Tumblr reminded me that Miss Piggy and Kermit meeting Luke Skywalker and Yoda on the set of Empire Strikes Back is a real thing that happened.
"Frank Oz who voiced Yoda, was also known as a puppeteer and actor who was responsible for the voices of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Sam and Animal in Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show. [...] One day, during a break in filming Oz and Henson, brought Kermit and Miss Piggy on set to meet Kershner, Skywalker and Yoda."
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When Kermit met Yoda: The Muppets on set of 'The Empire Strikes Back' - Flashbak
August 1979: Irvin Kershner is directing The Empire Strikes Back, aka Star Wars Episode V, on Stage 9 of Elstree Studios, England. Today's scenes involve Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) meeting with Jedi Master Yoda. Kershner considers this sequence as "the heart of the picture," as he explained to Alan Arnold in A Journal of the Making of The Empire Strikes Back...
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