Line #7 Headscratchers/AMuppetFamilyChristmas


1	* The ''Series/SesameStreet'' gang, once settled in the house, decide to practice their Christmas pageant, a presentation of ''Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas.'' Considering that the show takes place on ''Christmas Eve'', it's unclear when they're planning to hold the actual performance. It's specifically said that "it's time to '''rehearse''' our Sesame Street pageant!" When is the show?
2	** The film is set on Christmas Eve, so presumably it would be on Christmas Day.
3	* As cute as it was, the home movie with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Muppet Babies\|1984}}'' (the home movie being done in live action) raises so many questions. Where's Nanny? Where's Skeeter? What about all of the media in which Kermit and the gang grow up separately and meet each other as adults? That's like a really huge ContinuitySnarl.
4	** It's obvious where Nanny is. Who do you think is operating the camera? (Maybe Skeeter is doing the boom mike?)
5	** Also, Baby Piggy has a plush toy of ''adult Kermit''. How does ''that'' work?
6	* Fozzie's mom is friends with JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf, who visit her every Christmas. But...wasn't she on her way out the door to spend Christmas at the beach when the show started? S&W clearly didn't come with the rest of the Muppets, Fozzie is shocked when they turn up. How did they get there? And why? Did Mrs. Bear call them up at some point and tell them that her vacation was off?
7	** Clearly the universe hates Fozzie's comedy so much that Statler and Waldorf will just materialize when necessary to take him down a peg. On a related note, how did Jim Henson get there?
8	*** [[Film/TheMuppets2011 He drove.]]
9	*** Because in the Muppet universe, [[HandWave Jim Henson is GOD.]]
10	*** [[{{Meta}} Or he was just underneath Kermit the entire time]].
11	** Pretty sure that they were visiting a couple of days before she left. And they were probably about to leave when she was about to but then the Muppets show up.
12	*** For that matter, why didn't Mrs. Bear, at any point, tell Statler and Waldorf to stop heckling Fozzie! I mean, yeah they're her friends, but Fozzie is HER SON!!
13	*** She probably just assumes it's a big joke between the three of them. It's not like Statler and Waldorf have ever caused physical harm to Fozzie; the worst they've done is hurt his feelings. And even in real life, it's not like it's rare for parents to misunderstand when what seems to them to just be good-natured teasing can actually be causing their child major embarrassment/anxiety/self-esteem issues.
14	** I always assumed she called them when she realized she'd be home for Christmas after all.
15	* The turkey was trying to talk the Chef out of cooking it by trying to frame good, innocent Big Bird! Once the Chef saw what a good-hearted person he is and how it would be so wrong to hurt him...why didn't he go back out and try to find the turkey?! The turkey is obviously a very evil thing for trying to kill someone else, why should he be allowed to live? Go get it! Who wants shredded wheat for Christmas Eve anyway?
16	** Thank goodness, I thought I was the only who didn't like [[JerkAss the Turkey]]. Scoffing at Gonzo's warning only to hit on his girl Camilla was one thing; but the fact that he practically sold out a child (Big Bird is canonically ''six years old'') to save his own ass puts him across the MoralEventHorizon for me. The fact his puppet was recycled in ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' as a turkey being sold to a Frackle does give me a sense of universal karma.
17	** I always just assumed that since the "shredded wheat and cranberry sauce" was decided only once Big Bird himself asked the Swedish Chef what he would make for dinner, the Swedish Chef simply didn't want Big Bird to know that he was almost about to cook him so deliberately changed the menu to avoid birds at all in case it raised questions. Also, telling Big Bird that he's going to cook a turkey would likely have just made Big Bird upset even if the Swedish Chef told him that the turkey had sold him out. Big Bird isn't exactly the vindictive type...
18	* That's clearly Doc in the Santa suit at the very end, and it's adorable and heartwarming. But where did he get all those presents on such short notice?
19	** Could any of them have been the presents on the dogsled he was bringing Miss Piggy to the house on? She did say she had a bit of last-minute shopping to do.

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