The Muppet Movie

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• Movie Goof (continuity error): Just as the gang hit the billboard for the pie advertisement, Fozzie yells, and the steering wheel comes off, but it's reattached the next time we see them in the Studebaker.
• The illusion of Fozzie driving the Studebaker was achieved by having a midget drive the car via remote control from the trunk, using a television monitor to guide his steering. The puppeteers would lay on the seat or floor and couldn't see a thing. The first time they tested it, the television monitor went on the blink, and the driver had to be talked through the scene by an assistant director on a walkie-talkie ("A little to the right, now, to the left...hold it...").
• Orson Welles plays a studio executive named Lew Lord who draws up a standard rich-and-famous contract for The Muppets - a reference to real-life producer Sir Lew Grade (later Lord Grade). When Jim Henson was trying to find a producer to make The Muppet Show happen, no American network understood or was interested in the concept, Grade recognized Henson's vision and made the show possible.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): When Kermit and friends first enter the front office of Lew Lord and speak to the secretary, the fan is already turned on in the background. However, Kermit then turns the fan on from the off position to spread the animal dander.