The Live-Action Dream Sequence That Inspired Muppet Babies is the Cutest Shit Ever

If people know one thing about me, it’s that I fuck with the Muppet Babies. The Muppet Babies are extremely my shit. My first response to Muppet Babies as a child in the 1980s was, “Holy fucking shit. This cartoon fucking rocks. I can’t believe how bonkers this shit is.” 

I had a similar response to the original Muppet Babies as a dad. Muppet Babies is so fucking good it’s ridiculous. 

Given my love of the original show, you might imagine that I would reflexively not want to fuck with the CGI reboot. You might think I’d be all, “Fuck that noise. These aren’t the Muppety motherfuckers I grew up with. Fuck these lame-ass wannabes.” 

That wasn’t my experience at all. The Muppet Babies reboot was some dope ass shit. It wasn’t as wild or anarchic as the original but it was still pretty fucking fresh. 

The same can be said of the legendary live-action dream sequence from The Muppets Take Manhattan that inspired Muppet Babies. 

In their original incarnation, the Muppet Babies were so unbelievably, inconceivably, almost vomit-inducingly adorable that they make their animated counterparts seem about as cute as a giant flaming pile of horse shit by comparison. 

The cutest fucking shit I have ever seen in my entire miserable life begins with the adult Kermit and Miss Piggy taking a romantic carriage ride through Central Park. 

Miss Piggy apologizes to Kermit for saying that she regretted that they ever met and that she actually wishes that they had met much sooner, when they were just little. 

We then fade sleepily into a dream sequence where everyone is a baby. Holy fucking shit! How goddamn cute are Baby Piggy and Baby Kermit! And little Rowlf! When he’s pounding away at the piano in his little diaper it was so fucking cute that I lost it. 

And Kermit! On his little bike! How did they even do that shit? With wires or something? There is some real motherfucking movie magic going on here. 

Just when you think that shit can’t get any fucking cuter they introduce Baby Scooter, Baby Gonzo and Baby Fozzie. Look at Fozzie’s little hat! Is that not the cutest fucking shit you’ve ever seen? Even Scooter is adorable in this context. 

How fucking cute is it when Baby Scooter, Baby Fozzie and Baby Gonzo start singing back-up for Miss Piggy and wave around maracas? It’s some of the cutest shit I’ve ever seen in my whole wasted, joyless, unrelentingly brutal existence. 

Shit just gets more adorable from there. Look at Rowlf on his little train! And Gonzo on his little airplane! Then they’re dancing in a crib and Rowlf is leaping around with unfettered joy. 

At one point Rowlf is playing with a Big Bird doll while helping sing an infectious ditty and it was so cute that I genuinely thought that I was going to die from cuteness overload. 

So if you have not seen this production number I very much encourage you to do so. It’s really quite cute. 

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