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The Muppet Movie (1979) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Fozzie gets Kermit's "Dragonfly Ripple" cone from the ice cream man, it's a shade of bright lime green. When he gives it to Kermit, it's gray. After the group spots Gonzo floating with the balloons the cone is green again, but a different shade.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the freshly-painted Studebaker drives off and the Electric Mayhem band is waving goodbye, look closely at the bottom of Zoot. You can see the puppeteer's forearm quite clearly.
  
  
• Continuity: The colors of Gonzo's balloons change and re-arrange during his flight.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the end of the song "I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along", when Kermit and Rowlf harmonize on a final pair of long notes, they both hold the notes, audibly, until the end of the song, but Rowlf's mouth changes to a scat/improv line that he sings and we hear. (In other words, his voice is heard on two different musical lines at the same time).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Gonzo is flying with the balloons and says "Look at our little car down there," the sunlight makes the cord suspending the balloons visible.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Miss Piggy jumps off the balcony to attack the men and save Kermit, an arm covered by a long black glove is seen throwing her.
  
  
• Continuity: Fozzie's Studebaker has a cracked windshield in several shots but not in others during the "Moving Right Along" number.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Immediately after Kermit and Fozzy's first encounter with Doc Hopper, as Fozzy is driving away, Doc Hopper speaks several lines ("Hey, that's my car!", "I'm offering you money!"), but his mouth does not move.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The back of the theater seat Animal is sitting in clearly shows an exact outline of the chunk Animal rips off when he eventually starts eating the seat.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kermit and friends first enter the front office of Lew Lord and speak to the secretary, the fan is already turned on in the background. However, Kermit then turns the fan on from the off position to spread the animal dander.
  
  
• Continuity: Just as the gang hit the billboard for the pie advertisement, Fozzie yells, and the steering wheel comes off, but it's reattached the next time we see them in the Studebaker.
  
  
• Continuity: When they stop the car the first time to speak to Big Bird the car is further up, when the camera moves to him he is seen standing directly next to the car.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fozzie and Kermit first stop in front of the church they are facing one way, after they fall asleep they are facing another.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Fozzie and Kermit are about to confront Gonzo in his truck, Kermit says, "Fozzie look at that funny little truck!" in which Fozzie responds, "Yeah...cute,huh?" But if you look at the mirror in the car, you can clearly see that Fozzie's mouth isn't moving; it remains shut.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Kermit is riding his bike down the street at the beginning of the movie, you can momentarily see two strings on the front and back of the bike.
  
  

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