Casablanca
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Casablanca is the 1942 Oscar winning film based in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, it has been widely considered the greatest Hollywood movie ever made.
Parodies
- In The Miss Piggy Calendar 1982, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy parody the two leads of Casablanca.
- In The Muppets Go to the Movies, Kermit and Piggy once again take on the lovers of Casablanca. This time, the two try to reenact one of the last scenes in the movie, and Kermit delivers Bogart's famous farewell. Miss Piggy is blown away, and Kermit yells after her, "Here's looking for you, kid!"
- A Ready To Learn segment features Grover (at the piano) and Cleo Lion (of Between the Lions) reminiscing of the "rhyming game".
- A Sesame Street segment, "Great Movie Classics," showcases a different version of the film: in this version, Rick keeps telling the pianist to keep saying the alphabet ("Say it again, Sam").(YouTube)
References
- Lines from Casablanca are parodied in the Dinosaurs episode "Georgie Must Die." After gathering supplies for his mission, the following interchange between Earl and Fran occurs:
- Earl: "You know the troubles of two little dinosaurs don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. ... Oh! Almost forgot the beans. Half a dozen cans should do it. Maybe six. ... Well, farewell, Fran."
- Fran: "Oh, Earl, don't go!"
- Earl: "Frannie, I've got to go. If I don't, I'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not for the rest of the week. But probably by the end of the month. Do you have a calendar?"
