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The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) More at IMDbPro »

• The kennel at which Rowlf is working has several dogs in labeled cages. Two of the cages say "Jim" and "Frank", in honor of Jim Henson and Frank Oz.
  
  
• Kermit should have known Miss Piggy wasn't going far - the train she leaves on is the Long Island Rail Road.
  
  
• The fantasy sequence with the Muppets as babies served as a preview for the animated TV series "Muppet Babies" (1984), which premiered two months after the film's release.
  
  
• Rizzo the Rat appeared throughout the final season of "The Muppet Show" and along with Scooter as the Happiness Hotel bellhops in The Great Muppet Caper (1981), but this is his first major role with the Muppets and his first appearance with his more-"wiseguy" personality.
  
  
• Among all of the wedding attendees are (of course) characters from both "The Muppet Show" (1976) and "Sesame Street" (1969). However, in the front row on Piggy's side also sits Uncle "Traveling" Matt from "Fraggle Rock" (1983).
  
  
• The scene where Kermit graduates from college was filmed at Vassar College in New York. Director Frank Oz wanted it shot in front of the most academic looking building on the campus: the dining hall.
  
  
• Film debut of Gates McFadden, credited as "Cheryl McFadden". McFadden worked with Jim Henson as a choreographer and puppeteer on The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986).
  
  
• The first Muppet movie in which the fourth wall is not broken, nor do the characters acknowledge they only exist in a movie.
  
  
• Film debut of veteran stage and television actress Linda Lavin.
  
  
• Some of the shows advertised in posters on the walls of shady Broadway producer Martin (or Murray) Price's offices include "No Problem," "So Hot," "Ahab!," "Two Too Much," "The Golden Touch" and "Unicorns Don't Cry".
  
  
• The soundtrack to this movie is the only theatrical Muppet movie soundtrack to have never been available on CD. However, three songs from the film ("Together Again," "I'm Gonna Always Love You," and "He'll Make Me Happy") were released on the Muppets music collection "Music, Mayhem and More!".
  
  
• Both the storybook and comic book adaptations of the film include scenes that weren't in the movie, indicating that they were deleted from the film. Scenes in both of these include a sequence where Statler and Waldorf attempt to cure Kermit's amnesia, and a scene where Gonzo told Kermit that the minister at the wedding was a real minister. Both of these books also reference Beauregard taking The Electric Mayhem to New York.
  
  
• Frank Oz cast the reverend Cyril Jenkins in the wedding sequence for authenticity, justifying Kermit's surprise at the presence of "a real minister."
  
  

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