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* Meta example; the way the "starring" credits are arranged. In the first episode, the seven main Muppeteers are listed alphabetically, Bill Barretta first and Steve Whitmire last. In the second episode, Barretta is moved to the end of the line and Dave Goelz is credited first, and so on until Whitmire is first and the cycle starts over, basically giving all seven actors equal billing.
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** Piggy spends the whole episode worried that she doesn't have a real friend. Then at the end, as Uncle Deadly is coaching her through her duet with Ingrid Michaelson, she realizes that Deadly, beneath his gruff, snarky exterior, is her one true friend.
** The whole crew showing up to Deadly's community theater play.
** The whole crew showing up to Deadly's community theater play.
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** Piggy spends the whole episode worried that she doesn't have a real friend. Then at the end, as Uncle Deadly is coaching her through her duet with Ingrid Michaelson, she realizes that Deadly, beneath his gruff, snarky exterior, exterior as her BeleagueredAssistant, is her one true friend.
** The whole crew showing up to Deadly's community theaterplay.play, which is revealed to have been Piggy's idea as thanks to Deadly for being her friend.
** The whole crew showing up to Deadly's community theater
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* After Piggy's wardrobe malfunction, a younger pig girl comes up to her backstage and wants to talk to her. Piggy initally brushes her off like she does to every other fan until she tells her she had a similar experience at school and seeing it happen to someone like Piggy inspired her and made her feel better about it. Piggy embraces her and decides to take a stand for all pigs and [[ForcedMeme #UnveilTheTail]].
** When Piggy can't do her "[[ForcedMeme #UnveilTheTail]]" stunt on her show, Kermit breaks this news to a disappointed audience.. but states that there's no rule in ''frogs'' showing off their pig tails before turning around and revealing that he has a fake pig tail on. Cue all the Muppets (and Music/JoanJett) showing off their fake pig tails.
** When Piggy can't do her "[[ForcedMeme #UnveilTheTail]]" stunt on her show, Kermit breaks this news to a disappointed audience.. but states that there's no rule in ''frogs'' showing off their pig tails before turning around and revealing that he has a fake pig tail on. Cue all the Muppets (and Music/JoanJett) showing off their fake pig tails.
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* After Piggy's wardrobe malfunction, a younger pig girl comes up to her backstage and wants to talk to her. Piggy initally brushes her off like she does to every other fan until she tells her she had a similar experience at school and seeing it happen to someone like Piggy inspired her and made her feel better about it. Piggy embraces her and decides to take a stand for all pigs and [[ForcedMeme [[EngineeredHashtag #UnveilTheTail]].
** When Piggy can't do her"[[ForcedMeme "[[EngineeredHashtag #UnveilTheTail]]" stunt on her show, Kermit breaks this news to a disappointed audience.. but states that there's no rule in ''frogs'' showing off their pig tails before turning around and revealing that he has a fake pig tail on. Cue all the Muppets (and Music/JoanJett) showing off their fake pig tails.
** When Piggy can't do her
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* As hilarious as it is, Kermit [[StatusQuoIsGod manipulating Piggy to break up with Josh Groban]] in episode 2 has a bit of heartwarming factor to it. He doesn't play any cruel tricks, he simply relies on his knowledge of her - putting Groban's name above Piggy's on the backlot poster and merely revealing that Groban likes the idea.
* From the same episode, Bobo trying really hard to sell cookies to get his daughter a mountain bike. He succeeds when Scooter convinces him to have them sold to the Electric Mayhem (given how they're always happy... [[TheStoner "legally now"]]).
* Creator/ChristinaApplegate going along with Piggy's plan to have Scooter hit her in the face with a cake because she doesn't want him to get in trouble.
* In the middle of "Bear Left Then Bear Write", Nick Offerman calls Kermit "World's Greatest Producer" based on the fact that the latter is holding a mug with that phrase on it. The next scene is a ConfessionCam segment where Kermit talks about how Fozzie (who had left ''Up Late'' earlier in the episode to become a writer) got him that mug.
-->'''Kermit''': A few years ago, I got passed over for a job I really, really wanted. I was gonna quit the business and do something else, you know. Had a shot to go to medical school, but... turns out they just wanted to dissect me. But Fozzie wouldn't let me feel sorry for myself. He got me out of the house and stayed with me until I snapped out of it. He never let me give up. That's what a friend does, he was there to help me, but.. [[TearJerker I don't know, I guess I wasn't there to help him.]]
* Fozzie visiting Statler in the hospital with some flowers, apologizing for the T-shirt incident in the ColdOpen. While it turns out to be for naught, it's very sweet to see that Fozzie was genuinely worried about Statler's well being. Keep in mind this is one half of JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf, who take every opportunity to heckle Fozzie during the shows.
* Sam's expression as he watches Janice sing "Stay" during karaoke night.
* In "Walk The Swine", after her public embarrassment with Reese Witherspoon, instead of getting even with her, she invites to her show again to genuinely apologize to her. Granted, said apology consists of a big, expensive musical number, but it was nice for Piggy to swallow her pride and admit that she was wrong for once.
* "The Ex Factor" had quite a few heartwarming moments.
** Kermit's plate depicting his first date with Denise has a very cute kid aesthetic to it.
** Piggy getting the jewelry box for Kermit to give to Denise. While that's heartwarming in itself, it plays "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life", which had earlier been established as Kermit and Piggy's song.
** Denise's {{Adorkable}} reactions to meeting Creator/KristinChenoweth.
** To a lesser extent, the fact that, aside from one snide comment from Piggy, Kristin Chenoweth and Miss Piggy are genuinely friendly towards each other for the entirety of their interaction. This is a huge contrast from previous episodes with female guests, which all had Piggy having some sort of feud with the guest star.
* In "Pigs in a Blackout", Kermit has a talk with Rowlf in the tavern that [[CallBack easily brings to mind their duet in]] ''Film/TheMuppetMovie''.
** The ''Up Late'' working their way around the blackout that Scooter inadvertently caused.
** At the end, Kermit is revealed to have a swamp in his home. He proceeds to launch into a sweet, toned-down rendition of "Rainbow Connection". Even better is that he sings it all the way through the credits, pre-empting the typical OhCisco moment.
** Scooter accidentally referring to [[TeamDad Kermit]] as his "father" was pretty sweet as well.
** While Gonzo is typically pretty silly or cynical he's the one that talks Scooter into sticking around. Especially when he's miffed he was passed over for being in charge for the day.
* Kermit and Fozzie's heart to heart after they had a fight.
* Bobo offering (and giving) Kermit a hug after Fozzie and Becky leave in a huff.
* Gonzo going ahead with the cannon stunt, and Kermit and Gonzo celebrating it.
** Kermit's SoProudOfYou line to Gonzo fits as well.
* "Single All The Way", being a ChristmasEpisode, was full of these. For once, happy holidays means it's a time for employees to show some cheer to each other.
** Piggy gives 2 different kinds of advice to Fozzie to deal with the fact Becky broke up with him (cause he joked too much). One is to use materialism to hide the pain. But then she mentions that couples can get back together. Causing Fozzie to both [[ComicallyMissingThePoint comically]] and [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint dramatically]] think that she was pushing him to try again, cause she and Kermit never tried again. And lo and behold, he and Becky talked it out, and he came back to the show, happy to be Santa again.
** Yolanda the Rat rigs the secret Santa to give herself all the gifts cause she didn't get any last year. But once everyone finds out about it, instead of being angry, they instead offer her the gifts anyways as a way of saying sorry for leaving her out last year.
** Kermit and Miss Piggy talk through some unresolved feelings for each other just as Piggy didn't want to go on the show, thinking she was alone on Christmas now.
** All the Muppets come on to sing "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" to mask the fact their guest star Creator/MindyKaling can't sing. Even Kermit gets invited in.
** At the Bar after the show, Piggy manages to put her anger aside, hanging with Kermit and Denise so they wouldn't be alone on the holidays.
** Sam wanted Janice to kiss him under mistletoe, but got tripped up by Chip. However, at the bar afterwards, Janice said that it was sweet of him to be making a friend with Chip who isn't exactly well liked around the studio, and gives him a cheek kiss. Sam then gives a starstruck, "God bless Christmas."
* "Swine Song"
** The tweak to the opening sequence. We still see Kermit overwhelmed by his many coworkers, treats picked clean and the like, but instead of sighing at the end, Piggy brings Kermit his coffee, and Kermit with much more enthusiasm says, "Time to get things started!"
** The gang, stuck in the meeting room desperately trying to come up with new, relevant ideas, are left alone while Kermit and Piggy step outside. Left alone, they start tapping pencils or strumming fingers. After a moment, they soon break out into a percussion rendition of... what else? The theme song. Seeing this is what gives Kermit the confidence to tell Piggy they don't need some executive's ideas. They've got each other.
** Series/KeyAndPeele are forced to drop out due to some in-universe ExecutiveMeddling. To fill the void, Kermit asks Piggy to sing a song with him. And she agrees.
** Everything about [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter the penguin]] Piggy brought home from Argentina.
* After Piggy's wardrobe malfunction, a younger pig girl comes up to her backstage and wants to talk to her. Piggy initally brushes her off like she does to every other fan until she tells her she had a similar experience at school and seeing it happen to someone like Piggy inspired her and made her feel better about it. Piggy embraces her and decides to take a stand for all pigs and [[ForcedMeme #UnveilTheTail]].
** When Piggy can't do her "[[ForcedMeme #UnveilTheTail]]" stunt on her show, Kermit breaks this news to a disappointed audience.. but states that there's no rule in ''frogs'' showing off their pig tails before turning around and revealing that he has a fake pig tail on. Cue all the Muppets (and Music/JoanJett) showing off their fake pig tails.
** With the revelation as to the prejudice against pig tails, the fact that Kermit thinks this maligned feature is what makes pig women so cute becomes HeartwarmingInHindsight.
* "Got Silk?"
** Piggy spends the whole episode worried that she doesn't have a real friend. Then at the end, as Uncle Deadly is coaching her through her duet with Ingrid Michaelson, she realizes that Deadly, beneath his gruff, snarky exterior, is her one true friend.
** The whole crew showing up to Deadly's community theater play.
* Piggy's playing CoolAunt for Robin. More so since it's ''Ms. Piggy''.
* Meta example; the way the "starring" credits are arranged. In the first episode, the seven main Muppeteers are listed alphabetically, Bill Barretta first and Steve Whitmire last. In the second episode, Barretta is moved to the end of the line and Dave Goelz is credited first, and so on until Whitmire is first and the cycle starts over, basically giving all seven actors equal billing.
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* As hilarious as it is, Kermit [[StatusQuoIsGod manipulating Piggy to break up with Josh Groban]] in episode 2 has a bit of heartwarming factor to it. He doesn't play any cruel tricks, he simply relies on his knowledge of her - putting Groban's name above Piggy's on the backlot poster and merely revealing that Groban likes the idea.
* From the same episode, Bobo trying really hard to sell cookies to get his daughter a mountain bike. He succeeds when Scooter convinces him to have them sold to the Electric Mayhem (given how they're always happy... [[TheStoner "legally now"]]).
* Creator/ChristinaApplegate going along with Piggy's plan to have Scooter hit her in the face with a cake because she doesn't want him to get in trouble.
* In the middle of "Bear Left Then Bear Write", Nick Offerman calls Kermit "World's Greatest Producer" based on the fact that the latter is holding a mug with that phrase on it. The next scene is a ConfessionCam segment where Kermit talks about how Fozzie (who had left ''Up Late'' earlier in the episode to become a writer) got him that mug.
-->'''Kermit''': A few years ago, I got passed over for a job I really, really wanted. I was gonna quit the business and do something else, you know. Had a shot to go to medical school, but... turns out they just wanted to dissect me. But Fozzie wouldn't let me feel sorry for myself. He got me out of the house and stayed with me until I snapped out of it. He never let me give up. That's what a friend does, he was there to help me, but.. [[TearJerker I don't know, I guess I wasn't there to help him.]]
* Fozzie visiting Statler in the hospital with some flowers, apologizing for the T-shirt incident in the ColdOpen. While it turns out to be for naught, it's very sweet to see that Fozzie was genuinely worried about Statler's well being. Keep in mind this is one half of JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf, who take every opportunity to heckle Fozzie during the shows.
* Sam's expression as he watches Janice sing "Stay" during karaoke night.
* In "Walk The Swine", after her public embarrassment with Reese Witherspoon, instead of getting even with her, she invites to her show again to genuinely apologize to her. Granted, said apology consists of a big, expensive musical number, but it was nice for Piggy to swallow her pride and admit that she was wrong for once.
* "The Ex Factor" had quite a few heartwarming moments.
** Kermit's plate depicting his first date with Denise has a very cute kid aesthetic to it.
** Piggy getting the jewelry box for Kermit to give to Denise. While that's heartwarming in itself, it plays "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life", which had earlier been established as Kermit and Piggy's song.
** Denise's {{Adorkable}} reactions to meeting Creator/KristinChenoweth.
** To a lesser extent, the fact that, aside from one snide comment from Piggy, Kristin Chenoweth and Miss Piggy are genuinely friendly towards each other for the entirety of their interaction. This is a huge contrast from previous episodes with female guests, which all had Piggy having some sort of feud with the guest star.
* In "Pigs in a Blackout", Kermit has a talk with Rowlf in the tavern that [[CallBack easily brings to mind their duet in]] ''Film/TheMuppetMovie''.
** The ''Up Late'' working their way around the blackout that Scooter inadvertently caused.
** At the end, Kermit is revealed to have a swamp in his home. He proceeds to launch into a sweet, toned-down rendition of "Rainbow Connection". Even better is that he sings it all the way through the credits, pre-empting the typical OhCisco moment.
** Scooter accidentally referring to [[TeamDad Kermit]] as his "father" was pretty sweet as well.
** While Gonzo is typically pretty silly or cynical he's the one that talks Scooter into sticking around. Especially when he's miffed he was passed over for being in charge for the day.
* Kermit and Fozzie's heart to heart after they had a fight.
* Bobo offering (and giving) Kermit a hug after Fozzie and Becky leave in a huff.
* Gonzo going ahead with the cannon stunt, and Kermit and Gonzo celebrating it.
** Kermit's SoProudOfYou line to Gonzo fits as well.
* "Single All The Way", being a ChristmasEpisode, was full of these. For once, happy holidays means it's a time for employees to show some cheer to each other.
** Piggy gives 2 different kinds of advice to Fozzie to deal with the fact Becky broke up with him (cause he joked too much). One is to use materialism to hide the pain. But then she mentions that couples can get back together. Causing Fozzie to both [[ComicallyMissingThePoint comically]] and [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint dramatically]] think that she was pushing him to try again, cause she and Kermit never tried again. And lo and behold, he and Becky talked it out, and he came back to the show, happy to be Santa again.
** Yolanda the Rat rigs the secret Santa to give herself all the gifts cause she didn't get any last year. But once everyone finds out about it, instead of being angry, they instead offer her the gifts anyways as a way of saying sorry for leaving her out last year.
** Kermit and Miss Piggy talk through some unresolved feelings for each other just as Piggy didn't want to go on the show, thinking she was alone on Christmas now.
** All the Muppets come on to sing "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" to mask the fact their guest star Creator/MindyKaling can't sing. Even Kermit gets invited in.
** At the Bar after the show, Piggy manages to put her anger aside, hanging with Kermit and Denise so they wouldn't be alone on the holidays.
** Sam wanted Janice to kiss him under mistletoe, but got tripped up by Chip. However, at the bar afterwards, Janice said that it was sweet of him to be making a friend with Chip who isn't exactly well liked around the studio, and gives him a cheek kiss. Sam then gives a starstruck, "God bless Christmas."
* "Swine Song"
** The tweak to the opening sequence. We still see Kermit overwhelmed by his many coworkers, treats picked clean and the like, but instead of sighing at the end, Piggy brings Kermit his coffee, and Kermit with much more enthusiasm says, "Time to get things started!"
** The gang, stuck in the meeting room desperately trying to come up with new, relevant ideas, are left alone while Kermit and Piggy step outside. Left alone, they start tapping pencils or strumming fingers. After a moment, they soon break out into a percussion rendition of... what else? The theme song. Seeing this is what gives Kermit the confidence to tell Piggy they don't need some executive's ideas. They've got each other.
** Series/KeyAndPeele are forced to drop out due to some in-universe ExecutiveMeddling. To fill the void, Kermit asks Piggy to sing a song with him. And she agrees.
** Everything about [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter the penguin]] Piggy brought home from Argentina.
* After Piggy's wardrobe malfunction, a younger pig girl comes up to her backstage and wants to talk to her. Piggy initally brushes her off like she does to every other fan until she tells her she had a similar experience at school and seeing it happen to someone like Piggy inspired her and made her feel better about it. Piggy embraces her and decides to take a stand for all pigs and [[ForcedMeme #UnveilTheTail]].
** When Piggy can't do her "[[ForcedMeme #UnveilTheTail]]" stunt on her show, Kermit breaks this news to a disappointed audience.. but states that there's no rule in ''frogs'' showing off their pig tails before turning around and revealing that he has a fake pig tail on. Cue all the Muppets (and Music/JoanJett) showing off their fake pig tails.
** With the revelation as to the prejudice against pig tails, the fact that Kermit thinks this maligned feature is what makes pig women so cute becomes HeartwarmingInHindsight.
* "Got Silk?"
** Piggy spends the whole episode worried that she doesn't have a real friend. Then at the end, as Uncle Deadly is coaching her through her duet with Ingrid Michaelson, she realizes that Deadly, beneath his gruff, snarky exterior, is her one true friend.
** The whole crew showing up to Deadly's community theater play.
* Piggy's playing CoolAunt for Robin. More so since it's ''Ms. Piggy''.
* Meta example; the way the "starring" credits are arranged. In the first episode, the seven main Muppeteers are listed alphabetically, Bill Barretta first and Steve Whitmire last. In the second episode, Barretta is moved to the end of the line and Dave Goelz is credited first, and so on until Whitmire is first and the cycle starts over, basically giving all seven actors equal billing.
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