Kermit: I didn't promise anybody anything. What do I know about Hollywood, anyway? Just a dream I got from sitting through too many double features. Kermit's Conscience: So why did you leave the swamp in the first place? Kermit: 'Cause some agent fella said I had talent. He probably says that to everybody. Kermit's Conscience: On the other hand, if you hadn't left the swamp, you'd be feeling pretty miserable anyhow. Kermit: Yeah. But then it would just be me feeling miserable. Now I got a lady pig, and a bear and a chicken, a dog, a thing, whatever Gonzo is. He's a little like a turkey. [Kermit's Conscience manifests itself, sitting on a rock nearby. Kermit walks up to literally talk to himself.] Kermit's Conscience: Yeah... a little like a turkey, but not much. Kermit: No, I guess not. Anyhow, I brought them all out here to the middle of nowhere, and it's all my fault. Kermit's Conscience: Still, whether you promised them something or not, you gotta remember - they wanted to come. Kermit: But... that's because they believed in me. Kermit's Conscience: No, they believed in the dream. Kermit: Well, so do I but... Kermit's Conscience: You do? Kermit: Yeah! Of course I do. Kermit's Conscience:[coaxing] Well then? Kermit: Well then... I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promisedme. [A shooting star flashes across the sky.]
And the very moment of that personal epiphany, The Electric Mayhem band finds the gang who were stranded in the desert and are delighted to give them a lift to Hollywood.
Kermit: Hey, listen, it's wonderful to see you guys but how did you ever find us? Dr. Teeth: Oh easy! We just read the screenplay you left us. EXT. DESERT - NIGHT. We knew right where you were. Janice: Like can you get behind it? Floyd Pepper: Hey when do you dudes have to take that audition? Kermit: Two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Dr. Teeth: Well, climb aboard the bus. We'll have breakfast in Hollywood and Vine! [Everyone cheers.]
Also the finale to the closing number "The Magic Store", where the camera pulls back to show virtually all of the Muppets that had been created by Jim Henson up to that point, singing together and celebrating Henson at his crowning time of success.
What really does it is that it happens right after the movie set got trashed, destroying all their hard work and, had the ending not been a Foregone Conclusion, would have turned it into a Shoot the Shaggy Dog moment. Then, when everybody looks like they're at their absolute peak of despair and about to give up, a real rainbow appears through the gaping hole in the ceiling, the reprise of "Rainbow Connection" plays, and everybody starts singing. Dawww...
...Thanks to the lovers...the dreamers...and you!
And just before the above, everybody working to get the set ready, not to mention the performance of "The Magic Store." Seeing everyone psyched up to get started after their epic journey was seriously encouraging.
It's a easy to miss one, but during the credits gags, after the film is done, Fozzie is asking the rest of the audience if he was funny, getting no replies. Kermit quickly makes his way down to assure Fozzie he was very, very funny.
Nothing for "Never Before, Never Again"? After blatant Love at First Sight for her and Kermit, Miss Piggy swells into a lovestruck number, complete with a fantasy montage of their budding romance.
Kermit and Piggy's dinner together.
Max's Heel–Face Turn after he realizes he cannot let his boss bring harm to Kermit and his pals, and goes so far as to disguise himself as a policeman at the risk of Hopper's wrath to warn Kermit of how far Hopper is willing to go to get his way. In the final confrontation, it is clear that Max has become completely disillusioned with his employer's obsession, and protests when Hopper prepares to have Kermit's entire gang killed. When they are finally all scared away for good by the enlarged Animal, Max is ecstatic and wishes the best to all the Muppets before also leaving the scene.
The cameo from Orson Welles when he gives the Muppets their break and their reaction, particularly Kermit's, afterwards. Made even more heartwarming when one considers that Welles's character, Lew Lord, was based on the man who helped Jim Henson into stardom, Lord Lew Grade.
What really makes it is that Welles looks quite intimidating, making you worried that he's going to give them yet another hard time before the Foregone Conclusion. And then he simply tells his secretary to get the "standard rich and famous contract."
Welles also showed that he could act even in a 30 second cameo. Notice the brief hesitation Lew Lord makes before paging his secretary, as the impulse to give them that contract wasn't an immediate one.
Edgar Bergen's cameo (in what would be his final movie appearance, and to which the film is dedicated to), along with Charlie McCarthy, as the judges at the Bogen County Fair Beauty Pageant.
Charlie McCarthy: You are not gonna believe who is the winner is, folks. Edgar Bergen: Oh, come now, Charlie. It's their movie. Charlie McCarthy: Oh, so it is. (both of them laugh, with Edgar smiling)
Kermit's plea to Doc Hopper when his posse catches up to them in the western ghost town. Even after about half a dozen times Hopper has made it clear he wants Kermit dead, Kermit is nothing but forgiving toward him.
Kermit: Well, I've got a dream too, but it's about singing, dancing, and making people happy. That's the kind of dream that gets better the more people you share with. And, well, I've found a whole bunch of friends who have the same dream. And...and that kinda makes us like a family.
The entire reason Kermit left the swamp in the first place, setting off the whole journey and the root of The Muppets as we know them in-universe; because he was told he could make millions of people happy.
Kermit: Hollywood. Gee, well, I'd miss this old swamp, but... millions of people happy...
