Answer: Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine (b. 1933) played Ebenezer Scrooge in "The Muppets Christmas Carol" (1992). This role came during a lull in his career which might have been a prelude to retirement but instead marked a resurgence. Caine was born to working-class parents and began his lifelong connection with theater by getting a job sweeping up in one.
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: The Muppets Take Manhattan
My favorite "Muppet" movie! This one follows Kermit and his friends as they attempt to get a show produced on Broadway.
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: Statler and Waldorf
The hecklers were characters based on two of Jim Henson's relatives.
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: Animal
Animal was shown in some kind of MGM parody opening. Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo were then shown in a hot-air balloon during the opening credits.
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
Answer: Tina Fey
Kermit is imprisoned in place of his double, Constantine, by Nadya, who is first seen as a senior prison guard but later as the warden. Nadya knows his true identity but is madly in love with him and hopes to win him away from Miss Piggy. Tina Fey twice appeared on television's "Sesame Street" before landing the part in "Muppets Most Wanted".
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: The Great Muppet Caper
You have to love the Happiness Hotel with its catapult-like Murphy beds and crazy clientele. John Cleese is hilarious as a bored aristocrat.
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: El Sleazo Cafe
That's right folks, Fozzie replaced the dancing girls with his comedy routine and Kermit had to rescue him, sort of.
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: identical twin brothers
And apparently the only way to tell them apart is that bears wear hats. "Only in a muppet movie." - me ;-)
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
Answer: Tim Curry
"Muppet Treasure Island" charts a course close to the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson but creates a number of roles especially for the Muppet members of the cast. Long John Silver is played by Tim Curry. Curry had no objections to Muppets appearing before him in the billing of the film but insisted that he be "first among humans" which was agreed.
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: Muppet Treasure Island
Even though this movie didn't stick very closely to Stevenson's classic, it had a great cast and some fun musical numbers.
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: Robin
Robin is one of the smallest Muppets, and in a sketch for the "Muppets Tonight" show, he performed a duet with one of the largest. Can you guess whom? More to the point do you think you could name him? That's right, it was Sweetums.
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: Charles Grodin
Charles Grodin, who plays Nicky Holiday, says it as he plays a blind person being helped across the street before robbing his own sister, while Kermit, Fozzie, & Gonzo are too busy taking pictures of chickens.
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
Answer: Louis Zorich
Louis Zorich plays Pete, the chef/owner of the eponymous diner in Manhattan, where Kermit meets the rats led by Rizzo. The film also includes cameos by Art Carney, James Coco, Dabney Coleman, Elliott Gould, Gregory Hines, Mayor Edward I. Koch, Linda Lavin, Liza Minnelli, Joan Rivers, Vincent Sardi, Jr. and Brooke Shields. It also introduced the Muppet Babies who went on to Saturday-morning television fame. Zorich married Olympia Dukakis in 1962 and once played a Russian Ambassador in the Japanese film "Gammera the Invincible" (1966).
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: The Muppet Movie
The music in this film was composed by Paul Williams and creates an almost magical atmosphere. He recieved an Oscar nomination for "The Rainbow Connection".
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: Cabin Fever
Yes, it was also a song in the movie and as I recall it had an annoyingly catchy tune. There is such an illness called "Cabin Fever".
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: 5
He does this after "How could you miss a story like that?", again after "I'll give you a raise!", after Fozzie says he reads the paper with "Dear Abby" and sends Gonzo flying up to the light, after "Next time?!", and after "LUGGAGE?!"
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
Answer: Andie MacDowell
Andie MacDowell appears in "Muppets in Space" (1999) as Shelley Snipes, an anchorwoman. This was the Muppets' first non-musical film. This was also Frank Oz' last film before stepping back from performance. Among the great cameos in this film are F. Murray Abraham, David Arquette, Kathy Griffin, Hulk Hogan, Ray Liotta and Joshua Jackson. MacDowell previously worked with Muppets off-planet in an episode of "Muppets Tonight" broadcast 4 January 1998.
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: A Muppet Family Christmas
This perennial favorite combines the casts of "The Muppet Show", "Sesame Street", and "Fraggle Rock" in a sweet family oriented movie set in Fozzie's childhood farmhouse.
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: Boomshakalaka
She was engaged to Kermit's character, Captain Smollett before she got ship-wrecked.
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: whatever
No one has ever answered exactly what Gonzo is.
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
Answer: Jason Segel
Segel both wrote and starred in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (2008). The story within the story of Sarah Marshall is that the main character is composing a comedy-rock-opera called "A Taste for Love" which features remarkably Muppet-like characters such as Dracula, Lucy and Dr. Van Helsing. Perhaps the similarity arises from their being created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. About the Muppets, Segel said, "One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps."
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
This 1977 Classic focuses on young Emmet Otter as he and his jug-band try out for a local talent show.
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: Rowlf
This musical mutt still wears a diaper on occasions.
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: Italy
The plane landed in Italy. Kermit, Fozzie, & Gonzo landed in England.
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
Answer: Charles Durning
"The Muppet Movie" was notable for many reasons; one was the Academy Award nomination for Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher's song "Rainbow Connection". Durning's motion picture roles (more than 200) ranged from silly - "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (1982), "Tootsie" (1982) - to serious - "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), "True Confessions" (1981).
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: The Muppet Christmas Carol
This movie was filmed after Jim Henson's death and was directed by his son Brian. Michael Caine does an awesome job as the miserly Scrooge.
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: Camilla
Camilla is a chicken, and for someone to date one seems strange but I suppose that this is acceptable as Gonzo is an alien.
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: The Happiness Hotel
"If that's the Happiness Hotel, I'd hate to see what the sad one looks like."
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
Answer: Amy Adams
Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) are boyfriend and girlfriend. They oppose the evil Tex Richman who wants to drill for oil under the Muppet Theater. Amy Adams played Lois Lane in 2013 in "Man of Steel" and again in 2016 in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice".
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: Follow That Bird
This movie follows Big Bird's adventures after a meddling social worker convinces him that he would be better off with his "own kind" than on "Sesame Street". It contains cameos from Sandra Bernhard and John Candy, among others.
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: The Electric Mayhem
The Electric Mayhem consisted of six members at one point.
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: brother and sister
Nicky and Lady are siblings who inherited a lot of money, but while Lady built a fashion empire with it, Nicky blew his money stupidly, so now he works for his sis.
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
Answer: Diana Rigg
Nicky Holiday (Charles Grodin) steals his sister's jewels with the help of three of her models. The Muppets come to save the day (and the jewels). Diana Rigg plays Lady Holiday. She hosted "Mystery!" on PBS 1989-2003. Asked why she took the role in "The Great Muppet Caper", Ms. Rigg responded, "I did it for my daughter, who was passionately in love with Miss Piggy. She was about five or six, and she came to the studio with a couple of friends to meet Miss Piggy, and she burst into tears when she saw Miss Piggy."
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: Labyrinth
When I was a kid, David Bowie as The Goblin King scared me to death. Jim Henson once said that his puppets in this movie were inspired by Maurice Sendak's drawings.
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: Snuffy
Snuffy is a Woolly Mammoth who is a bit simple really, mind you, he is a Neanderthal.
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: receptionist
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
Answer: Ricky Gervais
Dominic protects his concealed identity by telling Kermit and the other Muppets that his last name is pronounced, in French, "bahd-JEE." He is in league with the evil Constantine, at least until he attempts to double cross the Kermit look-alike criminal. Ricky Gervais, who plays Dominic, had scenes in the prior "The Muppets" (2011) but they were all cut before release. Gervais' favorite Muppet character is Robin and his favorite Muppet movie is "The Muppets Christmas Carol".
From Quiz: Not Themselves Muppets
Answer: Muppets From Space
This film finally solves the undying question: "What species is Gonzo?". There are great cameos from David Arquette and F. Murray Abraham.
From Quiz: "Muppet" Music
Answer: Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Every week on the "Muppet Tonight" show, Dr. Honeydew presented yet another hair-brained invention, but they were classics.
From Quiz: Muppet Mania
Answer: John Cleese
Neville and his wife were rather boring people, I feel.
From Quiz: The Great Muppet Caper
