Life's a Grouchy Song...

So, I hate to seem picky. Especially when there are Muppets involved. But in the new Muppet movie, there are lyrics in "Life's a Happy Song" that really bug me. And they've bugged me since the very first time I saw the movie. It's a very cute, bouncy song, with an infectious melody, and most of the lyrics are great. But there's a sequence of rhymes, leading up to a gag, and this is what really bugs me.

The pattern is:

Life smells like a rose
With someone to paint and someone to pose

Very nice indeed, we set up a happy comparison to life, and then explain how two people can fulfill it. Cool. Later on, we have:

Life's a piece of pie
With someone to wash and someone to dry

Also very nice. But then:

Life is full of highs
With someone to stir and someone to fry

Which...doesn't really rhyme, does it? The plural of "high" doesn't rhyme with "fry". Gee, how about "When someone stirs and someone fries"? Was that tiny change so hard to think of?

And then:

Life's a leg of lamb
With someone there to lend a hand

Really? Lamb/hand? Um, off the top of my head: "With someone to help you in a jam"?

But then, the capper. Now the street vendors are making the "Life is" comparisons, and Gary and Walter are responding with spontaneous rhymes. But then as a punchline, they get stumped:

Life's a fillet of fish
Uh...yes it is!

Okay, side issue, I'm wondering why they use the non-standard pronunciation "FILL-et" and not "fill-AY". But that's not the main problem. It's a funny gag and all, but:

A. If the gag is that they suddenly can't think of a rhyme, wouldn't it be better if, up to that point, they had been successful in thinking of ACTUAL rhymes?

B. What the heck's so hard about rhyming "fish"? "With someone to share your every wish" would work just fine. Or something with "dish". Instead, how about "Life's a juicy orange" or, I don't know, "Life's a dash of chutney" to set up the joke, using words for which rhymes don't IMMEDIATELY spring to mind?

It's like in "A Little Priest" from "Sweeney Todd". Mrs. Lovett is naming occupations (tailor, butler), and Sweeney is rhyming them (paler, subtler). All are perfect rhymes, of course. But then Mrs. Lovett says "locksmith", and Sweeney is stumped, and it's a funny moment because so are we.

Okay, while I'm at it, later in the same song Mary sings:

Everything's great, everything's grand

Except Gary's always off with his friend

Sigh. Two things:

A. "Grand" and "friend", of course, do not actually rhyme.

B. "Friend"? Seriously? Walter is Gary's BROTHER! I cannot think of any possible circumstance under which Mary would say "friend" instead of "brother". It's only there for the sake of the rhyme...which, of course, doesn't actually rhyme.

Okay, gripe over. I'm crawling back into my trash can now. I'll try not to let the lid bang.