Favorite Muppet Puns

[Zoot]

The muppets are notorious for the plays on words that they incorporated into the scripts (for the adults) - My favorite is from the Muppet Movie where Kermet almost gets flattened by a steam roller when he's riding his bike past the frog-leg fast food joint. See my signature for this line - What are everyones' favorite puns from all the movies/shows etc?

[Blind Pew]

I've got too many to count but the one that comes to mind is in TMM when Fozzie says something to the effect of "Those aren't Presbyterians" when they first see The Electric Mayhem.

[Iggy35]

I never did get that gag .. What is a Schwinn?
I still love it in GMC when Piggy is being arrested and she turns to Nicky Holiday and says "You can't even sing, Your voice was dubbed!"
Tickles me everytime!! hehe

IGGY35

[Sir Didymus]

I thought in GMC Piggy was saying "You can't even sing, your voice is dumb!". Lol that's funny!

Sir Didymus

P.S. A Schwinn is a kind of bike. I have a nice blue schwinn.

[Zoot]

You can always identify the moment right after you've heard a muppet pun when Kermit says "Oh GEEEEZ!"

Another one of my favorites though...is when Paul Simon is hosting TMS and at the very beginning he walks up and the ticket taker guy (I don't know his name) is wrestling with the trap-door lever...and offers to help his expertese with the claim that "He knows a thousand ways to love you lever."

[Jeffrey Gray]

The "gone with the Schwinn" joke is a pun on "Gone with the Wind."

[scarecroe]

Schwinn is a bicycle company, perhaps one of the oldest still operating in the US. Bikes will often be reffered to by the company name that produces them; "I rode to work today on my Schwinn [or Trek, or Specialized, or Gary Fisher]"

http://www.schwinn.com/

The line also works well, as Jeffrey pointed out, as a take on the film title Gone With the Wind.

[scarylarrywolf]

I just figured one out yesterday:

in MTI when Kermit and Piggy are dangling upside down on the cliff Kermit says "Don't cry for me, Benjamina." I JUST got a cd with "Don't cry for me ARGENTINA" on it so it all makes sense to me! I love learning new things like that.

--"Scary" Larry Wolf

[Tera]

Most of my favorites have already been listed. Gone with the Schwinn is, in my opinion, the best ever.
"They don't look like Presbyterians to me!" is another favorite (I used to go to school at a seminary, so I said this one in my head A LOT), but I have to say the running gag with "Have you tried Hare Krishna?" in TMM is even better. I laugh just thinking about it.
The ones we use the most in everyday conversation are "Myth, Myth!...Yesth?" and "Bear Left.. Right Frog". In fact, 'Bear and Frog' are now synonomous among my family and friends with 'Left and Right'. So when we're giving directions we can't tell anyone to bear right, because they'll go left then right.

[Tera]

"I JUST got a cd with "Don't cry for me ARGENTINA" on it"

Which one? I HIGHLY recommend the version of Evita that has Mandy Patankin (Inigo Montoya from Princess Bride) singing the role of Che. His voice is poetry.
BTW, one of my two favorite non-Muppet puns comes from that book ... (This scene isn't an exact quote, but you'll get the idea.)
its right after Buttercup and Wesley reunite at the bottom of the chasm outside the Fireswamp. They start fighting, and she says mean stuff to him. Then she throws herself into his arms to apologize and says "I didn't mean any of it, not a single syllabub." Now Wesley knows a syllabub is a dessert made with wine and cream, but he also knows an apology when he hears it. So he just holds her colse and says "I know you didn't, not a single syllabub."

[scarylarrywolf]

The cd I got with "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" on it is "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: Are a Drag". I got it because someone on these boards said that they re-did "Rainbow Connection" (which they did). There's a bunch of other great songs on it, but there's one yucky part too... yuck.

"Scary" Larry Wolf

[Drtooth]

I always liked the one on the Muppet Movie when Kermit tells Telly Savalas that the Frogs giving warts thing is just a Myth. "Yeah, but she's my myth!!" Kermit repeats "Myth! Myth" and a Lisping woman goes "Yeth?" What was really funny is it became sort of a running gag. In one scene Kermit says Myth again, and for no reason, the woman pops out from behind a billboard and says "Yeth" The fast paced humor of this movie reminded me of the old Jay Ward cartoons:
Rocky asks Bullwinkle what an A bomb means, and Bullwinkle answers "A Bomb is what they think of our program," "I don't think that's very funny!" "Neither do they, apparently!"

But as for the Schwinn joke, it was another pun in the Jim Henson Tribute. Fozzie wanted a biking number and Scooter misheard him, thinking he said a VIKING number. He brings in a Viking long boat and Fozzie asks, "what about the Schwinn?" and Scooter replies, "we don't have a Schwinn, but we have a Sven!"

But my favorite was the other running gag pun, "we've got to catch the theives red handed, " What color are their hands now" from Great Muppet Caper

[fluffmuppet]

I think my favorite is the part in the Muppets from Space movie, where that big evil guy (don't know his name) is examining Gonzo and they say:
Evil Guy: No nostrils...how do you smell?
Rizzo: Terrible, believe me, I'm his roommate!

lol! I also like in the Muppet caper movie when Gonzo throws himself in front of a taxi & Kermit says "That's very..effective." And Gonzo says, "yeah, it's GREAT when it works!!"

Hahahahaha! I loooove Muppet Caper!!! =D

~fluff~

[Drtooth]

What about "Drinks on the house?"

[Fozzie Bear]

According to the script for "The Muppet Movie" before Kermit gets to the El Sleezo Cafe, there's letters across the bottom of the screen that say LATER. Kermit kind of walks by it and says, "Later!" and the word fades away.

FOZ

[Drtooth]

And must we forget:

Good greif, the comedian's a bear.

No he's-a not! He's-a wearin' a neck-a tie!

[Fozzie Bear]

Byron and I were voice-chatting last night and I made a very brief reference to that "Comedian's a bear!" sketch.

[Beauregard]

I think it's funny when he says don't cry for me Bengimina, because she goes WHAT! She wasn't crying for him!!!

[Joggy]

In my opinion the Dog City special had some of the best puns ever ('but you used to be me!'). Mostly by Rowlf:

(everybody running away scared) "I think that's body language for 'Yipes'."

"Bugsy Them is such a big criminal that they print the same article in the paper every day and just fill in the crimes."

"Aherm! Welcome to family viewing, folks!" (interrupting Colleen's song at the line "I will be his..." - rhymes with 'rich')

[contour]

"who's The Good Lookin' Pig? If You Were A Chicken, You'd Be Impeccable"

Lol!

[Skekayuk]

Well I think my favourite is on the Steve Martin ep of TMS, when the All Food Glee Club are on. One of the vegetables says "Tomato you're slow", and the tomato replies "I'll Ketch-up" - It's a good joke anyway, and then there is the added touch that one does just wonder if there was a little in-joke going on there.

Another great favourite of mine, occurs in The Secret Life Of Toys. In the episode 'All Washed Up', when Ditz's arms get stuck in the air. He ends up playing a tree, and when his arms get unstuck says "I wonder how trees do it, with their arms up in the air all day?", Meanwhile Raisin says to him "Ditz, I can't believe what a great tree you make, I mean my arms would be killing me by now". -The funny bit is that these lines are really being spoken by two experienced puppeteers.

[abiraniriba]

Dog City (the movie) had a lot of good puns and a few that I accidentally stepped in LOL

Anyway, my fave was when Ace Yu (gesundheit, danke schen) was fighting Bugsy and claimed to be a pink bow in the ancient Pekingese art of Whyioughta. Obviously a pun on various Japanese martial arts.
I also liked the running gags on the character's names.

And now I shall go and take a bath.

Hey what happened to the tub

Sorry, the last guy that took a bath fogot to put it back when he was done.

[MelissaY1]

The cd I got with "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" on it is "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: Are a Drag". I got it because someone on these boards said that they re-did "Rainbow Connection" (which they did). There's a bunch of other great songs on it, but there's one yucky part too... yuck.

"Scary" Larry Wolf

I can't stand Me First and the Gimme Gimmes...famous for botching other people's songs....