So, someone spotted my Dad and Marilyn biking around town — according to Mindy’s sources. And as she’s relaying this information she says, “all I could think about when they were telling me was that scene where Kermit and Miss Piggy are riding along in the park.”
Which if anyone knows my Dad isn’t too off base — I think the last time he rode a bike I was in the 8th grade.
I looked for the photo but this is the best I can find. But you get the idea …
If only I had the audio to go with it —
“Side by Side”? by KERMIT & MISS PIGGY (from The Great Muppet Caper movie, 1981)
The Muppet Movie in 1979 delighted audiences with a short scene of Kermit riding a bicycle — being no easy feat to film a puppet riding a bike, especially in the era before computer-generated graphics!
The sequel, 1981’s The Great Muppet Caper, tops that with a long scene of Kermit and Miss Piggy riding bikes side by side through a park, singing to each other, “Pretty day, sunny sky, lovely pictures dance in your eyes. It all seems so right. It all feels so rare. Summer song, sudden breeze, watch the wind play tags in the trees. The world is so right, so perfectly fair. Why couldn’t we fly? I know we’d get by. Sunny sky, pretty day, just a push and we’re on the way. Yes, couldn’t we ride, side by side?”
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