Funny / The Muppets

For the funny moments in most of the other Muppet movies and TV programming, visit their respective pages.

As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.

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Series

• The Muppet Show
• Muppet Babies (1984)
• Muppets Tonight
• Muppet Viral Videos
• Muppet Babies (2018)
• The Muppets (2015)
• The Muppets Mayhem

Movies and TV Specials

• The Muppet Movie
• The Great Muppet Caper
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Muppets from Space
• It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
• The Muppets (2011)
• Muppets Most Wanted
• Muppets Haunted Mansion
• A Muppet Family Christmas
• The Muppets at Walt Disney World
• Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince
• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

Miscellaneous Muppet Moments

• From 1966, the TV commercial for Ideal Toys' Rowlf, Kermit and Snerf toys, which functioned as both puppet and plushie.^note The Snerf toys were advertised but never made it to store shelves. Rowlf plays the part of a frustrated narrator as the Kermit and Snerf toys continually interrupt his attempts to showcase the Rowlf toy. And then...
  Kermit Toys: [one performed by Jim Henson, the other possibly by Jerry Nelson] Oh buy us, oh buy us, oh buy us, we beg, for if you don't buy us we'll bite you in the leg.
  Rowlf: Uh, hold on! What kind of an attitude is that?
  [The Snerf toys briefly appear]
  Rowlf Toys: So buy us at once, we're a bundle of charms...
  Kermit Toys: ...And if you don't buy us, we'll break both your arms.
  Rowlf: OKAY, THAT'S ENOUGH! [to the viewer] Friends, buy the Ideal Muppets. The kids'll be screamin' for 'em. [Rowlf is surrounded and almost smothered by two Kermit toys, three Rowlfs, and three Snerfs, all shrieking with glee]
• In the special The Muppets Go to the Movies, Sam the Eagle presents a tribute to Ingmar Bergman with "Silent Strawberries." Oh, and Beaker portrayed the Angel of Death.
  • It was written by a distant family member of Ingmar Bergman, given the unusual, yet hilarious, name of Gummo. (Also a reference to The Marx Brothers.)
  • THE MUFFETS GO TO THE MOVIES
    Kermit: That's Muppets! The Muppets Go to the Movies!
    Fozzie: I never could spell.
    (Fozzie leans on the title, causing the whole thing to fall over)
• The post-Henson tribute has one within the first three minutes; as the Muppets try to figure out who Jim was, they quite suddenly break the fourth wall (or more accurately, floor).
  Robin: Hey, I remember this Jim Henson fella! Yeah, he was always hangin' around!
  Fozzie: Where? Where?
  Robin: [Motions toward the Muppeteers below] Uh... down there.
  [All the Muppets gasp upon seeing their own Muppeteers]
  Clifford: Hey, who are those guys?!
  Robin: I dunno, but they're still following us around...
  Gonzo: Hey, hey, look, look — when we move, they move! Try it!
  [They move randomly, watching their Muppeteers move with them]
  Fozzie Stop, stop, stop, stop! Let's stop looking at them, even, it's too weird.
  • Similarly, the 1980 World Puppetry Festival has a moment when Fozzie points out to Kermit that there's someone underneath them. Kermit explains it's a puppeteer and they're both puppets, then Fozzie has trouble grasping the reality of it.
  • At one point, they realize that Jim's name is on their paychecks, so he must be an accountant.
• Kermit and Piggy's response to Fox News' claim that the Muppets push a liberal agenda. Kermit points out that they drive around in a gas-guzzling Rolls-Royce... and Piggy says it's as laughable as Fox News claiming that they're news.
• An ad for Cravendale Milk’s offer on a Kermit backpack has Kermit showing off the item to Pepe, to which the king prawn replies...
  Pepe: "I've got a magic potato, okay." **PEPE PULLS OUT A POTATO THAT MAGICALLY FLOATS ABOVE HIS HAND**
• This commercial for Swim A Thon featuring Scooter. Especially the ending.
• Behind the scenes of the 2011 movie, Kermit and Bret McKenzie are singing "Life's a Happy Song," and towards the end Kermit starts going Off the Rails.
  Kermit: Oh, life's a bottle of flies! Life's a bunch of crickets! Life's a taco! Life's a pizza!
  • At the end of the video:
  Kermit; I love singing with you, Bret...
  Bret: It was close, we almost got it.
  Kermit: But I think I understand now why it was Walter and Jason.
  Bret: It was me, I screwed it up.
  Kermit: Me, too.
  (both exhale sharply)
• The Muppets attempting to help Lindsey Stirling and Josh Groban sing "Pure Imagination" is a hysterical comedy of errors.
• I'm going to kill this joke until it dies.
  • LOGIC FTW
• Most Muppet interviews are hilarious, especially when two Muppets are there together to play off one another, whereupon they more often than not will go totally off the rails.
  Interviewer: What do you think of Miss Piggy?
  Rizzo: She's the Queen of Mean! Hah!
  Pepe: Yeah, Queen a' Mean — joo rhyme, okay!
  Rizzo: Da—huh?
  Pepe: Joo rhyme, okay!
  Rizzo: Jew rhyme?!
  Pepe: Joo say rhyme!
  Rizzo: Juicy what? Juicy rind?
  Pepe: No, no! Not —
  Rizzo: Juicy rind. He's talking about a watermelon.
• In an interview promoting the 2011 film, Miss Piggy shows off her ability to perfectly imitate both Fozzie and Animal, much to Kermit's horror. Of course, the humor in that lies in the fact that all three characters are performed by the same puppeteer.
• A series of videos take place with Muppet characters in an elevator. One involves Gonzo on the phone with his doctor describing the symptoms of what appears to be a really nasty (and highly contagious) infection. He then notices Kermit, who had been listening to the whole thing, and casually pats him on the back to say hello. Kermit's horrified reaction is priceless.
• Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker show up as presenters at the Game Awards 2019 and take the chance to show off their new VR experience.
  • The spectacle of Beaker in VR Goggles is funny enough but then he learns they're superglued on and struggles to remove them.
  • The game they're showing off is Untitled Beaker Game. Things take their logical course when Beaker runs into the Horrible Goose in game and freaks out in the real world.
  • Before the winner can be announced, the Goose somehow chased Beaker out of the game and into reality, upon which it steals the envelope.
• Nearly every minute of the Muppets' appearance on the rap battle show, Drop The Mic. Between Kermit being way too nice for a rap battle (although he slipped up and pissed off Miss Piggy by saying the whole thing was "hog wash"), Pepe's rather creative disses, and then turning on his teammate, Kermit, or Beaker censoring Miss Piggy when she says "All of you Muppets can kiss my..."
• The Swedish Chef shows up as a presenter at the Game Awards 2020, under the impression that he actually won an award...which is really a pile of aluminum foil that he shaped in the form of a "trophy". He goes on to thank the people, his various kitchen utensils and the chickies before Geoff Keighley explains that he's supposed to be here to announce his appearance as a DLC character for Overcooked! All You Can Eat.
• When the Muppets appear on Just For Laughs, Kermit and Piggy do a duet singing "Muskrat Love", but Kermit inadvertently invokes Piggy's wrath when he sings a lyric mentioning "Nibbling on bacon", and she sends him flying.
  Kermit: [to the audience] Any of you ever dated pigs? Yeah, me too. I find that... uh... I get a bigger response from the women when I ask that.

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