# Replace a movie cast with The Muppets (with one human) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523 "2018-07-24T20:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/1 "2018-07-24T20:36:38Z")
Exactly as it says, you can replace the cast of any movie with The Muppets, but you have to keep one of the movie actors. What movie and which human do you keep? For example, the Chris Nolan Batman Trilogy with Michael Caine as Alfred as the only human. Or The Terminator with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the only human _(well cyborg)_ would be pretty entertaining/alarming. Any ideas? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/2 "2018-07-24T20:50:38Z")
Austin Powers, IMoM. Kermit as AP, Miss Piggy as Vanessa, Fozzie as Number Two, Bunsen as Basil Exposition, and Mike Meyers as Doctor Evil. With beaker as Mini-Me. Statler and Waldorf can, as always, supply running commentary. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/3 "2018-07-24T20:57:45Z")
Does it have to be a recent enough film that the human actor is still available? Because I’d like to see Casablanca with Kermit as Rick and Miss Piggy as Ilsa but keeping Claude Rains as Renault. (Actually, they may have done a parody of Casablanca on their variety show.) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/4 "2018-07-24T21:00:48Z")
_The Empire Strikes Back_, with Frank Oz as Yoda. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/5 "2018-07-24T21:22:40Z")
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Keep Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham. ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/6 "2018-07-24T21:32:13Z")
The “True Detective,” where Marty is Woody Harrelson and everyone else - including Rust - is a Muppet. Harrelson: “So what’s the point of getting out of bed in the morning?” Muppet: “I lack the constitution to commit suicide.” ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/7 "2018-07-24T21:33:18Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. > > Keep Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham. That would actually be a fantastic movie. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/8 "2018-07-24T21:40:05Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Does it have to be a recent enough film that the human actor is still available? Because I’d like to see Casablanca with Kermit as Rick and Miss Piggy as Ilsa but keeping Claude Rains as Renault. (Actually, they may have done a parody of Casablanca on their variety show.) Nope, any era is fine 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/9 "2018-07-24T21:42:14Z")
The original\* The Producers\*, with Kermit as Leo, Fozzie as Max. Gonzo as Roger DeBris, and the Swedish Chef as Franz Liebkind. Keep Dick Shawn as Lorenzo St. Dubois. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/10 "2018-07-24T22:15:50Z")
_Muppet Lord of the Rings_ — keep Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/11 "2018-07-24T22:17:17Z")
> [@Atomic\_Alex](#): > > For example, the Chris Nolan Batman Trilogy with Michael Caine as Alfred as the only human. Right actor, wrong movie. Redo _Sleuth_ with Caine as Andrew Wyke and Kermit as Milo Tindle. _Sleuth_ has been a movie twice, originally with Caine as the younger Milo, and the remake had him as the older Andrew. For my version, I would keep the style of the original, but with Caine in the senior role as in the remake. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/12 "2018-07-24T22:19:25Z")
_Jaws_. Keep Robert Shaw. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/13 "2018-07-24T22:26:01Z")
_The Godfather_, with Kermit as Tom Hagen, Miss Piggy as Kay, Beaker as Don Vito, Sam the Eagle as Sonny, Gonzo as Fredo, Fozzie as Clemenza. Keep Pacino. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/14 "2018-07-24T22:35:01Z")
**Pulp Fiction** , because I now can’t stop picturing Fozzie shooting Marvin in the face and Kermit’s reaction: I figure Sam The Eagle can do Christopher Walken’s part, and I figure Miss Piggy for Uma Thurman, and figure Gonzo delivers every Bruce Willis line (only to, y’know, a _chicken_ as his love interest), and figure Dr. Teeth and Janice swap in as Ringo and Honey Bunny, and so on; but the key is, the guy who doesn’t even have an opinion and gets killed by a muppet who wasn’t even trying — and nobody really much _cares_, except that he now mildly inconveniences other muppets? Yeah, he’s the human. (Rowlf as Ving Rhames and the Swedish Chef as Harvey Keitel, or vice versa?) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/15 "2018-07-24T22:42:02Z")
Peter Jackson’s, “King Kong,” with Jack Black as Denham, Piggy as Naomi Watts, Kermit as Adrian Brody and Fozzie as Andy Serkis. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/16 "2018-07-24T22:50:51Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Does it have to be a recent enough film that the human actor is still available? Because I’d like to see Casablanca with Kermit as Rick and Miss Piggy as Ilsa but keeping Claude Rains as Renault. (Actually, they may have done a parody of Casablanca on their variety show.) No. The one cast member you keep is S.Z. Sakall, who looks like a Muppet to begin with. Rowlf as Sam, Sam the Eagle as Major Strasser, Rizzo the Rat as Ugarte, Fozzie as Laslo, Dr. Teeth as Renaukt ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/17 "2018-07-24T23:05:20Z")
12 Angry Men. Statler and Waldorf as the two antagonists who don’t change their votes until late. Fozzie Bear as the ad exec who changes his vote several times, except in this version he changes it every few minutes in an attempt to gain the validation of his peers. Swedish Chef or Beaker as the naturalized citizen. Sam the Eagle as the foreman. As for the human, that would logically be Henry Fonda, but I could also see a case being made for Joseph Sweeny instead (the old dude who changed his vote and stood up for Fonda). Kermit the Frog would play whichever of those is not a muppet. Aso, humans (yes, plural, I know I’m cheating) could be the various minor roles like bailiff and judge, and in the spirit of other Muppet movies they would all be improbably high-profile cameos. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/18 "2018-07-24T23:21:14Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > _The Godfather_, with Kermit as Tom Hagen, Miss Piggy as Kay, Beaker as Don Vito, Sam the Eagle as Sonny, Gonzo as Fredo, Fozzie as Clemenza. Keep Pacino. I was thinking keep Abe Vigoda, but he’d have to be written in to a lot more scenes. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/19 "2018-07-24T23:50:10Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Does it have to be a recent enough film that the human actor is still available? Because I’d like to see Casablanca with Kermit as Rick and Miss Piggy as Ilsa but keeping Claude Rains as Renault. (Actually, they may have done a parody of Casablanca on their variety show.) > [@RealityChuck](#): > > No. The one cast member you keep is S.Z. Sakall, who looks like a Muppet to begin with. Rowlf as Sam, Sam the Eagle as Major Strasser, Rizzo the Rat as Ugarte, Fozzie as Laslo, Dr. Teeth as Renaukt Guy Smiley as Lazlo, Uncle Deadly as Major Stasser, Sam the Eagle as Ferrara, Wayne and Wanda as the couple whom Rick helps at the roulette wheel. Floyd as the owner of the second-largest bank in Brussels, and Janice as his wife. I would keep Peter Lorre. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/20 "2018-07-25T01:00:35Z")
I was going to mention _Requiem for a Dream_, but it’s too awful to consider. How about _Fight Club_ with Brad Pitt staying as Tyler Durden? The plot twist would be even more surprising. I think we need a Muppet horror movie. How about _The Shining_? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523.md?page=2)