Tough Pigs Anthology

 

Giant Frogs!

May 2002

   

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Part Seven: Coming Up Roses

 

Kermit

 

That was super! You guys were fantastic! Let's hear it for the Electric Mayhem Band!

 

Crowd

 

Yaaaay!

 

Kermit

 

Okay, everybody, it's time to shoot the big finale! The camera's ready -- are you ready, Miss Piggy?

 

Piggy

 

Actually, moi could use just a teensy bit of makeup!

 

Bean

 

You got it!

 

[ Bean smacks Miss Piggy with the powder puff. She coughs and splutters... ]

 

Kermit

 

Okay, everybody! Remember your cue! When Piggy sneezes...

 

Piggy

 

Ahhh - choo!

 

Crowd

 

Gezundheit!

 

Fozzie

 

Ahhhh! The finale! Take one! [ He claps the clacker, too close to Piggy. ]

 

Piggy

 

Ah! Fozzie!

 

Fozzie

 

So-rry!

 

Kermit

 

On three, everybody yell Action! One! Two! Three!

 

Crowd

 

ACTION!

 

Kermit

 

[ Sad music starts again. ] Oh, Piggy -- the star of the show has hurt her leg! 

 

Piggy

 

[ gasps ] What a pity! [ She secretly giggles. ]

 

Kermit

 

Hmmm. I wonder how that happened.

 

Piggy

 

Moi simply can not imagine.

 

Kermit

 

Can you sing, Miss Piggy? Can you leave the flower shop? Can you go out there and be a star?

 

Piggy

 

Moi? A STAR? [ She pushes Kermit out of the way. ] You better believe it, buster! Hit it! [ She throws her coat off, revealing a pink and red evening gown. She begins a "42nd Street" medley: ]

 

Come and meet these dancing feet!

On the avenue I'm taking you to,

Forty-Second Street!

 

[ Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo and Bean join her in a quick tap step... ]

 

Hear the beat of dancing feet

It's the song I love the melody of,

Naughty! Bawdy! Gaudy! Sporty!

Forty-Second Street!

 

 

 

[ Piggy and Kermit tap away -- and Fozzie, Gonzo and Bean do their own tap number. ]

 

Fozzie

 

Here we go... Watch this! A bear, and a rabbit -- and... a thing! Yes! What is the bear's name? Oh! Take me home, Professor!

 

 

 

[ They segue into "Lullaby of Broadway": ]

 

F, G & B

 

C'mon along and listen to

The lullaby of Broadway

The hip-hooray and ballyhoo

The lullaby of Broadway

Good night, baby!

Good night, let's call it a day!

Listen to that lullaby of old Broadway!

 

Fozzie

 

Take it, Kermit!

 

[ Kermit enters, and does a verse of "Happy Feet": ]

 

Kermit

 

Happy feet, I've got those happy feet

Give them a lowdown beat, 

And they begin dancing!

I keep cheerful on an earful

Of music sweet,

Cause I've got hap-hap-happy feet!

 

[ Kermit does his own tap number, with Fozzie urging him on: ]

 

Fozzie

 

Yes... Do it! The frog can dance! Look at those flippers! Aaahhh! Oh yes! Don't hurt yourself... All right!

 

Kermit

 

I keep cheerful on an earful

Of music sweet,

Cause I've got hap-hap-happy --

 

F, G & B

 

Cause he's got hap-hap-happy --

 

Kermit

 

Cause I've got hap-hap-happy feet!

 

Aw, thank you! Thanks, everybody! And now -- ladies and gentlemen, the star of our movie, the one and only Miss Piggy!

 

 

 

[ Piggy enters in a red dress and frilly flowered boa. ]

 

Piggy

 

BIG FINISH!

 

[ She sings "Everything's Comin' Up Roses": ]

 

Things look swell! Things look great!

Gonna have the whole world on a plate!

Starting here... starting now...

Honey, everything's comin' up --

 

Gonzo

 

RAINBOWS! [ Gonzo uses a pump to inflate a huge prop rainbow balloon. ]

 

Piggy

 

[ impatiently: ]

Everything's comin' up ROSES --

 

 

 

[ Gonzo sticks a bouquet of roses in Piggy's face. ]

 

Piggy

 

Ah-choo!

 

Crowd

 

Gezundheit!

 

All

 

Curtain up! Light the lights!

We got nothing to hit but the heights!

We'll be swell! We'll be great!

 

Piggy

 

I can tell! Just you wait!

That lucky star I talk about is due!

Honey, everything's comin' up roses and daffodils --

 

[ Bean offers Piggy a bouquet of daffodils. She almost sneezes, and pushes them away. ]

 

Everything's comin' up sunshine and Santa Claus --

 

[ Fozzie throws glitter over Piggy. ]

 

Everything's gonna be bright lights and --

 

Kermit

 

Lollipops! 

 

[ Kermit offers Piggy a lollipop. She throws it away. ]

 

Piggy

 

Gimme a break!

 

Everything's comin' up roses --

 

What is THIS?

 

Gonzo

 

[ Gonzo hands Piggy a lit stick of dynamite. ]

 

You said you wanted a big finish!

 

Piggy

 

[ Piggy realizes what she's holding, and throws it through a door. Gonzo slams the door, and there's a huge BANG! A cloud of smoke billows out... ]

 

For... YOU!

 

[ Piggy is overcome by the smoke... ]

 

Ah-CHOO!

 

Crowd

 

Gezundheit!

 

Piggy

 

Thank you!

 

Kermit

 

CUT! That's a wrap! Great job, everybody! [ The band starts playing the Muppet Show theme song. ] Well, that just about brings us down to the end of another great shoot. Thank you for helping us to make our movie. You were just terrific! Give yourselves a big hand! Yaaaaaay! 

 

 

 

[ The Muppets all wave goodbye as they exit. ]

 

Animal

 

Bye bye!

 

Kermit

 

Hmm... I wonder if they give Oscars for this kind of movie. Thanks, everybody!

 

Bean

 

Kermit, aren't you supposed to take the lens cap off the camera before we start shooting? Oh, well.

 

Fozzie

 

Say, Kermit, was I supposed to put this film in the camera?

 

Janice

 

Oh, we should do this more often, don't you think?

 

Floyd

 

So long!

 

Dr. Teeth

 

See you later, man!

 

Animal

 

Bye bye!

 

 

That's it for the Giant Frogs...

 

Come back in June for

The Decline and Fall of Gorch!

 

May Anthology  --  Anthology Contents

 

 

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