Peter Falk’s chat with Kermit in the Great Muppet Caper is word perfect

Oonagh Keating. Updated July 27th, 2022

The 1981 film The Great Muppet Caper was stuffed to the gills with stars, some of whom also happened to be Muppets.

John Cleese and the late great Peter Ustinov strutted their stuff with the fabric main cast members, but one scene featuring the much-missed actor Peter Falk – star of Columbo – crops up regularly because it’s absolutely perfectly written and performed.

Peter Falk in The Great Muppet Caper

True comedic brilliance 😂🥿 pic.twitter.com/PiXlHEObny

— Muppet History (@HistoryMuppet) July 26, 2022

We tip our hats to the captions in that clip, too.

Here are a few reactions we thought really captured the mood.

Honestly one of my favorite scenes in movie history. https://t.co/tKh3EwUmPD

— ISummonMyDARKMAGICIAN (@ImNotAHRHitter) July 26, 2022

absolutely the best caption I've seen in a looonnng time pic.twitter.com/yfqYenkspo

— Relax Dude (@Alex_Drude) July 26, 2022

Inventing a time machine for the sole purpose of bringing about a Columbo episode centered on the Muppets. https://t.co/xhChbf34Qv

— Levi (@hist0rified) July 26, 2022

There was also a bit of Muppet filming insight that’s simply pure gold.

To achieve the wide shot showing Kermit sitting on the park bench, they had to hide muppeteer Jim Henson from view, which they did by, um, shrinking him down to tiny size i guess

— morgue (@mr_orgue) July 26, 2022

It’s actually a remote control puppet being operated offscreen, there’s a fair number of them used in Caper as well as in stuff like Fraggle Rock. Absolutely revolutionary technology that still gets used.

— Muppet History (@HistoryMuppet) July 26, 2022

Oh and – one more thing …

Kermit got off lucky; another day, and he'd have confessed to murder. https://t.co/zY1hgOIhvP

— Ian Pérez (@DoKnowButchie) July 26, 2022

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