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{{Infobox Film | name = The Great Muppet Caper | image = TheGreatMuppetCaper.png | caption = ''The Great Muppet Caper'' DVD cover | director = [Jim Henson | producer = [David Lazer
[Frank Oz | writer = [Jerry Juhl
[Tom Patchett
[Jay Tarses | starring = [Jim Henson
[Frank Oz
[Dave Goelz
[Jerry Nelson
[Richard Hunt (puppeteer) | music = [Joe Raposo | cinematography = [Oswald Morris | editing = [Ralph Kemplen | distributor = [Universal Studios
[Associated Film Distribution | released = June 26, [ | runtime = 95 minutes | language = [English language | budget = | preceded_by = [The Muppet Movie | followed_by = [The Muppets Take Manhattan | imdb_id = 0082474 -->

The Great Muppet Caper is the second of a series of live-action musical film feature films, starring Jim Henson's Muppets. This film was produced by Henson Associates, ITC Entertainment and Universal Studios, and originally released in movie theatres in 1981 in film. The movie was released shortly after the final season of The Muppet Show.

In the story, Kermit the Frog (performed by Jim Henson, who also directed the film), Fozzie Bear (performed by Frank Oz), and Gonzo the Great (performed by Dave Goelz) play the role of newspaper reporters for the Daily Chronicle and are eventually assigned to investigate the theft of a valuable diamond necklace from fashion designer Lady Holliday (Diana Rigg). They travel to London 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. They stay at the ramshackle (but free) Happiness Hotel, run and populated by the likes of Pops, Scooter, Rowlf, and the Electric Mayhem. When Kermit seeks out Lady Holliday in her office, however, he instead finds her receptionist, Miss Piggy and mistakes her for the fashion designer. Piggy masquerades as Lady Holliday, even going so far as to sneak into a ritzy highrise in order to impress Kermit with her dwellings, much to the surprise of the true British residents (one of whom is John Cleese).

In fact, the jewel theft was orchestrated by Lady Holliday's nefarious brother Nicky (Charles Grodin), assisted by Carla, Marla and Darla, three of her put-upon fashion models. 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, the Mallory Gallery. 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. Piggy, meanwhile, has escaped from prison and, in a bout of serendipity, finds a motorcycle which she uses to literally crash into the film's climax, knocking Nicky, who is holding Kermit hostage, out in the process. Carla, Marla and Darla confront Piggy, only to be quickly dispatched by a flurry of furious karate chops. The Muppets then return to America the same way they departed, being thrown out of the cargo hold and parachuting back to Earth as the credits roll.

Trivia

• Gonzo's classification as a "whatever" was officially cemented in this film, as this is the label affixed to his shipping crate en route to Great Britain. This classification lasted until Muppets from Space. (He is also popularly known as a "weirdo" due to Muppet Babies.)
• A running gag throughout the film is that Kermit and Fozzie are said to be identical twins, though they look nothing alike and are different species. Passers-by often get them mixed up. Their father is shown in a photograph in the beginning, depicted as a bear who looks exactly like Fozzie, but has frog eyes and is green.
• A live-action double plays the role of Miss Piggy during some of the scenes in which she appears to ride a motorcycle.
• The fourth wall is completely demolished by the Muppets during the course of the film. Fozzie comments on the opening credits as they appear on screen; Kermit talks directly to the audience about the roles that he and Fozzie and Gonzo will play; Piggy angrily tells Charles Grodin's character "you can't even sing! Your voice was dubbed!"; Kermit later reminds one of the guest stars (Peter Falk), after a meandering monologue, that they need to get back to the story; and at one point, Kermit and Miss Piggy break character and start arguing over her acting technique.
• The film boasts numerous star cameos, including those of John Cleese, Peter Ustinov, and Jack Warden. Muppet performers Henson, Oz, Richard Hunt (puppeteer), and Jerry Nelson (with his daughter) also make background appearances. Additionally, Oscar the Grouch (Caroll Spinney) of Sesame Street fame appears in the movie in a self-described "very brief cameo."
• The film is almost a "film within a film", a film being made by the characters from The Muppet Show. This is seen in the comments made by members of the cast about the credits, the script, and even the acting. The film takes place in an Parallel universe (fiction) from The Muppet Movie, as the characters are all meeting for the very first time.
• The film earned an Academy Award nomination for the song "The First Time It Happens."
• Two numbers referenced Fred Astaire and Esther Williams. The first was the number, "Steppin' Out with a Star", when Kermit, Fonzie and Gonzo are singing before Kermit's date. Kermit starts dancing with a hatrack, which is a parody from Fred Astaire's "Sunday Jumps", which Astaire danced with a hatrack in Royal Wedding. The other was "Miss Piggy's Fantasy," sung by Kermit and Nicky Holliday (was dubbed), when Miss Piggy started to swim in a large swimming pool with several female swimmers, which is a parody to Esther Williams, who is famous for jumping, diving, swimming and doing numbers in pools in her movies. Highly choreographed musical numbers involving chorus girls in attractive geometric patterns were popularized in motion pictures by Busby Berkeley (who directed Esther Williams).
• Jim Henson makes a cameo appearance as one of the people Gonzo takes a picture of in the restaurant scene.
• John Cleese and Joan Sanderson (the British couple whose London house Miss Piggy tries to pass off as her own) had appeared opposite each other previously, in the Fawlty Towers episode "Communication Problems"

Guest Stars

• Charles Grodin as Nicky Holiday
• Diana Rigg as Lady Holiday
• John Cleese as Neville
• Robert Morley as British Gentleman
• Peter Ustinov as Truck Driver
• Jack Warden as Mr. Tarkenian
• Peter Falk as Tramp (uncredited)

Songs

"Main Title Theme" (2:49)

"Hey, A Movie!" (2:42)

"The Big Red Bus" (1:26)

"Happiness Hotel" (3:05)

"Lady Holiday" (1:12)

"The First Time It Happens" (4:12)

"The Apartment" (0:53)

"Night Life" (2:57)

"Steppin' Out With A Star" (2:31)

"Couldn't We Ride" (3:07)

"Miss Piggy's Fantasy" (3:58)

"The Great Muppet Caper" (3:48)

"Homeward Bound" (0:52)

"Finale: Hey, A Movie! (reprise)" (1:30)

"The First Time It Happens (reprise)" (1:30)

Score Cues Left Off Soundtrack

Stop the Presses!

Splash Landing

Lobby

"Happiness Hotel" (Full version)

Applying For a Job

Kermit Meets Piggy

Taxi

Getting Ready

You Can Come/17 Highbrow Street

"A Pig and a Lizzard"

Dubonnet Club (Instrumental of "Steppin' Out With a Star")

I Think I’ve Got a Picture of the Thief

The Cookie Jar Just Busted/In the Park

Would You Like to Buy a Watch?

Kermit and Piggy Argument

I’m Sorry I Left You

I Can’t Be Responsible For What Might Happen

Fashion Show

Framed

The Baseball Diamond Will Be Ours

We Don’t Want the Bad Guys to Win

Pig In the Pokey

I Love You, Rosenthal

The Heist (Full version, much longer with many short cues)

Quotes Kermit: Excuse me...
Pops: What?
Kermit: We'd like a room.
Pops: Really?
Kermit: Yeah, we'd like to check in.
Pops: Hey, some-body's checking in!
Muppets: Somebody's checking in?!

Everyone is talking at once. All characters suddenly become silent except for Janice.
Janice: ...Look mother, it's my life, OK? If I want to live on a beach and walk around naked- (notices other Muppets staring)Oh.

Kermit: Now we're about to embark on a potentially dangerous mission. There could be physical violence, there could be gun play, and there's the slightest chance that somebody might even get killed. So if anybody wants out, now is the time to say it.
-beat-
Floyd: I'm out.
Rowlf: Me too.
Bunsen: Ditto.
Beaker: Meep-meep.
Zoot: Hey, uh, don't we have a gig around here or something, or... somewhere.
Pops: Yeah, sorry I got a dental appointment.
Janice: It's like this Kermit, I have to go to work all day, and have alfalfa sprouts and all sorts of good things...


Muppet 1: We'll catch the crooks red-handed.
Fozzie: What color are their hands now?

(after the Happiness Hotel song)Sam the Eagle: You are all weirdos!

External links

• Muppet Wiki: The Great Muppet Caper
• Muppet Movies Lyric Archive

{{Infobox Film | name = The Great Muppet Caper | image = TheGreatMuppetCaper.png | caption = ''The Great Muppet Caper'' DVD cover | director = [Jim Henson | producer = [David Lazer
[Frank Oz | writer = [Jerry Juhl
[Tom Patchett
[Jay Tarses | starring = [Jim Henson
[Frank Oz
[Dave Goelz
[Jerry Nelson
[Richard Hunt (puppeteer) | music = [Joe Raposo | cinematography = [Oswald Morris | editing = [Ralph Kemplen | distributor = [Universal Studios
[Associated Film Distribution | released = June 26, [ | runtime = 95 minutes | language = [English language | budget = | preceded_by = [The Muppet Movie | followed_by = [The Muppets Take Manhattan | imdb_id = 0082474 -->

The Great Muppet Caper is the second of a series of live-action musical film feature films, starring Jim Henson's Muppets. This film was produced by Henson Associates, ITC Entertainment and Universal Studios, and originally released in movie theatres in 1981 in film. The movie was released shortly after the final season of The Muppet Show.

In the story, Kermit the Frog (performed by Jim Henson, who also directed the film), Fozzie Bear (performed by Frank Oz), and Gonzo the Great (performed by Dave Goelz) play the role of newspaper reporters for the Daily Chronicle and are eventually assigned to investigate the theft of a valuable diamond necklace from fashion designer Lady Holliday (Diana Rigg). They travel to London 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. They stay at the ramshackle (but free) Happiness Hotel, run and populated by the likes of Pops, Scooter, Rowlf, and the Electric Mayhem. When Kermit seeks out Lady Holliday in her office, however, he instead finds her receptionist, Miss Piggy and mistakes her for the fashion designer. Piggy masquerades as Lady Holliday, even going so far as to sneak into a ritzy highrise in order to impress Kermit with her dwellings, much to the surprise of the true British residents (one of whom is John Cleese).

In fact, the jewel theft was orchestrated by Lady Holliday's nefarious brother Nicky (Charles Grodin), assisted by Carla, Marla and Darla, three of her put-upon fashion models. 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, the Mallory Gallery. 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. Piggy, meanwhile, has escaped from prison and, in a bout of serendipity, finds a motorcycle which she uses to literally crash into the film's climax, knocking Nicky, who is holding Kermit hostage, out in the process. Carla, Marla and Darla confront Piggy, only to be quickly dispatched by a flurry of furious karate chops. The Muppets then return to America the same way they departed, being thrown out of the cargo hold and parachuting back to Earth as the credits roll.

Trivia

• Gonzo's classification as a "whatever" was officially cemented in this film, as this is the label affixed to his shipping crate en route to Great Britain. This classification lasted until Muppets from Space. (He is also popularly known as a "weirdo" due to Muppet Babies.)
• A running gag throughout the film is that Kermit and Fozzie are said to be identical twins, though they look nothing alike and are different species. Passers-by often get them mixed up. Their father is shown in a photograph in the beginning, depicted as a bear who looks exactly like Fozzie, but has frog eyes and is green.
• A live-action double plays the role of Miss Piggy during some of the scenes in which she appears to ride a motorcycle.
• The fourth wall is completely demolished by the Muppets during the course of the film. Fozzie comments on the opening credits as they appear on screen; Kermit talks directly to the audience about the roles that he and Fozzie and Gonzo will play; Piggy angrily tells Charles Grodin's character "you can't even sing! Your voice was dubbed!"; Kermit later reminds one of the guest stars (Peter Falk), after a meandering monologue, that they need to get back to the story; and at one point, Kermit and Miss Piggy break character and start arguing over her acting technique.
• The film boasts numerous star cameos, including those of John Cleese, Peter Ustinov, and Jack Warden. Muppet performers Henson, Oz, Richard Hunt (puppeteer), and Jerry Nelson (with his daughter) also make background appearances. Additionally, Oscar the Grouch (Caroll Spinney) of Sesame Street fame appears in the movie in a self-described "very brief cameo."
• The film is almost a "film within a film", a film being made by the characters from The Muppet Show. This is seen in the comments made by members of the cast about the credits, the script, and even the acting. The film takes place in an Parallel universe (fiction) from The Muppet Movie, as the characters are all meeting for the very first time.
• The film earned an Academy Award nomination for the song "The First Time It Happens."
• Two numbers referenced Fred Astaire and Esther Williams. The first was the number, "Steppin' Out with a Star", when Kermit, Fonzie and Gonzo are singing before Kermit's date. Kermit starts dancing with a hatrack, which is a parody from Fred Astaire's "Sunday Jumps", which Astaire danced with a hatrack in Royal Wedding. The other was "Miss Piggy's Fantasy," sung by Kermit and Nicky Holliday (was dubbed), when Miss Piggy started to swim in a large swimming pool with several female swimmers, which is a parody to Esther Williams, who is famous for jumping, diving, swimming and doing numbers in pools in her movies. Highly choreographed musical numbers involving chorus girls in attractive geometric patterns were popularized in motion pictures by Busby Berkeley (who directed Esther Williams).
• Jim Henson makes a cameo appearance as one of the people Gonzo takes a picture of in the restaurant scene.
• John Cleese and Joan Sanderson (the British couple whose London house Miss Piggy tries to pass off as her own) had appeared opposite each other previously, in the Fawlty Towers episode "Communication Problems"

Guest Stars

• Charles Grodin as Nicky Holiday
• Diana Rigg as Lady Holiday
• John Cleese as Neville
• Robert Morley as British Gentleman
• Peter Ustinov as Truck Driver
• Jack Warden as Mr. Tarkenian
• Peter Falk as Tramp (uncredited)

Songs

"Main Title Theme" (2:49)

"Hey, A Movie!" (2:42)

"The Big Red Bus" (1:26)

"Happiness Hotel" (3:05)

"Lady Holiday" (1:12)

"The First Time It Happens" (4:12)

"The Apartment" (0:53)

"Night Life" (2:57)

"Steppin' Out With A Star" (2:31)

"Couldn't We Ride" (3:07)

"Miss Piggy's Fantasy" (3:58)

"The Great Muppet Caper" (3:48)

"Homeward Bound" (0:52)

"Finale: Hey, A Movie! (reprise)" (1:30)

"The First Time It Happens (reprise)" (1:30)

Score Cues Left Off Soundtrack

Stop the Presses!

Splash Landing

Lobby

"Happiness Hotel" (Full version)

Applying For a Job

Kermit Meets Piggy

Taxi

Getting Ready

You Can Come/17 Highbrow Street

"A Pig and a Lizzard"

Dubonnet Club (Instrumental of "Steppin' Out With a Star")

I Think I’ve Got a Picture of the Thief

The Cookie Jar Just Busted/In the Park

Would You Like to Buy a Watch?

Kermit and Piggy Argument

I’m Sorry I Left You

I Can’t Be Responsible For What Might Happen

Fashion Show

Framed

The Baseball Diamond Will Be Ours

We Don’t Want the Bad Guys to Win

Pig In the Pokey

I Love You, Rosenthal

The Heist (Full version, much longer with many short cues)

Quotes Kermit: Excuse me...
Pops: What?
Kermit: We'd like a room.
Pops: Really?
Kermit: Yeah, we'd like to check in.
Pops: Hey, some-body's checking in!
Muppets: Somebody's checking in?!

Everyone is talking at once. All characters suddenly become silent except for Janice.
Janice: ...Look mother, it's my life, OK? If I want to live on a beach and walk around naked- (notices other Muppets staring)Oh.

Kermit: Now we're about to embark on a potentially dangerous mission. There could be physical violence, there could be gun play, and there's the slightest chance that somebody might even get killed. So if anybody wants out, now is the time to say it.
-beat-
Floyd: I'm out.
Rowlf: Me too.
Bunsen: Ditto.
Beaker: Meep-meep.
Zoot: Hey, uh, don't we have a gig around here or something, or... somewhere.
Pops: Yeah, sorry I got a dental appointment.
Janice: It's like this Kermit, I have to go to work all day, and have alfalfa sprouts and all sorts of good things...


Muppet 1: We'll catch the crooks red-handed.
Fozzie: What color are their hands now?

(after the Happiness Hotel song)Sam the Eagle: You are all weirdos!

External links

• Muppet Wiki: The Great Muppet Caper
• Muppet Movies Lyric Archive

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