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''Meet the Feebles'', a 1989 movie directed by [[Peter Jackson]], is basically The Muppets [[This Is Your Premise
The story revolves around a show within a show, the ''Fabulous Feebles Variety Hour''. The movie starts 12 hours before the show is planned to go live, but the actors in the show all have problems of their own. For example, Heidi wonders if Bletch is cheating on her, Bletch needs to get a drug deal through, Harry thinks he has "The Big One" (Initially seems like AIDS, later stated to be {{spoiler|myxomatosis}}, though whatever disease it is, it leaves him with an estimated 10 hours to live), Robert needs to get the girl of his dreams, Lucille, Sid needs to train a new batch of creatures after his old batch is run over by a barrel and deal with a paternity suit, Wynyard needs to get his Heroin fix, which he got addicted to in Vietnam, Trevor needs to find new people for the porn movie he's been filming, and Abi literally needs to get his head out of his ass.
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WARNING: Once you have met the Feebles, you will ''never'' be able to watch ''The Muppet Show'' again.
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]
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* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: As Robert, the newcomer soon discovers.
* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: Sebastian doesn't do anything actually ''evil'', but he's a [[Jerkass]] towards the cast (though this is probably just because he's a director) and he must have known full well that a family variety show wasn't an appropriate place for that particular song.
* [[Depraved Kids' Show Host]]: nearly the entire cast.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Sebastian. {{spoiler|The only non-nice guy to survive, only does so because he ducks into a giant carrot during Heidi's rampage}}.
* [[Doing It for
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Despite being a crookish manager, even Bletch thinks that Sebastian's infamous song is not the right place for a kid's show (Like it is stated in the quote above).
* [[Everybody Owns a Ford]]: Non-[[Product Placement]] example- Everybody Owns A Morris Minor (which had been out of production for almost 20 years when the film was made).
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* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: Cedric's mooks.
* [[Giant Spider]]: {{spoiler|One appears during the showdown between Bletch and Cedric's gangs, killing one of Bletch's goons.}}
* [[Girl
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Heidi, toward the final act.}}
* [[Hope Spot]]: Twice. Once, when Harry learns the doctor made a mistake, he is happy to be alive, only to get gunned down moments later. Second, {{spoiler|it looks like Heidi might stop massacring people when she sees a baby, only to shoot the baby's mother.}}
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* [[Knife Nut]]: Wynyard has a knife-throwing act, but has a terrible case of the shakes.
* [[Naive Newcomer]]: Robert the Hedgehog.
* [[National Stereotypes]]: The only German in the movie sells cakes and pastries, and Abi, an Indian, is into mysticism and contortion. Let's not get into the Vietnamese ... '''[[Mix
* [[Only One Name]]: No one has a last name.
* [[Paparazzi]]: The reporter fly that is constantly harrassing Harry because of his disease.
* [[Parallel Porn Titles]]: Trevor's original idea for the porn film's title is ''Dennis Does Daisy'', before settling on ''Anal Antics'' (Dennis is an anteater). Other films he's shot are ''They Bone People'', ''Came A Hot Fresian'', and what appears to say ''Udder Havies''. Bletch hopes to win the "Hooker Prize", a takeoff on the Booker Prize.
* [[Prima Donna Director]]: Sebastian.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Subverted completely. Nearly all the animals in this movie are or eventually become ugly, disease ridden, rotten or just generally unpleasant. The only two exceptions would be Robert, sorry, "Wobert" and his squeeze Lucille, both of whom are genuinely nice and very cute to boot. Sid's love child is pretty cute too, despite being [[Mix
* [[Serenade Your Lover]]: One of the sweeter moments in the film (not that there are many of those).
* [[Shell
* [[Shout
** The Jesus on a crucifix in this movie looks like Kermit the frog.
** Wynyard's Vietnam flashback has a scene where they are forced to do Russian Roulette, as a reference for ''[[The Deer Hunter]]''.
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* [[Show Within a Show]]
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]
* [[Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Talking Animal]]: Most animals are anthro, but several, such as the fish, are basically talking animals.
* [[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named]]: Harry's {{spoiler|myxomatosis}}.
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* [[You Dirty Rat]]: Trevor is pretty much a textbook example.
* [[You Just Ruined the Shot]]: Robert interrupts a porn shoot.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Heidi}}
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