Basic Trope: The Muppets making appearances in non-Muppet works.
- Straight: Kermit the Frog makes an appearance in an episode of "Tropers".
- Exaggerated: The entire cast of The Muppet Show makes an appearance.
- Downplayed: Kermit the Frog does appear, but only as a Funny Background Event or other cameo.
- Justified:
- The characters in "Tropers" are fans of The Muppets, and wanted Kermit to make an appearance.
- Tropers takes place at Elstree Studios during the late 70's, it's only natural that they'll encounter an episode of The Muppet Show being prepped.
- Inverted: "Sesame Street" Cred
- Subverted: "Kermit" is revealed to be someone in disguise.
- Double Subverted: That "someone" would be Fozzie Bear.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Muppets don't make any cameos in "Tropers".
- Enforced:
- "Tropers" is owned by Disney or The Jim Henson Company (or a division of it), and so a cameo from Muppets would be pretty much expected.
- The creators of "Tropers" are fans of The Muppets and wanted them to make an appearance.
- The episode teaches about puppeteering techniques, with Jim and Kermit demonstrating one of them.
- A Muppets outdoor scene was being shot close to where an outdoor scenes for "Tropers" was being shot at the same time. note
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "Hey, Kermit the Frog is on this show!"
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Horror: The protagonist of "Tropers" is really Constantine in disguise, luring Kermit into a trap so he can kill him.
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