Tough Pigs Anthology

June 2003

 

The Jim Henson Hour

Science Fiction, Part 2:

Signals from Space

 

Cast: Jim Henson (Kermit), Dave Goelz (Digit), 

Sharon Lee Williams? (Purple Extreme), Kevin Clash (Green Extreme),

Steve Whitmire (Yellow Extreme), Jerry Nelson (Orange Extreme).

 

    

 

 

 

[ Back to the Muppet TV studio. ]

 

Kermit

 

And so, without further ado, let's go --

 

Digit

 

Wait! Wait! Amazing news! I'm picking up TV signals from Deep Space! 

 

Kermit

 

What?

 

Digit

 

Yes! Alien beings are transmitting TV programs not unlike our own!

 

Kermit

But -- that would prove that there's intelligent life in other galaxies!

 

Digit

 

No, it just proves they have television.

 

Kermit

 

Well, listen, Digit -- why don't you see if you can feed the signal to our viewers, and I'll go cancel some of the boring parts of the show!

 

    

 

 

 

[ On a TV monitor next to Kermit's desk, guest star Louie Anderson is alarmed. ]

 

Louie

 

Waiiiit just a minute there.

 

Kermit

 

Oh, hi, Louie!

 

Louie

 

Did I just hear you cancel my spot?

 

Kermit

 

Oh, no, not you, Louie. We'll be getting to you a little bit later. Just wait right there in that monitor.

 

Louie

 

Oh. All right. Do you have any magazines?

 

Kermit

 

Uh... no, but you might find this part interesting, because Digit's going to show us some alien TV shows! Digit?

 

Digit

 

[ with a satellite dish around his neck ]  Ha ha ha haaaa! Oh! That was no norblick, that was my peen freeble! Ha ha ha! That's great. I tell ya, Kermit, this stuff is much more my kind of humor.

 

Kermit

 

Is that thing the receiver?

 

Digit

 

Yes, it's coming through loud and clear from somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy.

 

Kermit

 

How do we get to see it?

 

Digit

 

Well, you don't. I'm using my head as a terminal, so the best I can do is describe it to you.

 

Kermit

 

What?

 

Louie

 

Oh, I've heard of this, it has a name. It's called radio.

 

Kermit

 

Eeesh! At least we've got an opening number. And here they are: The Extremes!

 

    

 

 

 

[ The Extremes sing "Neutron Dance," screaming and rolling around on the ground. ]

 

    

 

 

Next: My Dinner with Codzilla

 

 

Danny@ToughPigs.com

 

 

Tough Pigs Anthology Contents

April/May 2003 -- Breaking News: Sesame Street News Flashes

March 2003 -- The Early Days of the Muppet Show Comic Strip

Feb 2003 -- Ernie vs Bert

Aug/Sept 2002 -- The Road to Hollywood

July 2002 -- The Decline and Fall of Gorch, part two: The Fall

June 2002 -- The Decline and Fall of Gorch, part one: The Decline

May 2002 -- Giant Frogs!

April 2002 -- April Frog's Day

March 2002 -- The Muppets Take Madison Avenue

February 2002 -- Kermit and Piggy : That Magnificent Hankering

January 2002 -- Off the Street

December 2001 -- It Feels Like Christmas

November 2001 -- Muppets: 1, Host: 0