Artist The Great Muppet Caper

Jim Henson’s 1981 charmer The Great Muppet Caper offers up practically the world’s oldest love story: Boy meets pig. Boy frames pig as a jewel thief. Boy loses pig, and has all his leather-clad supermodel/cat-burglar sidekicks karate-chopped into submission by pig. But is the boy really feeling it? Probably not. While Charles Grodin does romance Miss Piggy during The Great Muppet Caper, even singing her a heartfelt love song, Grodin’s removed, condescending demeanor doesn’t really sell it—which, of course, makes the incongruity of their relationship all the funnier. Kermit, Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are also along for the ride as Muppet reporters in London who dig into the jewel thief story.

Updated 05/28/2009