Academy Award Best Picture winner, The Godfather is a 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
References
- A movie poster in J. P. Grosse's office as seen in Muppet Diary 1980 features Kermit as a marionette puppet in "The Frogfather".
- The movie's poster has been spoofed in Muppet parody calendars with Rowlf the Dog in place of Marlon Brando's titular character.
- A Movie Mania spot for The Odyssey Channel spoofed the movie with Kermit the Frog as "The Frogfather." In the scene, Fozzie Bear comes to the Frogfather asking for revenge on Statler and Waldorf.
- Joan Baez does an imitation of Marlon Brando in the film from her Guest Star's Dressing Room in an episode of The Muppet Show.
- In a Sesame Street News Flash sketch about The Three Little Pigs, The Big Bad Wolf tells Kermit, "I'm going to make them an offer they can't refuse."
- While driving the bus around the inside of a computer in The Muppet CD-ROM: Muppets Inside, a bomb floats across the screen. When it's captured, a prompt on the screen reads, "Crazy Harry's Bomb: if this bomb explodes, it will make you an offer you can't re-fuse."
- Writing in Before You Leap, Kermit says one of the options for the original title of The Muppet Movie was "The Oddfather" (which was Gonzo's favorite choice).
- A talking stone in a kingdom from Sesame Street Episode 3171 speaks with a Brando-esque voice and tells the Grand High Triangle Lover he's going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
- When Billy Crystal tries to get Clifford to tell him what's wrong in Muppets Tonight episode 103, he asks, "they shot Sonny on the causeway?," a reference to Sonny Corleone's death scene.
- The Count sings "I'll make you an offer that you can't refuse" towards the end of "Counting the "You"s in YouTube."
- The extended version of "We're Doing a Sequel" features Rowlf the Dog singing about how Muppets Most Wanted can't be any worse than The Godfather 3.
- In The Muppets episode "Little Green Lie", Pepe says "I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse."
Connections
- Oreste Baldini played Vito as a child in The Godfather: Part II
- Robert De Niro played young Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II
- Jessica DiCicco played a child in The Godfather: Part III
- George Hamilton played B.J. Harrison in The Godfather: Part III
- Alex Rocco played Moe Greene in The Godfather
- Harry Dean Stanton played FBI Man #1 in The Godfather: Part II