Who Framed Kermit the Frog

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MUPPET CENTRAL FORUM MEMBERS ONLY, PLEASE! TV movie

All right. Here's what we got so far.

3 script ideas

Pigs In Space: The Movie
Electric Mayhem Band: Beginnings
Who Framed Kermit The Frog?

Right now, we're working on Who Framed Kermit The Frog. We'll work on the others some other time.

Here's what we have for it so far:

I think we should deffiniately hae some in-jokes. Like, I would like to have a scene where Fozzie and Scooter are sitting down watching Giligan's Island reruns and sharing jokes out of the backs of old Reader's Digest. (This is taken from a line in the book "Of Muppets and Men". The wirter brings out how he could picture the two of them doing just this.)
How about Kermit gets framed for committing a crime? The gang including Fozzie, Gonzo, Piggy, Rizzo, Rowlf, Scooter, Electric Mayhem, Pepe, Bean, Sweetums, Honeydew, Beaker, Johnny, and Sal (and muppet fans) have to save him from going to jail. It can feature yuppie mothers criticizing Kermit for entertaining adults and not just doing Sesame Street. Maybe there can be a few cameos by people like Winona Ryder and Paul Reubens, who can give Kermit advice on avoiding the media.
yeah i like! it would be awesome to see some fans help them escape or something! oh man i can see it now! that's an awesome idea! there could be a female cop and Animal and Pepe could either scare her off or get her on their side! but it needs music!!!!!! i liked the 70's funk in MFS but it also needed some musical number type things! scooter could be the "accomplice" oh that would be funny an evil scooter!
If we do the heist story, it could take place in Vegas, and Johnny and Sal are their Liazons of sorts.
ooh i like i like! they could have 'connections' haha!
I've got it! We start out with a shot going through the casinos and streets of Vegas! Various humans, Muppets, and Link Hogthrob are gambling. We then cut to a house outside outside of Vegas where we discover Kermit The Frog, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Pepe, Scooter (you won't discover he's an accomlice just yet), Bunsen, Beaker, Rizzo, Beauregard, Seymour, chickens, penguins, etc. All living normal lives. After we establish a few things, Kermit finds out there's a warrant out for his arrest. (I don't know if we should have him go to jail or not, just let him try to figure out who framed him) Him and the rest of te Muppets that are listed here would grab a car (cramped space) And head off, to avoid getting arrested.
Johnny and Sal (the Muppets liazons? Or the bad guys liazons?) Find out who it is that set Kermit up by using their connections (Swedish Chef, Pops, The Electric Mayhem, a few other of our favorite Muppets. That'd be funny) Kermit and the gang go to the bad guys place to confront him. After they do, the bad guy reveals to them that they have the place surrounded. Kermit and the gang manage to escape. Something happens where the Muppets (other than Fozzie & Scooter. Scooter sneaks off before this) reveal that they were in on the whole thing. Kermit and Fozzie continue on alone, but before our last showdown with the bad guy, the other Muppets (other than Scooter) realize their mistake and go to help Kermit out.
The showdown. Kermit and Fozzie agree to meet the bad guy at his casino. They talk a bit, when the bad guy reveals his accomplice, Scooter. Scooter tells them "What? They offered me my own theater!"
It appears as if Kermit and Fozzie are finished when all of a sudden our Muppet gang attacks from above. Johnny and Sal revealed that they caught the bad guys confession (told to Kermit and Fozzie before Scooter is revealed) on tape. Our bad guy goes to jail and our Muppet gang rejoices... that's when they realize Scooter is there rejoicing along with them. They all look at him as he continues alone. He stops. "Well, I'll let you play in my theater!" They continue to rejoice.
yeah! there has to be a scene where Johnny is in a casino lounge singing. Maybe Rowlf can be playing piano for him at the gig, and Sal can be disguised as a waiter and secretly record the bad guys' conversation. Sal can keep on going back to their table and ask them alot of questions ("How many ice cubes did you want with that?") so he can hear their conversation. Maybe Johnny can even go into the audience and go up to the bad guys' table.
Maybe when they actually all get together to capture the bad guys, it can be at the Hard Rock Cafe. The Electric Mayhem can be playing a gig there, and the rest of the gang can hide on the walls and ceiling disguised as memoribilia. (Maybe the 3 Elvises can help out too and do some Karate)
I think the most important thing now is figuring out exactly what Kermit is being framed for. Maybe whatever it is, Scooter can get involved in it without knowing it. Like Scooter- "oh guess what Kermit, I just got this 2nd job, where I deliver packages." Kermit "That's great Scooter, now if only I can figure out who's behind all of this."
The Swedish Chef can be a cook at the casino, Beauregard can be a janitor, and Pops can be a regular at the casino. They can all know what's going on with the crime, and let Johnny and Sal know, they'll kind of be the main detectives. Maybe Piggy can even be a Vegas dancer in one of those big Vegas shows, Fozzie can do some stand-up, and Bunsen and Beaker can be Penn and Teller like Magicians. It'd be a perfect opportunity for Statler and Waldorf to do some heckling.
I would like the Electric Myhem to be sort of a MAFIA type scene. They try to sell Johnny and Sal information, but, Johnny being Italian, convinces them that he's part of "the family, and they wouldn't want him to tell the big boss". They agree to give him the information for free.
Alright? And here's what we've got for the other two.

Pigs in Space: The Movie(got this from the muppets 3D line) the main characters would be:
Link Hogthrob as Capt. Link Hogthrob
Miss Piggy as First Mate Piggy
Julius Strange Pork as Dr. Julius Strangpork
Heather HammHocks as Cadet Hamhocks
Kermit T. Frog as Kermit Toad (piggy's love intrest)
Spa' am as Cadet Spa' am
Peter Porker as The villanious Capt. Porker
The Electric Mayhem story- this would show us how the electric mayhem come together,starting with Animal and Sgt.Floyd as babies. it shows us the people that have come and gone and the member who never was.
I actually started writing an Electric Mayhem: Behind the Music story, if you like you may pick apart what I have for the story.
Alright? Let's continue with the Who Framed Kermit The Frog? storyline.
 

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*screams* YES YES YES YES YES!!!! THAT'S AWESOME! ooh ooh ooh i really like the framed one!!!! hahahahaha!heres a couple ideas

Kermit should be put in jail, and rizzo is his cell mate....(since rizzo was in a research center).....haha

piggy can try to break into prison and save her loved kermit...with a song right here....WE NEED MUSIC! there can also be one that kermit and rizzo sing....sorry steve! haha

hmm this almost is like mfs....weird...we gotta make sure they don't get too close together...

i think kermit needs to be in jail, to show that the rest of the gang can work without them...

i would love the see Electric become lounge singers...that would be hilarious!

Pepe could...umm...umm...let me think.....try to join Electric...oh that would be INSANE!!!! HAHAHA i would love to see him try to sing!

i think it needs the slapstick type humor that TMS had....also LOTS OF SONGS!!!!!!
 

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these are awesome ideas. I also like the idea of having another Muppet as Kermit's cellmate. Maybe Gonzo. Like when the police are taking Kermit away, Gonzo runs in front of them and says, "If you're going to take Kermit, you have to take me." and they say "OK." This could lead to a sideplot of Gonzo trying to think of ways to break out. Maybe have a reminiscent scene of early TMS where he trys to burrow out with a spoon. If they're looking for celebrities all they have to do is have different celebrities getting together with a FREE KERMIT campaign or something. I don't know these are just my two cents.
 

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Originally posted by the_great_gonzo
these are awesome ideas. I also like the idea of having another Muppet as Kermit's cellmate. Maybe Gonzo. Like when the police are taking Kermit away, Gonzo runs in front of them and says, "If you're going to take Kermit, you have to take me." and they say "OK." This could lead to a sideplot of Gonzo trying to think of ways to break out. Maybe have a reminiscent scene of early TMS where he trys to burrow out with a spoon. If they're looking for celebrities all they have to do is have different celebrities getting together with a FREE KERMIT campaign or something. I don't know these are just my two cents.
ooh gonzo would be great
 

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Yeah I like the idea of having Gonzo wind up in the cell with him.

I was thinking as a gag, the cops can be taking Kermit through the cells to where he will go, and we see his POV of a scary, dirty prison full of big guys, monsters (maybe some of the pirates from MTI), and Howard the pig who makes kissy faces at him as he walks by.

Kermit: you're not gonna leave me in here with these guys are you?

Cop: Of course not, you're Kermit the Frog, you're staying in here! (he opens a door to a fancy suite with golden bars on the window, a big fluffy bed, and a big screen TV)

I guess if Gonzo is with him at this point, he can say something like "wow what a sweet suite"

and then
Cop: "where do you think you're going weirdo?' and he'll be picked up and thrown into the dirty cell. As the cell door slams he yells "Kermit!!!!"

Kermit can still interact with Gonzo however in the cafeteria and gym.
 

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Before Kermit is proven not guilty, most of the media is potraying him negatively. The Muppets can be watching Conan O'Brien when he makes a joke about Kermit being guilty.

Fozzie: Boy that was a cheap joke, even for me.
Immediatley Pepe will do some kind of cheap joke.

There can be an anti-Kermit campaign as well as a Save Kermit campaign. Maybe there can even be a 2nd villain, the head of the anti-Kermit campaign, an angry yuppie mother. "Kermit was once a loveable Sesame Street character, then he did disgraceful adult oriented entertainment, now he is a guru of crime, I am calling for all responsible parents to destroy any Kermit stuffed doll, action figure, or movie in their house."

Sam can make a speech for the Save Kermit campaign. Something like "It is every American's right to a fair trial, that they shall be innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. I stand behind Kermit one hundred percent, unless he is found guilty in which case I had nothing to do with it."
 

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yeah...we can show gonzo making a secret tunnel into kermit's cell (with the spoon, of course)

ooh ooh sam could be his lawyer....or honeydew...that might be funny with beaker there in a suit...

what would the crime be??? i was thinking something with money..so maybe the jail wouldn't be as bad...like a halfway house...so he would still get to travel, on occasion....

what is piggy's main role...i know she tries to save him, but what else can she do? be head of the save kermit??

oh i know! she can try to be hired as a cop to release kermit...an interview could be funny! she could try and throw on the charm, but it would be some big mean woman....who isn't buying it....
 

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I was thinking the crime can be some kind of counterfeiting business. I don't know if it should be something like counterfeit money, poker chips, or something ridiculous like counterfeit rubber chickens.
 

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Originally posted by pezbalubah
like counterfeit rubber chickens.
although funny we might give up realism....oh yeah...muppet movies haven't always been 'real' i don't know but we MUST include rubber chickens!

Sarah
 

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Before Kermit is actually arrested he can know that he is a suspect, he can call on the gang to get to the bottom of who framed him.

Kermit: Gang, there's a good chance I can go to jail, and the fate of the Muppets will be at stake. We could lose our jobs, we could lose our house, we could starve, and most importantly the people of the world will lose out on what we do best, making people happy.

Rizzo: But we lose out on the food?

Kermit: Which is why I'm asking you to start a secret mission to find who the true perpetrator of this crime is.

Gonzo: Hey Kermit can we be called "Kermit's Eleven" like in the movies?

Kermit: But Gonzo there is more than eleven of us.

Gonzo: Sure if you want to be technical...
 
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