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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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
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** 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
* [[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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