YMMV / Meet the Feebles

• Crosses the Line Twice: This movie has crossed every line there is, so often all the lines have been obliterated. Except for (mercifully), child murder.
• Fashion-Victim Villain: Trevor the Rat's outfit is nothing too unusual for a mobster: a trenchcoat, shirt, vest, tie, and pants. But a closer look at his feet reveals that he's wearing sneakers, which are generally seen as being too "casual" for an otherwise formal wardrobe.
• Heartwarming Moments: The romance between Robert and Lucille is probably one of the few genuinely sweet things to occur in this film.
  • Throughout the film, Sidney the Elephant denies that Seymour is his son, despite the obvious resemblance. But when Heidi goes on a rampage and Seymour is in the middle of the gunfire, Sidney charges right in and saves his son at the cost of his knees.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Every car in the film is a Morris Minor. One of them would eventually also turn up in an actual Muppet movie.
  • This wouldn't be the last time Peter Jackson had a character sing while a battle goes on.
  • In the opening song, Heidi says "My talents are huge!" while shaking her breasts at the camera. A few years later, a notorious piece of censorship in the English dub of Sailor Moon actually did make "talent" a popular Unusual Euphemism for breasts.
  • An animal character named Mister Big who is the leader of a mob and, due to his size and species, has his animal henchmen do basically everything for him. In a world filled with Funny Animals. Where would we see that next?
• It Was His Sled: Almost every review of this film thinks nothing of spoiling the ending. To be fair though, this isn't really the type of film that you'd watch for the plot twists. And the cover showing Heidi with the gun probably does not help either...
• Jerkass Woobie: Oh Heidi, Heidi, Heidi... After everything she was forced to put up with, you could almost root for her when she ends up killing Bletch and Trevor; that is, if innocent characters weren't killed and hurt by her during her rampage.
  • Sebastian may be rather condescending and demanding, but given all the disasters that he has to put up with, you can't exactly blame him for being a bit cross.
• Love to Hate: Sebastion. Seriously, his charisma and mannerisms, and especially his Sodomy song got some of the biggest laughs in the film.
• Memetic Mutation: Meet The Feebles is now Disney canon.^Explanation  In The Muppets Mayhem, the guest appearance by Peter Jackson in one episode, it’s casually (albeit understandably uncomfortably) stated that the gang had previously encountered Jackson while working with the Feebles, puppet characters that engaged in murder, drug use, and BDSM, among other ghastly activities, and that two unnamed Feebles are in witness protection after that night while the rest are unsurprisingly in prison. It’s a darkly hilarious moment, but it’s definitely surprising for those in the know that Disney would choose to acknowledge such a controversial and adult parody on a family program.
• Moment of Awesome: Robert pulls off two in the climax: a Big Damn Heroes moment where he swings down from the rafters and grabs Lucille moments before she's executed by Heidi, and when he uses the same rope to swing down and knock Trevor off balance before he can kill Heidi, allowing her to retrieve the M60 and pump him full of lead.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • While Bletch, Trevor, and Samantha were killed during Heidi's rampage, she crosses a few lines during the final act when she brutally kills some of the more innocent and nice characters, like Abi and Harry.
  • Trevor almost raping Lucille and Sebastian making Robert Wynyard's new assistant (which was almost assuredly a death sentence) are also this.
• Nausea Fuel: Do not watch this movie after a meal. Especially any scene that Harry appears in.
• Squick: Prostitution, BDSM, drugs, shit-eating, vomiting, all culminating in a massive bloodshed. And all done with puppets.
• Tear Jerker: After Heidi snaps out of her homicidal rampage, Arthur sadly informs her that he will have to turn her in to the cops. Heidi gracefully faces her arrest (revealed to be ten years in a female penitentiary), but asks Arthur to play one final, solemn reprise of "Garden of Love" as her swan song. Arthur complies, as, surrounded by a sea of dead bodies and accompanied by the sound of police sirens, Heidi croons her signature song once more as the film ends. What makes this final scene so tragic is everything that had happened to Heidi that ultimately pushed her over the edge; all the abuse she had received, both verbally and mentally, that led her to decide to exact her gory revenge on the people who had made her life a living hell: Bletch, Trevor and Samantha above all others. It was this decision, to answer to the abuse and betrayal she had been dished out her whole career with gruesomely killing anyone and everyone in sight, that ultimately led to her downfall and arrest. And even if Heidi becomes fully rehabilitated, her decision to kill off the remaining Feebles, her own co-stars and friends, will haunt her forever.
  • While the film does give the surviving characters a happy ending (Heidi is rehabilitated and now works at a supermarket, Robert and Lucille are married, etc.), with the Feebles all but destroyed, both from the inside and out, it's highly unlikely that Heidi, Robert, Lucille and Arthur, four of the most sympathetic characters in the film, will ever see each other again.
  • Really, Heidi's story arc in particular. She was discovered by Bletch at a film noir club, and was groomed by him to be a huge star. But after Heidi became overweight and unstable mentally, Bletch began to lose interest in Heidi, only keeping her around as drawing power. After her performance of "Garden of Love" in the big show, Bletch unceremoniously fires her, which leads to Heidi attempting suicide, eventually grabbing a machine gun to do the job. It's only after Samantha the cat, who is currently in a relationship with the corrupt walrus, taunts Heidi that the hippo is driven to lunacy and decides to massacre nearly the entire remaining cast, including Samantha, Harry, Abi, Dorothy, Sandy, Musician Frog, and eventually, Trevor and Bletch. Only Robert, Lucille, Arthur, Sid and Sebastian survive (and even then, Heidi was set on offing Lucille before Robert made the save).
  • What poor Harry the Hare goes through. After being diagnosed with a sexually-transmitted disease by Dr. Quack (who tells him he only has a day to live), Harry becomes relentlessly tormented by F.W. Fly, who wants to exploit Harry's illness in the name of journalism. Then, he's told by the doctor that he simply has the bunny pox, which excites Harry, as he will recover, but then his body becomes riddled with bullets from the machine gun-wielding Heidi.
  • Poor Wynyard! For starters, he spent years fighting against the Viet Cong (represented by stereotypical-looking gophers) in the Vietnam War back in 1968. After being saved by Jim, his commanding officer and best friend, they and two other frogs named Chuck and 8-Ball went on a routine expedition where they were gradually captured, killed and forcefully "re-educated" by the Vietnamese gophers. After a game of Russian roulette gone wrong, Wynyard and Jim tried to escape, only for Jim to fall into a deep hole. Instead of saving him, Wynyard chose to run off like a coward, leaving Jim to die off-screen at the hands of the Cong. According to Wynyard, by the time he escaped from a Saigon hospital, he became addicted to every barbiturate in the world. His experiences in 'Nam left him with a terrible case of the shakes, which leads him to botch his knife-throwing act twice, the first time killing his assistant, and the second himself.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Barry the Bulldog could've had more development, and he definitely could've benefited from more screen time. And if he hadn't have been killed earlier, he could've easily had a decent scene during Heidi's rampage.
  • Pretty much the entirety of Mr. Big's gang. Special mention goes to the Giant Spider, whose scene could've been just a little longer.
  • The colorful "furball", tribble-like creatures could have survived longer, maybe being killed off during Sidney's act. Additionally, an explanation or backstory of sorts as to why they exist would be nice.
• Values Dissonance: In the Wynyard's flashback, all of the Viet Cong are depicted as Asian Buck Teeth who wears glasses and are called "gooks" multiple times.
• Values Resonance: After how much bigger a deal Bury Your Gays has become, it's pretty neat that the gay character Sebastian is one of the few to survive, even if he's a huge jackass.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The film is a puppet movie not dissimilar to The Muppets, so it must be for kids, right? Nope; it has a song sung about sodomy during a shooting rampage, among other things.
• The Woobie: Harry Hare, first tormented by the Fly in the Sky when doctors tell him he's caught "The Big One", desperately struggles to climb out of his carrot-rocket so he can give one last show before he dies, and he looks absolutely pitiful when he is praying to God that he gets better. And when it turns out he didn't have "The Big One", he gets killed by Heidi.
  • To top it off, in spite of his sex addiction, Harry comes across as a lot nicer and more laid-back than any of the "bad" Feebles, and doesn't really do anything on-screen to deserve it.

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