Daily Dialogue — November 5, 2012

[Lady Holiday has just given Miss Piggy the entire backstory for the movie.]

Miss Piggy: Why are you telling me all this?
Lady Holiday: It’s plot exposition. It has to go somewhere.

— Miss Piggy (Frank Oz), Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), written by Tom Patchett & Jay Tarses and Jerry Ruhl and Jack Rose.

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is exposition suggested by Dean Scott. Today’s suggestion by Debbie Moon.

Trivia: The end of the bicycle scene (where all the Muppets are shown riding together) was actually done by putting all of the Muppet characters onto their bikes, hooking them together, and pulling them. Brian Henson, on an oversized tricycle, was among those who pulled the bikes.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is a nod to the difficulty writers have in handling exposition, the delivery of facts or data generally slowing down the narrative. One way to deal with it? Acknowledge the problem within the context of the story universe.