Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
Added DiffLines:
--> "Build a jacuzzi and they will come..."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BedtimeBrainwashing: Pepe and Rizzo use this and a fan to get Gonzo to build a jacuzzi.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15 (click to see context) from:
* AbsenteeActor: Creator/FrankOz was unavailable for most of the filming. In his absence, Miss Piggy was performed by Peter Linz (and Steve Whitmire in at least one scene), Fozzie and Sam were both performed by John Kennedy, and Animal was performed by Rickey Boyd. Oz looped his characters' voices for the scenes in which he was not on the set for.
to:
* AbsenteeActor: Creator/FrankOz was unavailable for most of the filming. In his absence, Miss Piggy was performed by Peter Linz (and Steve Whitmire in at least one scene), Fozzie and Sam were both performed by John Kennedy, and Animal was performed by Rickey Boyd. Oz looped [[LoopingLines looped]] his characters' voices for the scenes in which he was not on the set for.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AbsenteeActor: Creator/FrankOz was unavailable for most of the filming. In his absence, Miss Piggy was performed by Peter Linz (and Steve Whitmire in at least one scene), Fozzie and Sam were both performed by John Kennedy, and Animal was performed by Rickey Boyd. Oz looped his characters' voices for the scenes in which he was not on the set for.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
can\'t bare to leave him = can\'t bear to leave him
Changed line(s) 95 (click to see context) from:
* TrueCompanions: The reason why Gonzo doesn't leave Earth to be with his alien family. The Muppets for all intents and purposes ''are'' his family, and he just can't bare to leave him.
to:
* TrueCompanions: The reason why Gonzo doesn't leave Earth to be with his alien family. The Muppets for all intents and purposes ''are'' his family, and he just can't bare bear to leave him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
That trope is about putting in a lot of work beforehand to set up the mind control.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Miss Piggy is given a container of a spray that will make people cater to her every whim.
Deleted line(s) 53 (click to see context) :
* MoreThanMindControl: Miss Piggy is given a container of a spray that will make people cater to her every whim.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 9,10 (click to see context) from:
In this film, the Muppets are living communally in an old house ([[NegativeContinuity for some reason]]), with Piggy's motivation to become a successful TV reporter being the only clear source of their income. Gonzo feels lonely, because there's no one like him; he has friends, but no family, and everyone else does. Feeling despondent, he is contacted through his breakfast cereal (no, really) and told to watch the sky. Eventually, he is convinced that he is actually an alien that somehow wound up on Earth; elated at the thought that there may be more of his kind in space, he tries to communicate with the other beings, while being thought of as crazy by his friends. Between being duped into building a Jacuzzi for the aliens, being captured and interrogated by a [[TheMenInBlack anonymous government agency]] headed by Jeffrey Tambor, and nearly being dissected by a (puppet) MadScientist, it takes a while before Gonzo finally gets to meet his space-brethren.
to:
In this film, the Muppets are living communally in an old house ([[NegativeContinuity for some reason]]), with Piggy's motivation to become a successful TV reporter being the only clear source of their income. Gonzo feels lonely, because there's no one like him; he has friends, but no family, and everyone else does. Feeling despondent, he is contacted through his breakfast cereal (no, really) and told to watch the sky. Eventually, he is convinced that he is actually an alien that somehow wound up on Earth; elated at the thought that there may be more of his kind in space, he tries to communicate with the other beings, while being thought of as crazy by his friends. Between being duped into building a Jacuzzi for the aliens, being captured and interrogated by a [[TheMenInBlack anonymous government agency]] headed by Jeffrey Tambor, and nearly being dissected by a (puppet) (Muppet) MadScientist, it takes a while before Gonzo finally gets to meet his space-brethren.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 60 (click to see context) from:
* OneShotCharacter: As things are now, it seems likely that this film will be Clifford's only appearance in a theatrically-released Muppet movie.
to:
* OneShotCharacter: As The way things are now, now (as of 2014, after the release of ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted''), it seems likely that this film will be Clifford's only appearance in a theatrically-released Muppet movie.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ShooOutTheClowns: Bunsen and Beaker accidentally get left at a gas station on the gang's way to rescue Gonzo.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 59 (click to see context) from:
* NoodleImplements: Gonzo tells Rizzo he had "that weird dream again", and Rizzo asks if it's "[[TheOneWith the one with]] [[BestialityIsDepraved the goat]] and the dwarf and the jar of peanut butter".
to:
* NoodleImplements: Gonzo tells Rizzo he had "that weird dream again", again," and Rizzo asks if it's "[[TheOneWith the one with]] [[BestialityIsDepraved the goat]] and the dwarf and the jar of peanut butter".butter."
* OneShotCharacter: As things are now, it seems likely that this film will be Clifford's only appearance in a theatrically-released Muppet movie.
* OneShotCharacter: As things are now, it seems likely that this film will be Clifford's only appearance in a theatrically-released Muppet movie.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 98 (click to see context) :
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally going to be an actual musical, with the song "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" from ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' making its return, this time, in reference to Gonzo's ambition to find his family. Then someone said, "Naaaaah! 70's funk!"[[note]]It is on the soundtrack album, though.[[/note]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: You'd think Camilla, Gonzo's decades-long girlfriend, would be a major player in a movie about Gonzo being reunited with his alien family and potentially leaving the planet forever, but the chicken is nowhere to be seen.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 57 (click to see context) from:
* NoodleIncident: It's never quite explained
to:
* NoodleIncident: It's never quite explainedexplained how or why Gonzo got seperated from his alien brethren
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* ADayInTheLimelight: Unlike most Muppet movies, this one focuses more on Gonzo, than on Kermit.
* NoodleIncident: It's never quite explained
* TrueCompanions: The reason why Gonzo doesn't leave Earth to be with his alien family. The Muppets for all intents and purposes ''are'' his family, and he just can't bare to leave him.
Changed line(s) 96,97 (click to see context) from:
* YouAreNotAlone: The whole premise.
----
----
to:
* YouAreNotAlone: The whole premise.
----premise. On two levels: Gonzo finds out there are others like him, and at the end Gonzao realizes although he's "one of a kind" on earth he still has his Muppet family.
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 71,74 (click to see context) from:
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/IndependenceDay'' when Dr. Phil van Neuter tries to remove Gonzo's brain.
-->'''Dr. Phil van Neuter:''' ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Release... me...]]''
** May turn into LateToThePunchline for the kids who watched this movie before they were old enough to watch ''Film/IndependenceDay.''
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come... build a ''Jacuzzi'' and we will come, [[VerbalTic okay]]?!"
-->'''Dr. Phil van Neuter:''' ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Release... me...]]''
** May turn into LateToThePunchline for the kids who watched this movie before they were old enough to watch ''Film/IndependenceDay.''
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come... build a ''Jacuzzi'' and we will come, [[VerbalTic okay]]?!"
to:
* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** To ''Film/IndependenceDay'' when Dr. Phil van Neuter tries to remove Gonzo'sbrain.
-->'''Dr.brain. The BigBad marches his superior officer into an observation room and raises the shades -- to reveal a lab filled with smoke and rats running rampant, before the surgeon is slammed face-first into the window:
--->'''Dr. Phil van Neuter:''' ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunnyRelease... me...Release ... me ...]]''
** *** May turn into LateToThePunchline for the kids who watched this movie before they were old enough to watch ''Film/IndependenceDay.''
''Film/IndependenceDay''.
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we willcome... come ... build a ''Jacuzzi'' ''jacuzzi'' and we will come, [[VerbalTic okay]]?!"
** To ''Film/IndependenceDay'' when Dr. Phil van Neuter tries to remove Gonzo's
-->'''Dr.
--->'''Dr. Phil van Neuter:''' ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will
*** Speaking of Trek, there was also the [[{{Film/StarTrekFirstContact}} group of aliens descending in their craft to meet humans for the first time]], and earlier still, the gang had to [[{{Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome}} escape from a medical facility after saving their friend from imminent brain surgery]].
Changed line(s) 78 (click to see context) from:
** The beacon the aliens send down to flag their ship looks a heck of a lot like a certain [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Alien alien egg]].
to:
** The beacon that the aliens send down to flag ahead of their ship looks a heck of a lot like a certain [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Alien [[{{Film/Alien}} alien egg]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** The beacon the aliens send down to flag their ship looks a heck of a lot like a certain [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Alien alien egg]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* DVDCommentary: A fun example, as director Tim Hill is joined by Gonzo and Rizzo. They spend as much time doing a ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' style riff or absurd in-universe stories as they do actual commentary, complete with the signature silhouettes. To make it all the more funny, Kermit was initially there but went to get popcorn and didn't return until the movie was over, turns out on his way back he entered the wrong DVD and ended up in a commentary for StarWarsEpisode1 and it took him the entire movie before he realized JarJarBinks wasn't Gonzo.
to:
* DVDCommentary: A fun example, as director Tim Hill is joined by Gonzo and Rizzo. They spend as much time doing a ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' style riff or absurd in-universe stories as they do actual commentary, complete with the signature silhouettes. To make it all the more funny, even funnier, Kermit was is initially there with them, but went leaves to get popcorn and didn't doesn't return until the movie was over, turns out end of the film; he explains that on his way back back, he accidentally entered the wrong DVD and ended up in a commentary for StarWarsEpisode1 and it ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. It took him until the entire very end of that movie before he realized JarJarBinks wasn't Gonzo.to realize that he'd mistaken Jar Jar Binks for Gonzo, prompting him to return to the correct DVD.
Changed line(s) 40 (click to see context) from:
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Animal was chasing a female security guard to distract her from the other muppets. The next scene shows him being chased by her....[[SexyDiscretionShot with her hair down and begging him to come back.]]
to:
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Animal was chasing a female security guard to distract her from the other muppets.Muppets. The next scene shows him being chased by her....[[SexyDiscretionShot with her hair down and begging him to come back.]]
Changed line(s) 43,45 (click to see context) from:
* IChooseToStay: Gonzo doesn't go "home" to his planet, but he stays on his adopted home, Earth.
* IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime: Statler and Waldorf's 'life on other planets' exchange quoted up the top of the page was originally done on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' years before. Statler groans and screws up his face after he laughs for a moment, possibly remembering that he had suckered himself like this before...
* InsistentTerminology: Pepe is not a shrimp. He is a king prawn, okay?
* IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime: Statler and Waldorf's 'life on other planets' exchange quoted up the top of the page was originally done on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' years before. Statler groans and screws up his face after he laughs for a moment, possibly remembering that he had suckered himself like this before...
* InsistentTerminology: Pepe is not a shrimp. He is a king prawn, okay?
to:
* IChooseToStay: Gonzo doesn't go "home" to his planet, but he stays on his adopted home, Earth.
* IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime: Statler and Waldorf's 'life on other planets' exchange quoted up the top of the page was originally done on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' yearsbefore. earlier. Statler groans and screws up his face after he laughs for a moment, possibly remembering that he had this isn't the first time he's suckered himself like in this before...
specific manner...
* InsistentTerminology: Pepe is not a shrimp. He is a king prawn,okay?[[VerbalTic okay]]?
* IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime: Statler and Waldorf's 'life on other planets' exchange quoted up the top of the page was originally done on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' years
* InsistentTerminology: Pepe is not a shrimp. He is a king prawn,
Changed line(s) 62 (click to see context) from:
** The score being comprised of 70's funk makes some wonder if ParentalBonus was the direction a family-friendly Muppet film was supposed to go. 'Brickhouse' is played over the Muppets waking up and getting ready for the day, but only in reference to how they live in a brick house. A few Muppets say uncharacteristic 70's one-liners such as "get down with your bad self." Even the poster on the top of this page has the tagline "The Ultimate Muppet ''Trip."''
to:
** The score being comprised of 70's funk makes some wonder if ParentalBonus was the direction a family-friendly Muppet film was supposed to go. 'Brickhouse' is played over the Muppets waking up and getting ready for the day, but only in reference to how they live in a brick house. A few Muppets say uncharacteristic 70's one-liners one-liners, such as "get Kermit's "Way to get down with your bad self.selves." Even the poster on the top of this page has the tagline "The Ultimate Muppet ''Trip."''
Changed line(s) 66 (click to see context) from:
** or "TrueCompanions ''are'' family"
to:
** or Or maybe "TrueCompanions ''are'' family"family."
Changed line(s) 73,74 (click to see context) from:
** May turn into LateToThePunchline for the kids who watched that before they were old enough to watch Film/IndependenceDay.
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come... build a ''jacuzzi'' and we will come, [[VerbalTic okay]]?!"
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come... build a ''jacuzzi'' and we will come, [[VerbalTic okay]]?!"
to:
** May turn into LateToThePunchline for the kids who watched that this movie before they were old enough to watch Film/IndependenceDay.
''Film/IndependenceDay.''
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come... build a''jacuzzi'' ''Jacuzzi'' and we will come, [[VerbalTic okay]]?!"
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come... build a
Changed line(s) 78 (click to see context) from:
* SocietyMarchesOn: Wrestling/HulkHogan is in his evil "[[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder Hollywood Hulk]]" persona ("I'm a bad guy now!") - but by the time the film was released, Hogan had returned to being a good guy.
to:
* SocietyMarchesOn: Wrestling/HulkHogan is in his evil "[[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder Hollywood Hulk]]" persona ("I'm a bad guy now!") - but by the time of the film was released, film's release, Hogan had returned to being a good guy.
Changed line(s) 92 (click to see context) from:
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In-universe example, when Gonzo is puzzled why he was instructed to build a jacuzzi. Rizzo and Pepe (who conned him into doing it) just start laughing.
to:
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In-universe example, when Gonzo is puzzled why he was instructed to build a jacuzzi.Jacuzzi. Rizzo and Pepe (who conned him into doing it) just start laughing.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 37,38 (click to see context) from:
* DVDCommentary: A fun example, as director Tim Hill is joined by Gonzo and Rizzo. They spend as much time doing a ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' style riff or absurd in-universe stories as they do actual commentary, complete with the signature silhouettes.
** To make it all the more funny, Kermit was initially there but went to get popcorn and didn't return until the movie was over, turns out on his way back he entered the wrong DVD and ended up in a commentary for StarWarsEpisode1 and it took him the entire movie before he realized JarJarBinks wasn't Gonzo.
** To make it all the more funny, Kermit was initially there but went to get popcorn and didn't return until the movie was over, turns out on his way back he entered the wrong DVD and ended up in a commentary for StarWarsEpisode1 and it took him the entire movie before he realized JarJarBinks wasn't Gonzo.
to:
* DVDCommentary: A fun example, as director Tim Hill is joined by Gonzo and Rizzo. They spend as much time doing a ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' style riff or absurd in-universe stories as they do actual commentary, complete with the signature silhouettes. \n** To make it all the more funny, Kermit was initially there but went to get popcorn and didn't return until the movie was over, turns out on his way back he entered the wrong DVD and ended up in a commentary for StarWarsEpisode1 and it took him the entire movie before he realized JarJarBinks wasn't Gonzo.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** To make it all the more funny, Kermit was initially there but went to get popcorn and didn't return until the movie was over, turns out on his way back he entered the wrong DVD and ended up in a commentary for StarWarsEpisode1 and it took him the entire movie before he realized JarJarBinks wasn't Gonzo.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 83 (click to see context) from:
* TheyCalledMeMad: Gonzo and Ed, but especially Ed..
to:
* TheyCalledMeMad: Gonzo and Ed, but especially Ed..Ed...
* ThoseTwoGuys: Gonzo and Rizzo, and Rizzo and Pepe.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Gonzo and Rizzo, and Rizzo and Pepe.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Moved Statlor and Waldorf \"home.\"
Changed line(s) 3,6 (click to see context) from:
->'''Statler:''' I wonder if there really is life on other planets?\\
'''Waldorf:''' What do you care? You don't have a life on this planet.\\
'''Both:''' [[StatlerAndWaldorf Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]]
'''Waldorf:''' What do you care? You don't have a life on this planet.\\
'''Both:''' [[StatlerAndWaldorf Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]]
to:
'''Waldorf:''' What do you care? You don't have a life on this planet.\\
'''Both:''' [[StatlerAndWaldorf Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]]
Changed line(s) 96 (click to see context) from:
----
to:
->'''Statler:''' I wonder if there really is life on other planets?\\
'''Waldorf:''' What do you care? You don't have a life on this planet.\\
'''Both:''' [[StatlerAndWaldorf Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Lobotomy crosswicked Lobotomy
Changed line(s) 3,9 (click to see context) from:
--->'''Statler''': I wonder if there really is life on other planets?\\
'''Waldorf''': What do you care? You don't have a life on this planet.\\
'''Both''': [[StatlerAndWaldorf Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]]
--->''Kermit is a frog. Fozzie is a bear. Gonzo is...what exactly is Gonzo?''
---->'''Creator/TheHub's commercial for this movie'''
'''Waldorf''': What do you care? You don't have a life on this planet.\\
'''Both''': [[StatlerAndWaldorf Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]]
--->''Kermit is a frog. Fozzie is a bear. Gonzo is...what exactly is Gonzo?''
---->'''Creator/TheHub's commercial for this movie'''
to:
---->'''Creator/TheHub's
-->-- '''Creator/TheHub's commercial for this movie'''
* {{Lobotomy}}: It nearly happens to Gonzo. The man attempting to perform the lobotomy is a classic MadScientist.
Changed line(s) 54,55 (click to see context) from:
* MsFanservice: The girl dancing on the beach and baring her midriff, causing ''Sam the Eagle'' (of all characters!) to watch her with a slackjawed expression.
** Kathy Griffin in a security guard uniform may also qualify.
** Kathy Griffin in a security guard uniform may also qualify.
to:
* MsFanservice: MsFanservice:
** The girl dancing on the beach and baring her midriff, causing ''Sam the Eagle'' (of all characters!) to watch her with a slackjawed expression.
** Kathy Griffin in a security guarduniform may also qualify.uniform.
** The girl dancing on the beach and baring her midriff, causing ''Sam the Eagle'' (of all characters!) to watch her with a slackjawed expression.
** Kathy Griffin in a security guard
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Animal was chasing a female security guard to distract her from the other muppets. The next scene shows him being chased by her....[[SexyDiscretionShot with her hair down and begging him to come back.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 75 (click to see context) from:
** [[JoshuaJackson Pacey]] and [[KatieHolmes Joey]] from ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' show up on the beach chatting with Pepe and Clifford; Pacey laments that Dawson would love it.
to:
** [[JoshuaJackson Pacey]] Pacey and [[KatieHolmes Joey]] Joey from ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' show up on the beach chatting with Pepe and Clifford; Pacey laments that Dawson would love it.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 75 (click to see context) from:
** Two of the characters from ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' show up on the beach chatting with Pepe and Clifford.
to:
** Two of the characters [[JoshuaJackson Pacey]] and [[KatieHolmes Joey]] from ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' show up on the beach chatting with Pepe and Clifford.Clifford; Pacey laments that Dawson would love it.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Sam the Eagle's line about how there are only Americans in the house has got to be a reference to [[IncrediblyLamePun illegal aliens]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 87 (click to see context) from:
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally going to be an actual musical, with the song "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" from ''Series/TheMuppetMovie'' making its return, this time, in reference to Gonzo's ambition to find his family. Then someone said, "Naaaaah! 70's funk!"[[note]]It is on the soundtrack album, though.[[/note]]
to:
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally going to be an actual musical, with the song "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" from ''Series/TheMuppetMovie'' ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' making its return, this time, in reference to Gonzo's ambition to find his family. Then someone said, "Naaaaah! 70's funk!"[[note]]It is on the soundtrack album, though.[[/note]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[quoteright:275:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MuppetsFromSpace_3061.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:275:]]
--->'''Statler''': I wonder if there really is life on other planets?\\
'''Waldorf''': What do you care? You don't have a life on this planet.\\
'''Both''': [[StatlerAndWaldorf Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]]
--->''Kermit is a frog. Fozzie is a bear. Gonzo is...what exactly is Gonzo?''
---->'''Creator/TheHub's commercial for this movie'''
''Muppets From Space'' is a 1999 [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] movie starring their regular cast of characters, focusing on Gonzo's back story. It is directed by Tim Hill. It is so far the only Muppet movie to not be a musical, with the score being filled with already-popular oldies soul and funk (some of which are covered for the film), and it also has the distinction of being the last Henson-related film featuring Frank Oz before he retired his characters to someone else. Additionally, it is the first Muppet film since Creator/JimHenson's death that has an original story and is not a spoof/tribute to a popular work of literature, and the humor is based on the more recent ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' show.
In this film, the Muppets are living communally in an old house ([[NegativeContinuity for some reason]]), with Piggy's motivation to become a successful TV reporter being the only clear source of their income. Gonzo feels lonely, because there's no one like him; he has friends, but no family, and everyone else does. Feeling despondent, he is contacted through his breakfast cereal (no, really) and told to watch the sky. Eventually, he is convinced that he is actually an alien that somehow wound up on Earth; elated at the thought that there may be more of his kind in space, he tries to communicate with the other beings, while being thought of as crazy by his friends. Between being duped into building a Jacuzzi for the aliens, being captured and interrogated by a [[TheMenInBlack anonymous government agency]] headed by Jeffrey Tambor, and nearly being dissected by a (puppet) MadScientist, it takes a while before Gonzo finally gets to meet his space-brethren.
It received mixed reviews, with some minor InternetBacklash, though the majority seem to consider this to be a fairly good Muppet film. It also seemed, for a while, that it might be the last of its kind - the [[Film/TheMuppets next film]] would not come for another twelve years!
----
!!The film provides examples of:
* AlienAmongUs: Gonzo.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: A mild case, as Gonzo's friends openly doubt his claims that he's from outer space. Granted, Gonzo's an oddball, but he is the only "whatever" they've ever seen before. Not to mention his alien status is being doubted in a world full of talking frogs, pigs, bears and rats.
* TheArk: The movie begins with Gonzo having a nightmare about Noah refusing to let him onto the ark because he can't identify his species.
* ArmiesAreEvil
* BadBadActing: Piggy as a newscaster.
* BerserkButton: Don't laugh at Ed.
* {{BFG}}: "The Really Big Gun" that Ed uses at the climax [[spoiler:...which Bobo disarms before Ed ever gets to fire it.]]
-->'''Kermit''': Gee, that was close...
-->'''Bobo''': Not as close as you think, my friend. [[spoiler: ...*Holds up the BFG's power source* "Please load weapon!"]]
* BlandNameProduct
* BrickJoke: In the beginning, Pepe and Rizzo trick Gonzo into building a jacuzzi because "If you build a jacuzzi, we will commmme, okaayyy..." Once the movie comes to a close, Gonzo wonders ''why'' he had to build a jacuzzi in the first place.
* BuffySpeak
-->'''Ed:''' ...The really big gun!
-->'''Bobo:''' Oh!
* CanonDiscontinuity: According to '''Boom! Kids''' ''TheMuppetShowComicBook''. This is likely not so much because of the quality of the movie though, more just for [[DontExplainTheJoke actually resolving]] what Gonzo is.
** It did get a brief MythologyGag in ''Film/TheMuppets'', though. In that movie, when Gonzo is preparing to blow up the plumbing factory that he owns so that he can rejoin the cast of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', he addresses the crowd of baffled onlookers as "People of Earth!", likely as a nod to his alien heritage.
* CallBack: The cheer Kermit does at the climax is ''exactly'' like the one he does in the opening of ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.
* CerebusRetcon: All those one off gags about Gonzo being a "Whatever" are looked at here in a more dramatic light.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Gonzo
* DeadpanSnarker: Rizzo -- of course.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Gonzo's speech about being an alien sounds an awful lot like coming out of the closet...
* DVDCommentary: A fun example, as director Tim Hill is joined by Gonzo and Rizzo. They spend as much time doing a ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' style riff or absurd in-universe stories as they do actual commentary, complete with the signature silhouettes.
* ExpospeakGag: The sub-atomic neutro-destabilizer. In other words, "the really big gun," for those who are intellectually impaired, like Rentro.
* FishOutOfWater: Gonzo.
* HeelFaceTurn: Ed and Bobo, though Bobo wasn't all that bad to start.
** Dr. Phil van Neuter ends up befriending the lab rats, having been beaten into submission by them.
* IChooseToStay: Gonzo doesn't go "home" to his planet, but he stays on his adopted home, Earth.
* IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime: Statler and Waldorf's 'life on other planets' exchange quoted up the top of the page was originally done on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' years before. Statler groans and screws up his face after he laughs for a moment, possibly remembering that he had suckered himself like this before...
* InsistentTerminology: Pepe is not a shrimp. He is a king prawn, okay?
* InvisibilityCloak: Well, spray.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: [[spoiler: Bobo makes sure Ed doesn't do any real harm.]]
* TheMenInBlack
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Bobo. Justified, in that the facility they work at is a legitimate military intelligence organization and his boss has gone off the deep end.
* MoreThanMindControl: Miss Piggy is given a container of a spray that will make people cater to her every whim.
* MsFanservice: The girl dancing on the beach and baring her midriff, causing ''Sam the Eagle'' (of all characters!) to watch her with a slackjawed expression.
** Kathy Griffin in a security guard uniform may also qualify.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Kermit gives this speech to the team just prior to rescuing Gonzo... and then Fozzie tells him they just left Bunsen and Beaker at the gas station.
* NoodleImplements: Gonzo tells Rizzo he had "that weird dream again", and Rizzo asks if it's "[[TheOneWith the one with]] [[BestialityIsDepraved the goat]] and the dwarf and the jar of peanut butter".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Gonzo was set to perform at a bar mitzvah, but not feeling up to it, he gets the Electric Mayhem to sub for him instead. Kermit takes notice.
-->'''Kermit:''' You never miss the chance to shoot yourself out of a cannon.
* PaperThinDisguise: The aforementioned lab coats.
* ParentalBonus: Bunsen and Beaker trading their bags of snack food to a van full of stoner hippies in exchange for a ride to the beach.
** Not to mention that whole business of [[spoiler:Animal getting some]].
** The score being comprised of 70's funk makes some wonder if ParentalBonus was the direction a family-friendly Muppet film was supposed to go. 'Brickhouse' is played over the Muppets waking up and getting ready for the day, but only in reference to how they live in a brick house. A few Muppets say uncharacteristic 70's one-liners such as "get down with your bad self." Even the poster on the top of this page has the tagline "The Ultimate Muppet ''Trip."''
* ThePowerOfFriendship: ...is [[ThickerThanWater more important than]] [[BrokenAesop family...?]]
** Also known as "Total strangers, however much they may enjoy parties and launching themselves out of cannons, are not necessarily more of a family than the people you've lived/worked with and been supported by for the past several decades."
* PowerPerversionPotential: Pepe and the invisibility spray. ''Twice''.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "DON'T! ...LAUGH! ...AT ME!"
* PunnyName: K. Edgar Singer. Initial, "Edgar", name of domestic appliance company.
* RingRingCRUNCH: Happens during the "waking up" montage near the opening.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/IndependenceDay'' when Dr. Phil van Neuter tries to remove Gonzo's brain.
-->'''Dr. Phil van Neuter:''' ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Release... me...]]''
** May turn into LateToThePunchline for the kids who watched that before they were old enough to watch Film/IndependenceDay.
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come... build a ''jacuzzi'' and we will come, [[VerbalTic okay]]?!"
** And at the film's climax, the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' theme can be heard when Ed agrees to leave with the aliens.
** Two of the characters from ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' show up on the beach chatting with Pepe and Clifford.
** The escape hole Rizzo has concealed behind a poster in the science lab is a nod to ''TheShawshankRedemption''.
* SocietyMarchesOn: Wrestling/HulkHogan is in his evil "[[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder Hollywood Hulk]]" persona ("I'm a bad guy now!") - but by the time the film was released, Hogan had returned to being a good guy.
* StayWithTheAliens: [[spoiler: Ed goes with the Gonzo aliens after they make him ambassador to their planet because they find him amusing.]]
* StolenMacGuffinReveal
* SupportingLeader: Kermit.
* ThatPoorCat: When Gonzo mows his message in the lawn.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Gonzo and Ed, but especially Ed..
* TooDumbToLive: Fozzie, as per usual. This time, it was going to the bathroom, and washing his hands while wearing invisibility spray, while sneaking around in a heavily guarded compound. Kermit realizes this, and the first thing he says is "Tell me you didn't wash your hands."
* TooFunnyToBeEvil: Ed. Provides some of the basis for his VillainousBreakdown and HeelFaceTurn.
* TrustMeImAnX: When Ed, examining Gonzo, notices that Gonzo has no nostrils, he asks, "How do you smell?" To which Rizzo the Rat responds, "Awful. Trust me, I'm his roommate."
* TotemPoleTrench: Used to infiltrate COVNET.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Well, par for the course for a Muppet film, but a bear M.I.B.?
* VerbalTic: Pepe has one, okay?
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally going to be an actual musical, with the song "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" from ''Series/TheMuppetMovie'' making its return, this time, in reference to Gonzo's ambition to find his family. Then someone said, "Naaaaah! 70's funk!"[[note]]It is on the soundtrack album, though.[[/note]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In-universe example, when Gonzo is puzzled why he was instructed to build a jacuzzi. Rizzo and Pepe (who conned him into doing it) just start laughing.
* YouAreNotAlone: The whole premise.
----
[[caption-width-right:275:]]
--->'''Statler''': I wonder if there really is life on other planets?\\
'''Waldorf''': What do you care? You don't have a life on this planet.\\
'''Both''': [[StatlerAndWaldorf Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]]
--->''Kermit is a frog. Fozzie is a bear. Gonzo is...what exactly is Gonzo?''
---->'''Creator/TheHub's commercial for this movie'''
''Muppets From Space'' is a 1999 [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] movie starring their regular cast of characters, focusing on Gonzo's back story. It is directed by Tim Hill. It is so far the only Muppet movie to not be a musical, with the score being filled with already-popular oldies soul and funk (some of which are covered for the film), and it also has the distinction of being the last Henson-related film featuring Frank Oz before he retired his characters to someone else. Additionally, it is the first Muppet film since Creator/JimHenson's death that has an original story and is not a spoof/tribute to a popular work of literature, and the humor is based on the more recent ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' show.
In this film, the Muppets are living communally in an old house ([[NegativeContinuity for some reason]]), with Piggy's motivation to become a successful TV reporter being the only clear source of their income. Gonzo feels lonely, because there's no one like him; he has friends, but no family, and everyone else does. Feeling despondent, he is contacted through his breakfast cereal (no, really) and told to watch the sky. Eventually, he is convinced that he is actually an alien that somehow wound up on Earth; elated at the thought that there may be more of his kind in space, he tries to communicate with the other beings, while being thought of as crazy by his friends. Between being duped into building a Jacuzzi for the aliens, being captured and interrogated by a [[TheMenInBlack anonymous government agency]] headed by Jeffrey Tambor, and nearly being dissected by a (puppet) MadScientist, it takes a while before Gonzo finally gets to meet his space-brethren.
It received mixed reviews, with some minor InternetBacklash, though the majority seem to consider this to be a fairly good Muppet film. It also seemed, for a while, that it might be the last of its kind - the [[Film/TheMuppets next film]] would not come for another twelve years!
----
!!The film provides examples of:
* AlienAmongUs: Gonzo.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: A mild case, as Gonzo's friends openly doubt his claims that he's from outer space. Granted, Gonzo's an oddball, but he is the only "whatever" they've ever seen before. Not to mention his alien status is being doubted in a world full of talking frogs, pigs, bears and rats.
* TheArk: The movie begins with Gonzo having a nightmare about Noah refusing to let him onto the ark because he can't identify his species.
* ArmiesAreEvil
* BadBadActing: Piggy as a newscaster.
* BerserkButton: Don't laugh at Ed.
* {{BFG}}: "The Really Big Gun" that Ed uses at the climax [[spoiler:...which Bobo disarms before Ed ever gets to fire it.]]
-->'''Kermit''': Gee, that was close...
-->'''Bobo''': Not as close as you think, my friend. [[spoiler: ...*Holds up the BFG's power source* "Please load weapon!"]]
* BlandNameProduct
* BrickJoke: In the beginning, Pepe and Rizzo trick Gonzo into building a jacuzzi because "If you build a jacuzzi, we will commmme, okaayyy..." Once the movie comes to a close, Gonzo wonders ''why'' he had to build a jacuzzi in the first place.
* BuffySpeak
-->'''Ed:''' ...The really big gun!
-->'''Bobo:''' Oh!
* CanonDiscontinuity: According to '''Boom! Kids''' ''TheMuppetShowComicBook''. This is likely not so much because of the quality of the movie though, more just for [[DontExplainTheJoke actually resolving]] what Gonzo is.
** It did get a brief MythologyGag in ''Film/TheMuppets'', though. In that movie, when Gonzo is preparing to blow up the plumbing factory that he owns so that he can rejoin the cast of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', he addresses the crowd of baffled onlookers as "People of Earth!", likely as a nod to his alien heritage.
* CallBack: The cheer Kermit does at the climax is ''exactly'' like the one he does in the opening of ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.
* CerebusRetcon: All those one off gags about Gonzo being a "Whatever" are looked at here in a more dramatic light.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Gonzo
* DeadpanSnarker: Rizzo -- of course.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Gonzo's speech about being an alien sounds an awful lot like coming out of the closet...
* DVDCommentary: A fun example, as director Tim Hill is joined by Gonzo and Rizzo. They spend as much time doing a ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' style riff or absurd in-universe stories as they do actual commentary, complete with the signature silhouettes.
* ExpospeakGag: The sub-atomic neutro-destabilizer. In other words, "the really big gun," for those who are intellectually impaired, like Rentro.
* FishOutOfWater: Gonzo.
* HeelFaceTurn: Ed and Bobo, though Bobo wasn't all that bad to start.
** Dr. Phil van Neuter ends up befriending the lab rats, having been beaten into submission by them.
* IChooseToStay: Gonzo doesn't go "home" to his planet, but he stays on his adopted home, Earth.
* IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime: Statler and Waldorf's 'life on other planets' exchange quoted up the top of the page was originally done on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' years before. Statler groans and screws up his face after he laughs for a moment, possibly remembering that he had suckered himself like this before...
* InsistentTerminology: Pepe is not a shrimp. He is a king prawn, okay?
* InvisibilityCloak: Well, spray.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: [[spoiler: Bobo makes sure Ed doesn't do any real harm.]]
* TheMenInBlack
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Bobo. Justified, in that the facility they work at is a legitimate military intelligence organization and his boss has gone off the deep end.
* MoreThanMindControl: Miss Piggy is given a container of a spray that will make people cater to her every whim.
* MsFanservice: The girl dancing on the beach and baring her midriff, causing ''Sam the Eagle'' (of all characters!) to watch her with a slackjawed expression.
** Kathy Griffin in a security guard uniform may also qualify.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Kermit gives this speech to the team just prior to rescuing Gonzo... and then Fozzie tells him they just left Bunsen and Beaker at the gas station.
* NoodleImplements: Gonzo tells Rizzo he had "that weird dream again", and Rizzo asks if it's "[[TheOneWith the one with]] [[BestialityIsDepraved the goat]] and the dwarf and the jar of peanut butter".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Gonzo was set to perform at a bar mitzvah, but not feeling up to it, he gets the Electric Mayhem to sub for him instead. Kermit takes notice.
-->'''Kermit:''' You never miss the chance to shoot yourself out of a cannon.
* PaperThinDisguise: The aforementioned lab coats.
* ParentalBonus: Bunsen and Beaker trading their bags of snack food to a van full of stoner hippies in exchange for a ride to the beach.
** Not to mention that whole business of [[spoiler:Animal getting some]].
** The score being comprised of 70's funk makes some wonder if ParentalBonus was the direction a family-friendly Muppet film was supposed to go. 'Brickhouse' is played over the Muppets waking up and getting ready for the day, but only in reference to how they live in a brick house. A few Muppets say uncharacteristic 70's one-liners such as "get down with your bad self." Even the poster on the top of this page has the tagline "The Ultimate Muppet ''Trip."''
* ThePowerOfFriendship: ...is [[ThickerThanWater more important than]] [[BrokenAesop family...?]]
** Also known as "Total strangers, however much they may enjoy parties and launching themselves out of cannons, are not necessarily more of a family than the people you've lived/worked with and been supported by for the past several decades."
* PowerPerversionPotential: Pepe and the invisibility spray. ''Twice''.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "DON'T! ...LAUGH! ...AT ME!"
* PunnyName: K. Edgar Singer. Initial, "Edgar", name of domestic appliance company.
* RingRingCRUNCH: Happens during the "waking up" montage near the opening.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/IndependenceDay'' when Dr. Phil van Neuter tries to remove Gonzo's brain.
-->'''Dr. Phil van Neuter:''' ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Release... me...]]''
** May turn into LateToThePunchline for the kids who watched that before they were old enough to watch Film/IndependenceDay.
** And earlier in the movie, one to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come... build a ''jacuzzi'' and we will come, [[VerbalTic okay]]?!"
** And at the film's climax, the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' theme can be heard when Ed agrees to leave with the aliens.
** Two of the characters from ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' show up on the beach chatting with Pepe and Clifford.
** The escape hole Rizzo has concealed behind a poster in the science lab is a nod to ''TheShawshankRedemption''.
* SocietyMarchesOn: Wrestling/HulkHogan is in his evil "[[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder Hollywood Hulk]]" persona ("I'm a bad guy now!") - but by the time the film was released, Hogan had returned to being a good guy.
* StayWithTheAliens: [[spoiler: Ed goes with the Gonzo aliens after they make him ambassador to their planet because they find him amusing.]]
* StolenMacGuffinReveal
* SupportingLeader: Kermit.
* ThatPoorCat: When Gonzo mows his message in the lawn.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Gonzo and Ed, but especially Ed..
* TooDumbToLive: Fozzie, as per usual. This time, it was going to the bathroom, and washing his hands while wearing invisibility spray, while sneaking around in a heavily guarded compound. Kermit realizes this, and the first thing he says is "Tell me you didn't wash your hands."
* TooFunnyToBeEvil: Ed. Provides some of the basis for his VillainousBreakdown and HeelFaceTurn.
* TrustMeImAnX: When Ed, examining Gonzo, notices that Gonzo has no nostrils, he asks, "How do you smell?" To which Rizzo the Rat responds, "Awful. Trust me, I'm his roommate."
* TotemPoleTrench: Used to infiltrate COVNET.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Well, par for the course for a Muppet film, but a bear M.I.B.?
* VerbalTic: Pepe has one, okay?
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally going to be an actual musical, with the song "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" from ''Series/TheMuppetMovie'' making its return, this time, in reference to Gonzo's ambition to find his family. Then someone said, "Naaaaah! 70's funk!"[[note]]It is on the soundtrack album, though.[[/note]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In-universe example, when Gonzo is puzzled why he was instructed to build a jacuzzi. Rizzo and Pepe (who conned him into doing it) just start laughing.
* YouAreNotAlone: The whole premise.
----
