Floyd Pepper Quotes in The Muppet Movie (1979)

[Animal roars and scares Kermit and Fozzie]

Floyd Pepper: Oh, yeah, that's Animal. Show 'em what you do, Animal.

Animal: I want to - eat drums!

[chews on a cymbal]

Dr. Teeth: No, no. Beat drums, beat drums!

Animal: [stops chewing] Beat drums! Beat drums!

[Starts beating his head against that same cymbal]

Floyd Pepper: Down, Animal!

Animal: DOWN!

Floyd Pepper: Back!

Animal: BACK!

Floyd Pepper: Sit!

Animal: SIT!

Kermit: What's happening?

Floyd Pepper: At the moment, *we're* what's happenin'.

Floyd Pepper: We am, is, are, and be, they whom as are known as: The Electric Mayhem!

Animal: IR-RI-TA-TED! IR-RI-TA-TED!

Kermit: Don't worry, Animal, your big scene is coming up.

Floyd Pepper: Yeah, just be cool and eat another seat cushion.

Animal: SEAT CUSHION!

[rips off some upholstery and stuffing at the corner of his chair and eats it]

[the members of The Electric Mayhem are introducing themselves one by one]

Zoot: I'm, uh, uhh...

Floyd Pepper: Zoot. Sax is your axe. Uh-oh, Zoot skipped a groove again.

Floyd Pepper: What in the name of Fats Waller is that?

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew: A four foot prune!

Floyd Pepper: Yeah, the road manager. We couldn't go anywhere without him.

Fozzie: He's the man with the contacts?

Dr. Teeth: No, he's the man with the van.

[Kermit and the Muppets arrive in Hollywood]

Miss Piggy: Oh, Kermie, look, it's wonderful. Like a dream come true.

Kermit: Well, don't count your tadpoles until they've hatched, I still have to audition, you know.

Floyd Pepper: Hey, there ain't nothin' to it but to do it!

Lord's Secretary: [closes the door] And where do you think you're going?

Kermit: Oh, hi there. We're here to audition for Lew Lord.

Lord's Secretary: You just can't walk in here off the street you know, especially with all these animals.

Kermit: Animals? Wh-What's wrong with animals?

[Muppets mutter indignantly but indistinctly]

Lord's Secretary: This is a movie studio, not a zoo. Besides...

[sneezes]

Lord's Secretary: ...I'm allergic to animal hair. Now get along all of you.

Kermit: Now wait a second, miss. I may not be one of your fancy Hollywood frogs, but I deserve a chance, and we're going to stay right here in this office until you let us in to see Lew Lord. Aren't we, gang?

[the Muppets shout "Yes" indistinctly]

Lord's Secretary: [on the phone] Security, Miss Tracey. I want to report a...

[the Muppets shake their fur, causing the secretary to sneeze convulsively until she finally opens the office door]

Floyd Pepper: [about the Insta-Grow pills] What else do these pills make big?

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew: Oh, they'll work on anything, but the effect is, sadly, temporary.

Beaker: Sadly temporary.

Miss Piggy: Ich bin ein berliner.

Floyd Pepper: More like "Ein frankfurter".

[Fozzie climbs on top of Floyd Pepper]

Floyd Pepper: Hey, watch the hair, bear!