One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. The idea of Jack Nicholson surrounded by Muppets is priceless. Sam the Eagle as Chief Bromdon, and Miss Piggy as Big Nurse.
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.
Miss Piggy would make an even better Clarice Starling than Foster–can you imagine Piggy karate-chopping her way through the basement and Gumb? Big laffs.
I’d swap out Gonzo for Fozzie (who pretty much needs to be the one that replies, to an incredulous 007, that he never jokes about his work — you know, in order to set up quick mention of what he does joke about — and in order for him to be the guy who, after all, designs hacky prop-comic gag devices), and I’m actually kind of amazed that you’d cast Bunsen Honeydew as Goldfinger and then not cast Beaker as the guy who follows him around and speaks no English and gets electrified.
Speaking of, I’m now picturing Kermit in the opening: doing the underwater work while, presumably, camouflaged as a frog; and then hanging out at the bar in a tux; but, most importantly, dispatching a would-be killer by slapping an appliance into the bathtub, and saying shocking; positively shocking: only, being Kermit, he wouldn’t let it go at that and the walk off, but would instead get increasingly agitated and keep going on and on about just how shocking that was, flailing his arms even.
(Wait, does that mean Kermit-as-007 dismissively slaps the ass of the one human in the picture when saying she needs to get lost because it’s time for Man Talk?)
There’s also Annie Sue (a pig from the Muppet Show), Wanda (of Wayne and Wanda from The Muppets), and Abby Cadabby, Julia, Prairie Dawn, and Zoe (Sesame Street).
I suggest 1776 with David Ford as John Hancock. Kermit is John Adams, Miss Piggy is Abigail Adams, Sam the Eagle as Franklin (makes the “eagle vs. turkey as national symbol” scene even better), Wayne and Wanda as the Jeffersons, Uncle Deadly as Dickinson (my husband suggested that one), Fozzie as Richard Henry Lee, and Big Bird as the Rev. John Witherspoon.