Thread 149383619

How did Sam go from being his usual member-of-the-Muppets self in The Muppets to an unrelated CIA Agent the Muppets don't even recognize in Muppets Most Wanted? I know the Muppets are like actors and play different 'characters' in each movie and continuity has always been loose (if not nonexistent) with them, but the whole point of Muppets Most Wanted was that it was the same story being continued in a direct sequel.

>>149383619 (OP)
You think Same would willingly work with those weirdos?

The muppets canon dips in and out of "being a movie starring the Muppets as actors" and "the Muppets who are actors living their lives outside of performing.

>>149384287
I realize that, but usually the 'continuity' is consistent within the current story being told. Kermit doesn't suddenly become Captain Abraham Smollett in the middle of Muppets Take Manhattan. And the story told within The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted is of the "the Muppets who are actors living their lives outside of performing" variety, so it's weird that they change that for Sam and only Sam. It's especially jarring when he arrests Kermit and Fozzie near the end of Most Wanted; he only knows them as celebrities and they don't recognize him at all. Except this is the same story as The Muppets, where Sam is just normal Sam, performing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and telling Sweetums to take people's donations.

>>149383641
In retrospect, they should've made the job Sam got once the Muppets broke up a government job instead of Fox News. Then they could've had him receive an urgent call at the start of Muppets Most Wanted and needing to leave, either right before or right after "We're Doing a Sequel."

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