Insta-Grow Pills

Insta-Grow Pills are a "Muppet Labs" invention created by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker in the 1979 film The Muppet Movie. 
As Bunsen and Beaker show Kermit the Frog, Floyd Pepper, and Animal around their Ghost Town workshop, Floyd's attention is drawn to what appears to be a four-foot prune. It is, in fact, a four-foot prune, created by the science of Insta-Grow Pills. Bunsen explains that the pills can make anything grow, but the effect is sadly temporary.
Later in the film, as Kermit's showdown with Doc Hopper reaches its climax, Animal grows to an enormous size, busting through the roof of Bunsen and Beaker's workshop. He's taken the Insta-Grow Pills, and frightens away Hopper and his hired gunmen.
Insta-Grow Pills were immortalized as a toy in 2004 when a jar of them was included as an accessory with an online-exclusive Animal Action Figure.
A similar plot device was used on Muppet Babies in the episode "Oh My Gourd", this time in the form of a gadget, rather than pills. In response to Baby Kermit's wish for his pumpkin to grow in size at an accelerated rate, Baby Bunsen reveals an invention called the Grow-inator Ray. The device does as it's described, and with an additional Shrink-inator Module, will also do the reverse. In a mirroring of the climactic showdown scene from The Muppet Movie, the episode ends with Baby Animal partaking in the Muppet Labs invention, growing to an oversized height.
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