Originally posted by beaker
MFS is not canon.
I'm going to half agree with you here Cory because of course the movie is intended as canon from JHC, but I too decide to disregard certain elements of the story.
We'd have had a much better film if the writers instead played up the idea that he *might* be an alien, and just when things were all coming together in the end, we learn that he's not an alien at all; that we still don't know exactly what his origins are, but we learn that what's really important is that Gonzo belongs with his Muppet family. Sounds mushy, but once upon a time, meaningful, heartfelt stories could be told and still taken seriously (unlike certain movies about going back to a swamp).
I can still hope and pray that the next Muppet film begins with Gonzo waking up from a horrible nightmare in which he discovered that he was born on another planet a la Bob Newhart... the concept that was done with Newhart's two shows, not that Newhart was born on another planet... not as far as I know