The Great Muppet Caper (w/ Melissa L.)

Episode 180: The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

Theme: Patreon Subscriber Choice Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis (featuring Melissa L.)

This week, Oz and Curtis (joined by returning champion and top-six-favorite Patreon supporter Melissa L.) dive into The Great Muppet Caper — a movie marriage of Twins meets Game of Thrones meets Midnight Run meets Sesame Street… with Jim Henson pulling every string. It’s a diamond-heist musical packed with fashion shows, British aristocrats, synchronized swimming, fourth-wall demolition, and the world’s niftiest bicycle-riding felt creatures. Charles Grodin smolders, Miss Piggy fantasizes, Kermit shaves, and the Happiness Hotel violates at least eight building codes.

Join your three favorite “identical twin frog-and-bear journalists” podcasters as they revisit:

• The Muppets riding bicycles with more grace and confidence than any of us ever will.

• Miss Piggy’s full Broadway-level fantasy sequence (complete with underwater harps and Charles Grodin thirsting hard).

• Nikki Holiday — the world’s most dramatic jewel thief with ketchup-based excuses.

• The chaotic fashion-show heist that ends with Piggy tackling villains in faux slow-motion glory.

• The pure joy of Muppet mayhem: Happiness Hotel residents, rubber chickens, grappling hooks, and chickens who definitely should not be able to fly.

From frog-on-bike wizardry to meta movie jokes to Piggy’s motorcycle window crash that belongs in the Smithsonian, Oz, Curtis, and Melissa celebrate a classic that proves practical effects, puppetry, and pure earnest charm never go out of style.

Final Verdict

Oz — 98 karat diamonds
Curtis — 17 Highbrow Streets
Melissa — 4 rolls of paper towels
All — Still unsure whether “Lady” is a title… or actually her first name.