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[[File:300px-German-Its-a-Very-Merry-Muppet-Christmas-Movie-DVD1_8000.jpg|frame|A regular staple of any Muppet Fan's holiday.]]
Take the basic story of ''[[
This 2002 movie is what you get. And it's every bit as good as you'd think.
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** [[Star Wars|Yoda]] has a brief cameo while Daniel is attempting to send Kermit back to his own reality.
** And the cast of ''[[Scrubs]]'' appeared during the scene showing Miss Piggy's brief "professional acting career" on that show (she plays a dying patient who is lying motionless under a sheet the whole scene).
* [[Coincidental Accidental Disguise]]: While carrying a big sack of money, Fozzie gets covered in green paint and is mistaken for [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (
* [[Conspicuous CGI]]: The giant dragonfly concocted by Whoopi Goldberg just because she can.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Rachel Bitterman
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* [[Eye Scream]]: To get to the alternate universe, Daniel sprinkles snow into Kermit's eyes. {{spoiler|To get out of it, Daniel actually}} {{spoiler|''spits''}} {{spoiler|into Kermit's eyes.}}
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Pepe the prawn, who leaves the Muppets to work for Bitterman, followed by his inevitable [[Heel Face Turn]] back.
* [[Fun
* [["Gift of the Magi" Plot]]: Spoofed in the beginning of the film, when several Muppets exchange gifts only to discover that they've given up prized possessions to do so.
** [[Subverted]] [[Rule of Three|the third time]] with Johnny Fiama and Sal, because while Sal has sold his moped to buy Johnny a solid gold record player, Johnny apparently hasn't even ''thought'' of getting Sal anything.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Rachel Bitterman is a very bitter, cynical individual. Inverted with her father, with whom the Muppets are implied to have had a good relationship.
* [[The Muppets]]: Of course.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Starting with this movie, all of Frank Oz' characters have been recast -- Miss Piggy, Fozzie and Animal (and Yoda) are performed by Eric Jacobsen, while Sam the Eagle is [[Sesame Street
* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: Heaven, at least the part where Daniel works, is a giant cubicle farm.
** So.. basically I die, then go to work with [[Dilbert]]?
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* [[Post-Kiss Catatonia]]: Not quite, but very nearly when Kermit kisses Piggy toward the end.
* [[Race Against the Clock]]: Bitterman is counting on the Muppets failing to pay the rent by the time specified on the modified lease so she can evict them and tear down the theater.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: ''[[
* [[Santa Claus]]: Fozzie accidentally gives the rent money to a street-corner Santa (actually a Salvation Army volunteer) instead of delivering it to Bitterman by the deadline.
* [[Shout-Out]]/[[Mythology Gag]]: A big one to the original ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'', when Kermit discovers that in the world where he never existed, Doc Hopper did successfully open his chain of french-fried frog legs restaurants.
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* [[Station Ident]]: Because the movie originally aired on NBC, there's a humorous moment where Kermit displays the NBC peacock logo on the bottom of one of his feet.
* [[Statler and Waldorf]]: In the alternate reality, they go broke at Bitterman's nightclub buying drinks for girls.
* [[Tongue
* [[Wildlife Commentary Spoof]]
* [[Wonderful Life]]: Kermit needs to be reminded that he has one, hence the story.
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