If they were going to make another Muppet film, Oz said testily, they would have to “figure out a way to do a really low-budget kind of thing.” That was all Juhl needed. Hunching over his Macintosh computer in his home office in California, he quickly pounded out a treatment for a film called The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made. In Juhl’s first treatment, Kermit allows Gonzo to write and direct a bad adventure movie called Into the Jaws of the Demons of Death—with “this cheesy, terrible plot,” as Juhl put it, “that made absolutely no sense whatsoever, about something being stolen that led to a
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