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Muppets from Space
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Muppets From Space is a 1999 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 Jim Henson'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 Muppets Tonight 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 (though Kermit's Swamp Years & It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie arrived on home video & NBC respectively in 2002).In this film, the Muppets are living communally in an old house (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 an anonymous government agency headed by Jeffrey Tambor, and nearly being dissected by a (Muppet) Mad Scientist, it takes a while before Gonzo finally gets to meet his space-brethren.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 next theatrically released film would not come for another twelve years!Within the Muppets continuity as a whole, Gonzo has stated that the concept of him being an alien was just made up for this movie. | |
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Aliens Speaking English | |
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Aliens Speaking English: Gonzo's family all speak English. | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: A mild case, as Gonzo's friends openly doubt his claims that he's from outer space. Granted, Gonzo's an oddball, but he is the only "whatever" they've ever seen before. Not to mention his alien status is being doubted in a world full of talking frogs, pigs, bears and rats. | |
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Totem Pole Trench | |
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While in a Totem Pole Trench, Kermit and Pepe address the other COVNET doctors by nodding and saying "Doctor... doctor..." | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Done a bit more low-key than in other Muppet movies, but they're still here—Andie MacDowell as Shelley Snipes, Rob Schneider as her producer, Josh Charles as a C.O.V.N.E.T. agent, David Arquette as a sadistic scientist, Hulk Hogan (in his "Hollywood Hogan" phase), Ray Liotta and Kathy Griffin as C.O.V.N.E.T. security guards, Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes as their Dawson's Creek characters, and, in Gonzo's nightmare, F. Murray Abraham as Noah. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Gonzo and Rizzo, though it's a subversion since they're more prominent characters this time around. Rizzo and Pepe fit this as well, especially during the scene where they trick Gonzo into thinking the aliens called upon him to build a Jacuzzi. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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It did get a brief Mythology Gag in The Muppets (2011), 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 The Muppet Show, he addresses the crowd of baffled onlookers as "People of Earth!", likely as a nod to his alien heritage. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Pepe has one, okay? | |
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Trust Me, I'm an X | |
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Trust Me, I'm an X: When Ed, examining Gonzo, notices that Gonzo has no nostrils, he asks, "How do you smell?" To which Rizzo the Rat responds, "Awful. Trust me, I'm his roommate." | |
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Say Your Prayers | |
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Say Your Prayers: Played for Laughs when Rizzo is terrified as the alien starship lands, and prays, reminding God that he never carried the plague, not even once! | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: Parodied. When Ed's boss realizes he's gone off the deep end and terminates his employment, Ed is visibly nervous about the word choice. | |
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Angry Item Tapping | |
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Angry Item Tapping: Played for Laughs when the COVNET lab rats put off their own escape and return to help Rizzo save Gonzo from being experimented on, lead rat Bubba gives the musophobic Mad Scientist a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner while tapping his palm with a cotton swab. | |
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Recursive Reality | |
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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 this was also a film. | |
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Minion with an F in Evil: Bobo. Justified, in that the facility they work at is a legitimate military intelligence organization and his boss has gone off the deep end. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: It's never quite explained how or why Gonzo got separated from his alien brethren and ended up on Earth. | |
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Stay with the Aliens | |
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Stay with the Aliens: Ed goes with the Gonzo aliens after they make him ambassador to their planet because they find him amusing. | |
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Brainwashed | |
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Brainwashed: Miss Piggy is given a container of a spray that will make people cater to her every whim. | |
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Lobotomy | |
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Lobotomy: It nearly happens to Gonzo. The man attempting to perform the lobotomy is a classic Mad Scientist. | |
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Bedtime Brainwashing | |
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Bedtime Brainwashing: Pepe and Rizzo use this and a fan to get Gonzo to build a jacuzzi. | |
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Little Green Men | |
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Little Green Men: A kid mistakes Kermit for one of these. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Ed and Bobo, though Bobo wasn't all that bad to start. Dr. Phil van Neuter ends up befriending the lab rats, having been beaten into submission by them. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: Look closely at the newspaper Kermit reads- it's the "Hensonville News Observer". | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: K. Edgar Singer. Initial, "Edgar", name of domestic appliance company, in reference to J. Edgar Hoover. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Fozzie, as per usual. This time, it was going to the bathroom, and washing his hands while wearing invisibility spray, while sneaking around in a heavily guarded compound. Kermit realizes this, and the first thing he says is "Tell me you didn't wash your hands." His mom tells him to always wash his hands after going to the bathroom, "no exceptions". | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "R U THERE", the message that Gonzo's people use to contact him throughout the film. C.O.V.N.E.T's global surveillance reveals that the message has been etched/scrawled/written into various landmarks across the world, including the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, The Great Wall of China, and the Hills of California (in the style of the Hollywood Sign). | |
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No One Gets Left Behind | |
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No One Gets Left Behind: Kermit gives this speech to the team just prior to rescuing Gonzo... and then Fozzie tells him they just left Bunsen and Beaker at the gas station. | |
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BFG | |
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BFG: "The Really Big Gun" that Ed uses at the climax ...which Bobo disarms before Ed ever gets to fire it. | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The Muppets appear to live in the town of "Hensonville" (as evidenced by the newspaper Kermit's seen reading, the "Hensonville News Observer"), but a definitive location isn't given. When Singer points out the pattern of "R U THERE" messages early on, he notes it forms into a spiral pattern; the spiral seems to end somewhere in North Carolina (which is likely because the film was shot in Wilmington NC, making it a case of Creator Provincialism) | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: In-universe example, when Gonzo is puzzled why he was instructed to build a Jacuzzi. Rizzo and Pepe (who conned him into doing it) just start laughing. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: From Pepe when Rizzo thinks he has left them behind at the lab, and calls him a "shrimp": | |
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Parental Bonus | |
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The score being comprised of 70's funk makes some wonder if Parental Bonus was the direction a family-friendly Muppet film was supposed to go. 'Brickhouse' is played over the Muppets waking up and getting ready for the day, but only in reference to how they live in a brick house. A few Muppets say uncharacteristic 70's one-liners, such as Kermit's "Way to get down with your bad selves." Even the poster on the top of this page has the tagline "The Ultimate Muppet Trip." | |
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Cerebus Retcon | |
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Cerebus Retcon: All those one off gags about Gonzo being a "Whatever" are looked at here in a more dramatic light. | |
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One-Shot Character | |
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One-Shot Character: The way things are now (as of 2014, after the release of Muppets Most Wanted), it seems likely that this film will be Clifford's only appearance in a theatrically-released Muppet movie. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
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The Bus Came Back: Scooter makes his first appearance since Richard Hunt’s death back in 1992. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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The girl dancing on the beach and baring her midriff, causing Sam the Eagle (of all characters!) to watch her with a slackjawed expression. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: In a world where several humanoid animals co-exist with humans as equals, Rizzo comes to Covnet with Gonzo and Edgar has him get sent to the rat testing labs like a prisoner, and Edgar later gets Rentro, a bear who serves as his assistant, to reveal what he overheard by threatening to send him to the petting zoo or circus. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: Unlike most Muppet movies, this one focuses more on Gonzo, than on Kermit. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "DON'T! ...LAUGH! ...AT ME!" | |
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Canon Discontinuity | |
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Canon Discontinuity: According to The Muppet Show Comic Book. This is likely not so much because of the quality of the movie though, more just for actually resolving what Gonzo is (and the fact it's a Muppet movie Disney doesn't own). It did get a brief Mythology Gag in The Muppets (2011), 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 The Muppet Show, 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 this was also a film. | |
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Dream Intro | |
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Dream Intro: The film opens with Gonzo's dream wherein he is denied passage on Noah's ark since there is only one of him on Earth. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: 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. The closest he gets to karma is the fact that he likely became unemployed after the company is terminated by the government. | |
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I Choose to Stay | |
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I Choose to Stay: Gonzo doesn't go "home" to his planet, but stays on his adopted home, Earth. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: The girl dancing on the beach and baring her midriff, causing Sam the Eagle (of all characters!) to watch her with a slackjawed expression. Kathy Griffin in a security guard uniform. | |
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Noodle Implements | |
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Noodle Implements: Gonzo tells Rizzo he had "that weird dream again," and Rizzo asks if it's "the one with the goat and the dwarf and the jar of peanut butter." | |
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The Ark | |
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The Ark: The movie begins with Gonzo having a nightmare about Noah refusing to let him onto the ark because he can't identify his species. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Don't laugh at Ed. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Gonzo after he wakes up from the nightmare about Noah denying him entrance to the ark. Gonzo again at the end of the film when Singer is going to kill him and his family. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: The reason why Gonzo doesn't leave Earth to be with his alien family. The Muppets, for all intents and purposes, are his family, and he just can't bear to leave them. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: You'd think Camilla, Gonzo's decades-long girlfriend, would be a major player in a movie about Gonzo being reunited with his alien family and potentially leaving the planet forever, but the chicken is nowhere to be seen. | |
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It Runs in the Family | |
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It Runs in the Family: 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 Sesame Street video game. | |
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Brain Theft | |
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Brain Theft: The government threatens to suck Gonzo's brain out with a huge machine that is like a cross between a drill and a vacuum cleaner (and is big enough to require a cart). Cue Gonzo screaming "NOOOOOO! I NEED MY BRAIN!" | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: To Independence Day when Dr. Phil van Neuter tries to remove Gonzo's brain. The Big Bad marches his superior officer into an observation room and raises the shades — to reveal a lab filled with smoke and rats running rampant, before the surgeon is slammed face-first into the window: And earlier in the movie, one to Field of Dreams when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come ... build a jacuzzi and we will come, okay?!" And at the film's climax, the Star Trek theme can be heard when Ed agrees to leave with the aliens. Speaking of Trek, there was also the group of aliens descending in their craft to meet humans for the first time, and earlier still, the gang had to escape from a medical facility after saving their friend from imminent brain surgery. Pacey and Joey from Dawson's Creek show up on the beach chatting with Pepe and Clifford; Pacey laments that Dawson would love it. The escape hole Rizzo has concealed behind a poster in the science lab is a nod to The Shawshank Redemption. The beacon that the aliens send down ahead of their ship looks a heck of a lot like a certain alien egg. While in a Totem Pole Trench, Kermit and Pepe address the other COVNET doctors by nodding and saying "Doctor... doctor..." | |
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Armies Are Evil | |
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Armies Are Evil: Mostly because Ed's organization are dedicated to deal with alien invasions. | |
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You, Get Me Coffee | |
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You, Get Me Coffee: Miss Piggy's job at the UFO Mania before using Mind Rape to get anchor Shelley Snipes to do it. | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
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You Are Not Alone: The whole premise. On two levels: Gonzo finds out there are others like him, and at the end Gonzo realizes although he's "one of a kind" on earth he still has his Muppet family. | |
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The Cake Is a Lie | |
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The Cake Is a Lie: Just before the rats escape they're confronted by the scientist. | |
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Alone Among Families | |
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Alone Among Families: Looking at photos of the other Muppets, Gonzo notices that each of his friends has relatives, whereas his photo is of him standing all alone, way off on the distance. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Pepe is not a shrimp. He is a king prawn, okay? | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Gonzo was set to perform at a bar mitzvah but, not feeling up to it, he gets the Electric Mayhem to sub for him instead. Kermit takes notice. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Miss Piggy on the unlucky Man in Black. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: The villain is named K. Edgar Singer and one of the lab rats is named Fast Eddie. And both get referred to as Ed at least once. | |
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IncrediblyLamePun | |
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Sam the Eagle's line about how there are only Americans in the house has got to be a reference to illegal aliens. | |
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Expospeak Gag | |
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Expospeak Gag: The sub-atomic neutro-destabilizer. In other words, "the really big gun," for those who are intellectually impaired, like Rentro. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Bunsen and Beaker apparently have no ill will over the gang accidentally leaving them behind at the gas station. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: This is a Columbia Pictures movie, after all. The government agency's monitors are Sony television screens. The product placement is so shameless they don't even bother covering the logo from of the sets! Beaker is seen holding a bag of Fritos. | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: Bunsen and Beaker accidentally get left at a gas station on the gang's way to rescue Gonzo. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Gonzo keeps asking if his people look like anything other than what he looks like. | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: Gonzo chooses to stay with his friends instead of his family, who he's only known for a short time. | |
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If It Was Funny the First Time... | |
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If It Was Funny the First Time...: Statler and Waldorf's 'life on other planets' exchange quoted at the bottom of the page was originally done on The Muppet Show years earlier. Statler groans and screws up his face after he laughs for a moment, possibly remembering that this isn't the first time he's suckered himself in this specific manner... | |
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Skyward Scream | |
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Skyward Scream: "I DON'T WANNA BE ALOOOOONE!" | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: 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. A smaller example occurs earlier in the movie. After the opening sequence, Kermit explains to Robin that he is hiring some house painters. A few scenes later, Clifford tells Kermit that the house painters are here… and are leaving because Animal bit one of them. Much later, Kermit is shown having to paint the house himself. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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DVD Commentary | |
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DVD Commentary: A fun example, as director Tim Hill is joined by Gonzo and Rizzo. They spend as much time doing a MST3K style riff or absurd in-universe stories as they do actual commentary, complete with the signature silhouettes. To make it even funnier, Kermit is initially with them, but leaves to get popcorn and doesn't return until the end of the film; he explains that on his way back, he accidentally entered the wrong DVD and ended up in a commentary for The Phantom Menace. It took him until the very end of that movie to realize that he'd mistaken Jar Jar Binks for Gonzo, prompting him to return to the correct DVD. | |
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