Tough Pigs Anthology

June 2003

 

The Jim Henson Hour

Science Fiction, Part 3:

My Dinner with Codzilla

 

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

Kevin Clash (Codzilla), Jerry Nelson (Announcer).

 

    

 

Kermit

 

Whoa, what an opening! Louie, how'd you like it?

 

Louie

 

[ reading a magazine ]  What? Oh -- I loved it. Now, if you'll excuse me... I have to get ready for my number.

 

[ Louie pulls a curtain across his monitor. ]

 

Kermit

 

Mm. Okay. Digit -- are you still picking up television signals from the Andromeda Galaxy?

 

Digit

 

Sssh, Kermit! The glinstroff is loose! Oh, Lord, he's picking up the cupcakes! DON'T OPEN THE DOOR!

 

Kermit

 

Must be some sort of intergalactic horror movie. 

 

Digit

 

Oh, no -- don't do THAT!

 

Kermit

 

What'd they DO? What'd they DO?

 

Digit

 

They cut to commercial! Don't you just HATE that?

 

Kermit

 

Good grief.  

 

[ The curtain pulls back. ]

 

Kermit

 

Oh, look -- it's our guest star, Louie Anderson! Now here's something we can actually see

 

    

 

 

 

[ On the screen, Louie is having dinner in a fancy restaurant -- with an enormous killer lizard. ]

 

Louie

 

Geez, I didn't expect such an elegant place -- no, I was surprised that they made you put on that tie. I know how you resent that sort of thing. Did it upset you?

 

Codzilla

 

GRRR-AAAAARRRRR-RRRR!

 

Annc

 

Coming to a specially selected theater near you -- Louie Anderson's remake of a film classic: My Dinner with Codzilla!

 

Louie

 

I really admire the way you can express yourself so freely. I mean, look at me, here, right now. I really wanted this steak well done. But I have to go through this whole involved mental process, just to bring myself to send something back!

 

[ Codzilla growls and breathes fire on Louie's steak. ]

 

    

 

Louie

 

Oh, thanks... but, see? That's what I mean. You can act on your impulses. While I sit here, I've got my mother's voice in my head, saying: Hey -- what about your table manners? I mean, do you ever have that kind of inner conflict when you're stomping down cities?

 

[ Codzilla growls and tears a chunk out of the wall. ]

 

Louie

 

This was a four-star restaurant... I think you just knocked it down to two. That's what I admire about you. You're so, I don't know... focused. You know what you want, and you go after it. Or am I just playing into my need to see you that way?

 

[ Codzilla crashes through the roof, showering Louie with plaster. ]

 

Annc

 

Perplexing -- provocative -- challenging: My Dinner with Codzilla.

 

[ Louie looks at the check. ]

 

Louie

 

Let's see... now, you had Tokyo, right?

 

[ Codzilla smashes his way out of the restaurant. ]

 

Kermit

 

Hmm. Boy, there's a movie to keep an eye out for.

 

    

 

 

Next: The Miss Galaxy Pageant

 

 

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