In the same film, there was that whole complicated sequence with Gonzo in the balloon, crashing into the sign and landing in the car. "Dynamite's Great Muppet Caper" by Jane Stine. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Despite Nicky's instant attraction to Miss Piggy, they successfully frame her for the theft and proceed to steal an even more valuable prize -- the coveted Baseball Diamond, which is on display at a local gallery. In Caper, it’s almost tacked on as a warning, “Just forget everything you know about The Muppets, because this is probably not going to make much sense.”. This version of The Wizard of Oz is played by the Muppets! A Muppet fanatic with some help from his 2 human compatriots must regroup the Muppet gang to stop an avaricious oil mogul from taking down one of their precious life-longing treasures. The goblins attack the film's heroes. It wasn't easy because there were so many variables. 1942) is a stage and television actress who appeared in a 1967 commercial for Linit Fabric Finish, opposite Sir Linit, titled "Dancing Clothes." Grodin appears drugged but it DOES fit his character. Jim Henson's Red Book - 7/7/1980 - ‘Tom and Jay in town working on MM2, Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal, The Great Muppet Caper script (July 22, 1980 draft), https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Great_Muppet_Caper?oldid=1315382. Jenny O'Hara (b. The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve. They stay at the ramshackle (but free) Happiness Hotel, run by Pops and populated by the likes of Scooter, Rowlf, and the Electric Mayhem. Lou, Muppet Performer / This FAQ is empty. This was all done before we had CGI but it works. There were also 18 professional swimmers who had to dive into the pool at the right moment. This is funny because it sounds like something that would happen in 2015. Who stole the jewels? The underwater vocals during "Piggy's Fantasy" were also changed, originally having more of a "gurgling" effect. Here are two pictures. Elmo remembers he has an apple in his lunch bag and gives it to Alan. One monkey applied, but he didn't like our terms (3 bananas/hour), and the crocodile ate his agent on the way to the studio. During the scene where Miss Piggy steals the truck, the driver (played by, The end of the bicycle scene, where all the Muppets are shown riding together was actually done by putting all of the. as she crashes through the window at the Mallory Gallery. I remember when The Phantom Menace came out, Taco Bell did have a commemorative set, but it was this clown car-looking, big rubber head on a plastic cup-type deal. Dec. 19, 2018, Happy 175th Birthday Mr. Scrooge, Mr Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and Everybody Else! Miss Piggy and Animal, for instance, are particularly violent, but other Muppets, or guest stars, can pick a fight too. He is about to deem the Cast Iron Cooks the winners, until Chris finds the chef's wristwatch in the pot, Cookie Monster and friends sing as they wait for. Add the first question. The fourth wall is completely demolished by the characters during the course of the film. when the balloon did go up, a helicopter, with a cameraman suspended underneath it, followed it around. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. A working title for the project was The Muppet Movie 2; Henson's notes in 1980 refer to the project as "MM2". Miss Piggy questions Lady Holiday giving her information about her brother for no apparent reason, to which she replies that it's important exposition that had to go somewhere. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. He slowed down during the nineties, but recurred in the first two seasons of Jeeves and Wooster as the Berkeley Mansions doorman, usually in establishing exterior shots or helping characters in and out of cars. 3, no. In the first movie, it was Kermit riding a bike. This is probably why The Great Muppet Caper is my favorite of the Muppet movies. Looking for some great streaming picks? Fozzie comments on the opening credits as they appear on screen. "The Goblin Battle" is an original musical piece written for Labyrinth. While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick. Patchett and Tarses did a rewrite of Juhl and Rose's script, which was delivered in June under the title The Good, the Bad and the Muppets. In Albuquerque, we shot the hot air balloon sequence which comes at the beginning of the film. (In 1985, this was just as radical a position to take.) really work.Also you see the Muppets walking, dancing (Miss Piggy's tap dancing looks realistic! Miss Piggy and Animal, for instance, are particularly violent, but other Muppets, or guest stars, can pick a fight too. The final screenplay was completed in July, a composite of material from all four writers. Jim Henson's Red Book - 8/9/1980 - 'Shoot Peter Falk.'. One of his more visible roles, unbilled but speaking, was in 1969's Battle of Britain as an RAF sergeant in the opening scenes. The conditions were tropical! It's up to Kermit and The Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice. Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. In addition to the dialogue scene, he can be glimpsed on the dance floor and later at a different table, each time with a different lady companion. You can contact him directly on Twitter. 134 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, England, UK, Muppet Performer / Kevin Ackley . Muppet Video: Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff. Jim Henson's Red Book - 7/7/1980 - ‘Tom and Jay in town working on MM2. Prior to 1993 video releases and TV broadcasts of the movie, "Night Life" lacked Dr. Teeth's vocals; when Piggy is walking down the alley after leaving Kermit, Joe Raposo's scoring is interrupted by Big Ben tolling, with no other sound effects; also the same score continues for both the jewel thieves and the Muppets going over their check lists; and Piggy delivers an elongated, "Hiiiiiiiiii-yaaaaaa!" I sometimes refer to The Great Muppet Caper as “The Empire Strikes Back of Muppet movies” – because, in the mid-1980s, Caper was the middle film that seemed to get overlooked amidst the nostalgia of the original The Muppet Movie and the pandering of the latest, The Muppets Take Manhattan. An even more uncomfortable problem was filling the balloon with hot air. The Great Muppet Caper Kermit and Fozzie are playing twin brothers, which is hilarious… It’s very linear: There’s a crook and they’re trying to catch him and all of that stuff.”. They travel to London, England to interview her, but without any money for travel, they're forced to fly in the baggage hold of an aircraft and are thrown out of the plane as they arrive over Britain. [2] His original conception of the movie was fairly vague: Muppet head writer Jerry Juhl was the first person to take a crack at a script, and in September 1979, Henson talked to Jack Rose, a comedy gag man and screenwriter who scripted several Bob Hope films, including Road to Rio and The Great Lover. It's up to Kermit and The Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice. Strangely, I still own paraphernalia from The Great Muppet Caper. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. This flies in the face of every installment of The Muppet Show, which had just had its final episode three months before The Great Muppet Caper premiered. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Occasionally, the helicopter would go above the balloon, forcing the hot air out and the balloon down, CRASH! (1984). The jewel thieves strike again, and this time, frame Miss Piggy. Kermit's crew, along with their friends from the Happiness Hotel, have no choice but to intercept and catch the thieves themselves in order to clear Miss Piggy's good name.