The Muppets - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of The Muppets or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Muppets

[maureen]

The first Disney film to have the Walt Disney Pictures logo simply read "Disney".

[janice]

The scene of Fozzie's "fart shoes" caused a controversy among the Muppeteers, some of whom considered the humor too low brow for The Muppets. In the film, characters did not appreciate Fozzie's proposal.

[kenzi]

A picture of Jim Henson appears on a poster outside of the Muppet Theater, and a picture of him with Kermit the Frog appears on the wall in Kermit's old office.

[ray]

In Spain the "Muppets" are known as "Teleñecos", but "The Walt Disney Company" requested to change "Teleñecos" to "Muppets" in the dubbing for assuring the merchandising. The also wanted to change Kermit's Spanish name Gustavo to the original, but that was kept.

[carl]

At the beginning of "Rehearsal" scene, at 48:51, in the background, a billboard for Cars 2 (2011) and the in-movie sitcom Punch Teacher are visible as well as the Scientology building.

[alyssa]

The production team met with the creative heads of Pixar to finetune the screenplay.

[cassandra]

Bret McKenzie taught Chris Cooper how to rap and use typical rapper mannerisms.

[ray]

The first of The Muppets' productions to win an Oscar. Bret McKenzie won Best Original Song for "Man or Muppet".

[addison]

According to the full version of Tex Richman's rap, "Let's Talk About Me" (found in the soundtrack and the DVD extras), Richman hates The Muppets because at his tenth birthday party, everyone was watching The Muppet Show (1976) and laughing. Richman, unable to laugh, was then ridiculed by all his friends.

[sandra]

as of 2019; this is the longest Muppet movie at two hours.

[marc]

In the montage where the Muppets are retrieved from their current jobs, Scooter is shown in a Google reception area. At the time of release, this is indeed an actual office; it is the reception of Google's office in Zurich.

[claude]

Frank Oz was originally set to direct, but left the project because he was unhappy with the script.

[richard]

Gary Numan's song Cars is played when they leave Kermit the Frog's House. Cars was released in 1979, when The Muppet Movie (1979) was released.

[mathew]

Jim Parsons (Human Walter) is the only actor whose cameo appearance was never announced or rumored. Parsons was asked to not publicly talk about his scene and agreed to, but the filmmakers confirmed his appearance in the film (while not specifically saying he was playing the human form of Walter the Muppet) after Parsons' role information appeared on the Internet Movie Database. He appeared with (human) star Jason Segel, thus teaming up the stars from two of CBS' sitcoms: How I Met Your Mother (2005) (Segel) and The Big Bang Theory (2007) (Parsons).

[norma]

The original version run of The Muppet Show was actually taped in a set in Studio D of the co-production partner's ATV/ITC/(later BBC) Elstree Centre television studios, not to be confused with the EMI Elstree Studios, in Borehamwood/Elstree in the UK. This Muppet movie officially locates the Muppet theatre interior to a real world theatre location, and retro-fits their Muppet Studios period to a real location too.

[michele]

HIDDEN MICKEY: At the end of the film, as the camera tilts toward the sky, showing the fireworks, three of the explosions are in the shape of Mickey Mouse's iconic head. This is likely due to The Muppets being owned by Disney. The exterior location used for the Muppet Theatre is the El Capitan theater in Hollywood, which is operated by The Walt Disney Company. The Muppets' Hollywood Walk of Fame star is also in front of it. It is also next to Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)'s theatre - a show on ABC, owned by Disney.

[melinda]

Of all the actors and actresses making cameos in this film, Alan Arkin is the only one to ever appear on The Muppet Show (1976), specifically in The Muppet Show: Alan Arkin (1980). Whoopi Goldberg appeared in spin-off projects Muppets Tonight: Whoopi Goldberg (1996), Sesame Street (1969) (5 episodes), and It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002).

[fred]

The film's working title was "The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time!"

[nina]

Amy Adams was the last person cast.