The Muppet Movie (1979)
Charles Durning: Doc Hopper
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Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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[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!
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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.
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Doc Hopper : Come back, you! No frog's gonna make a monkey out of me!
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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.
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Doc Hopper : This is Snake Walker. Tell 'em what you do, Snake.
Frog Killer : [removes his sunglasses] Kill frogs.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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Doc Hopper : Boys, this is Snake Walker. Tell 'em what you do, Snake.
Frog Killer : Kill frogs.