• @idealotus@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Lord of the Rings (I suppose is a classic by now) Ian McKellen is still Gandalf (a la Michael Cain) and Sauron is muppetfied

    Kermit = Frodo

    Fozzie Bear = Sam

    Gonzo = Merry

    Rizzo = Pippen

    Ms Piggy = Eowyn

    Animal = Gollum

    Doctor Teeth = Gimli

    Janice = Legolas

    Beaker = Arwen

    Doctor Honeydew = Elrond

    Swedish Chef = Saruman

    Sam the Eagle = Faramir

    Rowlf = Aragorn

    Sweetums = Theoden

    • @owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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      36 months ago

      The Wizard of Oz would be a great one. How’s this for a cast?

      Miss Piggy - Dorothy
      Rizzo - Toto
      Scooter - Scarecrow
      Gonzo - Tin Man
      Fozzie - Cowardly Lion
      Janice - Glinda
      Pepe - Wicked Witch of the West
      Kermit - the Wizard

  • @owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    The Princess Bride.

    Kermit - Westley
    Miss Piggy - Buttercup
    Gonzo - Inigo
    Fozzie - Fezzik
    Rizzo - Vizzini
    Uncle Deadly - Count Rugen
    Dr Bunsen - Miracle Max
    Beaker - Valerie
    Sam - the Impressive Clergyman
    Swedish Chef - the Albino
    Rowlf - Grandpa/Narrator

    Fred Savage would reprise his original role. Humperdinck would be played by Benedict Cumberbatch.

    “Anybody want a peanut? Waka waka!”

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    Passion of the Christ.

    Kermit - Jesus
    Miss Piggy - Mary Magdalene
    Fozzie - Peter
    Scooter - Matthew
    Rowlf - Mark
    Sam Eagle - Luke
    Doctor Honeydew - John
    Gonzo - Judas
    Swedish Chef - Pontius Pilate
    Statler and Waldorf - the Jewish elders who condemn Jesus.
    Crazy Harry and Beaker - The two thieves crucified with Jesus.

  • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    66 months ago

    Les Miserables, but it wouldn’t work.

    You would need enough female Muppets for, at minimum:

    Cosette, Fantine, Madame Thenardier, and Eponine. You could get away with casting the entire convent with penguins, I guess.

    But you run out of female Muppets surprisingly quickly. It’s Miss Piggy, Janice, Camilla, and that’s more or less it. Camilla can only make chicken noises, and even then, Fantine and Cosette need to be cast as believably related to each other, as do Madame Thenardier and Eponine.

    Then there’s the problem of Gavroche. The most likely casting would be Robin. You gonna kill Robin?

    And the natural choice for Javert is Sam the Eagle, who would never play a Frenchman.

    • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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      Swedish Chef as the innkeeper…

      Mester ouff zee-a huouse-a,
      duleeng ouout zee-a cherm
      Reedy vit a huondsheke-a und un oupee-a pelm
      Tells a suocy tele-a,
      mekes a leettle-a stur
      Cuostumers ippreceete-a a bun-fifeuor
      Gled tu du a friend a fefur
      Duesn’t cust me-a tu be-a nice-a
      Buot nuzeeng gets yuou nuzeeng
      Iferyzeeng hes gut a leettle-a price-a!

      Mester ouff zee-a huouse-a,
      keeper ouff zee-a zuo
      Reedy tu releefe-a ‘im ouff a suou our tvu Vetering zee-a vine-a, mekeeng up zee-a veeght
      Pickeen’ up zeeur knick-knecks vhee-a zeey cuon’t see-a streeght
      Iferybudy lufes a luondlurd
      Iferybudy’s busum friend
      I du vhetefer pleeses
      Jesuos! Vun’t I bleed 'im in zee-a ind!
      Bork Bork Bork!

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    56 months ago

    This isn’t really something I’d like done by the muppets per se, but I can’t help but bring up there are a ton of stories from the East that have never seen screen time on mainstream TV, like the story of Momotaro or the 108 Heroes of the Water Margin, both of these which can be argued as ideas.

  • @weirdbeardgame@lemmy.worldOP
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    Arabian Nights “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” (Not Disney’s Aladdin) Gonzo and Fozzy could be the Genie’s Note I say Genie’s plural because in the original Arabian Knights story, there are two. He has one that he can summon from a ring that in the Disney adaptation became the carpet and the other from the lamp that’s “The second more powerful Genie” Source for the uninformed

    Other than that, I could see Aladdin being human or Kermit, and Rizzo being the “Abu character / friend” Miss Piggy could be the princess character or she could be another human