# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/141 "2004-12-23T03:45:28Z")
**Henson’s List** **Legend of the Overmuppet** Steven King’s **Muppery** (“Cockadoodie frog!”) **Muppkira**. (Animal was _born_ to scream _“Kaneda!”_ Sam the Eagle as the colonel, natch.) **Kermit Andronicus** **The Waterdance** (Muppets seem highly suited for a story about people who can’t use their legs.) ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/142 "2004-12-23T03:56:09Z")
I can’t believe no one has yet thought of: **The Usual Muppets** Kermit the Frog as “Verbal” Kint (Gee, thanks, Dave. Bang-up job so far. Extortion, coercion. You’ll pardon me if I ask you to kiss my pucker. The same fuckers that rounded us up and sank us into this mess are telling me They’ll bail me out? Fuck you. You think you can catch Keyser Soze? You think a guy like that comes this close to getting fingered and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything, it will be to get rid of me. After that, my guess is you’ll never hear from him again). Fozzie Bear as Agent Kujan (Who’s Keyser Soze?) Sam the American Eagle as Kobayashi (My name is Kobayashi. I work for Kayser Soze.) Miss Piggy as Edie Finneran Let me know if you think of other casting choices. ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/143 "2004-12-23T04:31:01Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > _Kermit of Arabia_, anyone? Surely you mean _Lawrence of Amphibia_ ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Hello\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Lady)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/144 "2004-12-23T04:38:02Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > You ever tried to get tights on a frog? Kermit doesn’t need tights - he has green legs! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/145 "2004-12-23T11:24:14Z")
Crouching Pig, Hidden Frog (Ample opportunity for Piggy to go berserk and kick the crap out of everyone) Also:The Sound of Muppets ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/146 "2004-12-23T14:40:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Strangely, Tarantino appears in Muppet Wizard of Oz. That’s because it is a little known fact that Tarantino IS a muppet, but he’s passing for human. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/147 "2004-12-23T15:18:19Z")
**Glengarry Glenross.** ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/148 "2004-12-23T16:10:00Z")
Gone With the Wind! Kermit is Rhett Miss Piggy is Scarlett Scooter for Ashley Who to play Melanie? Nee suggestions Aunt Pittypat? And Rolf the dog as Mammy! Fiddle dee dee! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/149 "2004-12-23T16:43:00Z")
I just can’t even believe no one’s mentioned _The Princess Bride_ Kermit. . .Westley Miss Piggy. . .Buttercup Cookie Monster. . .Fezzik Gonzo. . .Inigo Montoya The Swedish Chef. . .Vizzini Animal. . .Prince Humperdink Oscar the Grouch. . .The Six-Fingered Man It could all work. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/150 "2004-12-23T18:57:41Z")
**Harry Potter** Kermit - Harry Potter Ms. Piggy - Hermione Gonzo - Ron Weasley Sam Eagle - Professor Snape bunson honeydew - Dumbledore Beeker - Voldemort Janet - McConigle Scooter - Neville Longbottom Gonzo - Malfoy Bert & Ernie - Fred & George ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/151 "2004-12-23T23:09:38Z")
I’ll accept Beeker - Voldemort as long as we’re talking Sorcerer’s Stone. I can see Beeker in a turban. ---
**Author:** ![Sevo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sevo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/152 "2004-12-24T05:16:10Z")
> [@Banger](#): > > I suddenly have a vision of the Muppets version of _Seven_, with Elmo kneeling in front of Kermit, who is gesticulating wildly and shouting “WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!?!” I spit root beer reading that. The image of Kermit’s green arms flailing wildly as they do, little floppy hands flopping, the plainly visible wire rods moving his appendages…freeeekin’ great. Another one that just seems _made_ for the muppets would be **Indiana Kermit and the Muppets of the Lost Ark**. The cast would be pretty self-explanatory, but I’d push for Bunsen as Toht, Beauregard as Sallah, and Link Hogthrob as Belloq. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/153 "2004-12-24T15:15:06Z")
> [@Shoshana](#): > > I’ll accept Beeker - Voldemort as long as we’re talking Sorcerer’s Stone. I can see Beeker in a turban. Exactly my vision as well. It’s spooky how Doper Minds Are Becoming One. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/154 "2004-12-25T04:23:31Z")
> [@Fuji Kitakyusho](#): > > A muppet remake of the Godfather trilogy would be pretty cool. “Leave the gun. Bring the canolli. Give me the whoopie cushion.” Of course, inevitably this thread will get around to Miss Piggy as Katherine Trammell (and Fozzie, Beaker and Gonzo as the cops) in the interrogation scene from “Basic Instinct.” Unless someone already did it and I forgot… ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/155 "2004-12-25T04:40:11Z")
How about Monty Python’s _Life of Brian_? Brian – Gonzo I’m not sure how you’d work the rest of the cast. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/156 "2004-12-25T04:46:18Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > How about Monty Python’s _Life of Brian_? > > Brian – Gonzo I’m not sure how you’d work the rest of the cast. Well, Sam the Eagle would have to be the pompous guard who gives the grammar lesson. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/157 "2004-12-25T15:32:12Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Well, Sam the Eagle would have to be the pompous guard who gives the grammar lesson. And the Joni Mitchell-looking muppet–the girl in the band, never caught her name–in the Carol Cleveland role. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/158 "2004-12-25T15:35:38Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > And the Joni Mitchell-looking muppet–the girl in the band, never caught her name–in the Carol Cleveland role. And Lew Zealand as Pilate! “Wewease Wodewick!” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/159 "2004-12-25T16:34:00Z")
_ **The Front Page.** _ Kermit: Hildy Johnson, reporter Fozzie: Walter Burns, editor Piggy: Piggy Grant, Hildy’s fiancée Gonzo: Earle Williams, condemned murderer Bert: Roy Benzinger, feature writer Sam: Sheriff Hartmann Ernie, Cookie, Guy Smiley, Statler, Waldorf, et al: City Room Boys ---
**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:** [December 25, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423/160 "2004-12-25T16:37:32Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > And the Joni Mitchell-looking muppet–the girl in the band, never caught her name–in the Carol Cleveland role. That’d be Janice, fer sher. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-recast-with-muppets/276423.md?page=9)