#doc hopper

[pleasejustletmesleep]

I love you, The Muppet Movie (1979). I love you, coming of age road trip story. I love you, Steve Martin in tiny booty shorts. I love you, shameless 4th wall breaks. I love you, beautiful song about friendship and stars sung by Gonzo. I love you, toxic yuri dynamic between Kermit and Piggy. I love you, Dr. Teeth calling the motorcycle cop a pig. I love you, thinly veiled nods to queerness. I love you, The Muppet Movie (1979)

[bobauthorman]

Muppet Villains Are Typically Human (Or Human-sized)...

...Because there's something very poignant about little guys standing against larger foes.

[samuelyaboyy]

doc hopper and max from muppet movie are a gay t4t couple ngl

[adamation3]

I don’t know there’s Something a little fruity about these two.

[imtoffe]

Everyone want to eat some frog 😔😩(suggestive? Idk)

[villainoftheday]

Today’s villain is Doc Hopper from The Muppet Movie

[pastoralbear]

Doc Hopper was a veteran

As I was watching The Muppet Movie today for probably the several hundredth time in my life, I noticed a detail for the first time. Throughout the movie, Doc Hopper wears three lapel pins. On his right lapel, he wears a little frog head. Makes sense, since he has a dream of opening a thousand frog leg restaurants. On his left lapel, he wears an American flag, and right below that, he wears the collar rank device of a third class petty officer in the United States Coast Guard.

If we assume that Doc Hopper was more or less the same age as Charles Durning, that would mean he probably served in the Coast Guard during World War II. You have to wonder if he had a bad experience with frogs at some point.

For what it’s worth, Charles Durning was himself a US Army veteran, having landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for his injuries and actions that day.

[jimhenson-themuppetmaster]

Jim Henson and Doc Hopper aka Charles Durning. I found this n eBay, and one thing for sure is that the photo isn't from the time of The Muppet Movie.