On July 13, 1984, the third Muppets movie called The Muppets Take Manhattan ... and Dustin Hoffman was reportedly supposed to ...

but the movie is, after all, about the Muppets, so it’s nice to see the filmmakers giving audiences their fair share of the characters interacting with each other exclusively. As with any Muppet film, ...

Since then, however, they've been largely relegated to bit parts and cameos in Muppet projects ... a mole and a funny accent ...