# What movie would you recast... with Muppets? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423 "2004-11-24T05:25:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/101 "2004-11-28T20:36:49Z")
Field of Dreams. ---
**Author:** ![adirondack\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@adirondack\_mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adirondack_mike)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/102 "2004-11-28T21:30:58Z")
Cool Hand Kermit. Kermitsander. (The only way I’ll see another O.S. movie) my 2 cents worth. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/103 "2004-11-28T23:20:55Z")
Say, didn’t the South Park boys want to remake \*Day After Tomorrow \* with Muppets, without changing a line of dialogue? ---
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/104 "2004-11-28T23:50:19Z")
A muppet remake of the Godfather trilogy would be pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/105 "2004-11-29T02:29:46Z")
_Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_ Fozzie as Raoul Duke Gonzo as, well, Dr. Gonzo Kermit as The Hitchhiker Miss Piggy as Lucy Sam the Eagle as The Cop Guy Smiley as The Convention Speaker Animal as Richard Nixon Janice as the Cute Photographer The Swedish Chef as The Ignorant Chickensucker ---
**Author:** ![NewSlang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@NewSlang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NewSlang)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/106 "2004-11-29T03:23:35Z")
lets see hmmmm Eternal Sunshine of the Mummets mind. Staring kermet in love with a qurky/phycodic strange woman Mrs. Piggy. After having an argument, mrs piggy desides to erase the dredful past that kermit has given her. Kermet finds out and decides to have his mind erased as well. While he has his memory being erased, during the process he encounters many memories. tra l la la la ---
**Author:** ![NewSlang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@NewSlang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NewSlang)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/107 "2004-11-29T05:01:38Z")
hmmm Eternal sunshine of the mumupet mind. kurmit- jimmy kerry’s character. kate winslet - mrs. piggy It would be very touching ---
**Author:** ![thomasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@thomasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thomasm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/108 "2004-11-29T22:29:56Z")
or, as it’s original movie was called in France, _La Cage aux Muppets_ . \*\*Kermit \*\*as Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) - “You do an eclectic celebration of the dance! You do Fosse, Fosse, Fosse! You do Martha Graham, Martha Graham, Martha Graham! Or Twyla, Twyla, Twyla! Or Michael Kidde, Michael Kidde, Michael Kidde, Michael Kidde! Or Madonna, Madonna, Madonna!.. but you keep it all inside.” \*\*Fozzie \*\*as Albert Goldman/Starina (Nathan Lane) - "You know, I used to feel that way too until I found out that Alexander the Great was a fag. Talk about gays in the military! " **Sam the Eagle** as Sen. Kevin Keeley (Gene Hackman) - “Oh, I got to fire this woman. Uh, Miss Porter, page two, second paragraph, it’s ‘porno’, not ‘pronto’.” **Miss Piggy** as Louise Keeley (Dianne Wiest) - "If necessary, we’ll get the Pope’s blessing, it’s not hard! " \*\*Gonzo \*\*as Agador Spartacus (Hank Azaria) - “Armand, why don’t you let me be in the show? Are you afraid of my Guatemalan-ness? […] My Guatemalan-ness, my natural heat. You’re afraid I’m too primitive to be on the stage with your little estrogen rockettes, right?” \*\*Scooter \*\*as Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) - “My first day at Edison Park, you told me that if Miss Donovan asked what my father does for a living, I should say he’s a businessman.” \*\*Janice \*\*as Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) \*\*Sweetums \*\*as Katherina Archer (Christine Baranski) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/109 "2004-11-30T00:13:04Z")
_Kermit & Piggy_ Kermit- Henry Miller Piggy- June Miller Janice- Anais Nin A few I have no idea how the casting should work: _William S. Burrough’s Naked Muppet_ _Muppet History X_ _The Fifth Muppet_ _Piggy, Queen of the Desert_ _The Muppet Candidate_ _Repo Muppet_ _Muppet Space_ Kermit - Peter Gibbons Grover - Milton Piggy - Ann Dr. Honeydew - Michael Bolton Gonzo - Naga Waldorf & the other guy - The “Bobs” Fozzi - the “If thing’s go right, I’m going to be showing her my ‘Oh face.’” guy The Swedish Chef - Lumberg _Leon: The Muppet_ Gonzo - Leon Janice - Matilda Fozzie - Gary Oldman’s character _Desperate Muppets_ Gonzo - Divine _Kermit’s Ladder_ Kermit - Kermit Singer Janice - Angel of Death Gonzo - Chemist ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/110 "2004-11-30T03:03:43Z")
> [@The Great Zamboni](#): > > **The Blues Brothers** is the perfect muppet movie. > > Kermit - Elwood Blues > Gonzo - Jake Blues > Miss Piggy - The Nun (name?) > Fozzie in John Candy’s role > Animal and Rizzo as members of the country/western group. > Beaker and Dr. Bunson Honeydew as the two cops chasing them. > I can see the scene with their deaths: Beaker "Mimimimimimi! The cops don’t die in the movie. The Nazis do, however. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/111 "2004-11-30T03:30:02Z")
> [@The Great Zamboni](#): > > **The Blues Brothers** is the perfect muppet movie. > > Kermit - Elwood Blues > Gonzo - Jake Blues > Miss Piggy - The Nun (name?) > Fozzie in John Candy’s role > Animal and Rizzo as members of the country/western group. > Beaker and Dr. Bunson Honeydew as the two cops chasing them. > I can see the scene with their deaths: Beaker "Mimimimimimi! Hehehehe! “We’re on a mission from Jim.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/112 "2004-11-30T05:09:16Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > The cops don’t die in the movie. The Nazis do, however. :smack: Right. I was thinking it was the cops that fell hundreds of feet to their deaths. It was the Nazis. Wouldn’t the Church scene, where everyone is dancing and jumping, be hilarious? James Brown would be the only human in the movie. I almost suggested The Birdcage, but I didn’t have much time for posting and exited. If I only had ten more minutes then… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/113 "2004-11-30T05:10:53Z")
Beaker and Honeydew would be even funnier as Nazis! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/114 "2004-12-01T01:02:26Z")
The new remake of **War of the Worlds** “Kermit the Frog reporting from the impact site of the Martian cylinder. The end is opening and the Martians are emerging. Oh my God, they’re hideous! Some type of tendrils or tentacles cover their entire bodies! And those unblinking eyes!!!” Martians: “Yip yip yip, death ray, un huhn, uh huhn…” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/115 "2004-12-01T05:05:38Z")
> [@thomasm](#): > > or, as it’s original movie was called in France, _La Cage aux Muppets_ .\*\*Fozzie \*\*as Albert Goldman/Starina (Nathan Lane) - "You know, I used to feel that way too until I found out that Alexander the Great was a fag. Talk about gays in the military! I can imagine Fozzie fretting over his pierced toast. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/116 "2004-12-01T07:21:10Z")
**The Termimuppet** Sam the Eagle - “I’ll be back!” **Saving Private Kermit** **Die Hard Muppet** Kermit - “Now _I_ have a machinegun!” **Eyes Wide Muppet** **2001 – A Space Muppet** ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/117 "2004-12-01T07:49:37Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > **Die Hard Muppet** > > Kermit - “Now _I_ have a machinegun!” How about **Scarface Muppet**? “Say chello to my leettle friend! [Blasts away] Waka-waka-waka!” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/118 "2004-12-19T03:10:13Z")
Bumping this up, because Quentin Tarantino’s going to be playing himself in the film, and Bill Invgal made mention of it Comedy Central tonight and said that he wants to see the scene where Kermit and Fozzie accidently blow Beaker’s head off in the back of the Chevy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/119 "2004-12-19T03:41:44Z")
How about recasting “The Wizard of Oz” with Muppets? Kermit could be the Scarecrow, and Miss Piggy could be Dorothy? The two old geezers who heckled poor Fozzie could be the Wicked Witches, and Fozzie could be the cowardly lion. Gonzo could be the Tin Woodman, and the female band member could be Glinda. Instead of winged monkeys, you could have magic chickens that could fly well? The scientist who was always blowing poor Beaker up could be Oz, and Sam the Eagle could be the gate guard. Hehe, that could actually be a funny movie. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/120 "2004-12-19T03:49:56Z")
Better, in the Muppet rendition of “The Wizard Of Oz” have the winged monkeys be rats riding on chickens… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423.md?page=7)