I know they were preforming the wedding thing as part of the musical. But at one point Kermit asks Piggy "I thought Gonzo was gonna play the minister" and Piggy just laughs.
This raises the question wether Piggy actually got a real priest to do the service and they really did get married. Unbeknownst to Kermit of course that the service was actually real.
Seriously, if I were him. I'd get the marriage annuled.
yea kermit didn't know it was gonna b a real wedding!
That's how it appeared to me if memory serves...she pretended the wedding was part of the show and then revealed that the minister in the show was a real minister and that they were really married. That's how I remember it but if I'm wrong, I am also happy to have my memory refreshed.
shareYeah. That's what she did.
shareOn the "Muppet Show First Season" DVD, you can watch each episode along with pop-up facts about it. Well, on one of them, it's indicated that Kermit says that whole wedding business was just acting. Piggy, however, believes it was real because it was done by a real minister! I guess no one knows for sure.
shareA book version of the movie has an extended scene right after they say their vows. As everyone cheers, Gonzo rushes up and tells Kermit that it was a real priest. Kermit is about to freak out on Piggy when she quickly says that she hopes he will be happy. Very, very, very, very happy. Kermit shrugs and sings the last lines:
What better way could anything end?
Hand in hand with a friend
Her tricking him was a little creepy.
I always wondered about that when I was little. I just bought the movie and watched it for the first time as an adult and my boyfriend and I were fighting over whether it was a "real" wedding or not. So here's my question... If it was a real wedding (which I think it was because of what the original poster mentioned, as well as the fact that Kermit seems to figure it out and is hesitant while he's gulping) then how come the shows and movies they have made following this they are not married? I am really over-analyzing puppets but darnit, I love them!
share"On the "Muppet Show First Season" DVD, you can watch each episode along with pop-up facts about it. Well, on one of them, it's indicated that Kermit says that whole wedding business was just acting. Piggy, however, believes it was real because it was done by a real minister! I guess no one knows for sure."
Are you serious? I can't believe it. I just can't believe how much disrespect they've shown Jim Henson since his death. It's bad enough they've ruined the Muppets and Sesame Street and are creating new shows of crappy design, and putting his name on them, but they have to go and MOCK one of the most touching and emotional moments in Muppet history?! I'm sure Jim himself laid out that entire concept, wanting Kermit and Miss Piggy to marry and advance the story, but now some wisea** decides to put these blurbs onto the Muppet Show DVD (featuring some of Henson's best work) and pretend it was all a joke.
It makes me SICK how they're disrespecting Jim Henson. He was such a nice guy. He was a great man. Now if they were disrespecting some unknown, greedy guy who didn't care about anybody and only focused on money, then it would be okay to mock him, but Jim Henson?! People today don't even show HALF of this disrespect to Walt Disney! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??!
Holy crap, chill out. Nobody is mocking Jim Henson. Even when Jim Henson was alive, at no time after the movie did he treat the marriage as a real event. The Muppets Take Manhattan has as much bearing on the official Muppets continuity as Muppet Treasure Island.
shareWell, so long as Jim said it wasn't official.
share"I know they were preforming the wedding thing as part of the musical. But at one point Kermit asks Piggy "I thought Gonzo was gonna play the minister" and Piggy just laughs.
This raises the question wether Piggy actually got a real priest to do the service and they really did get married. Unbeknownst to Kermit of course that the service was actually real.
Seriously, if I were him. I'd get the marriage annuled."
Yeah I know what you mean. The wedding was a sham from the beginning. Its obvious enough that Kermit and Fozzie are gay.
Well, the man playing the minister is ACTUALLY a minister (check the credits).
And my mother told me that when the movie came out, there was some controversy about that (I'm uste not much, but it is amusing) and Piggy had to go on all the talk shows and explain herself...
I don't know. Yes, she tricked him, but they were most likely going to anyway...I just think it was a cute way to end it.
"We had part of a Slinky, but I straightened it."
I think right when he realizes the minister was real, he knew it was a real wedding. He knew he had been tricked but he could have said no . . . he married her! Besides, he seemed sort of happy in the end. He did kiss her on the cheek.
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Yeah, she tricks him into it. he doesn't seem to mind much though. he hesitates but when he sings "I do" it sounds rather sincere to me.
In her defense, they were engaged. There's an indication at the beginning of the movie that Kermit was going to marry her when he sold the show. Also, he wrote, directed and starred in a musical in which his leading lady was played by (and the part likely written for) his real life girlfriend and a main point of the plot was the two characters getting married, so I can see where she'd get the idea that he wanted to marry her.
Whether or not that means that Kermit and Miss Piggy are actually married is iffy. I don't know if the muppet movies are considered to be part of the overall story of the muppets or if the muppets are acting in them: playing themselves in a particular storyline that has no bearing on their actual story. So the Kermit and Piggy in Muppets Take Manhattan probably got married, the "real" Kermit and Piggy on the Muppet show didn't necessarily do so.
The scene is based on an original sketch from 'The Muppet Show' except in the sketch he doesn't go through with it, and breaks the ketch by introducing the boomerang fish act.
shareWell, he did promise her they would get married once they were successful Broadway stars, she just wanted to "hurry it along". Notice how this time he doesn't introduce Lew Zealand like on the show.
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