"Right Where I Belong" from The Muppets Take Manhattan, is the opening number from Manhattan Melodies, the film's musical-within-a-musical. It is not performed until the end of the movie, however, though many earlier scenes feature Kermit getting interrupted when he's about to sing it.
Kermit sings "Right Where I Belong" after he has been karate chopped by Miss Piggy, who he insulted with pig jokes while still suffering from amnesia and thinking that he was Phillip Phil.
When he wakes up, Kermit finally remembers his true identity but is surprised to discover that he is backstage on the opening night of his musical Manhattan Melodies. Although he at first insists that show is still missing something and not ready for Broadway, when he sees the myriad Muppets that Fozzie, Gonzo, Scooter, Rowlf, and The Electric Mayhem have brought back to New York City, he realizes that what Manhattan Melodies has been missing all along was "more frogs and dogs and bears and chickens and whatevers."
As Kermit's memory comes back to him, he begins to sing "Right Where I Belong" and is joined by the entire cast as he works his way onstage, where the song turns into the opening number of Manhattan Melodies.
See also
- The Muppets Take Manhattan soundtrack
Right Where We Belong by Muppets
Jeff Moss
Miss Piggy: (spoken): Kermie--do you remember the opening number?
Kermit: You mean...
Look at me, here I am
Right where I belong
I see that face coming back to me
Like an old familiar song.
What better place could anyone be?
Cause you're here with me!
It's all I've been looking for
And so much more!
And now I'm here
Now you're here!
Cause I am here right where I belong!
[Musical bridge]
All:
Look at us!
Here we are!
Right where we belong!
The curtains' up and the lights are bright
And they're playing our old song!
(Electric Mayhem: Hey Kermit's back! Kermit!)
Kermit:
What better place could anyone be?
Cause you're here with me!
All:
So here we go!
Let's start the show!
[Leads immediately into "Somebody's Getting Married"]
As I write these words, the Super Bowl is happening. During the pre-game show, we noticed a commercial for Vrbo featuring a very familiar voice singing a very familiar song:
It’s Kermit the Frog! Singing that song from The Muppets Take Manhattan! Neat!
But wait, that’s not all. As it turns out, just yesterday the Muppets appeared in a new video on Vrbo’s official TikTok account, featuring the same song:
@vrbo The Muppets gang’s all here! Now it’s your turn to show us your people. Enter the #AVrboForTogether ? Right Where I Belong – The Muppets
That’s right: The Muppets are TikTok’ing Vrbo! Now there’s a sentence that barely sounds like English.
Thanks to Tough Pigs’ own Matthew Soberman and Shane Keating for info and links! Click here to ask what Vrbo is on the Tough Pigs forum!
by Ryan Roe –