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The Muppet Movie (1979)

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Directed by
James Frawley

Written by
Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl

Cast
Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt, Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz [more]


DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 5, 2001

MPAA Rating
G

Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes

Country USA, UK

Studio Associated Film Distribution, ITC Entertainment, Jim Henson Company

More info on IMDb.com

Other Titles
• The Muppet Movie



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 Quotes from The Muppet Movie (1979)
1
Kermit: [singing] Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection. The Lovers, the Dreamers, and me.

  
2
Kermit: That's pretty dangerous building a road in the middle of the street. I mean, if frogs couldn't hop, I'd be gone with the Schwin.

  
3
Fozzie: I'm a professional. I've had three performances.

  
4
Fozzie: Oh, I'm so Nervous. If this movie's no good, I won't be able to live with myself.
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew: Well, then you'll have to get another apartment.

  
5
Fozzie: Ahh, a bear in his natural habitat - a Studebaker.

  
6
Bernie: You, you with the banjo, can you help me? I seem to have lost my sense of direction!
Kermit: Have you tried Hare Krishna?

  
7
[afterthe Electric Mayhem paint the Studebaker]
Fozzie: I don't know how to thank you guys.
Kermit: I don't know WHY to thank you guys.

  
8
Fozzie: You can come with us.
Gonzo: Where are you going?
Fozzie: We're following our dreams!
Gonzo: Really? I have a dream, too.
Fozzie: What?
Gonzo: You might think it's stupid.
Fozzie: No.
Gonzo: Well, I want to go to Bombay, India to become a movie star.
Fozzie: You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star. You go where we're going, Hollywood.
Gonzo: Well, sure, if you want to do it the *easy* way.

  
9
Rowlf the Dog: It's not often you see a guy that green have the blues that bad.

  
10
Kermit: Where did you learn to drive?
Fozzie: I took a correspondence course.

  
11
[Kermit and the Muppets arrive in Hollywood]
Miss Piggy: Oh Kermie, isn't this wonderful. Looks like a dream come true.
Kermit: Well don't count your tadpoles until they're hatched, I still have to audition you know.
[Lew Lord's secretary closes the doors to his office]
Lord's Secretary: And where do you think you're going?
Kermit: Oh, hi there. Were here to audition for Lew Lord.
Lord's Secretary: You just can't walk in off the street you know, especially with all these animals.
Kermit: Animals? What are you talking about.
[the muppets have indignant mutter]
Lord's Secretary: This is a movie studio, not a zoo. Besides -
[sneezes]
Lord's Secretary: I'm allergic to animal hair. Now get along all of you.
Kermit: Now wait a second. I may not be one of your famous frogs, but I deserve a chance and we are going to stay right here in this office until you let us in to see Lew Lord. Aren't we gang?
Lord's Secretary: [on the phone] Security, this is Miss Casey. I want to report a...
[the muppets shake off their fur with a fan while Lord's secretary has a allergy attack and finally opens the doors to Lord's office]

  
12
Kermit: Oh, waiter! Waiter!
Insolent Waiter: Yes? May I help you?
Kermit: You may serve us the wine now.
Insolent Waiter: [sarcastically] Oh, may I?

  
13
El Sleezo Patron: Hello, sailor, buy me a drink?
Kermit: Well, you see, I'm not a sailor, I'm a frog.
El Sleezo Patron: Oh, cut the small talk and buy me a drink.
Kermit: I don't even know you.
El Sleezo Tough: Hey, hey! Have you messed with my girl?
Kermit: Uh, I...
El Sleezo Patron: He did so. He touched me.
El Sleezo Tough: Uch. Wash up, you'll get warts.
Kermit: That's a myth.
El Sleezo Tough: Yeah, but she's *my* "myth"!
Kermit: No, no, myth, myth!
Myth: Yeth?

  
14
[Professor Max Krassman has just put Kermit in the electric chair]
Miss Piggy: [desperate] Please. Please. Not my frog please.
Max Krassman: Say goodbye to your frog, miss.
Miss Piggy: Why should I?
Max Krassman: Because in 10 seconds, he won't know you from kosher bacon.
Miss Piggy: [furious] That does it.

  
15
El Sleezo Cafe Owner: That's toughest meanest filfiest place that fell off of the face of the earth
Kermit: Well why not complain to the owner?
El Sleezo Cafe Owner: I am the owner.

  
16
[when seeing Fozzie perform for the first time]
Kermit: This guy's lost.
Waiter: Maybe he sould try Hare Krishna.
Kermit: Good grief, it's a running gag.

  
17
Fozzie: There was this sailor who was so fat!
Sailor: How fat was he?
[breaks bottle]
Fozzie: Uh, he was so fat that everybody liked him and there was nothing funny about him at all.

  
18
Kermit: Hey, Fozzie, turn left when you come to a fork in the road.
Fozzie: Turning left at a fork in the road. Kermit!
[drives past a giant fork]
Kermit: I don't believe that.

  
19
Kermit: [watching Gonzo fly over the fair with a handful of balloons] Hey Gonzo, what are you doing?
Gonzo: About seven knots!

  
20
Sam the Eagle: Kermit, does this film have socially redeeming value?

  
21
Robin the Frog: Uncle Kermit, is this how the Muppets really got started?
Kermit: Well, it's sort of approximately what happened.

  
22
Max Krassman: It is important to remember that you have to hold on to your hat
Doc Hopper: What for?
Max Krassman: When a German scientist tells you to hold on to your hat, he's not being metaphorical. HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT! HAT! HOLD! Good.

  
23
Statler: I'm Statler.
Waldorf: I'm Waldorf. We're here to heckle "The Muppet Movie".
Gate Guard: Tell him it's down on the left. Private screening room B.
Statler: Private screening?
Waldorf: Yeah, they're afraid to show it in public.

  
24
Statler: I like this movie fine so far.
Waldorf: It hasn't started yet.
Statler: That's what I like about it.

  
25
The Swedish Chef: The flim is okee-dokee.
Kermit: Alright, roll the film.
The Swedish Chef: Flim a-rolling!

  
26
Kermit: It's the patriotic part.
Robin the Frog: Should we stand up?

  
27
Fozzie: [after singing "America the Beautiful"] Patriotism swells in the heart of the American bear.

  
28
Zoot: I'm, uh... I'm, uh... I'm...
Floyd Pepper: Zoot. The sax is your ax. Uh-oh, Zoot skipped a groove again.

  
29
[the members of The Electric Mayhem are introducing themselves one by one]
Zoot: I'm, uh, uhh...
Floyd Pepper: You're Zoot. Sax is your axe. Zoot skipped a groove again.

  
30
[repeated line]
Fozzie: No problem.

  
31
Miss Piggy: Whisper sweet nothings into my ear.
Kermit: Motorcycle cop.
Miss Piggy: "Motorcycle cop" is a sweet nothing?
Kermit: A motorcycle cop is chasing us.

  
32
Insolent Waiter: Sparkling Muscatel, one of the finest wines of Idaho.

  
33
Animal: RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Floyd Pepper: Oh, yeah, that's Animal. Show 'em what you do, Animal.
Animal: I what do! EAT DRUMS!
[chews on a cymbal]
Dr. Teeth: No, no, no, no, no, *beat* drums, *beat* drums.

  
34
Kermit: Wow, this is nice, a Studebaker.
Fozzie: Yeah, my uncle left it to me.
Kermit: Oh, is he dead?
Fozzie: No, he's hibernating.

  
35
Kermit: Miss Piggy, you look beautiful!
Miss Piggy: Thank you!
Kermit: [aside] Hollywood talk.

  
36
Kermit: What's happening?
Floyd Pepper: At the moment, *we're* what's happenin'.

  
37
Rowlf the Dog: "Stay away from women." That's my motto.
Kermit: But I can't.
Rowlf the Dog: Neither can I. That's my trouble.

  
38
Rowlf the Dog: [singing] You can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em. / There's something irresistable-ish about 'em. / We grin and bear it 'cause the nights are long. / I hope that something better comes along.

  
39
Statler: Well, how do you like the film?
Waldorf: I've seen detergents leave a better film than this.

  
40
Kermit: It's too bad the dancing girls are on vacation. This crowd's getting ugly.
Fozzie: If you think this crowd's ugly, you should see the dancing girls.

  
41
Bernie: If you ever come to Hollywood, look me up, Bernie, the agent.
Kermit: Hey, listen, Bernie the Agent, why don't you say "hello" to Arnie the alligator?

  
42
Mad Man Mooney: Jack, get rid of this pile of junk! That's my jack.
Kermit: Oh, hi, Jack.
Sweetums: "Jack" not name, "jack" job.

  
43
Kermit: [singing] Life's like a movie, write your own ending.

  
44
Doc Hopper: Listen, we're a small business but we've expanded. Expanded! Just like you frogs expand. Don't you frogs expand?
[puffs his cheeks]
Kermit: That's a myth.
Doc Hopper: A what?
Kermit: MYTH! MYTH!
Myth: Yeth?
Kermit: Uh...
[to Fozzie]
Kermit: C'mon, bear, burn rubber!

  
45
Kermit: Hey, Fozzie, look up ahead.
Fozzie: What is that?
Kermit: Maybe we should ask him for a ride?
Fozzie: I don't know. He looks really big.
[to Big Bird]
Fozzie: Hey there! Wanna lift?
Big Bird: Oh, no thanks. I'm on my way to New York City to try to break into public television.
Fozzie: Oh. Good luck.

  
46
[after Fozzie speeds off from the TV shop]
Doc Hopper: Max! Follow that frog!
[Max drives off leaving Doc Hopper behind]
Doc Hopper: [screaming] Max!
[Max stops and reverses the car]
Doc Hopper: Follow that frog with *me* in the car!

  
47
Fozzie: [walking into the church and seeing the Electric Mayheim] They don't look like Presbyterians to me.

  
48
Fozzie: Kermit, where are we?
Kermit: [Looking at a map] Well, let's see. We're just traveling down this little black line here, and uh, just crossed that little red line over here.
Fozzie: [after taking his eyes off the road to focus on the map] Look, why don't we just take that little blue line, huh?
Kermit: We can't take that. That's a river.
Fozzie: Oh. I knew that.
Kermit: Yeah sure.
Fozzie: Well, listen Kermit, why don't we just go and...
Kermit: [Cutting him off] Fozzie? Uh, Fozzie?
Fozzie: Yeah?
Kermit: Who's driving?

  
49
Kermit: [after Fozzie parks the car in front of a church and turns it off] Boy, it feels like we've been driving for days!
Fozzie: [Still upbeat] Funny, yet I'm still wide awake!
Kermit: Yup. Me too.
[Two seconds later Fozzie's head falls back, and he immediately starts snoring. Kermit jumps at that, then shrugs]
Kermit: Me too.
[Drops his head back and settles in himself]

  
50
Dr. Teeth: [to Crazy Hairy] You know, I hear this movie's dynamite.
[Crazy Hairy blows up a chair]

  


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