# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/61 "2018-07-26T02:51:17Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I was wondering how long it would take to suggest Sesame Street Muppets. I’m trying to decide what roles would be funniest for Big Bird and Mr. Snuffalufagus. How about Jules and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction? Either them, or Bert and Ernie. “Time to get into character.” Honestly , picture BB or Ernie doing the “Righteous Man” speech while Snuffie/Bert stand around bored in the background, waiting for the drama queen to get it over with. ---
**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 26, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/62 "2018-07-26T03:07:26Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > _Jaws_. Keep Robert Shaw. > [@CookingWithGas](#): > > I would keep Richard Dreyfuss. Nah, it’s gotta be Shaw. Picture him giving the _Indianapolis_ speech while Hooper (Fozzie) looks on in awe. At the end, he gets eaten by a muppet shark. _Full Metal Jacket_ might be good, but I can’t decide which way to go with it. Do we have a human drill instructor teaching and berating a company of muppets, are do we have Pvt. Joker being verbally berated by a muppet R. Lee Ermey? _2001: A Space Odyssey_ Moon-Watcher: Cookie Monster Dr. Floyd: Grover Frank Poole: Gary Lockwood Dave Bowman: Kermit HAL 900 (voice): Fozzie ---
**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 26, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/63 "2018-07-26T03:09:41Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Nah, it’s gotta be Shaw. Picture him giving the _Indianapolis_ speech while Hooper (Fozzie) looks on in awe. “Lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. Uh, no offense.” ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/64 "2018-07-26T03:46:21Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > How about Jules and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction? Either them, or Bert and Ernie. “Time to get into character.” > > Honestly , picture BB or Ernie doing the “Righteous Man” speech while Snuffie/Bert stand around bored in the background, waiting for the drama queen to get it over with. “Oh, bird…” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/65 "2018-07-26T06:28:33Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Nah, it’s gotta be Shaw. Picture him giving the _Indianapolis_ speech while Hooper (Fozzie) looks on in awe. At the end, he gets eaten by a muppet shark. > _Full Metal Jacket_ might be good, but I can’t decide which way to go with it. Do we have a human drill instructor teaching and berating a company of muppets, are do we have Pvt. Joker being verbally berated by a muppet R. Lee Ermey? I’d like to see Sam the Eagle as the drill sergeant. ---
**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 26, 2018, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/66 "2018-07-26T06:58:57Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’d like to see Sam the Eagle as the drill sergeant. Sam’s got the right posture for it, but he was always pretty ineffectual and I can’t really see him being so gleefully profane. In the tradition of comic actors turning in great dramatic performances, I think Link Hogthrob is our Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. He’s got the military bearing; if we can get him to tone down the comedy, I think he can pull it off. I’ll be on the coast next week. Call his people and see if he’ll come in and read for it. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/67 "2018-07-26T07:25:59Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > You’re gonna really love [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTofJSEdKCs). I am really impressed how much their casting ideas and mine meshed (even granting that Kermit and Piggy are obvious), and they definitely had the right idea of having the Electric Mayhem be all the chorus, not just one particular group…would be more amused if it were the whole album, though. Mm…thinking on it, though I’d make two revisions to my cast - 1: expand the Mayhem’s gig, as mentioned above. 2: The human really should be one of the main roles, so move Gonzo to Simon Zealotes and have Judas played by Brandon Victor Dixon (who played him in the recent NBC version). ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/68 "2018-07-26T10:48:25Z")
Fifth Element Kermit as Major Dallas Ms. Piggy as Leeloo - expanding her range starting from innocent at the start, to butt kicking heroine, tragic figure, world savior, to the final love coupling at the end. Bravo, Bravo. Rizzo the Rat as Zorg. His incompetent assistant - Scooter. Keep Priest Vito Cornelius as human actor Ian Holm. His incompetent assistant - Fozzy Bear Pepe the King Prawn as Ruby Rhod. Clifford - a lavender-colored, catfish-faced, sunglasses-wearing character with multicolored dreadlocks as the Diva with the stones inside. Animal as head of the Mangalores. Sam Eagle as the General. Statler and Waldorf - either/hell both - as the President. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem as the musical accompaniment. Gonzo as Baby Ray. Still working on Young Dr. Frankenstein. ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/69 "2018-07-26T12:40:14Z")
[Muppets read famous movie lines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kath8ZIE9Kk) (Technically, Sesame Street characters.) Bert and Ernie as Sherlock Holmes and Watson; Ernie would drive Holmes crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/70 "2018-07-26T14:36:14Z")
I did this one on Twitter: **Unforgiven**. Keep Gene Hackman. Kermit as Will Munny. Fozzie as Ned. Scooter as the Schofield Kid. Bobo as Skinny. And the best one: Uncle Deadly as English Bob, and Pepe as Beauchamp. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/71 "2018-07-26T14:44:59Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Bunsen Honeydew as Signor Ferrari. Gotsta keep him roly-poly. How about Cookie Monster, doing his Monsterpiece Theatre voice? ---
**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 26, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/72 "2018-07-26T15:17:29Z")
If you go to YouTube, you can find a [whole series of Sesame Street parodies of movies, televisions shows and songs](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8TioFHubWFtTdaXU1amIZpOG5Ys9-w5O). Edited to add, I’ve only seen a couple, but they’re designed to be enjoyable by the kids and have something that the adults who saw the movie or television show would appreciate. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/73 "2018-07-26T15:23:42Z")
The Greatest Story Ever Told, with Tom Hanks as Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/74 "2018-07-26T18:43:00Z")
_The Manchurian Candidate_ Miss Piggy as Mrs. Iselin Kermit as Mr. Iselin Beaker as Raymond Shaw Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as Sen. Thomas Jordan Janice as Eugénie Rose Chaney With Hugh Jackman as Maj. Bennett Marco ---
**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 26, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/75 "2018-07-26T19:25:11Z")
I want to see Kermit and Fozzie in FACE/OFF. I figure that Fozzie swaps in for John Travolta, so he can do the sing-songy _“So, wow! Looks like you’re going to be in here for THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS!”_ And I figure that means Kermit’s demented kid brother is Robin, sure as Janice and the band would fill in for Gina Gershon and the lowlifes, and Sam The Eagle for Harve Presnell; but instead of Miss Piggy in Joan Allen’s role, I figure that’s actually better unchanged: the whole point is that an Oscar-caliber dramatic actress with a touch of older-woman sexiness strives to look calm and poised and composed in the midst of a crazy over-the-top action flick, and, honestly, that really just improves with muppets. (Oh, and when Bunsen Honeydew does the switcheroo operation, there’s the option of seeing puppets just get moved from hand to hand, which is downright nuts.) ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/76 "2018-07-27T06:32:35Z")
The Taking of Pelham 123 with Walter Matthau as the human. The 4 hijackers would be band members. Of course you’d have to work Fozzy in there somewhere. Actually any movie with Walter Matthau and muppets would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/77 "2018-07-27T06:55:01Z")
I thought of a better one. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest with the Chief as the only human. It’s been way too long since I’ve watched The Muppets to cast the roles. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/78 "2018-07-27T10:04:14Z")
> [@LoneRhino](#): > > The Taking of Pelham 123 with Walter Matthau as the human. The 4 hijackers would be band members. Of course you’d have to work Fozzy in there somewhere. > > Actually any movie with Walter Matthau and muppets would be awesome. Any movie with Walter Matthau would be a miracle. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/79 "2018-07-27T13:51:01Z")
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Keep Gene Wilder. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523/80 "2018-07-27T13:53:41Z")
> [@LoneRhino](#): > > Actually any movie with Walter Matthau and muppets would be awesome. The Bad News Bears, definitely. The Odd Couple, too, but who’s going to be Felix? Not Kermit. Any ideas? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-a-movie-cast-with-the-muppets-with-one-human/818523.md?page=5)