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The Muppet Show - 417: Star Wars - Pigs in Space: Star Wars cast aboard the Swinetrek, 1980

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Fantasy Casting: The Muppets

by Chris

So the idea of doing a Muppet recast has been bouncing around my head since guest Carl made Johnny Fiama his Vic Fontaine in his DS9 Recurring Characters fantasy cast. Since we did a last-minute swap to cover the new USS Callister episode of Black Mirror this week this left a gap that I decided to fill in. I'm on my own this time, so follow me through my thought process as we swap out the TOS cast for everyone's favorite felt actors...

Captain Kirk: Pep�� the King Prawn

The trickiest part of this whole exercise was trying to decide how much to lean into Trek and how much to lean into The Muppets. We've talked often over the years about "Kirk Drift"; the idea that Kirk is this brash ladies' man who constantly breaks the rules. But looking at TOS he's much more by-the-book, and the constant falling for the ladies really only picks up in season 3, and is still nowhere near as common as people like to say.

But let's be honest, there's going to be at least some element of parody to a Muppet take, so let's go with the effortlessly cool and suave Pepé as our Kirk. Imagine a Kirk chop with that many arms!

And yes, I briefly considered Link Hogthrob but threw him out for two reasons:

he's more a take on 1950s sci-fi captains

That is a terrible surname, and I really only brought it up so I could remind you all that it is legitimately his full name, which is horrifying.

Mister Spock: Kermit the Frog

"Wait," I can hear you say, "shouldn't he be Kirk? He's the Muppets leader!" True. But he's also one of two obvious straight men in the cast, the other being Sam the Eagle. But while Sam is stern and humorless, Kermit himself can engage in the shenanigans, too, albeit often in a subtler way. This would translate well to Spock's human/Vulcan struggles, making him a natural fit for the role. Also, it ties into...

Nurse Chapel: Miss Piggy

Our original TOS recast didn't involve Nurse Chapel, but as soon as I hit on Kermit as Spock I had to include her just to do this. Christine's pining replaced by Miss Piggy's very active pursuit of her Kermie would lead to some excellent scenes. And you know she wouldn't take the Plomeek soup incident from "Amok Time" the same way...

Bones: DeForest Kelley

Look, there's always at least one major recurring human. And you know the one you want to see surrounded by Muppet madness is everyone's favorite irascible Starfleet physician. You cannot tell me you don't love imaging him and Kermit-Spock arguing about human nature.

Scotty: Gonzo (With Rizzo)

If, like me, you grew up on A Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island it's hard to separate these two. So borrowing a page from the Kelvin timeline's Scotty/Keenser combo we've got Gonzo as Mr. Scott, but with Rizzo serving as his always-present sidekick. I also imagine the rest of the engineers would be the various Muppet rats, like the diner staff from Muppets Take Manhattan and the bookkeepers in Christmas Carol.

Sulu: Fozzie Bear

Let's be real, you can't have a Muppet Project without Fozzie. Trek has Kirk, Spock, McCoy' Muppets has Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo. And while I cast them all differently than you might expect they all have to be here. And yes, the main reason I chose him for Sulu is because he's the primary driver in The Muppet Movie and Sulu's the navigator, so I figured that worked well enough.

Uhura: Janice

The Muppets unfortunately have a terrible lack of major, named female characters. But still, her role as a musician makes Janice feel like a natural fit for The Enterprise comms officer. Plus we know she can sing, like her human counterpart. And there's certainly an unflappable quality to her, even if the root of it feels a little different.

Chekov: Walter

Introduced in 2011's The Muppets, I promise I picked Walter without considering the fact that he shares a name with the original Chekov. It's his youthful enthusiasm that seemed a natural fit for what the producers had wanted with the character, who was meant to appeal to the young people. But once I realized the coincidence I knew I had hit upon perfection.

And that's that! I hope you enjoyed this last little thought exercise. I've personally no plans to try the Muppet game with any of the other casts, but never say never. Or maybe another member of our group will take up the challenge. Either way, for now this serves as the end of our recasting exercises. I hope you've enjoyed them! Feel free to share thoughts with us here, our Facebook, or our BlueSky.

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[dave-windett]

Captain Link Hogthrob

[wwwwaaaaazzzzzaaaapppp]

Okay updated version of my last post for muppet newsies:

Jack Kelly: Jeremy Jordan

Katherine: Kara Lindsay

Davey: Kermit The Frog

Les: Robin

Medda: Miss Piggy

Pulitzer: Statler and Waldorf

Spot Conlon: Rizzo

Snyder: Uncle Deadly

Racetrack: Gonzo

Albert: Pepe

Crutchie: Bean Bunny

Bowery Beauties: Chickens

Brooklyn Newsies: Rats

Bunson:Bunson

Seitz: Beaker

Hannah: Janice

Jacoby: Swedish Chef

Roosevelt: Bobo the Bear

The mayor: Captain Link Hogthrob

Romeo: Animal

Specs: Scooter

Henry: Fozzie

Elmer: Lew Zealand

Finch: Floyd

Wiesel: Oscar the Grouch

Oscar Delancey: Crazy Harry

Morris Delancey:Sweetums

[divineturtle]

Pigs in Space from The Muppet Show (1970s) is very very fun to me. I love that their ship is the Swinetrek. I love their adventures, i love the Star Wars crossover when they had Mark Hamill on. But right now, I'm mostly thinkin' about how they reference Dr. Strangelove with Dr. Strangepork and Captain Kirk with Captain Link Hogthrob, but then for first mate, they said "Miss Piggy is the PERFECT candidate for this role", giving us the ever iconic First Mate Piggy, who I chose to believe is suppose to parallel Spock. Mostly cuz it's funny. I like the concept of the two being considered kindred spirits. I don't disagree, somehow. Maybe it's the karate chop/Vulcan pinch thing, each having a signature move? Maybe it's the sass? Not sure. Anyways...

[thewritehag]

I hate The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald with a life-sucking passion, but if it ever got a Muppet adaptation, the one main human would be Nick Carraway.

He'd have to be played by someone completely unremarkable because Nick is not interesting; he can't be a muppet and the story won't go unless he's in it. Nick is the load-bearing wallpaper keeping a house from collapsing: we need him, but we deliberately don't think about him.

Naturally, Kermit would be Gatsby, Ms. Piggy would be Daisy, and Tom would be Captain Link Hogthrob.

That said, even if major retconning was promised, please god in heaven, don't let this happen.

[muppetydyke]

Muppet Show Reboot (concept) S1E7: Chris Pine

Pops: Oh hey! I know you you’re one of them Chrises. Let’s see… Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, Chris Hemsworth–

Chris Pine: Chris Pine.

Pops: You’re not like any tree I’ve seen! *he laughs loudly before the sound of a tree cracking. A tree falls on him from out of frame*

Chris: I take after my mother.

Okay SO a Chris Pine episode could be SO fun. The backstage plot is Miss Piggy is trying to use Chris Pine to make Kermit jealous (which does work to a certain extent) BUT Miss Piggy falls too deep and decides she’s actually in love with Chris Pine. So of course they’ll sing a cute little duet. And there’s gonna be a Pine music number with a medieval twist (I had the idea for As It Was by Harry Styles which I think could be very fun).

Statler: Well that wasn’t so bad.

Waldorf: Could’ve been better! You know what they say about Pine after all.

Statler: What?

Waldorf: His bark is worse than his bite!

then there will of course be PIGS IN SPAAAACE.

Chris Pine: *in his best William Shatner impression, which is very good* Captain’s log Star date… uncertain. It appears my crew has been turned into creatures resembling old earth pigs. I wonder… if my crew even recognizes that I’m gone.

*cut to a shot of Zachary Quinto as Spock with Link Hogthrob*

The episodes gonna end with a Chris Pine and Kermit duet of Agony from into the woods. It would be SO GOOD. Miss Piggy would run up afterwards and say that she chose Chris, BUT then Chris Pine will remind her that he was just helping her make Kermit jealous. The show will end with Kermit having a big arm flappy angry moment as Piggy makes excuses.

[theeclectickoalastudent]

I think... Link Hogthrob as Boromir- the CAPTAIN of the guard!

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Literally would watch this on repeat.

Like daily. Hourly. EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY.

[nerds-yearbook]

On the November 12, 1977, the first Pigs in Space sketch appeared. ("Milton Berle" Muppet Show, TV, event)

[unrepentantbibliophile]

Pigs in Space with Luke Skywalker

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Happy Space Day

[thehauntedrocket]

Arthouse Muppets

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan featuring Pepé The King Prawn And Link Hogthrob

Art by Bruce McCorkindale

[devilsrecreation]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40423887

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! IT’S DONE! MY LINK X DEADLY FIC IS DONE

And there’s more where that came from cuz I’m already working on another one

[devilsrecreation]

Imagine ANY of your otp’s in that scenario, honestly.

Think about it. THEY ALL WORK.

Personally, I’d like to imagine this with Deadly x Link vs….Link’s moopet self? (Or a villain au Link, haven’t decided). It’d be awesome seeing Deadly beat the crap out of someone and then after Moopet/villain Link says “What a man….”, Link goes “Yeah, MY man!” and then gives his evil self one last punch before hurting himself cuz it’s Link. Then Deadly would have to massage and kiss it before Link can make out with him. He truely is Link’s knight in fashionable armor

Then again, it works just the same for any otp

amethysts-snapback replied to your post: one day I thought to myself “all the muppet movies…

think about the scene where piggy punches constantine and he’s like “what a woman…” and kermit says “yeah. MY woman.” imagine that with fuckin rowlf in piggy’s place    

oh my god I was just thinking about that

rowlf manages to free himself and pushes constantine out of the way and into the control panel before he can knock kermit off, constantine shakes his head and looks up towards rowlf who’s cracking his knuckles and proceeds to beat the shit outta him

after which constantine’s like “what a man…” because that honestly was pretty hot, then kermit says “yeah. MY man.” and gives the final blow by slapping the fake mole on him