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The last of the original trilogy of [[The Muppets|Muppet]] feature films made by [[Jim Henson]], released in 1984. It was also Frank Oz's directorial debut.
 
Another take on the origins of the Muppets, this has them having all known each other during college, making a musical show together called "Manhattan Melodies" and upon graduation, they decide to go to New York City and try to put the show on Broadway rather then just split apart. But with countless failures in trying to sell the show, the group splits apart and go to different parts of the country while Kermit gets a job at a diner and still tries pursuing the dream of getting the show produced. Just as he succeeds and calls all the others back though, he is hit by a car, goes missing and gains a case of amnesia and starts to work in advertising slogans. With the show a week away, the Muppets have to try and find him or try pressing on without him.
 
One of the musical numbers, featuring baby versions of some of the characters became ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' and helped to kick-off the whole [[Spinoff Babies]] craze.▼
 
▲One of the musical numbers, featuring baby versions of some of the characters became [[Muppet Babies]] and helped to kick-off the whole [[Spinoff Babies]] craze.
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* [[Accidental Marriage]]: At least if you consider the original script, or the comic book adaptation. The movie itself never actually confirms this.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Rizzo the Rat, here in his first major film role and seriously starting his career as the resident cynical wiseguy.
* [[Dissimile]]: "Ocean Breeze Soap: It's just like taking an ocean cruise, only there's no boat and you don't actually go anywhere"
** Kermit suggests [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]], "Ocean Breeze Soap will get you clean." Brilliant!
* [[Early -Bird Cameo]]: In the scene where Kermit tells the assorted characters that they can all be in the show, check out the bear standing in the back of the group. That's [[Muppets Tonight|Bobo Bear]], although he wouldn't actually ''be'' Bobo for 12 more years.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Happens to Kermit, he remembers nothing. His reaction to news of his relationship with Miss Piggy is priceless.
{{quote| '''Kermit''': Me? In love with a pig? Wait 'til I tell the guys in marketing! Ha ha! Maybe you expected me to go HOG-wild? Perhaps you could bring home the BACON! Ahhh... the sounds of love, ''SU-EEEEE!'' Oink, oink! <br />
'''Miss Piggy''': Cancel the show! ''Hi-yah!'' }}
* [[Gallows Humor]]: Right before they walk into Pete's, knowing they have no money to pay and will have to beg:
{{quote| '''Kermit:''' Well, we've got to eat.<br />
'''Floyd:''' Why start now? }}
* [[Get the Sensation]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: At one point everyone is loudly talking at the same time, and Scooter calls for them to be quiet, which they do...[[Seven Minute Lull|except for Janice]]:
{{quote| '''Janice:''' ...So I told him, "Look, buddy, I don't take my clothes off for anybody, even if it is [[ItsIt's Not Porn, ItsIt's Art|'artistic']], and..." Oh.}}
** [[Running Gag]]: Janice's [[Seven Minute Lull]] with Gonzo listening to her has been in all three main films.
* [[Greasy Spoon]]: Pete's Luncheonette
* [[Hash House Lingo]]: "Two zeros on a trampoline with a side of Joan of Arc", which means 2 fried eggs on toast with steak fries.
* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: The cast of ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' show up in the audience of the Frog-Piggy wedding in ''[[Show Within a Show|Manhattan Melodies]]''. In addition, Baby Rowlf has [[Celebrity Paradox|a Big Bird doll]].
** If you look closely, you can see [[Fraggle Rock|Uncle Travelling Matt]] in the audience (in the chapel) during the wedding scene.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Pig and frog, of course, plus chicken and... whatever. Also, at one point:
{{quote| '''Masterson Rat''': Do you believe in interspecies dating?<br />
'''Brooke Shields''': Well, I've dated some rats before if that's what you mean. ''[Masterson faints]'' }}
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: Kermit does this, going by the name of "Phillip Phil", because he doesn't know his real name when asked by the frogs in marketing.
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* [[Retail Therapy]]: Miss Piggy is given a cheer-up makeover.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: [[Joan Rivers]] and Piggy suffer one during the aforementioned [[Retail Therapy]].
* [[Saw Star Wars Twenty Seven27 Times]]: Lew Zealand has seen the [[In -Universe]] 3D film ''Attack Of The Killer Fish'' ninety-seven times. His favorite part is when the fish attack, at which point he tosses boomerang fish around the movie theater to add to the excitement (the other moviegoers think it's [[All Part of the Show]]).
* [[Shout -Out]]: [[Word of God]] states that the entire movie is an [[Homage]] to the old [[Judy Garland]] / Mickey Rooney "Let's make a musical!" films.
** [[Midnight Cowboy|Rizzo]].
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]:
{{quote| '''Kermit:''' Piggy? I thought Gonzo was going to play the minister. <br />
''(Piggy's only response: a guilty, nervous chuckle.)'' }}
* [[Take Me Instead!]]: Gonzo's plea when a villain has grabbed Camilla. And he takes them ''both'' instead.
* [[Train Station Goodbye]]
* [[Travelling Salesman Montage]]: It's really no surprise that it fails, however. You can't have twenty pairs of eyes staring through a cafeteria window ''watching someone take a bite out of a sandwich'' and expect that you're going to endear yourself to that person.
* [[Understatement]]
{{quote| '''Rowlf''': [Getting the show on Broadway] is turning out to be tougher than we thought.}}
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Pete, sort of.
{{quote| '''Pete:''' Hey, I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live, work, huh? But not city only. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay? <br />
'''Kermit:''' ''(blankly)'' Uh, yeah. }}
* [[What Could Have Been]]: In-universe: Miss Piggy wonders what it would be like if they've done each other since they were babies.
* [[WhosWho's Watching the Store?]]: They must have closed Pete's for the musical, because everyone is there.
 
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