A little Thursday evening light Muppet/LOTR crossover content
September 24, 2020 7:40 PM   Subscribe

 
Hit "view more replies" for a LOT more. I'm fond of this one.

It's a shame Boromir dies halfway through; Sean Bean would make a great increasingly-provoked straight man against a cast of Muppets.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 8:14 PM on September 24, 2020 [24 favorites]


I am very fond of the mental image of Miss Piggy as Eowyn, getting very indignant at the Witch King for implying she's not a LADY and KARATE CHOPPING HIM TO DEATH.
posted by HypotheticalWoman at 8:17 PM on September 24, 2020 [21 favorites]


What is this nonsense?

Robin is a sweet kid but he can’t carry the Ring. Kermit is Frodo, and Uncle Deadly is old Bilbo.
posted by Countess Elena at 8:26 PM on September 24, 2020 [18 favorites]


I'm here for the Janice/Galadriel side-by-sides.

Animal as Gollum just doesn't feel right to me, but I don't have a good alternative.
posted by gladly at 8:28 PM on September 24, 2020 [4 favorites]


Animal as Gollum just doesn't feel right to me, but I don't have a good alternative.

Scooter.
posted by mr_roboto at 8:54 PM on September 24, 2020 [11 favorites]


Oh this DOES capture the imagination.

I don't love how frequently Twitter folks are splitting up the band. I think Dr. Teeth is Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Wights are the Electric Mayhem and that's a musical number, though Janis WOULD make a heckuva Galadriel.

I can see Beaker/Wormtongue meeping in Bunsen/Theoden's ear.

I also imagine Kermit as Sam carrying a human Frodo up Mt. Doom on wobbly little felt frog legs.
posted by Phobos the Space Potato at 8:57 PM on September 24, 2020 [10 favorites]


Scooter.

That made me involuntarily chortle at an unacceptable volume for this hour of night.
posted by hippybear at 8:57 PM on September 24, 2020 [2 favorites]


Animal as Gollum just doesn't feel right to me, but I don't have a good alternative.

Gonzo as Gollum with Camilla the Chicken as The One Ring.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 9:00 PM on September 24, 2020 [12 favorites]


THE ONE CHICKEN
posted by JHarris at 9:02 PM on September 24, 2020 [4 favorites]


One Chicken to rule them all
Two wings to bind them
One cluck to rule them all
and in the BOCK to bind them
posted by hippybear at 9:08 PM on September 24, 2020 [14 favorites]


Sam The (Great) Eagle: You are all WEIRDOS.

Though I have to say Miss Piggy as Eowyn is perfect.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:32 PM on September 24, 2020 [5 favorites]


Crazy Harry as Grima Wormtongue.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:45 PM on September 24, 2020 [2 favorites]


Oh god. Beaker as the Mouth of Sauron.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:46 PM on September 24, 2020 [37 favorites]


Oh god. Beaker as the Mouth of Sauron.

I can't stop laughing.
posted by hippybear at 9:47 PM on September 24, 2020 [5 favorites]


Beauregard is basically the same name as Boromir. I think we could make that work.
posted by aubilenon at 10:29 PM on September 24, 2020


Cookie Monster is Denethor.
posted by MrVisible at 10:35 PM on September 24, 2020 [5 favorites]


Kermit is Aragorn. Sweetums is Boromir. Gonzo is the Witch King, the head Nazgul. Sam the Eagle is Elrond (well, uptight movie Elrond anyway.)

Miss Piggy has such acting chops (no pun intended) but there's only one of her, and I'm struggling where best to use her. It can't be on one of the female characters. Saruman? Theoden?
posted by mark k at 11:32 PM on September 24, 2020 [3 favorites]


The side by side of Denethor and Sam the Eagle was perfect.

Also, Bunsen Honeydew as Ginko, Beaker as Legolas, that way we get rid of all of Orlando Bloom’s lines and replace them with lovely meep meep noises.
posted by Ghidorah at 11:57 PM on September 24, 2020 [2 favorites]


I'm really enjoying the thought of Miss Piggy playing all the female roles and grumbling that there aren't more lines. "Look on me and despair!"
posted by ourobouros at 4:48 AM on September 25, 2020 [4 favorites]


Fozzie as Gandalf. A Bear is never late Frodo Baggins!
posted by triage_lazarus at 4:52 AM on September 25, 2020 [7 favorites]


Fozzie as Gandalf. A Bear is never late Frodo Baggins!

Waka Waka Waka!
posted by Ghidorah at 5:10 AM on September 25, 2020 [3 favorites]


Sweetums as Gimli. Or maybe Faramir. Lou Zealand as Legolas. Bert and Ernie as Grima Wormtongue and Theoden, but they swap roles every time the camera cuts away. And the Count as Sauron, because One, One Ring! Ah-ah-ah!
posted by coppertop at 5:14 AM on September 25, 2020 [5 favorites]


Oscar the Grouch as Gollum.
posted by acb at 5:32 AM on September 25, 2020 [8 favorites]


Big Bird as the balrog.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:35 AM on September 25, 2020 [5 favorites]


The Count needs to play Saruman, both because of the vampire connection with Christopher Lee and because he would just be amazing.
posted by saturday_morning at 6:04 AM on September 25, 2020 [10 favorites]


Sam The (Great) Eagle: You are all WEIRDOS!!!

And there's your Saruman.
posted by prepmonkey at 6:05 AM on September 25, 2020 [5 favorites]


I feel like including Sesame Street muppets is playing on easy mode, although I am by no means opposed to it. I'm just glad there haven't been any Elmo=Sauron amirite jokes yet
posted by JHarris at 7:10 AM on September 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


honestly, when someone cast John Cena as Boromir this entire thread reached apotheosis
posted by mightygodking at 7:35 AM on September 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


Janice as Galadriel, surely

Miss Piggy is Sauron
posted by kokaku at 7:55 AM on September 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


Miss Piggy is Eowyn. "I AM NO FROG", with a Mummenschanz guy as the Witch King getting a pie in the face.
posted by phong3d at 8:38 AM on September 25, 2020 [2 favorites]


Some decades ago, a friend and I conducted a similar thought experiment in which we debated which Muppets should sing which songs on a theoretical Dead Kennedys cover album.

Two things were ironclad: the video for Stealing People's Mail had to feature Kermit running down a suburban street waving his arms in his happy dance, and no one, NO ONE other than Gonzo could possibly perform The Prey.
posted by delfin at 8:55 AM on September 25, 2020


The Martians (aka The Yip Yips) have to be the Ringwraiths, that'd be terrifying. Imagine running through a dark and foggy forest and in the distance you hear a hoarse chorus of YIIIIIP-YIP-YIP-YIP UH-HUH UH-HUH YIIIIIIP getting closer and closer.
posted by castlebravo at 10:11 AM on September 25, 2020 [8 favorites]


Whoever plays Legolas has to be able to run up Mr Snuffleupagus' trunk and then shoot an arrow into his living brain. That's going to be a tearjerker scene I think. More so than the Jackson version.
posted by biffa at 11:55 AM on September 25, 2020 [3 favorites]


"I AM NO FROG"

"Hai-i-i-i-i-YA!!"
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:53 PM on September 25, 2020 [2 favorites]


Statler and Waldorf both as Grima Wormtongue, kind of like they both played Jacob Marley in a Muppet Christmas Carol. They can get some good jabs in at Fozzie Gandalf.
posted by chrisulonic at 2:55 PM on September 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


frodo = Kermit
sam = Fozzy

Aragorn = Gonzo
Arwin = Camilla

Gimli = Animal
Legolas = Scooter

Gandalf = Beaker
posted by cirhosis at 3:03 PM on September 25, 2020 [3 favorites]


Years ago, a local comic shop build a very elaborate diorama of the Battle of Helm's Deep. And then updated the entire thing to be Muppet themed. It was now the Battle of Ham's Deep.

This wayback machine link is the best I can do for finding photos of it. It was 13 years ago after all. The whole thing was amazing.
posted by thecjm at 4:37 PM on September 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


I know I know but hear me out: Statler and Waldorf as Merry and Pippin.
posted by saturday_morning at 6:28 PM on September 25, 2020 [2 favorites]


Wanting Second Breakfast because they can't remember if they had First Breakfast or not
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:37 PM on September 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


Bert and Ernie are Pippin and Merry
Big Bird is Sam
Oscar is Gollum
The Swedish Chef is Galadriel
Animal is Gimli
Stanford and Waldorf are Gandolf and Saruman
Miss Piggy is Legolas
posted by tula at 11:06 PM on September 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


Animal as Gollum just doesn't feel right to me, but I don't have a good alternative.

Cookie Monster.
posted by schmod at 6:31 AM on September 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


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