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Two missed opportunities

posted 10 years ago by stevenackerman69
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Been thinking about this film (well, what else I gotta do?) and thought of 2 great gags they could've done:

1. During the song Constantine sings to Miss Piggy, at one point he shows this character who appeared in the classic Muppet Show sketch Hugga Wugga and sang "You Are My Sunshine", to the Hugga Wugga character's anger. So how about the character starting to sing that during Constantine's song, Constantine looks at him with disgust, snaps his fingers to call over the Hugga Wugga character, who then does the same thing he did in the sketch-blow the Sunshine guy's head off, and then Constantine high fives the Hugga Wugga character?
2. When they do the Chorus Line song in the prison, how about Nadya starting to sing Dance Ten, Looks Three and when she gets to the point where she is about to say "tits and ass" Kermit stops her and says, "Look, we don't want a R rating here!" as the reason he stopped her?

Good ideas, huh? Maybe I should write the next Muppet film.

[–] jmarkoff2 10 years ago

Tina Fey playing a Russian should also have said "I can see Alaska from here!" at some point.

[–] stevenackerman69 10 years ago

Oh, yeah, that SNL gag. By the way, the book that came out in 2002 about SNL was updated last year for the show's 40th season. It mentions in there that Palin never said that line and it was just thought up as they were writing it.

[–] stevenackerman69 10 years ago

Know what? Maybe not have her character say it, but have during the Gulag review, a member of the cast say it as a sort of joke. Like Danny Trejo comes out to tell jokes and he says, "Love my cell. Can see the state of Alaska from it." for example.

[–] stevenackerman69 10 years ago

Better idea: When Kermit starts the Gulag revue, he could've done the joke. He comes out and says, "Really, the gulag isn't so bad. I can see Alaska from my cell window!"