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- All the spoof trailers, but especially the one that makes it out to be a typical cheesy romantic comedy, until they start listing the cast...Gary: Wait, wait, wait, stop, STOP. Are there Muppets in this movie?!
- The original songs contain awkward or out-of-place lyrics that fans of Flight of the Conchords will be familiar with.Mary: It's never me and him. It's always me and him... and him!
- Only Gonzo would give his plumbing factory a Self-Destruct Mechanism. Triggered by a Big Red Button. Labeled, "Automatic Destroy Plumbing Business Button."Fozzie: Wow, that was an expensive-looking explosion. I can't believe we had that in the budget.
- Even better, the explosion is completely offscreen, implying that they didn't have the budget for it.
- Fart shoes. Widely hated by most characters and intended to be by the audience as well, but like all of Fozzie's jokes, Walter finds even the fart shoes hilarious.
- Mary and her fixation on wishing Gary would propose to her after 10 years together. She's so completely dramatic about it.
- During the "Man Or A Muppet" number, Gary and Walter sing about being at the crossroads of their lives and about how they need to choose whether they're "men or Muppets." In Gary's reflection, there is a Muppet version of him. In Walter's reflection, the audience expects to see the human version of him played by a live actor, and, apparently, get... Jim Parsons.
- The fact that Parsons' role was kept secret until the film's release is pretty impressive.
- Even better, Parsons walks in as Walter's reflection with a look that says "What the HECK am I doing here?" before he sings.
- "Muppet Man." And it works.Miss Piggy: (hard triple-headdesk) I can't believe I fell for "Muppet Man!"
- When Rowlf complains that he wasn't included in the Time-Compression Montage ('I thought my story was pretty interesting'), we see what he was doing: Taking a nap in a hammock.Kermit: Rowlf.
Rowlf: . . . Huh?
Kermit: Wanna get back together?
Rowlf: Okay.
Kermit: [nodding] Great.- And immediately after:
Rowlf: [chuckling and shaking his head, clearly believing it to be Awesome] Classic. - The credits sequence has Kermit and Miss Piggy taking time to step out of the limelight; more specifically, how it gets on the news.Miss Piggy: I'm so happy for us, Kermie! Let's share our happiness with the top 10 news publications!
- When Kermit comes out, an angelic choir seems to be singing... and then it turns out a gospel choir bus was driving by.
- Walter's Edward G. Robinson impression.Mary: ... do people still talk like that?
- Walter urges Kermit to bring back the Muppets: 'you give people the greatest gift that can ever be given!'Kermit: Children?
Walter: No - the other gift.
Kermit: (thinking hard) Ice cream?
Walter: No, no. After that!
Kermit: ... Laughter?
Walter: Yes! The third-greatest gift ever!- This is turned into a Brick Joke during the Triumphant Reprise of "Life's a Happy Song":Scooter: And we'll be giving the world the third-greatest gift...
Fozzie: Laughter!
- This is turned into a Brick Joke during the Triumphant Reprise of "Life's a Happy Song":
- Tex Richman does a rap. No, really. And it's actually good!Tex Richman: The answer is no.
Kermit: Well, you could have just said that.- And it's a sing-along. With a bouncing ball! And said bouncing ball is gold with a dollar sign, just to further hammer in the point that yes, Tex Richman is rich.
- With Las Vegas dancers for a chorus!
- Watch them when Tex ushers them out of the song: they all switch off long before he shuts the door, one of them drinking something, another eating a bag of chips, and another one texting on her phone.
- The Barber Shop Quartet scene where Beaker pops up with an axe, and the rest of the Muppets just stare at him awkwardly. The song they're doing is Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". That was great, when they hold up towels with the lyrics Beaker's says "MEE MEE MEE MO" on it.
- Scooter has an attack of nerves when he has to suddenly MC in Kermit's place. Kermit advises him to do what Kermit does: Imagine the Audience Naked.Scooter: (stuttering and nervous) Y-y-y-y-YOU'RE ALL NAKED. (cut to shot of the audience in boxers and tank tops) ... Well, almost.
- Beauregard has apparently been cleaning one closet of the Muppet Theater the entire time since the show ended, and never realized they all left!Beauregard: Scooter! Good to see you! Where's everybody been?
(Scooter gives an aside glance to the audience) - Walter's epic scream montage.
- In the TV spot, Mary asked Gary if they could go grab lunch while waiting for Walter to silence.
- The Moopets (a tribute band of the Muppets from Reno, all with two O's in their name (Animool, Kermoot, Janooce, Miss Poogy, etc;)). Over the top, loud and mean. Foozie is Fozzie with a beanie, wifebeater and an extremely deep Scary Black Man voice. "Wokka wokka..."
- Also the fact that all of them are Muppet-style puppets, except for Animool, who is just Dave Grohl in a half-assed Animal costume.
- Miss Poogy is hired to play Miss Piggy's part when Piggy refuses to return to the show. Poogy sounds like she smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day, and when Miss Piggy meets her and tells her to get out, she looks downstairs before settling on calling her "sister", clearly unsure if a voice that hoarse could ever belong to a woman.
- The group is all cramped and piled on one side of the car when they finally arrive at a theatre venue and we pan to Miss Poogy enthusiastically sharpening a switchblade. "Why is everyone acting so QUIET?!!!"
- 80's Robot has many moments:
- When he looks up where Fozzie is with his modem... which promptly loudly screeches and tortures everyone in the car. Cue Kermit, Walter, Gary, and Mary covering their ears, with this line from Gary:"Oh, stop it! In the name of all that's sacred, let it end!"
- "Would you like some Tab or New Coke?"
- "Not now, 80s Robot."
- When he looks up where Fozzie is with his modem... which promptly loudly screeches and tortures everyone in the car. Cue Kermit, Walter, Gary, and Mary covering their ears, with this line from Gary:
- Crazy Harry being so out of practice he blew himself up instead of the dynamite.
- Jack Black, who spends his appearance on the telethon tied to a chair because the Muppets kidnapped him.
- Especially the Barbershop Quartet number where he's both unhappy it's a barbershop quartet but actually starts complaining when they perform "Smells Like Teen Spirit".Jack Black: You're ruining one of the greatest songs of all time!
- And then they shrink his head.
- Also right after the Muppets kidnap him.Piggy: You inspire them, Kermie.
Kermit: I inspire them to kidnap people!?
Piggy: To work together!
Kermit: To kidnap people!? - Also right after the kidnapping, we get this little exchange.Fozzie: But, Kermit, which is more illegal? Briefly inconveniencing Jack Black, or destroying the Muppets?
Kermit: KIDNAPPING JACK BLACK, FOZZIE! - And then there's this line:Lew Zealand: Mister The Frog, we all agreed a celebrity is not a people.
- Especially the Barbershop Quartet number where he's both unhappy it's a barbershop quartet but actually starts complaining when they perform "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
- Punch Teacher. Especially the executives wondering why they were being sued over it.
- The blink-and-you'll-miss-it joke that cuts away from the punched teacher lamenting "I just wanted to make a difference!"
- Very subtle joke: Punch Teacher has a 120-minute programming slot.
- An Easter Egg on the Blu-Ray shows an extended version of the scene, capped off with Mary looking shocked.
- The Swedish Chef's lyrics in the sentimental "Pictures In My Head": complete gibberish slotted into an otherwise serious song with subtitles containing Latin, crossed-out "O"s!
- Made funnier by the fact that the swedish language doesn't even use that letter - Danish does! But the chef has confused Denmark and Sweden before.
- The Muppets' initial audience being a single hobo named Hobo Joe and his fire, as well as Joe's vocal displeasure at the Muppets saying there's no one in the audience, as well as some of his friends joining him and carrying Jack Black off as their king at the end.
- "Travel by map." Cue the visual of the cast as a line moving across the map traveling from LA to Paris... and it being how they actually got there, in just seconds time.
- Neil Patrick Harris in the telethon box. "No, I don't know why I'm not hosting this."
- Kermit's reaction to Whoopi Goldberg, Selena Gomez and Modern Family star Rico Rodriguez entering the telethon, as well as Selena and Rico having no idea who the Muppets are.Selena: I don't know who you guys are. I'm here 'cause my agent told me to come.
Rico: Are you one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Kermit: ...yyyyes I am! Now let me show you how you can help! - As Miss Piggy prepares the kidnapping of Jack Black:
- During the cleaning montage, the Swedish Chef finds the refrigerator filled with mold and filth... some of it moving. What does our favorite Muppet Chef do? Why, use a flamethrower to clean out the filth, of course.Swedish Chef: Seehurloodurrmurrleedlefrind!
- Even funnier is how the reason they were moving is because they were Anthropomorphic Food in the first place, who must have been waiting for the Chef to take them out for years.
- The Suspiciously Specific Denial about Tex Richman's Heel–Face Turn not being caused by his head injury.
- The song "Me Party," mainly because of the restaurant patrons' complete and total obliviousness to Mary's song and dance.
- Piggy sings this with a table of talking Muppet food in her dressing room including a lot of pastries. Why is the food there? 1.) Because she's lonely, and 2.) she's a pig!
- The ending of "Life's a Happy Song," where, as soon as Gary, Mary, and Walter leave on the bus, a man in the crowd lets out a relieved "They're gone!" and the crowd collapses.
- Also during this song we get Willie Nelson singing "Life is full of highs" and a couple of fishmongers singing that "Life is a fillet of fish, hey!" to which Walter and Gary can only reply with "...yes it is!"
- The second performance has Tex Richman loudly remind everyone that they sang it already. Nobody seems to care.
- After you watch the telethon, you realize that it's very much exactly like how a regular episode of The Muppet Show would play out, save maybe for Jack Black being tied to a chair and doing nothing but complaining, and the money counter hanging throughout! It takes up nearly the same amount of time as a regular episode in the course of the film too, even though in-universe, it takes up two hours!
- Even funnier when you realize that Jack Black isn't the first guest star to be tied to a chair.Jack Black: I'm being held captive by these weirdos!
Statler: Now you know how we've felt for the past forty years!
- Even funnier when you realize that Jack Black isn't the first guest star to be tied to a chair.
- Tex Richman is incapable of laughing, so instead of doing an Evil Laugh he just yells "Maniacal laugh!"
- At the end, Gary finally proposes to Mary and she replies:"Mahna-mahna."
- Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
- Also a Stealth Pun, if you listen closely.
- When Gary, Mary, and Walter start looking for Kermit:Mary: How do we find Kermit? Nobody's seen him in years.
(the gang passes a man selling Hot Star Maps in front of Pink's Hot Dogs)
Walter: (gasps) Wait, stop the car! I have an idea.
(cut to the trio eating some chili dogs)
Gary: These are delicious! Great idea, Walter.- According to the commentary, this was the first scene written.
- Every second Emily Blunt, parodying her turn in The Devil Wears Prada, appears on screen.
- Animal's therapy session, which thanks to the Muppets showing up turns into an all-out brawl thanks to some unfortunate trigger words.
- When Gary, Mary and Walter arrive at Kermit's house and find it locked, Walter tells Gary to throw him over. Mary tries to stop them because she sees wires and thinks it's an electric fence, but Walter can't believe Kermit would have such a thing. He gets electrocuted for his troubles.
- As typical for Muppet productions, the outtakes are hilarious.
- The outtakes of Zach Galifinakis ad-libbing with the homeless Muppets. "New hobo, eh?"
- Miss Piggy getting hair in her face mid line and trying to blow it away.
- During a take with Walter, Gary and Mary in the car, Walter accidentally gets his hand stuck in the car seat.
- Dr. Strangepork accidentally brushes against Kermit.
Kermit: I just got a pig ear in my mouth.- Walter pounding on Kermit's door and sobbing dramatically.
- Uncle Deadly falling over in Richman's office.
- After Mary says, "It's time to meet the Muppets", an offscreen voice casually mentions that Walter is on fire. Walter immediately exclaims "Ah! I'm burning!"
- Fozzie's rubber chickens are named Fran and Louise, in reference to female Henson puppeteers Fran Brill and Louise Gold.
- Steve Whitmire flubbing a line and accidentally calling 80's Robot "Raidies Robot".
- Scooter kissing Kermit on the cheek is sweet and funny.
