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YMMV: The Muppet Movie
  • Award Snub: "The Rainbow Connection" lost the 1979 Best Song Oscar to the now-virtually-forgotten "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Raenote .
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The big finale song "Magic Store".
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Damn near every song.
    • "Rainbow Connection" will hit you as either Narmtastic or one of the most inspiring songs you've ever heard.
  • Ear Worm: "Rainbow Connection", "Movin' Right Along"
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Crazy Harry is a terrorist.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Gonzo's dream to go to Bombay, India and become a movie star!
    • Which, for most American kids, probably just sounded like nonsense at the time. Hey, what did we know?
  • Moral Event Horizon: Crossed by Doc Hopper during the climax. "All right, boys... kill 'em."
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • Doc Hopper's frog suit in his commercial is kind of creepy.
    • Miss Piggy's wide angry eyes when she karate-chops the kidnappers.
      • It doesn't help when she's above them and says, "Oh, boys." When the camera pans up to her, she looks like a creature out of hell!
  • Seinfeld Is Unfunny: Alas, many of the jokes and wackiness have been copied by countless followers (both Gremlins 2: The New Batch and The Spongebob Squarepants Movie have done meta gags about their films being watched in theaters, for example), that, to anyone watching the film for the first time, it might seem less remarkable.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome: Kermit riding a bike near the beginning. Don't wonder how they did it, just accept it.
    • Actually, according to Frank Oz, the effect was relatively easy to do,* compared to the monstrous effort required to get Gonzo to float along on his balloons. But since the bike was the effect everyone kept gawking over, they included an entire parade of Muppets on bikes in the next movie. Just because.

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