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The Things I learned From The Muppets Take Manhattan

posted 14 years ago by machohervey
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The Things I learned From The Muppets Take Manhattan

1. If you can see the back of someone’s head, it’s a celebrity.
2. Fozzie would rather snuggle with Kermit than a lady bear.
3. Pete’s Luncheonette has rats in the kitchen.
4. Miss Piggy carries lingerie in her purse.
5. Brooke Shields is into…well let’s just say she breaks a few taboos (and laws.)
6. The Chef’s popcorn is in 3-D.
7. Janice is unwilling to sacrifice her dignity in the name of art.
8. There’s a nudist colony in Passaic, New Jersey.
9. Meat makes frogs ill.
10. Everyone prefers the Rubber wall Street Journal to the Rubber Washington Post.
11. Pete’s Luncheonette has very friendly service.
12. Construction workers have strange taste in women.
13. The Muppet Babies would have been a better show in live action.
14. No one’s ever tried just saying what the product does.
15. The real Enrico Tortellini was never heard from again.

[–] NickChopperOfOz 14 years ago

16. Miss Piggy is the scariest Muppet ever. Seriously, my sister and I were pretending that Piggy was a creepy stalker in a horror movie.
17. Huge Broadway audiences can magically disappear.
18. The Muppets attended a very liberal college.
19. The "Somebody's Getting Married" number had to have been improvised on the spot.
20. Muppets can magically change sizes in between shots (Rizzo is up to Pete's waist but then he's running around people's ankles at Sardi's).
21. No one will miss Liza Minelli's portrait.
22. The Muppets are dirt poor but Miss Piggy still has thousands of outfits.
23. Scooter can ride a bicycle.
24. The Electric Mayhem and Gonzo/Camilla can stay together but Fozzie, Rowlf, Scooter and Piggy are left by themselves.
25. No one except Miss Piggy gives a thought to the fact that they're leaving Kermit all alone in New York City.
26. Bunsen and Beaker showed up at the theater at the end without explanation.
27. Scooter is the only one who understands how 3D works.
28. Dr. Teeth remarks that Rizzo was looking at them as though they came from outer space... and fifteen years from now, Gonzo will be revealed to be an extraterrestrial.
29. The patrons at Pete's don't mind the rats, but everyone at Sardi's panic.
30. Rowlf really loves being upside down.
31. Miss Piggy has met Big Bird before, judging by the doll in her Muppet Babies fantasy.
32. Bernard Crawford is really strict with schedules.
33. Frogs are apparently expected to wear clothes.
34. The Muppets attempted to sell their show all summer.
35. Gonzo's job is not so different from his normal life.

[–] machohervey 13 years ago

"21. No one will miss Liza Minelli's portrait."
Except Liza.

"22. The Muppets are dirt poor but Miss Piggy still has thousands of outfits."
LOL

"28. Dr. Teeth remarks that Rizzo was looking at them as though they came from outer space... and fifteen years from now, Gonzo will be revealed to be an extraterrestrial."
But Zoot's assured "No one's landed." Oops!

36. Peoples is peoples.
37. Gonzo used to live in a cement mixer.
38. Ocean Breeze Soap will get you clean.
39. Nobody’s landed.
40. Gregory Hines likes to run around in shorts.
41. Never put your arm around a lamppost in Central Park.
42. You can’t start a wedding without the bride & groom.

[–] stevenackerman69 13 years ago

The reason they leave Kermit to get jobs is after they have been rejected so many times they feel that they have to face reality that maybe being on Broadway wasn't meant to be. As for the difference between Pete's and Sardi's involving rats, it has to do with class. Think poor people vs. the stupid Bush family.

[–] ItsAlwaysSomething 13 years ago

43. Apparently, bad fish can cause manic make-up counter makeovers
44. Piggy hates running, but can rollerskate like a mofo
45. Giving a chicken mouth-to-mouth equals instant engagement
46. A talking dog is the perfect keeper of talking dogs in cages
47. Never use butter to skate on a hot grill
48. Piggy and Kermit had the wedding of the year
49. John Landis won't consider scripts from frogs with afros
50. Amnesia changes the type of people you'll consider dating

Set 'Display threads as' on personal options to 'nested'-A PSA for imdb

[–] stevenackerman69 13 years ago

51. Joan Rivers had no problem getting fired from her job.
52. Snookum's owner speaks Chinese like a native.
53. Rowlf has a photographic memory.
54. Rowlf has no idea what quiche is.
55. Rats swim in coffee.
56. Tell Rizzo you have no money and he'll tell you it ain't his table.
57. Statler and Waldorf like sunbathing on the streets of Manhattan.
58. Anybody can be in Manhattan Melodies, even advertising frogs.
59. Ernie and Bert have suits.
60. When someone is missing, don't bother to go to the police to file a missing person's report, just call out the person's name as though he'll answer.
61. Tell a cop you have to go get a contract so he can kill them and you are a frog, the cop won't think you're in the mob.
62. Pete won't hire penguins.
63. Janice won't take her clothes off for anyone, even if it is artistic.
64. Don't try to steal Miss Piggy's purse.
65. Always have ID on you so when you get hit by a taxi, they can find out who you are.
66. Mayor Koch would hire Kermit if he could balance the budget.
67. Kermit's voice carries from the top of the Empire State Building.
68. Chickens can't sing like Tony Bennett.
69. Rizzo thinks he is a ladies' rat.
70. Baby Rowlf loves playing with a Big Bird doll.

[–] Haifis 12 years ago

71. You won't get arrested for walking around without pants even in front of cops.
72. Janice likes to cross dress. (See the ending.)
73. Miss Piggy has violent tendencies.
74. Zoot is on drugs.
75. Sick Gonzo enjoys doing illegal activities such as f∩cking chickens.
76. Interspecies dating is perfectly A-okay!
77. Frogs work in advertising agencies.
78. You can get food without paying at a diner if you give them a sob story about being broke!

[–] stevenackerman69 13 years ago

You learn a lot from films, don't you? What do you learn from people?

[–] zline_david 12 years ago

Peoples no is buildings. Peoples is peoples.

[–] Ditto-head 11 years ago

79) Kermit should be suspicious if a real minister appears in the show to perform the marriage.

80) No one minds having rats as waiters, but penguins would be a step too far.

81) Friends hug each other. They don't spy.

82) Bus station lockers don't often come with a Jacuzzi.

[–] shenandoahpride 9 years ago

83. Pigs can have doe eyes.

84. It's OK to want to drive a car, be a doctor of diseases and a neurosurgeon ... as long as you want to be a good mommy, too.

85. Beware of last-minute cast substitutions.

86. You can still put on a smash Broadway musical with only two weeks' notice.

87. The star of your Broadway musical is MIA, but you would rather close the show than replace him.

88. Don't ever make a pig mad at you. She'll knock the amnesia right out of you.

[–] stevenackerman69 8 years ago

89. Just say what the product does and people will buy it.
90. Don't try to upstage Liza Minelli at Sardi's.
91. Zoot thinks the aliens have landed.
92. Animal is in need of psychiatric care.
93. Just because this whole musical is ridiculous doesn't mean it wouldn't make it on Broadway.

[–] intelligentsupermodel 8 years ago

94. What better way can anything end, hand in hand with a friend.
95. When somebody's getting married, the man selling newspapers will announce it.
96. Schnookims is a HIM.
97. Jenny is Kermit's friend. And Piggy's.
98. If you want to try something different, put some jello down your pants.
99. Saying goodbye is sad because it makes you remember the good times you've had.
100. Days go passing into years.
101. Years go passing day by day.