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To date, ''The Muppet Movie'' remains the most profitable and highest grossing (accounting for inflation) live-action children's film in history.
''The Muppet Movie'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2009.
Not to be confused with the 2011 movie ''[[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]'' (though that one's technically a sequel of sorts).
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{{quote|'''Kermit:''' ''(to camera)'' Good grief, it's a [[Running Gag]].}}
* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption]]
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|Attack of the Fifty
* [[Author Avatar]]: Kermit's journey from Mississippi to show biz is an allegory for Henson's career. Doesn't hurt that Henson voices Kermit, too.
* [[Awesome but Temporary]]: Professor Honeydew's growth pills are "sadly temporary", although it's probably a good thing that they wore off after Animal took them.
* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: "El Sleezo Cafe"
* [[Balloonacy]]: Happens to Gonzo at one point.
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'''Prof. Krassman:''' Because in sixty seconds, he won't know you from kosher bacon!
'''Miss Piggy:''' '''THAT DOES IT!''' [[I Know Karate|HIIIIIII-YAAAAAAAAH!]] }}
** Possibly also pressing Piggy's other [[Berserk Button]] -- pig/pork jokes.
* [[Between My Legs]]: Seen during the showdown.
* [[Big Bad]]: Doc Hopper, who is hot on Kermit's trail.
* [[Bootstrapped Theme]]: "The Rainbow Connection" has become the unofficially official theme for the Muppets in general.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Sweetums ''finally'' catches up to Kermit and the gang at the end...by bursting through the screen of the theater.
* [[The Cameo]]: Dozens of them, mostly human, though at one point Kermit and Fozzie run into Big Bird, who tells them, "I'm on my way to New York City, [[Hero of Another Story|to try and break into]] [[Sesame Street|public television]]."
** All right, let's see... [[Steve Martin]] is serving wine, Elliot Gould is a beauty contest emcee, [[Richard Pryor]] is selling balloons, Milton Berle is a used car salesman, Carol Kane keeps showing up when someone says "Myth", [[Mel Brooks]] is a mad scientist, Dom Deluise is chased by an alligator, Madeline Kahn is a patron at The El Sleezo Cafe with Telly Savalas as her boyfriend (and where James Coburn is the owner)
** You forgot [[Bob Hope]] selling ice cream cones.
** Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as themselves.
** James Coburn as the owner of El Sleezo. Must be a tough joint if they could pitch him out.
** See also ''Creator Cameo'', below.
* [[Call Back]]: The scene where Kermit over-enunciates "Al-li-gat-ors" to Dom Deluise is a callback to a scene in ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', said by Piggy.
* [[Captivity Harmonica]]: Rowlf in the campfire scene.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Who knew The Electric Mayhem would have ''kept'' that copy of the screenplay?
* [[Chosen Family]]: Kermit sets off to Hollywood to become rich and famous. Along the way he acquires friends in Fozzie, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, and all the main Muppet cast. As he tells Doc Hopper, he found a family because they share the same dream.
* [[Coincidental Accidental Disguise]]: Fozzie's newly painted car in front of the billboard.
* [[Co-Dragons]]: [[The Dark Chick|Max]] and [[The Brute|Krassman]] to Doc Hopper.
* [[Cool Car]]: Fozzie's 1951 Studebaker, which is now in the Studebaker National Museum collection.
** Also the 1946 Ford "woodie" station wagon that they buy from Mad Man Mooney.
** For that matter, the Electric Mayhem's tour bus.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: The gang stumbles upon Miss Piggy hitchhiking in the desert. [[Lampshaded]], of course:
{{quote|'''Miss Piggy''': What an unbelievable coincidence!}}
* [[Creator Cameo]]: James Frawley, the director, is the El Sleezo waiter.
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* [[Fat Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit]]: Doc Hopper, since he's sort of an evil [[Captain Ersatz]] of Colonel Sanders.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Gonzo mentioned that he wants to move to Bombay to become a movie star. He'd later follow up on this in season four of ''[[The Muppet Show]]''.
** While the other Muppets try to explain to Gonzo that one goes to ''Hollywood'' to become a movie star, Bombay (now Mumbai) was then and is now the center of the massive Bollywood industry, meaning that [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|Gonzo's goal may not have been
** Gonzo also sings "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday" under the night sky, hoping he one day discovers where he's from and finds his way there. Much later, in ''[[Muppets from Space]]'', he discovers he is indeed an alien from outer space.
* [[Framing Device]]: The Muppets attending the premiere of the movie, making the main movie a [[Show Within a Show]]. The film even breaks at one point.
** "Huernder hinder
** Fortunately, der flim is okey-dokey.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Miss Piggy wears some for part of the movie. [[Stealth Pun|Get it]]?
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* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: "One of the finest wines of Idaho."
* [[Parental Bonus]]: Some of the jokes are way obscure, though the outside is usually funny enough.
{{quote|'''Gonzo:''' I always wanted to go to [[Bollywood|Bombay, India]], and become a movie star.
'''Fozzie:''' You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star. You go where we're going, Hollywood!
'''Gonzo:''' Sure, if you want to do it the ''easy'' way. }}
** For that matter, most of the pop culture references are too far out of date for kids today to get them.
* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]]: "It is indeed a problem for us to ''probosculate'' upon!"
* [[The Piano Player]]: Paul Williams, his own self.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: In most movies intended for younger audiences, a hero giving the villain [[The Reason You Suck Speech]] followed by a [[Patrick Stewart Speech]] is bound to get the villain to listen to reason. In this case, however, Kermit's attempt to do so fails, only showing that their ''are'' horrible people in this world who care for nobody but themselves. While this is clearly a [[Family Unfriendly Moral]], it's a far more realistic one.
* [[Retcon]]: Scooter and the band had different and unconnected origin stories in the first seasons of the series, but are now shown as being a single unit before the show got together. (Handwaved by Kermit to Robin in the opening. "Well, it's sort of ''approximately'' how it happened.")
* [[Redemption Rejection]]: When Kermit finally confronts and tries to reason with Hopper, it seems for a few seconds Hopper might be swayed. But he refuses, and orders his men to kill them all. Interestingly, Jim Henson has wanted Hopper to repent, but Frank Oz talked him out of it.
* [[Road Movie]]
* [[Running Gag]]: "Have you tried Hare Krishna?" Also, the "Myth! Myth!" thing.
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* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Kermit to Piggy: "[[Gone with the Wind|Frankly, my dear, I don't give a hoot.]]" Doubles as a reference to Woodsey Owl.
* [[
* [[There Is Another]]: In this case, many others. For the finale, ''two hundred and fifty Muppets'', all preexisting, appear. As mentioned above, a whole bunch of extra people (including Tim Burton and John Landis) had to be called in to operate all of them.
* [[This Billboard Needs Some Salt]]: Aunt Amy's Custard Pies.
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{{quote|'''Kermit:''' I don't believe that.}}
* [[Wallpaper Camouflage]]: With ''a car!''
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]:
** Krassman is no where to be seen after his brain becomes guacamole. He is absent during the film's showdown.
** Doc, Max, and Snake Walker are last seen running away from an enlarged Animal, but we can only assume they were arrested.
* [[You Are Worth Hell]]: Subverted, by ''Kermit'' to Miss Piggy when they are being held captive by Doc Hopper's minions and the mad scientist who is preparing to give him what amounts to a new form of lobotomy.
{{quote|'''Miss Piggy''': Whatever happens next, I wouldn't trade this night for anything. Would you?
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