Originally posted by: Andrew Smith
Apologies for not being more clear. From what I gather there is a short bit of dialog prior to Rowlfs song that has been cut from most home video editions. Kermit asks for a drangonfly drink from the bartender. This clean audio leads into the song on the soundtrack album.
I thought he asked for a 'grasshopper'?
Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Here's the deal: There is an extended version of The Muppet Movie. I think it was only released in England on VHS tape. It's pretty rare. It has an extended version of Rowlf's song, and most notably it has a funnier and I think far superior ending........
+ More of Fozzie's unsuccessful comedy onstage when he and Kermit meet.
+ Longer commercial for Doc Hopper's Frog Legs and he and Kermit meet.
+ Fozzie hands Dr. Teeth the script and he reads it and recaps the entire movie at length. I presume this is in the movie but shorter?
+ Longer (I guess) chase scene as Doc Hopper follows the "rainbow colored Studebaker."
+ Longer version of the Rowlf/Kermit duet, "I Hope That Something Better Comes Along"
+ Longer version of the giant Animal scaring Doc Hopper et al away.
+ At the end, before Kermit sings "Life's like a movie ..." there's a long (I assume longer) sequence of explosions going off to blow the roof open.
+ Here's the real gem of this version ... the Muppets all talk over the credits, talking to each other in the theater. Fozzie and Miss Piggy want desperately to be told that they were good in the movie. Kermit is nice and tells everyone they were great. He tells Lew Zealand he can be in "the next one." Janice and Floyd snuggle up - Janice runs from Animal - "Woman!" Rowlf tries to converse with Beaker. "Yeah, whatever."
Apologies for not being more clear. From what I gather there is a short bit of dialog prior to Rowlfs song that has been cut from most home video editions. Kermit asks for a drangonfly drink from the bartender. This clean audio leads into the song on the soundtrack album.
I thought he asked for a 'grasshopper'?
Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Here's the deal: There is an extended version of The Muppet Movie. I think it was only released in England on VHS tape. It's pretty rare. It has an extended version of Rowlf's song, and most notably it has a funnier and I think far superior ending........
+ More of Fozzie's unsuccessful comedy onstage when he and Kermit meet.
+ Longer commercial for Doc Hopper's Frog Legs and he and Kermit meet.
+ Fozzie hands Dr. Teeth the script and he reads it and recaps the entire movie at length. I presume this is in the movie but shorter?
+ Longer (I guess) chase scene as Doc Hopper follows the "rainbow colored Studebaker."
+ Longer version of the Rowlf/Kermit duet, "I Hope That Something Better Comes Along"
+ Longer version of the giant Animal scaring Doc Hopper et al away.
+ At the end, before Kermit sings "Life's like a movie ..." there's a long (I assume longer) sequence of explosions going off to blow the roof open.
+ Here's the real gem of this version ... the Muppets all talk over the credits, talking to each other in the theater. Fozzie and Miss Piggy want desperately to be told that they were good in the movie. Kermit is nice and tells everyone they were great. He tells Lew Zealand he can be in "the next one." Janice and Floyd snuggle up - Janice runs from Animal - "Woman!" Rowlf tries to converse with Beaker. "Yeah, whatever."
I saw this film in the theater in 1979 and I also have a very old (U.S.) VHS tape of it. I remember most of the scenes you listed, including the end where they talk over the credits (that was in the U.S. theatrical version as well as my tape version). However, I have no way of telling if it is really different than the British VHS version without a copy to compare. I haven't seen the DVD, either.