Gag credits

Occasionally, as an inside joke from the production team, Muppet production credits will feature unconventional or cleverly-worded variations of traditional titles (often presenting the Muppets as real-word personas) or other gags and jokes.
==Muppet productions==
* The Hatrack is a credited writer on episode 112 of The Muppet Show.
* The credits for episode 417 bill "R2D2 as himself."
* "Gummo" is a credited writer for The Muppets Go to the Movies. 
* The Great Muppet Caper credits Amy Van Gilder as "Muppet Doctor" due to an on-set incident where the Fozzie puppet was burned by the hot air balloon and Van Gilder fixed him on-site so filming could continue.Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones, page 324
* Barbara Davis, who supplied costumes for Miss Piggy and acted as an on-set puppet wrangler, is credited as "Assistant to Miss Piggy" in The Great Muppet Caper and The Muppets Take Manhattan.
* The closing credits of The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show have additional superlatives added to each screen credit, such as "Miss Piggy fantastically performed by: Frank Oz" and "Wonderfully Produced and Directed by: Jim Henson." (full list)
* The Miss Piggy Calendar 1982 credits the design and photo studio staff as a movie crew, with Michael K. Frith as director, Jane Leventhal as music editor, and so on.
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a non-sentient entity, is billed as a "special guest star" in Don't Eat the Pictures.
* The opening titles of The Muppet Christmas Carol credit the Muppet characters in their roles alongside the human star Michael Caine - "Starring Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit," "Miss Piggy as Emily Cratchit," "The Great Gonzo as Charles Dickens," "Rizzo the Rat as himself," and "Fozzie Bear as Fozziwig." The closing credits identify the Muppet performers.
* Mark McAniff, who provided prop food for The Muppet Christmas Carol, is credited on the film as "Rizzo's Personal Caterer."Tough Pigs Movin' Right Along Podcast #444
* The opening titles of Muppet Treasure Island credit the major Muppet characters in their roles alongside the human actors - "Kermit the Frog as Captain Smollett," "Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn," and "The Great Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat as themselves." The closing credits identify the Muppet performers.
* Among the credited Muppet Performers in the Sesame Street CD-ROM Elmo Through the Looking-Glass is "Honker as Himself."
* The end credits for Muppet RaceMania include some fake production roles for Muppet characters not present in the game.
* Joe the Armadillo (and his fictional companies) is credited for all production roles in the end credits of the A Behind the Scenes Look at Kermit's Swamp Years featurette.
* The credits for the first set of Ready to Learn spots included such credits as Grover as a camera operator, Prairie Dawn as the art director, and several other PBS in-jokes.
==Notes==
* The end credits for the outside film An American Werewolf in London, which includes a clip from The Muppet Show and no original footage of the characters, lists both Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy as playing themselves. Other John Landis movies have credited people as characters only seen in archival footage.
* While the character of Fozzie Bear is credited as the voice of Dr. Enamel in Big City Greens, Muppet performer Eric Jacobson is credited as "Fozzie Bear's Personal Handyman."
==See also==
* Closing credit tags
==Sources==
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