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-->'''Animal:''' '''''[[MakeMeWannaShout TESTING!]]'''''

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-->'''Animal:''' '''''[[MakeMeWannaShout '''''[[SuperScream TESTING!]]'''''
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--> '''Doc:''' Max, follow that frog!\\
''(Max starts to drive off, leaving Doc behind)''\\

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--> '''Doc:''' Max, [[FollowThatCar follow that frog!\\
frog]]!\\
''(Max [[ExactWords starts to drive off, leaving Doc behind)''\\behind]])''\\
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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[LamePunReaction I don't believe that]]".]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[LamePunReaction I [[caption-width-right:350:''[[LamePunReaction "I don't believe that]]".]]
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'''Miss Piggy: THAT DOES IT!''' ''(Miss Piggy beatdown commences.)''

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'''Miss Piggy: THAT DOES IT!''' ''(Miss Piggy beatdown commences.)'')''\\
'''Prof. Krassman:''' What the heck's going on here? A pig that goes bananas? What is this, a luau?
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* During Kermit and Fozzie's impromptu dance routine, we get this exchange:
-->'''Kermit:''' Too bad the dancing girls are on vacation. This crowd is turning ugly.\\
'''Fozzie:''' If you think this crowd is ugly, [[ButterFace you should see the dancing girls]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I don't believe that".]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I [[caption-width-right:350:"[[LamePunReaction I don't believe that".that]]".]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I don't believe that".]]

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Given it's a movie starring Franchise/TheMuppets, it should come to no surprise that it's more hillarious than humanly possible.
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* When Teddy Savalas tells Madeline Khan she'll get warts from touching Kermit, Kermit informs him it's just a myth.

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* When Teddy Telly Savalas tells Madeline Khan she'll get warts from touching Kermit, Kermit informs him it's just a myth.
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-->'''Kermit''': ''(Stares upon his destroyed bike)'' Hmph. That's pretty dangerous, building a road in the middle of the street! I mean, if frogs couldn't hop, I'd be [[Literature/GoneWithTheWind gone with the Schwinn]].

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-->'''Kermit''': ''(Stares upon -->'''Kermit:''' ''(stares at his destroyed bike)'' Hmph. That's pretty dangerous, building a road in the middle of the street! I mean, if frogs couldn't hop, I'd be [[Literature/GoneWithTheWind gone with the Schwinn]].



-->'''Fozzie''': There was this sailor, who was so fat...
-->'''Fat Sailor in Audience:''' How fat was he?! ''(smashes bottle on table)''
-->'''Fozzie:''' Uh...he was so fat that everybody liked him, and there was nothing funny about him at all.

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-->'''Fozzie''': -->'''Fozzie:''' There was this sailor, who was so fat...
-->'''Fat
fat...\\
'''Fat
Sailor in Audience:''' How fat was he?! ''(smashes bottle on table)''
-->'''Fozzie:'''
table)''\\
'''Fozzie:'''
Uh...he was so fat that everybody liked him, and there was nothing funny about him at all.



--->'''Fozzie:''' Hey, there, want a lift? \\

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--->'''Fozzie:''' Hey, there, want a lift? \\lift?\\



--> '''Fozzie''': I don't know how to thank you guys!\\
'''Kermit''': [[DeadpanSnarker I don't know why to thank you guys]].

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--> '''Fozzie''': '''Fozzie:''' I don't know how to thank you guys!\\
'''Kermit''': '''Kermit:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I don't know why to thank you guys]].guys.]]



-->'''Gonzo''': This is like flying! Maybe it is flying. I'M FLYING!!!

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-->'''Gonzo''': -->'''Gonzo:''' This is like flying! Maybe it is flying. I'M FLYING!!!



-->'''Animal''': '''''[[MakeMeWannaShout TESTING!]]'''''

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-->'''Animal''': -->'''Animal:''' '''''[[MakeMeWannaShout TESTING!]]'''''



--->'''Kermit:''' '(About Fozzie)'' This guy's lost.\\

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--->'''Kermit:''' '(About ''(about Fozzie)'' This guy's lost.\\



* Another Running Gag[=/=]ChekhovsGag involving the introduction of Sweetums. Originally the "jack" for "Mad Man" Mooney, he starts chasing Kermit and company when he learns they're going to Hollywood. We see him one time in Miss Piggy's entrance scene, and then, finally, [[spoiler:he crashes through the projector screen as the movie-within-the-movie finishes, ''finally'' catching up with everybody]].
* To prove this movie has NoFourthWall, at one point in the movie Kermit hands ''the script to said movie'' over to Electric Mayhem to explain Kermit and Fozzie's story as to why they're traveling, as an alternative to summarizing the whole movie up to that point, since as Kermit points out, "it'll bore the audience!"

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* Another Running Gag[=/=]ChekhovsGag involving the introduction of Sweetums. Originally the "jack" for "Mad Man" Mooney, he starts chasing Kermit and company when he learns they're going to Hollywood. We see him one time in Miss Piggy's entrance scene, and then, finally, [[spoiler:he [[spoiler: he crashes through the projector screen as the movie-within-the-movie finishes, ''finally'' catching up with everybody]].
* To prove this movie has NoFourthWall, at one point in the movie Kermit hands ''the script to said movie'' over to Electric Mayhem to explain Kermit and Fozzie's story as to why they're traveling, as an alternative to summarizing the whole movie up to that point, since as Kermit points out, "it'll "It'll bore the audience!"



-->'''El Sleezo Tough''': Yes, but she's ''my'' myth.\\
'''Kermit''': No, no, myth, myth!\\
'''"Myth" (Carol Kane)''': Yeth?

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-->'''El Sleezo Tough''': Tough:''' Yes, but she's ''my'' myth.\\
'''Kermit''': '''Kermit:''' No, no, myth, myth!\\
'''"Myth" (Carol Kane)''': Kane):''' Yeth?



--->'''Kermit''': That's a myth.\\
'''Hopper''': A what?\\
'''Kermit''': Myth! Myth!\\
'''Myth''': (appearing behind the billboard) Yeth?

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--->'''Kermit''': --->'''Kermit:''' That's a myth.\\
'''Hopper''': '''Hopper:''' A what?\\
'''Kermit''': '''Kermit:''' Myth! Myth!\\
'''Myth''': '''Myth:''' (appearing behind the billboard) Yeth?



-->'''Kermit the Frog:''' (As the barrel plays ''Lady of Spain'') YIKES! (Calmly) What is that?!?\\
'''Dr. Bunsen Honeydew:''' That is one of my latest invention, ''A Musical Rotating Rain Barrel''.\\
'''Kermit the Frog:''' Oh, Yeah!\\
'''Dr. Bunsen Honeydew:''' You see, I am Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, And this is my assistant, Beaker. We live here perfecting useful inventions. Come in, Come in!

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-->'''Kermit the Frog:''' (As (as the barrel plays ''Lady of Spain'') YIKES! (Calmly) (calmly) What is that?!?\\
'''Dr. Bunsen Honeydew:''' That is one of my latest invention, inventions, ''A Musical Rotating Rain Barrel''.\\
'''Kermit the Frog:''' Oh, Yeah!\\
yeah!\\
'''Dr. Bunsen Honeydew:''' You see, I am Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, And and this is my assistant, Beaker. We live here perfecting useful inventions. Come in, Come come in!



-->'''Kermit''': Miss Piggy, you look beautiful!\\
'''Miss Piggy''': Thank you!\\
'''Kermit''': (aside) Hollywood talk.

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-->'''Kermit''': -->'''Kermit:''' Miss Piggy, you look beautiful!\\
'''Miss Piggy''': Piggy:''' Thank you!\\
'''Kermit''': '''Kermit:''' (aside) Hollywood talk.



-->'''Fozzie''': (looking at the money) Five hundred dollars? Would you consider a bear in a frog suit?\\
'''Kermit''': Fozzie!\\
'''Fozzie''': I'm sorry, sir, I just lost my head. (They drive off)\\
'''Doc Hopper''': Wait a minute, Mr. Frog. [[EveryManHasHisPrice Everything's negotiable!]]

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-->'''Fozzie''': -->'''Fozzie:''' (looking at the money) Five hundred dollars? Would you consider a bear in a frog suit?\\
'''Kermit''': '''Kermit:''' Fozzie!\\
'''Fozzie''': '''Fozzie:''' I'm sorry, sir, I just lost my head. (They drive off)\\
'''Doc Hopper''': Hopper:''' Wait a minute, Mr. Frog. [[EveryManHasHisPrice Everything's negotiable!]]



-->'''Kermit the Frog:''' Where did you learn to drive?
-->'''Fozzie Bear:''' I took a correspondence course.

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-->'''Kermit the Frog:''' -->'''Kermit:''' Where did you learn to drive?
-->'''Fozzie Bear:'''
drive?\\
'''Fozzie:'''
I took a correspondence course.
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** Kermit and Miss Piggy run to embrace each other in the middle of the field, and once they meet in the middle, Miss Piggy ''continues running,'' [[UpToEleven holding him the entire time.]] Kermit's is utterly baffled at this, especially noteworthy considering the whole thing is a fantasy by Miss Piggy, but [[NoSell not even her dream version of Kermit can help himself from noticing how weird the whole thing is.]]

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** Kermit and Miss Piggy run to embrace each other in the middle of the field, and once they meet in the middle, Miss Piggy ''continues running,'' [[UpToEleven holding him the entire time.]] time. Kermit's is utterly baffled at this, especially noteworthy considering the whole thing is a fantasy by Miss Piggy, but [[NoSell not even her dream version of Kermit can help himself from noticing how weird the whole thing is.]]

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* In a car, Kermit asks Fozzie a relevant question.
-->'''Kermit the Frog:''' Where did you learn to drive?
-->'''Fozzie Bear:''' I took a correspondence course.
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* JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf's start making fun of the movie before it even begins: "Private screening?" "Yeah, they're afraid to show it in public!"

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* JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf's JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf start making fun of the movie before it even begins: "Private screening?" "Yeah, they're afraid to show it in public!"
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* JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf's heckling at the beginning: "Private screening?" "Yeah, they're afraid to show it in public!"

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* JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf's heckling at start making fun of the beginning: movie before it even begins: "Private screening?" "Yeah, they're afraid to show it in public!"



* When the BarBrawl at [[BadGuyBar the El Sleazo Café]] starts to get out of control, Fozzie dresses up as the bartender and yells, "Okay boys, drinks are on the house!" The customers cheer and stampede out of the place. We cut to roof, [[LiteralMinded with the bar patrons confusedly asking where the free drinks are]].

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* When the BarBrawl at [[BadGuyBar the El Sleazo Café]] starts to get out of control, Fozzie dresses up as the bartender and yells, "Okay boys, drinks are on the house!" The customers cheer and stampede out of the place. We cut to the roof, [[LiteralMinded with where the bar patrons confusedly asking are milling about, wondering where the free drinks are]].
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* When Floyd asks Dr. Honeydew what he can do with his growth pills, he happily shows off "a four foot prune!" The reaction by Floyd is priceless: "[[SureLetsGoWithThat A four foot prune.]]"

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* When Floyd asks Dr. Honeydew what he can do with his growth pills, he happily shows off "a four foot prune!" The reaction by Floyd is priceless: "[[SureLetsGoWithThat "[[ParrotExposition A four foot prune.prune...]]"



'''Doc Hopper''': Wait a minute, Mr. Frog. [[SureLetsGoWithThat Everything's negotiable!]]

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'''Doc Hopper''': Wait a minute, Mr. Frog. [[SureLetsGoWithThat [[EveryManHasHisPrice Everything's negotiable!]]
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--> '''Doc Hopper:''' Keep an eye out for a frog and a bear in a tan Studebaker.\\

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--> '''Doc Hopper:''' Keep an eye out for Max, find me a frog and a bear in a tan Studebaker.\\Studebaker!\\
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** Kermit and Miss Piggy run to embrace each other in the middle of the field, and once they meet in the middle, Miss Piggy ''continues running,'' [[UpToEleven holding him the entire time.]] Kermit's is utterly baffled at this, especially noteworthy considering the whole thing is a fantasy by Miss Piggy, but [[NoSell not even her dream version of Kermit can help himself from noticing how weird the whole thing is.]]
** Further on, there's a scene where they're running aimlessly. Kermit trips and falls backwards, Miss Piggy continues running, and [[MindScrew Kermit somehow gets up in the same place even though the background and Miss Piggy have continued moving.]]
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* Just the fact that after the elaborate musical number to repaint the car, the scheme fails literally ''seconds'' later. (Although hiding in front of that psychedelic billboard was at least useful)
--> '''Doc Hopper:''' Keep an eye out for a frog and a bear in a tan Studebaker.\\
'''Max:''' Gee, Doc, all I see is a frog and a bear in a rainbow-colored Studebaker. ({{Beat}})\\
'''Doc and Max:''' [[BigWhat WHAT???]]\\
'''Kermit and Fozzie:''' [[BigWhat WHAT???]]\\
'''Kermit:''' Fozzie, they're right behind us! How did they recognize us?\\
'''Fozzie:''' Well, they recognized ''you''.\\
'''Kermit:''' What do you mean?\\
'''Fozzie:''' (dismissively) There's a hundred ''bears'' around.


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* There was debate during the screenwriting process over whether Doc Hopper would be swayed by Kermit's impassioned words and let him go, or if he would stay a villain. Jim Henson gave a flowery speech about how the key appeal of the Muppets is their innocence, and that innocence would touch the heart of even a cold-blooded businessman like Hopper. Frank Oz's eloquent rejoinder was, [[CynicIdealistDuo "Bullshit, Jim."]]

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** When Kermit and Fozzie take off:
--> '''Doc:''' Max, follow that frog!\\
''(Max starts to drive off, leaving Doc behind)''\\
'''Doc:''' MAX!\\
''(Max backs up)''\\
'''Doc:''' Follow that frog with ''me in the car!!''

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