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Alright so... I work a video store (actually tomorrow I found out if I'm manager... which will be awesome cause it's a small mom and pops place) but anyway since we can only watch G or PG movies during the day I decided to have a muppets marathon today. And while every movie is great by them I wanted to know:

a) Does anyone else here have a special place in their heart for the muppets (for me the muppets and the Marx Brothers both have a small spot in my heart)?

b) What's you're favorite Muppet movie

c) What's you're favorite muppet moment?

for me b = The Muppet Movie and c = In Muppets Take Manhattan when Kermit and Piggy are arguing and there's a random guy adding in little comments here and there such as "were you giving another women huggies?!"

And I thought I was the only one......... :smile:

I'm partial to Muppet Treasure Island (Kermit with the tattoo on his chest cracks me up every time) and Muppets from Space, because I loved the soundtrack.

As to my favorite moment, any and all involving the Swedish chef.

I love the original Muppet Movie.  Muppet Christmas Carol is also great.  I have Muppets from Space but I haven't watched it yet.  Never seen the Treasure Island one either.

i saw these when I was a kid.  They all kinda seemed the same.

My favorite Muppet moment is actually from the show, the episode with Mark Hamill in it.  At one point, a Scottish Muppet (I think he was Scottish, his name was something like Angus) who "gargles Gershwin" starts doing his thing on stage.  Mark Hamill joins him and soon you have both of them doing it.  Kermit is standing offstage, shaking his head at the mess.  Then, Kermit notices Animal walking behind him.  He taps Animal and says, "Animal, go SIC 'EM!"  Animal's eyebrows fly up to the top of his forehead and he charges at the two gargling idiots.

You might have to see it for full effect, but that scene makes me howl every time.

I always loved The Muppet Show. We bought the season 1 dvds and have gotten through most of them in a couple of marathons. We're waiting for later season releases.

As far as the movies go, I saw The Muppet Movie about nine or ten times in the theater and own the dvd. There are too many moments to list, but one of my favorites is Fozzy's line about a bear in his natural habitat: a Studebaker.

The other Muppet movies I've seen just don't capture the magic of the first one for me. They just seem to be mediocre. I haven't seen The Muppet Treasure Island or The Muppet Wizard of Oz, so I can't say anything about them. It just seems that without Jim Henson, they aren't quite the same.

I think I've only seen one or two muppet movies.  They're good, but I prefer the TV show.  Too many good points to pick just one.

Actually another Muppet favorite of mine is the Muppet Family Christmas where they all go to Fozzie Bear's Grandmother's house and the Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock Crew join them

 :smile: I've always liked the Muppets, not only from the show itself, but also the movies, especially The Muppet Movie and The Muppet Christmas Carol with Sir Michael Caine as a truly vile Scrooge. Sesame Street charmed me as a kid, and I can still be called upon to provide a shout of "Mmmmm, cooooookie!" when asked.  :teddyr:

What I've always liked about them are that the Muppets are not out of place with the humans and vice versa, also that once you like them as a kid, you want to pass that on to your kids. Also, the Muppets appeal to all age groups and talk down to neither. I remember bawling my eyes out when I heard that Jim Henson passed away ~ in the words of one of his fans: "He was a very good talented teacher." Yes, he was.

Rest in peace, Jim ~ we will always see you in your creations.  :smile:

I like the first couple of movies, hate the third one, and have only seen parts of the later ones, I did like what I saw of Muppets Christmas Carol.

But much like Monty Python, I prefer the TV series to the films as a whole. The Muppet Show just clicked for me in a different way. I think part of it was the guest stars. I saw some episodes after years of not seeing them a few years ago (Hallmark was rerunning them early in the morning. They still held up and I got jokes that I didn't as a kid. Kermit's continued frustration at the trouble of putting on a show every week, Scooter's tireless optimism, Animal's wild antics and how they could be put to good use at times, the Swedish Chef, Sam the Eagle's party pooper/stick in the mud nature conflicting with the others' sense of fun and his boosterism of the forever annoying Wayne and Wanda, Fozzie's pathetic attempts to perform, Ralph's eternal coolness, Gonzo's interspecies (hell interplanetary) love of chickens, etc.

Plus the show introduced my young mind to Spike Milligan, showed me that Peter Sellers was more than just the guy from the Pink Panther films

I think the other thing that's great about the muppets is that it's designed so that everyone has a muppet they can relate to. One of the best things I ever found on Ebay was a burned DVD of the "Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson" special and it's impossible for me to watch it and not cry. I think that besides maybe Mr. Roger's you can't find a more wholesome and humble person

My favorite moment... Well, I think it was on the show when they did a the news sketch and the anchor announced that hunting season had opened.  The next thing you heard was a gun shot followed by a duck falling onto the desk. 

Later on in the show, the same news anchor announces that opera season had opened.  Right after that, another gunshot fired off and this time a stereotypical overweight valkyrie falls onto the desk.

As for my favorite movie, I think either the original or The Great Muppet Caper.

One of my favourite memories with Muppets in it came from a rebroadcast episode of Sesame Street where Cookie Monster is staying over with Ernie and this mirrors the real problem that kids sometimes have when they sleep in unfamiliar places and so forth.

Cookie dreams that he is being attacked by cookies, he wakes up and Ernie tries to convince him that he just had a bad dream and that he should go back to sleep. The dialogue went something like this:

Cookie: "Me had bad, bad dream."

Ernie: "It's OK now, you can go back to sleep."

Cookie: (frightened) "Oh no, no, no!"

Ernie: "It's alright, you can go back to sleep. As a matter of fact, I have something to help you do that."

Cookie: (breathing heavily) "Oh, what dat?"

Ernie (hands Cookie a plate of cookies) "Cookies!"

Cookie (freaks) "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! No cookie! No cookie!" (Runs straight through the door, leaving a Cookie Monster sized hole)  :teddyr:

Ernie: "Cookie Monster afraid of cookies? I don't believe that."

Cookie (returns and pokes head through hole) "Me no can believe it either!!"(chows all the cookies)  :smile: :bouncegiggle: :teddyr: :smile: :bouncegiggle: :teddyr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MrXdaxbvwo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MrXdaxbvwo)

Weezer's Keep Fishin' video ... just like a classic Muppet Show!

The Muppets Take Manhattan!

I was late in coming to the Muppets. And, actually, it was my younger sister who introduced me to them, when we attended a Muppet exhibition at one of the museums in the L.A. area. And sometime after that, I got interested in them and started watching everything they did.

My favorite moment, and few people have seen it, is a show, starring the Muppets, that occurs on Disney Cruise Line. A show, that apparently occurs, only on the longer cruises. In this show, Kermit and Fonzie have taken over the ship's entertainment, despite some heckling from Statler and Waldorf. Miss Piggy has taken over one of the ship's suites, and no one has seen her except the masseurs from the ship's spa and the waiters from room service. The Swedish Chef has taken over the ship's galley. And Animal has taken over the steering of the ship, with some help from the ship's captain.

A wonderful show that features clips from some of the episodes from their television show and some of their movies. And it gives you a look at some of the ship's crew members, who you would not normally see, such as the engine crew, as the come on--on film--at the end of the show and sing "The Rainbow Connection" with the Muppets.

But, the supreme moment of show, has to be when the ship's cruise director comes on--dressed as a chicken--for part of the show.

I love the muppets and have been a lifelong fan.  Watching my son watch Sesame Street now brings back a lot of fond memories. 

For the Muppet Show I love Miss Piggy simply because a pig who thinks shes beautiful is funny on it's own.  Its that wonderful attitude that truly does her justice.  Statler and Waldorf always made me laugh.  Kermit is one of my all time favorites too.

Sesame Street, Oscar is my idol.  I also admire Bert's nerdiness.  For newer characters I think Baby Bear is funny due to his speech impediment.

Alot of people, who saw it, didn't like it. I did, though. My favorite moment is, paraphrasing here, when someone asked one of the Muppets, who they were, they said: "We're friends of Dorothy." Which sentence can be taken more then one way.

I was obsessed with the muppets for the longest time (that includes The Sesame Street Muppets). Can't choose a favorite film or moment. Jim Henson was amazing. R.I.P. Jim

I am a huge Muppet fan.  I love the original show and "Muppets Tonight".  My favorite movie has to be the original and I have too many favorite clips.  I love the episode with Elton John just because he is so...himself.  I also like the "Muppets Tonight" episode with Sandra Bullock.  "Phenomenon!"

God I love them, Judd Winnick lets the Protagonist in The Barry Ween Comics say about them:
"Socks with Attitude. God Bless Jim Henson." and  he really is  right about that.

Harry Belafonte first Performed the Banan Boat song on the show on Fozzy asks "What's a Taliman?" Nobody ever would.

And Gonzo is a more versatle actor than the most real ones and I was always eger as a Kid to see the trumpet sketch in the Beginning.

And I like the Beginning best, it had a great song,interesting characters and more promise than any other show intro.

And regarding the movies I always thought Tim Curry to be a Muppet (great Honour) and he was a great Pirate.

Oh and I forgot this beautiful Indie production
of a Frog, a pig and an animal whch go lost in the woods searchimg for ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyfz2DFZ9OA

The Muppet Show season 2 is coming out 8/7/2007!!!

Just thought I'd let you know.

I lived for the Muppet show when I was a kid.   There are dozens of good moments there.  My favorite movie moments are from the Muppet Movie.
1) The Ice cream man- Bob HOpe wasn't it?  Fozzie ordered Honey ice cream, and Kermit got Grasshopper ripple. 
2) the Frog Killer- Some guy in a wetsuit and a bandoleer of frog gigs.

Have you looked a the number of cameos in the first two films? Not to mention the guest list on the show
-Ed

Yes, Bob Hope was the ice cream vendor in "The Muppets Movie." I'll add that "The Muppets Movie" was the first
Muppet movie I saw, and for that reason or not, it is my least favorite of the Muppet movies.

One from the Muppet Movie:
James Coburn comes flying through the doors of a seedy saloon, and lands in a filthy gutter:  "That bar is the lousiest, crummiest, dirtiest garbage pit on the face of the Earth!!!"
Kermit, passing by with Fozzie:  "Uh, then why do you go there?"
Coburn:  "I'm the owner!!"
One from the TV show:
The entire skit with John Cleese playing a very terrible/ineffectual pirate, foiled at every attempt to be wicked by quizzical Muppets.
peter johnson/denny crane

:bouncegiggle: :buggedout: :thumbup:
I used to watch the Muppet's when they had their TV show on CBS. Favorite movie was the Treasure Island one with Tim Currey, of all people, and favorite moment was when I was given Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem poster when I was thirteen. Yes, I'm that old. Besides getting rooked on Ebay, would anyone know where I can get another poster like that?

I saw a t-shirt once with Fozzie bear biting the head of a tiny Big Bird...on the back it said FOZZY . My favorite muppet...Beaker! Just looking at him cracks me up! :bouncegiggle:

Listen up ok, we have a menu change, we will now be serving bolonga sandwhiches.

Welcome aboard, sleepyweas3l.  That is from "Muppets from Space," right?  I couldn't enjoy that one as much as much as some of the others, though it did have a few high points and memorable quotes.

Maybe so, I don't remember too much about it. Though, it did have one of the best gags I have ever seen in a Muppet film, if only because it took me several seconds to catch on to the gag. The gag being that the cement company's company car was a cement truck.

I love the Muppets, still.  Even have 2 cd's of music.  One is The 25th Anniversary thing, with selected songs from the movies/tv show, and the other is a Sesame Street cd.

My favorite muppet movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan.  It has everything.  A wedding, a play, Muppet Babies, Big Bird and other assorted Sesame Street/Fraggle Rock muppets.

Favorite Muppet: Old school, probably Fozzie or Rowlf.  Reminds me of me.  New muppet would be Pepe the King Prawn.

Season 2 comes out this Tuesday!!!!  I can't wait to pick it up!  The Bob Hope and Steve Martin episodes are classic!   :bouncegiggle:

Steve Martin's great.

I loved his little scene in The Muppet Movie as the waiter.  Gold there.

the MUPPET MOVIE is the best one- the hits everything correctly.

David