Trivia: HIDDEN MICKEY: At the end, fireworks go and 3 go into the shape of Micky Mouse.
Trivia: Due to pacing reasons, the backstory of the villain Tex Richman had to be cut. As originally conceived, when he was a child, his parents hired the Muppets as entertainment for one of his birthdays. However, during their routine, he discovered to his horror that he simply didn't have the ability to laugh like all of the other children, making him feel different from everyone else, and causing him to become an outcast when other children began making fun of his inability to laugh. He blames the Muppets for revealing this part of his personality to the world, and causing him to be ostracized as a child. This explains why he says the words "maniacal laugh", as he simply cannot really laugh. This also would prove that the Muppets eventually "saved" him during the credits scene where Gonzo accidentally hits him with a bowling ball, causing him minor head trauma that finally makes him able to laugh.
Trivia: Frank Oz, the former voice of Miss Piggy and Fozzie, chose not to be a part of the film, after being dissatisfied with early drafts of the script. He later stated that he enjoyed the finished film for the most part, and that it didn't contain elements he had earlier objected to. (Though he commented that he didn't enjoy the "Disney Process" that went into the production of the film, and he felt that the film was slightly "too safe", though he enjoyed it overall).
Trivia: To make the film more of a surprise, in the time leading up to the debut of the trailer, fake promotional material was released, featuring footage and stills of Jason Segal and Amy Adams without the Muppet characters, using the fake title "Green with Envy." The film was depicted as a standard romantic-comedy. This paid off with the first theatrical trailer, which showcases footage of Segal and Adams on their own, before suddenly adding in the Muppet characters in a surprise twist.
Trivia: Due to time constraints and pacing issues, several scenes and a number of celebrity cameos had to be omitted from the film. This included a sizable cameo appearance by Ricky Gervais. Oddly enough, despite his cameo in this film being cut out, he was later cast as one of the lead human characters in the sequel, "Muppets Most Wanted." In addition, several other celebrities whose cameo roles were cut from this film were included in cameos in the sequel, including Danny Trejo.
Trivia: This film came about thanks to the raunchy R-Rated comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", also co-written by and starring Jason Segal. Segal, a life-long Muppet fan, included several allusions to "The Muppet Show" in the film, and the same studio that makes the Muppets were called into to provide puppets for a crucial scene in the film. Segal used this opportunity to pitch his idea for a Muppet film directly to the Muppet team, eventually leading him to landing the job co-writing and co-starring in this film.
Trivia: Early drafts of the script by Jason Segal and Nicholas Stoller were vastly different than the finished film. Their original script was much darker than the finished film, and included allusions to the ideas that several of the "older" Muppet characters had passed away from old age or otherwise retired, in addition to suggesting that other characters appeared to look physically much older. The Disney producers and Muppeteers had to explain to Segal and Stoller that their ideas were too dark and mature for a Muppet film, and helped advise them on subsequent drafts.
Answer: He was a greedy man who wanted to drill underneath the Muppet Theater for oil. He was Ebenezer Scrooge.