The Muppet Movie (1979)

Charles Durning: Doc Hopper

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Quotes 

• Doc Hopper : Max, I've done my best with that frog, now's the time to do my worst. Open the door.

  Max : No, YOU open the door!

  Doc Hopper : What?

  Max : I'm through, Doc. The frog is right. You're asking him to do something terrible. I can't be a part of it. It's a moral decision and I'll stand by it.

  Doc Hopper : I'll double your percentage.

  Max : I'll open the door.

• Doc Hopper : [appearing from behind a billboard showing a bucket of "Doc Hopper's French Fried Frog Legs"]  Ha-ha-ha-haaa! You got the picture, boy! You see what I mean? Kermit *the* Frog, symbol of Doc Hopper's French Fried Frog Legs! Isn't that splendid? Just splendid! Just take a look at it.

  Kermit : All I can see are millions of frogs on tiny crutches.

• Max Krassman : It is important to remember that you have to hold on to your hat.

  Doc Hopper : What for?

  Max Krassman : When a German scientist tells you to hold on to your hat, it's not casual conversation. HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT! HAT! HOLD!

  [Doc Hopper grabs his hat brim] 

  Max Krassman : Good.

• Doc Hopper : Listen, we're a small business but we've expanded. Expanded! Just like you frogs expand. Don't you frogs expand?

  [puffs his cheeks] 

  Kermit : That's a myth.

  Doc Hopper : What?

  Kermit : Myth! Myth!

  Myth : Yeth?

  Kermit : Huh?

  [same with Fozzie] 

  Kermit : [to Fozzie] 

  Kermit : C'mon, bear, burn rubber!

• Doc Hopper : I'll be back later to pick up what's left of the frog.

  Max Krassman : What's left of the frog? You can have everything - excuse the brain!

• [after Fozzie speeds off from the TV shop] 

  Doc Hopper : Max! Follow that frog!

  [Max drives off leaving Doc Hopper behind] 

  Doc Hopper : [screaming]  Max!

  [Max stops and reverses the car] 

  Doc Hopper : Follow that frog with *me* in the car!

• Doc Hopper : And remember, this frog does everything: he talks, he sings, he dances, he tells jokes, he even rides a bicycle. Max, find me a frog and a bear in a tan Studebaker.

  Max : [Fozzie and Kermit appear in Fozzie's Studebaker, now rainbow-colored]  Gee, Doc, all I can see is a frog and a bear in a *rainbow*-colored Studebaker.

• Doc Hopper : Come back, you! No frog's gonna make a monkey out of me!

• Kermit : If that's not the kind of man you are... or... what I'm saying doesn't make any sense to you, well then... go ahead and kill me.

  Doc Hopper : [takes off his hat and fluffs his hair; reluctantly]  All right boys. Kill him.

• Doc Hopper : This is Snake Walker. Tell 'em what you do, Snake.

  Frog Killer : [removes his sunglasses]  Kill frogs.

• Fozzie : [after Kermit has turned down Doc Hopper's offer]  Five hundred dollars? Would you consider a *bear* in a frog suit?

  Kermit : Fozzie!

  Fozzie : I'm sorry, sir, I just lost my head.

  Doc Hopper : [as Kermit and Fozzie drive off]  Just a minute, Mr. Frog; everything's negotiable!

• Doc Hopper : [about Krassman's machine]  What does it do?

  Max Krassman : What does it do? What does it do? It turns the brains into guacamole!

• Kermit : [annoyed]  Hopper, what's the matter with you? You're gonna crazy chasing me halfway across the country. Why are you doing this to me?

  Doc Hopper : Cause all my life I wanted to own a thousand frog-leg restaurants... and you're the key, greenie.

• Doc Hopper : Boys, this is Snake Walker. Tell 'em what you do, Snake.

  Frog Killer : Kill frogs.