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The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

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• The kennel at which Rowlf is working has several dogs in labeled cages. Two of the cages say "Jim" and "Frank".
  
  
• 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. The director wanted it shot in front of the most academic looking building on the campus: the dining hall.
  
  
• Gates McFadden's film debut.
  
  

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