The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Buzzn The Tower

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In 1979 Kermit The Frog left the pond and headed for Hollywood. On the way he met a bear with a Studebaker, a weirdo with a bent nose, a pretty pig, and a dog that sand the blues, all while being hunted by the sinister owner of a frog legs restaurant chain. This debut Muppet feature filmed was called, appropriately, The Muppet Movie. In 1981 Kermit and Fozzie The Bear played news reporters who also happened to be brothers. Along with their photographer, Gonzo, they headed across the pond where they spoiled the attempted robbery of the Baseball Diamond. This gem, no pun intended, was The Great Muppet Caper. But today on Buzzn The Tower, we're heading to the city that never sleeps, the big apple, the city so nice they named it twice, as we put on makeup and dress up right and chat about a classic, The Muppets Take Manhattan. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always, the Snookums to my Rowlf The Dog, Max Sanders. And with that...

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0:00.0	Together again
0:02.1	Gee, it's good to be together again, but you know this was written by who was this written by you don't know
0:08.0	Tom Patchet Jade terrors and Frank Oz okay, so we know who Frank Oz is obviously tell me who Tom Patchet and I can't
0:15.6	Tarsus I can't believe you don't know this I don't I look it up. This is my mind blower
0:19.1	Oh, I'm excited one it applies to me. I saw this. I literally laughed out loud for probably ten minutes
0:23.9	That's great. So Tom Patchet nobody deal. He created alph which is awesome. Yeah
0:28.3	Wow, that is just the appetizer Melvin Melvin you leave me in stitch. That's the cartoon
0:34.7	But Jay Tars name doesn't have a million. No
0:38.8	Everything is cream cheese sir. That's coach Finstock, baby
0:42.6	Coach he did this in short circuit. He wrote these two movies never date a woman with a dagger tattoo
0:49.2	12 hours of sleep. I should be borrowing money from you
0:53.0	What a dick on the job for your dad over the hardware store what what happened to get?
0:56.5	I don't know who's third string. What's it matter?
1:03.8	Welcome to Buzz in the Tower a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s
1:08.2	Prepare to be stuffed in our delorean and taken on a trip through the best decade of film ever. Hey mo
1:13.1	We better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88
1:16.3	Roads where we're going. We don't need roads
1:19.4	So if you love caddy shack the goonies aliens weird science spies like us the great outdoors and Pirates strikes back
1:26.2	The great muppet caper pretty in pink predator rocky for roadhouse say anything real genius short circuit
1:33.2	Some kind of wonderful Beverly Hills cop Akira Tango and cash the breakfast club and they live just to name a few
1:39.7	Then sit back relax and get ready to be entertained because we came here to chew bubble gum and podcast about 80s movies and we're all out of bubble gum
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