Funny / The Muppets Take Manhattan

• When the Muppets arrive in New York, they try to find a place to stay for the night. Unfortunately, they don’t have enough cash for a hotel room, so they opt for staying in the airport coin lockers.
  • After repeated failures, Kermit asks how long they can afford that.
    Scooter: Enough for two nights, unless we find cheaper lockers.
• Poor Gonzo, he didn't even get to go through the ring of fire.
  Audience member: Don't sound like Tony Bennett to me.^note Well, the chickens tried, chanting "Bee-yock!" instead of "Bok!"
• When Piggy slams the amnesiac Kermit into a wall, and that's what gets his memory back!
  • Before that, the amnesiac Kermit laughs at the idea of him and Miss Piggy being in a relationship.
    Kermit: With you? In love with a pig? Oh, wait 'til I tell the guys in marketing! Ha ha! Maybe you expect me to go HOG-wild? Maybe, perhaps you could bring home the BACON! Ahhh... the sounds of love, SU-EEEEE! Oink, oink!
  • "CANCEL THE SHOW!!!! HIIIIIIII-YAH!!!!"
  • Even in the background you can see Fozzie’s and the others Oh, Crap! look on their faces when the amnesiac Kermit was making pig jokes, knowing full well they were pressing Miss Piggy's Berserk Button more and more with each wisecrack.
  • Then when Kermit gets his memory back, Miss Piggy, shocked that her karate chop knocked Kermit back to his senses, quickly goes to Easily Forgiven for his amnesic insults to her only moments earlier.
• Animal, as always.
  Kermit: […] We're all so proud to be graduating now, some with honors...
  (A screaming co-ed suddenly runs through the back of the crowd, Animal in hot pursuit)
  Animal: Wo-man! Wo-man! Wo-man! (comes to a brief stop, looks at the stage) Woman!
  Kermit: … and, some with the help of daily psychological counselling.
• When Joan Rivers gives Miss Piggy a makeover in the store, and goes way overboard, and even when they are both fired, they still can't stop laughing.
  • Enjoy the cosmetic insanity!
• Rats in the Kitchen!
  • One of them putting butter on his feet and acting like he's ice skating on the stove.
  • The reason the rats are now working the kitchen? The customers complained to Pete about having rats as waiters.
• Kermit's Traveling Salesman Montage, which involves Kermit putting on goofy disguises and then trying to talk hip.
• The "Whisper Campaign" that the rats disrupt by letting themselves be seen, causing everyone to scream and panic.
  • Even better, Kermit's portrait is still hanging in the restaurant... next to the restrooms.
• Janice's Seven Minute Lull moment is hysterical.
• One of the slogans for the soap that one of the frog marketing guys comes up with, "'Ocean Breeze Soap'...For People Who Don't Want To Stink!"
  • Then there's Kermit's idea of a slogan; "Ocean Breeze Soap will get you clean." It's hailed as Crazy Enough to Work for actually stating what the product does.
  • His options on the first two ideas: "I don't like it." and "Seems a bit long."
• Kermit & Piggy's argument in Central Park about "The Huggies!"^note Most of the argument is quite serious, however.
• Kermit disguises himself as a hip executive producer in an attempt to pitch his idea of the Manhattan Melodies number for Broadway. He goes into a Motor Mouth spell in an attempt to spark interest and leaves as quickly as he came, letting out a breath of relief once he’s out the door. His outfit - a pink open-chest shirt, white silk ascot, gold medallions, and sunglasses, all topped off with a curly afro wig, has to be seen to be believed. Unfortunately, the producer threw the script into the waste basket.
  Leonard Winesop: A frog... in an afro...
• Kermit walks by Waldorf and Statler sitting on a park bench catching some rays with reflector boards.
• The Muppets becoming babies in Piggy's imagination. Baby Kermit falling off the rocking horse especially.
  • And when we return to the real world, Piggy is lying in Kermit's lap and sucking her thumb, just like her baby self in the fantasy.
• Real-life Mayor of NYC Ed Koch's cameo:
  Gonzo: Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor! It's an emergency! I'm looking for a frog who can sing and dance!
  Ed: If he can also balance the budget, I'll hire him!
• This scene:
  Statler: Well, Waldorf, they finally made it to Broadway.
  Waldorf: Yep, and I already got tickets.
  Statler: You did? Are they good seats?
  Waldorf: They sure are. They're for the next train out of town!
  Both: DO-HO-HO-HO-HO!
• Ronnie Crawford and Kermit meet Bernard Crawford outside his office:
  Ronnie: Dad, I've got great news!
  Bernard: If you two are in love, I don't wanna hear about it.
• Later in the same conversation:
  Ronnie: I told you, I want to do something different!
  Bernard: So put some Jell-O down your pants!
• After Miss Piggy catches up to the purse-snatcher, the policeman arrives and the purse-snatcher tries to explain:
  Purse-Snatcher: She stole my purse!
  Miss Piggy: WHAT!?
  • For some odd reason, Miss Piggy carries a hacksaw in her purse.
  • As Piggy tackles the purse-snatcher after having chased him down on roller skates, she complains that she doesn't even know how to skate.
• Kermit begs Pete for a job, but he's already got rats working for him and wonders what next. Cue penguins asking if there's a job opening:
  Pete: Rats want job, frog want job, what next, penguins?
  Penguin: (Enter) Do you have any jobs available?
  Pete, Kermit and the rats: NO!
  Penguin: (leaving) Well excuse us for living!
  • Later on, when Piggy starts working at the diner, Pete grumbles, "This no coffee shop, this zoo!"
• The human construction workers trying to hit on Piggy while she spies on Kermit and Jenny, and then the latter two hug, causing Piggy to rip a metal pole out of the ground with her bare hands and start beating a trash can with it while screaming in envious rage. The construction workers immediately scatter.
• In the theater just before Lew Zealand arrives:
  Swedish Chef: Jå! Dê pöppïnn cørn ïs... 3D! Hå-hå, dê cørn ïs pöppïnn øøn yê fåcé øøn dê ... 3D!
  • It turns into a Funny Background Event as Chef is playing with more concessions as if they were 3D projections, ending with him wearing cups on his eyes.
• After the group is back together, they proceed to catch up and talk over each other. Miss Piggy finally whistles to get them to shut up and focus on Kermit being missing, except Janice again keeps talking.
  Janice: So, I said to him, "Look, buddy, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is 'artistic.'" [realizes everyone else has stopped talking and are now staring at her] Oh.

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