It’s been a bit since the Muppets had a hit movie or TV show. (Though the movies, at least, are now easily accessible on Disney+. Hop to it.) But Jim Henson’s beloved puppets are always relevant. So when someone on Twitter decided to launch one of those quote-tweet memes, this one about Muppets, it took off like wildfire.
Pick a movie.
Keep one actor.
The rest are played by muppets.
— Amber (@BeerBottleBlond) December 27, 2019
The rules were simple: “Pick a movie. Keep one actor. The rest are played by muppets.” And with that, people were off to the races. Some actually made sense, choosing movies about solitary characters surrounded by people who are after them.
https://twitter.com/DRUMMERGlRL/status/1210725059163115527
The Truman Show. Jim Carey.
— Nick Law (Hop Forward) (@hopforwardbeers) December 27, 2019
Terminator. Keep Linda Hamilton.
— Hannah Davidson (@lapsedoldsoak) December 27, 2019
https://twitter.com/AbominableAban1/status/1210746233523863554
Kurt Russell
The Thing
Everyone starts off as human and gets replaced by muppets as the film goes on – nobody notices https://t.co/FVbskx76mt
— Quotable Quills (@QuotableQuills) December 28, 2019
The Matrix.
Keep Keanu.
Everyone else is a muppet.
The Oracle is Elmo. https://t.co/b03qPrJOyp— Kimmy Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ (@EasyBakedOven) December 28, 2019
Speaking of The Matrix, someone else had another angle on that story.
"The Matrix", keep Hugo Weaving.
I know Keanu Reeves is amazing and seems like the obvious choice to keep, but the scene where Agent Smith rants about how much he hates humans makes me think how great an antagonist he would be opposite muppets.
— Oddtail. (@OddtailTiger) December 28, 2019
But back to Keanu:
Imagine John Wick and you only keep Keanu Reeves. The whole movie is then him gunning down Muppets. For killing his dog. https://t.co/FFEpPwwu6Z
— Jessi in her Swemo era (@pridemoth_) December 28, 2019
In a way, aren’t the Lord of the Rings movies, with Ian McKellen as one of the only normal-sized humans/wizards, pretty easily Muppet-ized?
Lord of the Rings. Ian McKellen as Gandalf is stuck shepherding muppets which is, after all, very close to the actual film. https://t.co/ox8xWFvTE2
— Just Ro (@rnoelliams) December 28, 2019
Speed would greatly benefit from not only Muppets but their moving vehicles.
Speed, keep Sandra Bullock. And this is the bus. pic.twitter.com/H5Kei7pffl
— Rebecca England (@Bex__England) December 28, 2019
Surely Jurassic Park could stand to have less CGI, more puppets, and not just for the dinos.
Jurassic park. Richard Attenborough
— That Bearded One… (@DatBeardedOne) December 27, 2019
Some thought specific scenes would work well with Muppets in them.
https://twitter.com/AndrewSparling/status/1210721321841131520
https://twitter.com/KastikoSir/status/1210842778260762625
Perhaps Tom Cruise should make some Muppet movies.
Topgun and keep Tom Cruise – Any Tom Cruise film since topgun, keep any actor as long as there’s no Tom Cruise.
— James (@ironpier_james) December 27, 2019
Some went with movies that have recently proved to be primo meme fodder.
Muppet Marriage Story https://t.co/9x8rTr5BUW pic.twitter.com/aBb9ZVDllT
— Regular sized James (@mrsundaymovies) December 28, 2019
Some were ambitious, not only providing words but pictures and moving images.
Pretty Woman ~ keep Julia Roberts
you guys, Bert doesn't like it when people spread the rumor that he stood on a box for all his scenes with Julia pic.twitter.com/J3RZoGGuZs
— BebopSpaceCowgirl 💙💖🌈 (@jomareewade) December 28, 2019
https://twitter.com/mts312/status/1210784813348581381
One actually got the approval of one of the actors in the movie in question.
I’d like to play a muppet actually –
— John Cusack (@johncusack) December 28, 2019
Of course, someone pointed out that the original The Muppet Show itself was way ahead of 2019’s social media yuksters.
@HamillHimself is way ahead of you pic.twitter.com/SL5zQW781w
— Liza (@lizae28) December 28, 2019