:

* TheVillainSucksSong: "Shiver My Timbers".

-->'''Chief Boar:''' Hmm. We see you have [[ThisIsMyBoomstick boom-boom sticks]]. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Bye-bye.

* LeaveNoWitnesses: The intro shows Captain Flint and a band of pirates lugging several treasure chests up on Treasure Island to bury them. When they chests are in the pit and the pirates start to cover them, Flint draws his guns on his crew and fires. The intro song ends simultaneously on the fitting line "Dead men tell no tales!"

* BlackComedyBurst: The upbeat, generally adventurous tone of "Sailing To Adventure" jolts sideways into this when Rizzo pipes up with "And people die by falling overboard!" (which is then repeated very loudly by the ensemble).

* LyricalDissonance: Downplayed The tone of "Sailing to Adventure" ''does'' get a lot quieter and darker for the part where Clueless Morgan, Mad Monty and Polly Lobster are talking about killing people. It ''doesn't'' get quieter and darker for the bit where Rizzo talks about people dying by falling overboard.

* LyricalDissonance: Downplayed The tone of "Sailing to Adventure" ''does'' get a lot quieter and darker for the part where Clueless Morgan, Angel Marie and Polly Lobster are talking about killing people. It ''doesn't'' get quieter and darker for the bit where Rizzo talks about people dying by falling overboard.

Brian Henson's 1996 take on the classic ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' story by Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, featuring the old cast favorites of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', and Creator/TimCurry playing Long John Silver. In the English seaside in the 18th Century, Jim Hawkins, played by Kevin Bishop, is now given two friends... Gonzo and Rizzo, who are [[Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol once again]] paired together as a comedy team and are the focus for much of the movie. When sailor Billy Bones (Creator/BillyConnolly) warns of a treasure that legendary pirate captain Bernie Flint hid, and Jim's harridan-employer's inn is burned down by Flint's surviving pirate crew, Flint's treasure map ends up in Jim's possession. Fozzie Bear (playing rich-dolt Trelawney) confirms the map's authenticity, so they all set sail on the ''Hispaniola'' to find the treasure. Bunsen Honeydew plays Dr. Livesey, Kermit the Frog plays the ship's master Captain Smollett, Sam the Eagle is Mister Arrow, the first mate. Miss Piggy plays a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] version of Ben Gunn; a castaway marooned on the relevant island.

It isn't that high on the radar for most of the public memory, but is considered by fans to be one of the darkest and grittiest Muppet films and one of their funniest productions.

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* AdaptationalDumbass: Tom Morgan was a minor pirate in the book, and although Silver remarked that he was stupid he wasn't a ditzy CloudCuckoolander like his equivalent Clueless Morgan.

* AdaptedOut: In the original novel, Jim Hawkins's mother was around. In this movie, [[MissingMom no such luck]] (although her role is effectively filled by Mrs. Bluveridge).

* MythologyGag: During the "Dead Tom's Dead" bit, the pirate mourning Dead Tom is played by Mudwell. In ''Series/FraggleRock'', Mudwell's episode "Gone But Not Forgotten", was centered around TheFiveStagesOfGrief that comes with the passing of a loved one.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'', both films being adaptations of British classic novels, starring well known British actors alongside of the Muppets and having Gonzo and Rizzo as a comedy duo.

* MeaningfulName: Not so much 'meaningful' as 'literal' amongst the crew. It includes such specimens as Wall-Eyed Pike, Black-Eyed Pea, Headless Bill, Old Tom, Really Old Tom, and, of course, Dead Tom. Subverted with "Big Fat Ugly Bug-Faced Baby-Eating O'Brien", who apparently switched names with Angel Marie.

** Billy Bones dies at the start of the film. According to his biography, Billy Connolly is apparently very proud of his record as the only character ever to die in a Muppets film.

* AscendedExtra: Not so much in the film, but in the 3-disc [=CD-ROM=], TheGhost of Captain Flint takes an active role in Hawkins' quest to find the treasure, [[IShallTauntYou all while taunting him]] through an ApocalypticLog of messages in a bottle.

* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** [[spoiler:Mr. Arrow]], which even becomes a plot point later on.
** In the 3-disc [=CD-ROM=], Billy Bones also joins this status with naught but a HeroicBSoD.

-->'''Mudwell:''' "Long John shot him!"
-->'''Walleye Pyke:''' "But Dead Tom's always been dead. That's why he's called 'Dead Tom.'"
-->'''Mudwell:''' "Oh." [Drops him.]

* BadassBaritone: A few characters, notably including the alligator with a singing part in "Shiver My Timbers".

* OneHitPolykill: Assuming he doesn't reload offscreen (or finish off the survivors through some other means) Captain Flint manages to kill all his crew, which is something like a dozen guys at least, with two flintlock shots.