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Orson Welles, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, James Coburn, Frank Oz, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Elliott Gould, Jim Henson, Bob Hope, Madeline Kahn, Carol Kane, Cloris Leachman, Richard Pryor, Telly Savalas, Edgar Bergen, and Paul Williams in The Muppet Movie (1979)

Charles Durning: Doc Hopper

The Muppet Movie

Charles Durning credited as playing...

Doc Hopper

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  • 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: 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: 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: 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.

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