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The Muppets (2011)

Maybe it's the lack of context, but the clip didn't amuse me. It's a pretty ancient gag, people piling on each other's shoulders to pretend to be a big person. And Eric Jacobson just doesn't do Piggy's voice as well as he does Frank Oz's other characters.
 
Not only is it an "ancient gag", but it is also a very much a type Muppet gag. :techman:

But, yeah, Miss Piggy's voice does sound "off". But that's life, I suppose. Frank Oz couldn't do it forever, I suppose.
 
It being a tired, old gag is the point, I think. Hence Piggy's frustration at falling for it.
 
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Broccoli said:
Christopher said:
^The objection wasn't to the fact that they made up a backstory at all, but to the nature of the particular backstory that was concocted, which the veterans reportedly considered out of character.
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My point still remains the same. If you look at any of the back stories for any of the films, they all can look out of character (Kermit is a hillbilly living in the sticks, Kermit and Fozzie are twin brothers, Gonzo's an alien, etc). Then again, the movies never had any sense of continuity between them, and were mainly standalone, so the back stories varied to fit the film.
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During television appearances promoting the films, the Muppet characters were sometimes asked about this. The answer, in one form or another, was that they play characters based upon themselves - same as Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, etc. There's no official real back story on how these characters are supposed to have met.

Kermit was particularly emphatic about this with regard to his wedding to Miss Piggy in The Muppets Take Manhattan - that it wasn't "real," that none of the story was real ( "I'm just an actor and when two actors marry on stage, they're only acting"). Piggy, of course, was just as emphatic that they were now married.
 
Kelso said:
It being a tired, old gag is the point, I think. Hence Piggy's frustration at falling for it.
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Maybe, but if the point of a joke is that it's tired and unfunny, that doesn't tend to make it funny.

Like I said, maybe it'll work better in context.
 
I found the clip amusing. Sure, it's an ancient gag, but it worked for me. And I thought that it was very technically impressive.
 
Love it!

My Name Is Legion said:
Broccoli said:
Christopher said:
^The objection wasn't to the fact that they made up a backstory at all, but to the nature of the particular backstory that was concocted, which the veterans reportedly considered out of character.
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My point still remains the same. If you look at any of the back stories for any of the films, they all can look out of character (Kermit is a hillbilly living in the sticks, Kermit and Fozzie are twin brothers, Gonzo's an alien, etc). Then again, the movies never had any sense of continuity between them, and were mainly standalone, so the back stories varied to fit the film.
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During television appearances promoting the films, the Muppet characters were sometimes asked about this. The answer, in one form or another, was that they play characters based upon themselves - same as Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, etc. There's no official real back story on how these characters are supposed to have met.
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Exactly so.
 
You'll never guess who is taking over Bollywood...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScedHBmLpDs[/yt]
 
I was really suprised at the end of SNL when they showed the Muppets with the puppeteers. I had never seen that before and assumed it was a bit of a no-no pulling back the curtain on the illusion and all that.
 
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