The Great Narrators

The Moment: Classic literature meets postmodern film, as The Muppet Christmas Carol is narrated by Gonzo ("as Ch𓂃arles Dickens") and Rizzo The Rat ("as himself").

Muppet Magic: When Gonzo tells the audience he's here to tell the story, Rizzo chimes in with "A✅nd I am here for the food."

Kermit's Dream

The Moment: Kermit meets himself as he discusses the reasons he moved to Hollywood, in a scene that was surely the inspiration for the Gollum/Smeagol head-to-head in The Lord Of The Rings .

Muppet Magic: Are Kermit's stated reasons - alternatively "I sat through too many double-feat🍒ures," or "an agent said I had talent" - autobiographical reflections of creator Jim Henson's past?

Just Shopping

The Moment: In Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium , Kermit pops up as one of 𝓡the titular shop's customers.

Muppet Magic: Going against the grain of the premise of The Muppets , Kermit is treated like the cel🦩ebrity he is by fellow shoppers.

Au Revoir

The Moment: The torch song from The Muppets Take Manhattan , 'Saying🍌 Goodbye', leaves a lump in the throat as the Muppets are forced to go their separate ways after🐟 the initial failure of their attempt to crack Broadway.

Muppet Magic: The Brief Encounter -esque parting of Kermit and Piggy at theﷺ train station, espe💎cially when Kermit looks at the handkerchief she's left him to remember her by. Sob.

Credit Where Credit's Due

The Moment: Fozzie's panic at being stuck in a hot-air balloon at the beginning of The Great Muppet Caper is calmed by Kermit, who explains, "Listen, nothing's gonna happe𒅌n. These are just the💙 opening credits."

Muppet Magic: Things couldn't get much more♈ meta as Fozzie clocks the actual c൲redits in mid-air. "Nice title."

All Is Welles

The Moment: Kermit and co. finally reach Hollywood for a meeting with studio boss Lew Lord (Orson Welles), who immediately asks his secretary to "prepare the standard 'Rich and Famous' contract" to allow them to make The Muppet Movie .

Muppet Magic: This is how it happened in real life, more or less, since Welles' character is based on Lew Grade, the cigar-chomping ITC boss who green-lit The Muppet Show .

Chulo Casino

The Moment: In The Muppets , Kermit, Gary and Walter learn that Fozzie is perfor🌞ming with bizarro tribute act, The Moopets - includ꧑ing Dave Grohl as Animool on drums.

Muppet Magic: The Moopets play a terrible cover version of Muppets classic 'Rainbow Connection', with the lyr🗹ics changed to showcase the amenities in their꧃ Reno hotel.

Goofy Garcon

The Moment: Kermit and Miss Piggy's date in The Muppet Movie is disrꦇupted by their surly shorts-wearing waiter, played b꧟y Steve Martin.

Muppet Magic: ꦿMartin can barely pull himself together after trying the atrocious wine, clenching his teeth as he congr🍌atulates the frog on "an excellent choice." "It should be," says Kermit, "for 95 cents."

Brothers From The Grave

The Moment: Ebenezer Scrooge comes face to face with the ghosts of his old business partners, Marley and Marley. Hang on - two of them? The Muppet Christmas Carol rewrites Dickens to give starring roles to Statler and Waldorf, the latter playing reggae-inspired newcomer Robe𝔍rt Marley.

Muppet Magic: "It's good to be heckling again," reckons Jacob. "It's good to be doing a✨nything again꧒!" Robert replies.

This Is Happiness?

The Moment: The gang check into London's 'Happiness Hotel' during The Great Muppet Caper , where the existing guests promise that "there's no fire in the fireplace /💫 There's no carpet on the floor / Don't try to order dinner / There's no kitchen𒈔 anymore!"

Muppet Magic: The hotel look suspiciously like a redressed version of the backstage set from the old Mupp𝐆et Theater.