The Muppets Take Manhattan
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2014
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Donna sure does love The Muppets and she decided to take us through her favorite Muppet movie of all-time: The Muppets Take Manhattan. Chris and Carlos have similarly fond memories of Jim Henson's beloved band of misfits and none of them can remember a time when they weren't a part of their lives.
They discuss the differences between the films & TV shows produced when Henson was still alive and the ones that followed after his death, Donna has some issues with the lyrics of Miss Piggy's love ballad, Chris is surprised that the supporting cast is largely absent for most of the movie's running time, and everyone does a Kermit the Frog impression at some point.
Other topics include: the live-action Muppet Babies sequence and the cartoon that followed, Chris' not-so-irrational fear of Miss Piggy as a child, what to do when you see a rat, what NOT to do when a woman says no, what happened to The Muppets in the late 90s/early aughts, and the most recent attempts at recapturing this property's former glory.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember the Muppets Take Manhattan? |
| 0:06.6 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or television show we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up today. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:34.2 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:35.0 | And today we're revisiting the Muppets Take Manhattan. |
| 0:52.8 | In 1984's classic Jim Henson creation, Muppets Take Manhattan, current in 1984's classic Jim Henson creation, Muppets Take Manhattan, Kermit and the gang have just had the honor of graduating college. |
| 1:02.0 | The gang puts on a swell variety show for graduation. |
| 1:06.0 | The audience is so enthusiastic, they decide to take the show to Old Broadway. |
| 1:11.4 | I mean, like anybody else had other jobs lined up, right? |
| 1:14.9 | No, they did not have jobs. |
| 1:16.9 | Director and writer Frank Oz, along with writers Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses, |
| 1:21.7 | take the lovable Muppets on a big city adventure filled with adventure, |
| 1:27.4 | songs, character-building moments, jazz loving rats, |
| 1:31.2 | and celebrity cameos. Chris, what do you remember about the Muppets Take Manhattan? |
| 1:38.7 | Okay, so I think the biggest distinction with all the Muppet stuff for me is everything that Jim Henson was a part of |
| 1:46.4 | and then everything they did after he died. And I don't mean like in a hipster way of like, I prefer |
| 1:51.3 | the classic stuff. It's, um, it's just because I have more, I have a better memory of the stuff |
| 1:57.2 | that was, that came out after he died because I was very young when that happened. |
| 2:01.3 | And so like Muppet Christmas Carol was the first new Muppet movie that I remember. |
| 2:08.2 | And that was the first one I saw in a theater. |
| 2:10.3 | And then so that and everything that came after that, that was, that's the stuff that's |
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