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Orson Welles, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, James Coburn, Frank Oz, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Elliott Gould, Jim Henson, Bob Hope, Madeline Kahn, Carol Kane, Cloris Leachman, Richard Pryor, Telly Savalas, Edgar Bergen, and Paul Williams in The Muppet Movie (1979)

Frank Oz: Miss Piggy • Fozzie Bear • Animal • ...

The Muppet Movie

Frank Oz credited as playing...

Miss Piggy • Fozzie Bear • Animal • Sam the Eagle • Doc Hopper's Men • Marvin Suggs • Swedish Chef (assistant) • Motorcycle Guy

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Quotes49

  • Dr. Teeth: [after the Electric Mayhem paint the Studebaker] Doc Hopper will never recognize you now.
  • Fozzie: I don't know how to thank you guys.
  • Kermit: I don't know *why* to thank you guys.
  • Fozzie: Ahh, a bear in his natural habitat - a Studebaker.
  • Fozzie: [walking into the church and seeing the Electric Mayhem] They don't look like Presbyterians to me.
  • Fozzie: Hey, why don't you join us?
  • Gonzo: Where are you going?
  • Fozzie: We're following our dream!
  • Gonzo: Really? I have a dream, too!
  • Fozzie: Oh?
  • Gonzo: But you'll think it's stupid.
  • Fozzie: No we won't, tell us, tell us!
  • Gonzo: Well, I want to go to Bombay, India and become a movie star.
  • Fozzie: You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star! You go where we're going: Hollywood.
  • Gonzo: Sure, if you want to do it the *easy* way.
  • Fozzie: [to Kermit] We've picked up a weirdo...
  • Kermit: Where did you learn to drive?
  • Fozzie: I took a correspondence course.
  • Sam the Eagle: Kermit, does this film have socially redeeming value?
  • Kermit: Hey, Fozzie, I want you to turn left if you come to a fork in the road.
  • Fozzie: Yes sir, turn left at the fork in the road.
  • [drives past a giant fork]
  • Fozzie: Kermit!
  • Kermit: I don't believe that.
  • Kermit: [navigating in the Studebaker] Bear left.
  • Fozzie: Right, frog.
  • Kermit: Gee. A Studebaker. Where did you get it?
  • Fozzie: Oh, my uncle left it to me.
  • Kermit: Huh, is he dead?
  • Fozzie: No, he's hibernating.
  • Miss Piggy: Kermie, whisper sweet nothings into my ear.
  • Kermit: Uh... motorcycle cop.
  • Miss Piggy: "Motorcycle cop" is a sweet nothing?
  • Kermit: A motorcycle cop is chasing us.
  • Miss Piggy: [gushing] Ooh, you mad, impetuous thing, it's champagne!
  • Insolent Waiter: Not exactly. Sparkling Muscatel, one of the finest wines of Idaho.
  • Kermit: It's too bad the dancing girls are on vacation; this crowd's getting ugly.
  • Fozzie: Huh. If you think this crowd's ugly, you should see the dancing girls.
  • [Professor Max Krassman has just put Kermit in the electronic beanie]
  • Miss Piggy: [desperate] Please! Please! Not my frog, please!
  • Max Krassman: Say goodbye to your frog, pig!
  • 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!
  • Fozzie: There was this sailor who was so fat!
  • Sailor: How fat was he?
  • Sailor: [breaks bottle and points it towards him threateningly]
  • Fozzie: [Nervously] Uh, he was so fat that everybody liked him and there was nothing funny about him at all.
  • Kermit: Hey, Fozzie, look up ahead there.
  • Fozzie: What is that?
  • Kermit: Maybe we should give him a ride.
  • Fozzie: I don't know, he's pretty big.
  • Fozzie: [to Big Bird] 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. Hm, good luck.
  • Kermit: [asks the waiter to taste the wine for him and Miss Piggy] Will you taste it for us, please?
  • Insolent Waiter: [tastes the wine, makes a face and spits it out] Ooh! Ah... Excellent - choice.
  • Kermit: [to Miss Piggy] Should be, for ninety-five cents.
  • Miss Piggy: [impressed] Ooooh!
  • Fozzie: Oh, I'm so nervous. If I'm not funny, I won't be able to live with myself.
  • Dr. Bunsen Honeydew: Well, then you'll have to get another apartment, won't you?
  • [Animal roars and scares Kermit and Fozzie]
  • Floyd Pepper: Oh, yeah, that's Animal. Show 'em what you do, Animal.
  • Animal: I want to - eat drums!
  • [chews on a cymbal]
  • Dr. Teeth: No, no. Beat drums, beat drums!
  • Animal: [stops chewing] Beat drums! Beat drums!
  • [Starts beating his head against that same cymbal]
  • Floyd Pepper: Down, Animal!
  • Animal: DOWN!
  • Floyd Pepper: Back!
  • Animal: BACK!
  • Floyd Pepper: Sit!
  • Animal: SIT!
  • Miss Piggy: [as Beaker combs her hair, he comes across a tangle] Ow!
  • [turns around]
  • Miss Piggy: Watch it!
  • [Beaker beeps back hurriedly]
  • Kermit: [through his megaphone] Miss Piggy, you look beautiful!
  • Miss Piggy: Thank you!
  • Kermit: [aside] Hollywood talk.
  • Fozzie: Hello, I'd like an ice cream.
  • Ice Cream Vendor: What do you want? Chocolate, vanilla, coffee, peach fudge, rum, banana?
  • Fozzie: Honey.
  • Ice Cream Vendor: Honey? I beg your pardon, I hardly know you.
  • Fozzie: Ahhhhhhhh! But seriously, I'd like a honey ice cream cone for me, and a dragonfly ripple for my friend the frog.
  • Ice Cream Vendor: OK.
  • [handing him the two ice cream cones]
  • Ice Cream Vendor: One honey cone for the bear.
  • Fozzie: Yeah.
  • Ice Cream Vendor: And one dragonfly ripple for the frog.
  • Fozzie: Yucha.
  • Ice Cream Vendor: Don't get 'em mixed up.
  • Fozzie: Gotcha.

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