History Film / TheGreatMuppetCaper

* ForTheEvulz[=/=]CardCarryingVillain:

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Played with by London cabbie Beauregard on why he doesn't have an English accent, despite having lived in London "all my life". "Hey, I'm lucky I have a driver's license!"

** In fairness their reasons for dropping out wasn't justified.

* DisneyAcidSequence

** Not related to a song, but when Miss Piggy crashed through a window of the Mallory Gallery, she shouts a {{kiai}} as she jumps towards Nicky. This is not heard in the 2005 DVD.

* DigitalDestruction: The 2005 Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition DVD release uses the songs as heard on the soundtrack album. As a result, several things are compromised:

** Not related to a song, but when Miss Piggy crashed through a window of the Mallory Gallery, she shouts a {{kiai}} as she jumps towards Nicky. This is not heard in this DVD.

* WorstNewsJudgementEver: What kickstarts the whole plot is Kermit and Fozzie writing a front page article about identical twins (them) joining the newspaper staff. All the while they completely miss the jewel robbery literally going on right behind them. [[RealityEnsues Their editor is so furious, he nearly fires them over it.]]

* CurbStompBattle: What Miss Piggy gives to Nicky and his gang.

* DesignatedGirlFight: Although Animal chases around Nicky's supermodel/cat burglar allies in the final sequence, Miss Piggy's the one who punches them out.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Carla, Marla and Darla team up with Nicky to rob Lady Holiday just because she is mildly rude about their dresses. What's even stranger is that it was Holiday herself who designed the dresses, so the models really didn't have any reason to be offended by her comments.

* ThroughTheCeilingStealthily: Some intrepid muppets try to sneak into a museum to protect a rare jewel that the villains plan to abscond. These muppets plan to enter the main concourse through a skylight, but Beaker discovers (ouch!) that it's electrified. Just then, the villains disable the alarm system, which cuts the power to the skylight, allowing the muppets to safely open the skylight from the outside. The muppets then descend into the museum without tripping an alarm.

* CurbstompBattle: What Miss Piggy gave Nicky and his gang.
* DatingCatwoman: What Nicky tried to pull with Miss Piggy but never succeeded.

-->'''Father:''' No, Christine, that's a frog. Bears wear hats.

* AmazonBrigade: Nicky's gang. Which interestingly enough makes Nicky the male equivalent of the SmurfettePrinciple.

** Beauregard is TheDitz but he can be seen single handedly fighting Nicky at the end.

The story goes that Kermit and Fozzie are identical twin newspaper reporters (their editor doesn't get it, either) and Gonzo's their photographer. After nearly losing their jobs for missing a massive jewelry robbery scoop right under their noses, the intrepid trio head to London to get the follow-up story to said scoop as an exclusive to save said jobs. The robbery victim is Lady Holiday, who just happens to have wound up with Miss Piggy in her employ. Pig meets frog, frog thinks pig is Lady Holiday, pig goes along with it because she's smitten with frog, and all the while the thieves are closer than Lady Holiday thinks.

->'''Miss Piggy:''' Um, why are you telling me all this?
->'''Lady Holiday:''' It's plot exposition. It has to go ''somewhere''.

---> '''Newspaper Editor:''' Next time? ''Next'' time?! What makes you think there's going to ''be'' a next time?
---> '''Kermit:''' Well, if there isn't, it'll be a ''very'' short movie.

-->'''Kermit:''' Fozzie, you okay?
-->'''Fozzie:''' That took a lot out of me!

-->'''Pops:''' A) Credit Card, B) Cash, C) Sneak out in the middle of the night?
-->'''Fozzie:''' We'll take "C".
-->'''Pops:''' ''Veeeeeeery'' popular choice (swats fly).

* BerserkButton: In one scene when Miss Piggy asks a truck driver played by Peter Ustinov for a ride to the Mallory Gallery, he tests her patience by refusing to give her a ride which prompts her to force open the door and throw him into some garbage bags and cardboard boxes, Oscar even showing up and interacting with Peter Ustinov at one point.

* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Kermit and Fozzie as pizzeria delivery employees, who convince the gallery's guard Henderson to feed the pepperoni pizza to the guard dogs.

* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Kermit and Fozzie as pizzeria delivery employees, who convince the guard to feed the pepperoni pizza to the guard dogs.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** At one point everyone is talking at once, and Kermit screams for them to be quiet, causing them all to immediately shut up...[[SevenMinuteLull except for Janice]]:
--->'''Janice:''' ...and I said, Look, Mother, it's my life, okaaay? So if I want to live on a beach and walk around naked-- oh.
** At one point during the FashionShow:
-->'''Statler:''' Hey, Waldorf. Wake up. Here come the bikinis!
-->'''Waldorf:''' Oh, boy! We better [[ADateWithRosiePalms synchronize our pacemakers]].
** Also, this bit when Gonzo is going around taking pictures in the nightclub in an attempt to raise money for dinner:
-->'''Gonzo:''' How about you folks? Souvenir photograph?
-->'''Man:''' No thanks. No pictures.
-->'''Gonzo:''' Oh, come on! It'll be a great memento for you and your wife.
-->'''Man:''' My wife isn't feeling very well.
-->'''Gonzo:''' Oh, that's too bad. Maybe she should be at home.
-->'''Man:''' My wife IS at home!
-->'''Gonzo:''' ''(stammers incoherently)'' Yes, uh... NEXT TABLE!

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-->'''Man:''' [[YourCheatingHeart My wife IS at home!]]

* ObviouslyEvil: Nicky. The first moment we meet him, he's staring rapturously at his sister's jewels. Plus, his name. Nicky. Just screams "con man". But if you [[InfoDump paid attention to Lady Holiday at the beginning, you'd know that before meeting him.]]