History Film / MuppetsFromSpace

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Scooter's dialogue in this film is voiced by the late Richard Hunt's brother, Adam, though he did not perform the puppetry. Despite his vocal similarity to his brother, Adam's only other Muppets-related voice role was as the Two-Headed Monster (with Jerry Nelson) in a ''Series/SesameStreet'' video game.

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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

It also has the distinction of being the last Henson-related film featuring Frank Oz before he retired his characters to successor Eric Jacobson, and the Muppets' last independently-released feature film before they were bought by Disney in 2004 (though ''Film/KermitsSwampYears'' & ''Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie arrived on home video & Creator/{{NBC}} respectively in 2002).

in 2011 by ''Film/TheMuppets''.

''Muppets From Space'' is a 1999 [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] movie starring their regular cast of characters, focusing on Gonzo's back story. It is directed by Tim Hill. It is so far the only Muppet movie to not be a musical, with the score being filled with already-popular oldies soul and funk (some of which are covered for the film), and the first Muppet film since Creator/JimHenson's death that has an original story and is not a spoof/tribute to a popular work of literature, its humor based on the more recent ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' show. It also has the distinction of being the last Henson-related film featuring Frank Oz before he retired his characters to successor Eric Jacobson, and the Muppets' last independently-released feature film before they were bought by Disney in 2004.

It received mixed reviews, with some minor backlash, though the majority seem to consider this to be a fairly good Muppet film. It also seemed, for a while, that it might be the last of its kind - the [[Film/TheMuppets2011 next film]] would not come for another twelve years!

Followed in 2011 by ''Film/TheMuppets''.

It received mixed reviews, with some minor backlash, though the majority seem to consider this to be a fairly good Muppet film. It also seemed, for a while, that it might be the last of its kind - the [[Film/TheMuppets next film]] would not come for another twelve years!

%$ * BadBadActing: Piggy as a newscaster.

* AbsenteeActor: This is the Only Theatrical Muppets Film where Minor Character Droop doesn't Appear.

* AlienAmongUs: Gonzo.

* BadBadActing: Piggy as a newscaster.

* BrickJoke: In the beginning, Pepe and Rizzo trick Gonzo into building a jacuzzi because "If you build a jacuzzi, we will commmme, okaayyy..." Once the movie comes to a close, Gonzo wonders ''why'' he had to build a jacuzzi in the first place.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Gonzo

* DeadpanSnarker: Rizzo, of course.

* DoctorDoctorDoctor: Kermit and Pepe.

* FishOutOfWater: Gonzo.

* HeelFaceTurn: Ed and Bobo, though Bobo wasn't all that bad to start.

* InvisibilityCloak: Well, spray.

* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: [[spoiler: Bobo makes sure Ed doesn't do any real harm.]]

* TheMenInBlack

* PaperThinDisguise: The aforementioned lab coats.
* ParentalBonus: Bunsen and Beaker trading their bags of snack food to a van full of stoner hippies in exchange for a ride to the beach.
** Not to mention that whole business of [[spoiler:Animal getting some]].

* PowerPerversionPotential: Pepe and the invisibility spray. ''Twice''.

* PunnyName: K. Edgar Singer. Initial, "Edgar", name of domestic appliance company.
* RingRingCRUNCH: Happens during the "waking up" montage near the opening.

--->'''Dr. Phil van Neuter:''' ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Release ... me ...]]''
*** May turn into LateToThePunchline for the kids who watched this movie before they were old enough to watch ''Film/IndependenceDay''.

* StolenMacGuffinReveal
* SupportingLeader: Kermit.
* ThatPoorCat: When Gonzo mows his message in the lawn.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Gonzo and Ed, but especially Ed...

* TooFunnyToBeEvil: Ed. Provides some of the basis for his VillainousBreakdown and HeelFaceTurn.

* TotemPoleTrench: Used to infiltrate COVNET.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Well, par for the course for a Muppet film, but a bear M.I.B.?

* SocietyMarchesOn: Wrestling/HulkHogan is in his evil "[[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder Hollywood Hulk]]" persona ("I'm a bad guy now!") - but by the time of the film's release, Hogan had returned to being a good guy.

* NoodleImplements: Gonzo tells Rizzo he had "that weird dream again," and Rizzo asks if it's "[[TheOneWith the one with]] [[BestialityIsDepraved the goat]] and the dwarf and the jar of peanut butter."

''Muppets From Space'' is a 1999 [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] movie starring their regular cast of characters, focusing on Gonzo's back story. It is directed by Tim Hill. It is so far the only Muppet movie to not be a musical, with the score being filled with already-popular oldies soul and funk (some of which are covered for the film), and the first Muppet film since Creator/JimHenson's death that has an original story and is not a spoof/tribute to a popular work of literature, its humor based on the more recent ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' show. It also has the distinction of being the last Henson-related film featuring Frank Oz before he retired his characters to successor Eric Jacobson and the Muppets' last independently-released feature film before they were bought by Disney in 2004.

''Muppets From Space'' is a 1999 [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] movie starring their regular cast of characters, focusing on Gonzo's back story. It is directed by Tim Hill. It is so far the only Muppet movie to not be a musical, with the score being filled with already-popular oldies soul and funk (some of which are covered for the film), and the first Muppet film since Creator/JimHenson's death that has an original story and is not a spoof/tribute to a popular work of literature, its humor based on the more recent ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' show. It also has the distinction of being the last Henson-related film featuring Frank Oz before he retired his characters to someone else and the Muppets' last independently-released feature film before they were bought by Disney in 2004.

* ProductPlacement: The government agency's monitors are Creator/{{Sony}} television screens. The product placement is so shameless they don't even ''bother'' blacking the logo out of the screens! Since Sony-owned Creator/ColumbiaPictures produced the film, though, this is expected. Also, Beaker is seen holding a bag of Fritos.

In this film, the Muppets are living communally in an old house ([[NegativeContinuity apparently it's their vacation home]]), with Piggy's motivation to become a successful TV reporter being the only clear source of their income. Gonzo feels lonely, because there's no one like him; he has friends, but no family, and everyone else does. Feeling despondent, he is contacted through his breakfast cereal (no, really) and told to watch the sky. Eventually, he is convinced that he is actually an alien that somehow wound up on Earth; elated at the thought that there may be more of his kind in space, he tries to communicate with the other beings, while being thought of as crazy by his friends. Between being duped into building a Jacuzzi for the aliens, being captured and interrogated by a [[TheMenInBlack anonymous government agency]] headed by Jeffrey Tambor, and nearly being dissected by a (Muppet) MadScientist, it takes a while before Gonzo finally gets to meet his space-brethren.

* KarmaHoudini: The scientist in charge of the lab rats, who acts like a jerk ass to them, and happily reveals that he ate the cheese he promised them for doing all their hard work.

* TheCameo: Done a bit more low-key than in other Muppet movies, but they're still here--Creator/AndieMacDowell as Shelley Snipes, Creator/RobSchneider as her producer, Josh Charles as a C.O.V.N.E.T. agent, Creator/DavidArquette as a sadistic scientist, Wrestling/HulkHogan (in his "Hollywood Hogan" phase), Creator/RayLiotta and Creator/KathyGriffin as C.O.V.N.E.T. security guards, Creator/JoshuaJackson and Creator/KatieHolmes as their ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' characters, and, in Gonzo's nightmare, Creator/FMurrayAbraham as [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Animal was chasing a female security guard to distract her from the other Muppets. The next scene shows him being chased by her... [[SexyDiscretionShot with her hair down and begging him to come back.]]
** Bunsen and Beaker, after being accidentally left behind at a gas station during Gonzo's rescue mission, arrive at Cape Doom with help from a van full of hippies. Judging from the fact that Bunsen was last seen carrying several bags of snacks, it's ''fairly obvious'' for people familiar with narcotics why the hippies gave them a ride in the first place.

* TheCameo: Done a bit more low-key than in other Muppet movies, but they're still here--Creator/AndieMacDowell as Shelley Snipes, Creator/RobSchneider as her producer, Josh Charles as a C.O.V.N.E.T. agent, Creator/DavidArquette as a sadistic scientist, Wrestling/HulkHogan (in his "Hollywood Hogan" phase), Creator/RayLiotta and Creator/KathyGriffin as C.O.V.N.E.T. security guards, Creator/JoshuaJackson and Creator/KatieHolmes as more-or-less their ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' characters, and, in Gonzo's nightmare, Creator/FMurrayAbraham as [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]].
* CanonDiscontinuity:
** According to ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook''. This is likely not so much because of the quality of the movie though, more just for [[DontExplainTheJoke actually resolving]] what Gonzo is (and the fact it's a Muppet movie Disney doesn't own).
** It did get a brief MythologyGag in ''Film/TheMuppets'', though. In that movie, when Gonzo is preparing to blow up the plumbing factory that he owns so that he can rejoin the cast of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', he addresses the crowd of baffled onlookers as "People of Earth!", likely as a nod to his alien heritage.
** Earlier in that film, you can see a DVD copy of the film in Walter's house, so it's possible that in the universe of that film [[RecursiveReality this was also a film]].

* TheCameo: Done a bit more low-key than in other Muppet movies, but they're still here--Creator/AndieMacDowell as Shelley Snipes, Josh Charles as a C.O.V.N.E.T. agent, Creator/DavidArquette as a sadistic scientist, Wrestling/HulkHogan (in his "Hollywood Hogan" phase), Creator/RayLiotta and Creator/KathyGriffin as C.O.V.N.E.T. security guards, Creator/JoshuaJackson and Creator/KatieHolmes as more-or-less their ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' characters, and, in Gonzo's nightmare, Creator/FMurrayAbraham as [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]].