The Missing Muppet Movie

[ZeppoAndFriends]

Just a quick question.

How would one go about getting their thread re-titled?

I'd kinda like to change it to 'Frognapped: A Muppet Adventure'.

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

Now that the holiday season is over (Whew!) I shall resume work on this here script.

Be on the lookout for part eight, he is not armed, but if you get to close he will attempt to tickle your armpits. Ba-dum-ching bad joke!

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

Taking longer to get to the point than a mile long pin, its:

FROGNAPPED
Part 8​

INT: CAR
　
Steve has parked the car in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant and he and Bobo are looking through the plans. Steve is staring a one in humored disbelief.
　

STEVE
Where are we supposed to get an elephant?​

　

BOBO
I don’t know, but look at this one!​

　
Bobo hands Steve another sheet of paper from the envelope and they both crack up.
　

STEVE
A T…(LAUGHING) A Tro…(LAUGHING)​

　
Steve tries to compose himself.
　

STEVE
A Trojan pig! How would this work, exactly?​

　

BOBO
Dunno.​

　
Steve and Bobo both settle down.

　
BOBO
Sometimes I think the boss is a little…​

　

STEVE
Crazy? Nuts? A fruitcake?​

　

BOBO
A sandwich short of a picnic basket!​

　

STEVE
Not playing with a full deck!​

　

BOBO
Three pickles short of a sandwich!​

　

STEVE
Are you hungry?​

　

BOBO
Yeah, a little.​

　

STEVE
Want to get dinner?​

　

BOBO
Okay.​

CUT TO​

INT: NICE RESTAURANT - NIGHT
　
Kermit and Piggy are sitting at a table, looking over their menus.
　

PIGGY
I think I am going to have the lasagna and a salad.
What are you going to have Kermie?​

　

KERMIT
(DISCONNECTED MUMBLING)​

　​

Piggy puts her menu down.
　

PIGGY
Kermie, what’s the matter? You haven’t been
yourself since we left the hotel.​

　
Kermit puts his menu down, also.
　

KERMIT
I don’t know. I just have a feeling
something bad is going to happen.​

　

PIGGY
Oh, Kermit, you’re just being silly.​

　
Right on cue there is a loud bang and clattering from the kitchen. Kermit leaps out of his seat.
　

KERMIT
(PANICKED)
Fozzie, get the fire extinguisher!​

　
The entire restaurant turns to stare at Kermit. With a nervous giggle Piggy gets up and shepherds Kermit back into his seat, then turns to the crowd.
　

PIGGY
(SHOUTING)
What are you looking at!​

　
The rest of the patrons return to their meals and the waiter return to waiter-ing. Piggy sits back down.
　

PIGGY
Your nerves are shot.
Which is exactly why we are here.​

　

KERMIT
(CALMING DOWN)
You’re right, I’m…I’m just being silly.
　​

Unbeknownst to Kermit and Piggy, Steve and Bobo are sitting at a table near kitchen doors. Bobo is looking over his menu, Steve is looking over Kermit.
　

BOBO
I think I’m gonna have the lasagna and a salad.
What are you gonna have, Steve?​

　

STEVE
(DISCONNECTED MUMBLING)​

　
BOBO
Where’s that on the menu?​

　

STEVE
(DISCONNECTED MUMBLING)​

　
BOBO
There isn’t a (REPEATS MUMBLING) section on mine.
Are you lookin’ at the dessert menu?​

　

STEVE
What strategy do you think should we go with?​

　

BOBO
I already told ya’ I was plannin’ on havin’ the lasagna.​

　
Steve realizes that he and Bobo aren’t on the same page and rolls his eyes.
　

STEVE
I mean about nabbing the frog!​

　

BOBO
Oh! Why didn’t you say so?​

　
Bobo mumbles something to himself as he pulls up the envelope and pulls out a sheet of paper.
　

BOBO
The boss has a plan for this situation.​

　

STEVE
What is it?​

　
INSERT: PAPER
　
As Bobo reads off each step it pans to a different cartoon-y picture, illustrating the concept.
　

BOBO
(READING PAPER)
Step one: Wait until everyone else leaves.
Step two: Nab frog.
Step three: Bring frog to specially prepared island base.
Step four: Rake in the ransom money.
Step five: Celebrate.​

BACK TO SCENE

Steve takes the paper from Bobo and looks it over.
　

STEVE
This is never going to work.​

　

BOBO
Why?
　
STEVE
For one thing it is very likely that Kermit’s going
to leave way before everyone else.
　
BOBO
Well, there is another one.​

Bobo pulls out another sheet of paper and hands it to Steve. Steve looks it over and gives it a ‘hmm’ look.
　

STEVE
This could work.​

Part nine is coming. WATCH OUT! ​

 

[mbmfrog]

Great update and poor Kermit.

Still it would be interesting to see how Kermit goes missing.

Please do keep up the good work upon such a great fan-fic.

 

[JEANYLASER]

yeah me too! I can't wait for the next chapter!

 

[Muppetfan44]

Nice chapter! Exicted for what happens next. Please post more soon!

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

[Insert relevent quip here], it's:

FROGNAPPED
Part 9​

Bobo stands at the open trunk of the rental car, shuffling through the items in the back and mumbling to himself. He throws several items, including a model airplane, a telephone, a rubber duck (wink, wink), a Fraggle Rock lunchbox, a lacey pillow, a snow globe and Ms. Anderson’s taxidermy dog, over his shoulders. He stops to examine what appears to be a large metal pen with a blue light on the end. While fiddling with it, the light turns on accompanied by a high-pitched whining noise. With a shout he drops it back in the trunk and blinks the spots out of his eyes.
　

CUT TO​

　​

The form of Steve stands behind the curtains that cover the walls and frame the ‘IN’ and ‘OUT’ doors for the kitchen. As one of the waiters heads back for the ‘IN’ door he is unceremoniously yanked behind the curtain. The curtains do an energetic dance, reflecting the mayhem going on behind them. A patron on his way back from the bathroom notices the bulge and moves the curtain aside, revealing Steve slipping on the unconscious waiter’s pants. They stare at each other for a few moments.
　

STEVE
Uh…(POWERFULLY) Pay no attention
to that man behind the curtain!​

　
Steve yanks the curtain away from the patron, who wanders off in slight disbelief.

　
CUT TO​

　​

Bobo is halfway across the parking lot from the car, pulling out a long section of large rubber tubing. After he liberates it from the trunk, he tosses it in an unfeasibly large pile of things at the side of the lot. Items now include, an old TV set, a desk lamp, a boom box, a ship in a bottle, a large teddy bear with a missing arm, a pot of gold, a mini fridge, a complete hamster’s habitat, a large trash can, several random rats and a moose!
　

MOOSE
(AS JOHN WAYNE)
Has anyone seen a duck ‘round these parts?​

　
Bobo is oblivious to the moose’s presence and lumbers back to the trunk.
　

BOBO
(ECHOING)
Let’s see…where is it? (CHUCKLES) Echo! Echo!
Why are there so many, songs about rainbows?​

CUT TO​

　​

Kermit and Piggy sit at their table. Piggy is enjoying her lasagna and Kermit is picking at a calzone with his fork.
　

PIGGY
Kermie, why aren’t you eating? Is something wrong?​

　

KERMIT
Yes, they forgot to hold the olives.​

　
Kermit holds up his fork, revealing a whole black olive stuck on the end of it.
　

PIGGY
I thought you liked olives.​

　

KERMIT
I do. Just not paired with grasshoppers
and green peppers.​

　​

Unbeknownst to Kermit and Piggy, Steve slinks along the back wall, trying to get to the exit. A patron and her dining partners stop him in his tracks.
　

PATRON #2
Excuse me, waiter! I told them
to hold the cheese on this.​

　
She shoves a plate of a cheese-smothered something at him.
　

PATRON #3
And I told them no eggs!​

　
He stacks an omelet on top of the cheese thing.
　

PATRON #4
There’s a fly in my soup!​

　

PATRON #5
This wine tastes like potatoes!​

　

PATRON #2
I’ve changed my mind. I’ll have the lasagna.​

　

PATRON #4
Ooh! Me too!

PATRON #3
I’d like another omelet! No eggs this time!​

　

PATRON #5
I’d like to see a dessert menu.​

　

PATRON #4
The rest of us haven’t even had our entrees!
　
PARTON #2
On second thought, I’ll have a calzone
with sausage and green peppers.​

　

PATRON #3
That sounds good! I’ll have one, too!​

　
Steve becomes more and more frazzled as the patrons’ complaints and demands mount. He finally throws the plate of cheese thing and omelet on the ground, drawing the attention of the entire restaurant.
　

STEVE
(SHOUTING)
I don’t have to put up with this, you know!
I went to college! I have a Master’s Degree in physics!​

　
He pulls off his apron, wads it up and drops it in Patron #4’s soup bowl.
　

STEVE
AND I QUIT!​

　
Steve storms out the doors. A few people applaud him, the rest are dumbfounded.
　

CUT TO​

　​

The trunk of the car is still hanging wide open, but Bobo is nowhere in sight. Steve rushes out of the front doors and up to the car.
　

STEVE
Bobo! Bobo, where are you?​

　

BOBO
(O.S. ECHOING)
In here!​

　
Bobo pokes his head out of the trunk. He is wearing a lighted miner’s helmet and looking through an old leather wallet.
　

BOBO
Hey, do you happen to know a Jimmy Hoffa?​

　
Steve slaps the wallet out of Bobo’s hands.
　

STEVE
Never mind that! Did you find the sign?​

　
BOBO
Uhh…no. But I did find fifty-five
cents and a breath mint!​

　
Bobo breathes in Steve’s face.
　

STEVE
(FLATLY)
Yum…minty.​

　

BOBO
I also found this.​

　
Bobo holds up a clacking pair of wooden teeth. Steve swats it away.
　

STEVE
Enough with the gags! We need the sign!​

　

BOBO
Well, okay.​

　
Bobo dives back into the trunk. There comes the sound of whirring a DING and the sound of an elevator opening. A shocked Steve leans into the trunk of the car.
　

STEVE
(ECHOING)
Wow! Talk about trunk space.​

NEXT TIME: We finally get to the point! Or do we? Do we? I don't know.​

 

[Muppetfan44]

I like the whole scene with Bobo in the trunk, but I think the restaurant stuff is getting drawn out a bit. Steve as a waiter was funny but it just seems like the story's been at the restaurant for too long. A lot of really great lines though. Keep up the good work; definitely curious to see what happens next!

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

I like the whole scene with Bobo in the trunk, but I think the restaurant stuff is getting drawn out a bit. Steve as a waiter was funny but it just seems like the story's been at the restaurant for too long. A lot of really great lines though. Keep up the good work; definitely curious to see what happens next!

I know it's being drawn out too much, but I couldn't resist the thought of Steve trying to be a waiter, (Note: The waiter bit is actually important for later!), and Bobo and the infinite car trunk. I'll tighten it up in my second draft if I get the chance to make it an actual movie.

BUT, we are getting to the point! Next up are Steve and Bobo's failed attempts to capture Kermit!

WAIT! I shouldn't have told you that! Umm...up next is NOTHING! End of story! Game over! Thanks for playing!

(Oh...never mind )

 

[Muppetfan44]

Originally posted by ZeppoAndFriends
I know it's being drawn out too much, but I couldn't resist the thought of Steve trying to be a waiter, (Note: The waiter bit is actually important for later!), and Bobo and the infinite car trunk. I'll tighten it up in my second draft if I get the chance to make it an actual movie.

I did love the bit with Steve as a waiter and the trunk bit was hilarious with Mickey Moose

BUT, we are getting to the point! Next up are Steve and Bobo's failed attempts to capture Kermit!

WAIT! I shouldn't have told you that! Umm...up next is NOTHING! End of story! Game over! Thanks for playing!

haha, no worries. Definitely don't end the story; you're doing a great job so far