It's Time To Start The Music

The Moment: As The Muppets prepare for their reunion show, Kermit or🌞ders a rehearsal a꧅nd discovers things might not be as fluid as they once were.

Muppet Magic: A pitch-perfect parody of the classic Muppet Show title sequen🎃ce, featuring giant Muppets getting stuck and Link Hogthrob havingꦛ a chat under one of the famous Muppet Theater arches.

Nursery Rhymes

The Moment: The germ of the idea for Muppet Babies is born in The Muppets Take Manhattan , as Miss Piggy's fantasy about meeting Kermit as infants turns into nursery anthem 'I'm Gonna Always L♍ove You'.

Muppet Magic: Rowlf can still rock it even in a nappy.

Figureheads

The Moment: How do you get Statler and Waldorf to Muppet Treasure Island ? Why, by making them the figureheads at the𒉰 bow of t🦂he Hispaniola, of course.

Muppet Magic: When Statler complains about being stuck on the front of the ship, Waldorf replies, ever the critic, that "it could be worse. We could be stuck in the aud🌼ience."

Trigger Words

The Moment: In The Muppets , Gary, Walter and Kermit fin🐼d Animal chained up to keep "in con🌼trol" of his drumming and taking anger management lessons with court-appointed sponsor Jack Black.

Muppet Magic: It's Black, not Animal, who frea𝐆ks out when everybody starts to say the wrong thing. "Tuesday is another of my 🌼trigger words!"

One More Thing

The Moment: "I know your whole story," reckons bum Peter Falk to Kermit in The Great Muppet Caper , but as he proceeds to tell the frog the tale of how his own dry cleaning business went belly🌳-up it's𒁏 clear he's lost it big-time.

Muppet Magic: Kermit breaks the fourth wall to tell Falk, "I hate to be rude, but w𒅌e're trying to do a movie here."

Acceptable In The 80s

The Moment: Kermit reveals his New Coke-serving butler, 80s Robot - a self-aware joke at the expense of The Muppets ' resurrection of an old favourite.

Muppet Magic: Ordered to seek out the other Muppets, 80s Robot consults the Internet via aꦜ (veℱry noisy) dial-up modem.

Deserted

The Moment: Marooned in the desert in The Muppet Movie , the Muppets are soothed by Gonzo's fireside ballad about finding his place in the world, 'I'm Going To Go Back𓄧 There Someday'.

Muppet Magic: This song gets its ultimate payback two decades later, as Gonzo's origins are explained during Muppets From Space .

Nightmare Interruption

The Moment: The terrifying nightmare sequence in An American Werewolf In London , where David Kessler dreams that his family is attacked by monster Nazis while watching The Muppet Show .

Muppet Magic: The wrenching surrealism of the scene owes much to🔴 the suburban normality of watching Kermit and co. on telly.

Slip Of The Tongue

The Moment: As Kermit silences his fellow Muppets mid-argument in The Great Muppet Caper , he leaves Janice stranded in mid-sentence, giving🧜 away more than 𒁃she perhaps meant to.

Muppet Magic: Janice's cryptic one-liner i𝐆n full: "Look, Mother. It's my life. OK. So if I want to live on a beach and walk around naked... Oh."

The Pig Wears Prada

The Moment: The Muppets track down Miss Piggy to Paris, where she's become the plus-size fashion edit✃or of Vogue.

Muppet Magic: Emily Blunt reprises her role from The Devil Wears Prada as Miss Piggy's bitchy assistant.