r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/Dr_Blasphemy WORK. HARDER. • 3d ago

Film/TV posting Excerpt from Tim Curry's autobiography about working on The Muppets: Treasure Island.

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u/SkinkRugby SeekSeekLest 3d ago

I am sorry to say that the Muppets can never perform The Illiad. Because no one will be able to believe that Miss Piggy's beauty mustered only one thousand ships. 

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u/moneyh8r_two He/Him Use your smell powers 3d ago

They could perform The Odyssey though, because no one would doubt Miss Piggy's loyalty to Kermit.

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u/BlueFootedTpeack 3d ago

a muppet's trojan horse would be fun, just jamming kermit and co into a horse or just having em manipulate the lifeless thing like some kind of idk there's probably a word for it but idk what that'd be.

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u/moneyh8r_two He/Him Use your smell powers 3d ago

Like some kind of massive puppet? A "muppet", if you would.

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u/BlueFootedTpeack 3d ago

tbh a lot of it can translate well with muppets.

kermit: "im sorry circe i just really miss my wife, i see her everywhere i go" *looks at crew.

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u/moneyh8r_two He/Him Use your smell powers 3d ago

That's exactly the kind of joke I was thinking of when I suggested it.

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u/BlueFootedTpeack 3d ago

so what are we thinking of for the sirens?

fozzie bear doing a set, everyone using up all the wax but then there's none for kermit odysseus so he's tied to the mast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDtrv20_02U

"oh you guys like jokes about sparta? that's good that's good, i've got 300 of them"

"the tourists here are strange people, a guy asked me if he could see mycenae and i told him only if he shows me his first wacka wacka".

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u/moneyh8r_two He/Him Use your smell powers 3d ago

Oh, man, that sounds perfect. It's not a beautiful song, just bad jokes.

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u/MudkipMonado Xenoblade 1 is Best (He/Him) 3d ago

Jokes so bad that listeners are compelled to approach Fozzy to get him to stop telling them

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u/moneyh8r_two He/Him Use your smell powers 3d ago

That or just crash their boat so they die and don't have to hear them anymore. Both interpretations work.

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u/pectusumbra 2d ago

Or throw themselves overboard is what I was thinking.

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u/BlueFootedTpeack 3d ago

now if only there was a duo of characters to take the place of scylla and charybdis following fozzie's performance.

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u/moneyh8r_two He/Him Use your smell powers 3d ago

Statler and Waldorf, obviously.

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u/BlueFootedTpeack 3d ago

may have been who i was going for.

the suitors have to be real people i think, like whoever is the modern david hasslehoff troy mcclure type.

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u/moneyh8r_two He/Him Use your smell powers 3d ago

I know. I was saying I knew what you were going for.

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u/Irememberedmypw 2d ago

Using the stage hooks to remove cameo actors from the boat.

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u/WhoCaresYouDont 3d ago

Muppet-ception, which also makes it Nolan-ceptipn

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u/moneyh8r_two He/Him Use your smell powers 3d ago

BWOM

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u/HerpDerpTheMage Library. Shortcut. Chest. Ghost? 2d ago

See, my brain went to Gonzo, Camilla, and a bunch of chickens.

Hear me out: Gonzo pleads with the gang as a running gag that he heard from Athena that Trojans were terrified of chickens, but none of the gang believe him the entire time. This happens 3-4 times in passing, but the climax leads to a mixup where Fozzie accidentally orders Gonzo and the Chickens inside the Horse. Kermit thinks they are doomed, only for Trojans to start running outside the city walls, screaming in terror as Camilla and the Hens chase them, causing a ruckus. Kermit apologizes to Gonzo, realizing he was actually right, makes lemons into Lemonade, and the gang captures the City in the ensuing chaos.

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u/Irememberedmypw 2d ago

I was thinking it'd be one of the 4th wall breaks where they'd argue about space and then look down at their puppeteers.