A friend and I were discussing who would be whom in a Muppet Les Misérables
We cast Kermit as Valjean
Sam the Eagle as Javert
Miss Piggy as both Thénardiers
Humans as Fantine, Cosette and Marius
Rizzo the Rat as Gavroche
Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, and Beaker & Dr. Honeydew as students (I think Beaker would be Joly and Honeydew would be Combeferre more specifically; Gonzo might be Enjolras and Fozzie might be Grantaire, although I could also see Fozzie as Courfeyrac. Not sure about the other students)
and Waldorf and Statler would be inhabitants of a house next to the Corinthe, heckling the revolutionaries from the window. Kind of a G-rated version of the shit that goes down between Le Cabuc and the old man in the strategically located house
a radically different vision and yet we both seem to agree that Sam the Eagle is Javert
Oh, man, Muppet castings for random texts are great. A joy of my college days.
The only one about which I seem to remember anything, at this juncture, was our Muppet Lord of the Rings –
Attractive Human Guest Star (Male) as Aragorn
Attractive Human Guest Star (Female) as Arwen
[probably this is, like, Michael Fassbender and Emily Blunt or something]
Kermit the Frog as Frodo Baggins
Fozzie Bear as Samwise Gamgee
Scooter as Meriadoc Brandybuck
Rizzo the Rat as Peregrin Took
Gonzo as The Great Gandalf
Some Very Poorly-Executed Sheet Ghosts as The Nazgul
Sam the Eagle as Elrond
[this is straight-up taken from the movies and makes no sense with actual LotR canon, but it’s still really funny]
Animal as Gollum
[PRECIOUS!!!!!!!! Mna mna mna mna mna mna!!!]
Janice as Galadriel
The Electric Mayhem as Various Elves of Lothlorien
Miss Piggy as Eowyn
Link Hogthrob as Eomer
Dr. Julius Strangepork as Theoden
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as Saruman
Beaker as Grima Wormtongue
Sweetums as Durin’s Bane
Uncle Deadly as The King of the Dead
Waldorf & Statler as The Mouth of Sauron
I am deeply ashamed that I don’t remember what we did with Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, Faramir, and Denethor. Also assorted minor LotR characters. Also, for that matter, the Swedish Chef etc.