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| - Muppets Underwater is a nonexistent often cited by Jason Segel as the type of film he was trying to get the Muppet franchise away from when he and Nick Stoller were developing the 2011 film The Muppets. Throughout 2008, while doing publicity for his films Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I Love You, Man, Segel often mentioned the fictional film—occasionally along with such other nonexistent Muppet projects as Muppets in the Sahara, Muppets in the Old West, and Muppets on the Moon—when describing the type of bad "concept films" he felt the Muppets had been producing. Segel continually stated he didn't want to make a novelty film with a central gimmick, like "Muppets Underwater," but rather he just wanted to make a classic film where the Muppets get together to put on a show. Ironically, Segel wrote a segment for The Muppets in which Kermit's car has the ability to travel by map, including a shot in which the vehicle is shown to have driven under the Atlantic Ocean whilst full of Muppets: Muppets underwater.
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