Muppets from Space: Difference between revisions

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'''Both''': [[Statler and Waldorf|Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]] }}

 

In this film, the Muppets are living communally in an old house ([[Negative Continuity|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 [[The Men in Black|anonymous government agency]] headed by Jeffrey Tambor, and nearly being dissected by a (puppet) [[Mad Scientist]], it takes a while before Gonzo finally gets to meet his space-brethren.

 

 

* [[Alien Among Us]]: Gonzo.

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: 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.

* [[Armies Are Evil]]

* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Piggy as a newscaster.

* [[BFG]]: "The Really Big Gun" that Ed uses at the climax {{spoiler|...which Bobo disarms before Ed ever gets to fire it.}}

'''Bobo''': Not as close as you think, my friend. {{spoiler|...*Holds up the BFG's power source* "Please load weapon!"}} }}

* [[Bland-Name Product]]

* [[Brick Joke]]: 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.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]

'''Bobo:''' Oh! }}

* [[Call Back]]: The cheer Kermit does at the climax is ''exactly'' like the one he does in the opening of [[The Muppet Show]].

* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: All those one off gags about Gonzo being a "Whatever" are looked at here in a more dramatic light.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Pepe is not a shrimp. He is a king prawn, okay?

* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: Well, spray.

* [[The Men in Black]]

* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Miss Piggy is given a container of a spray that will make people cater to her every whim.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: 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.

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: 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.

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: 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.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: The aforementioned lab coats.

* [[Parental Bonus]]: Bunsen and Beaker trading their bags of snack food to a van full of stoner hippies in exchange for a ride to the beach.

* [[Punny Name]]: K. Edgar Singer. Initial, "Edgar", name of domestic appliance company.

* [[Ring Ring CRUNCH]]: Happens during the "waking up" montage near the opening.

** And earlier in the movie, one to ''[[Field of Dreams]]'' when Pepe and Rizzo convince a barely-conscious Gonzo that "If you build it, we will come... build a ''jacuzzi'' and we will come, [[Verbal Tic|okay]]?!"

** And at the film's climax, the [[Star Trek]] theme can be heard when Ed agrees to leave with the aliens.

** The escape hole Rizzo has concealed behind a poster in the science lab is a nod to ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''.

* [[Society Marches On]]: [[Hulk Hogan]] is in his evil "[[New World Order|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.

* [[Stolen MacGuffin Reveal]]

* [[Supporting Leader]]: Kermit.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: 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."

* [[Too Funny to Be Evil]]: Ed. Provides some of the basis for his [[Villainous Breakdown]] and [[Heel Face Turn]].

* [[Totem Pole Trench]]: Used to infiltrate COVNET.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Well, par for the course for a Muppet film, but a bear M.I.B.?

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Pepe has one, okay?

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The film was originally going to be an actual musical, with the song "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" from ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' making its return, this time, in reference to Gonzo's ambition to find his family. Then someone said, "Naaaaah! 70's funk!"

* [[You Are Not Alone]]: The whole premise.

 

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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]

[[Category:Puppet Shows]]