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[acroyear]

The classic routine CUT from the Muppet Show DVD release where this icon came from, has shown up on youtube!  Go enjoy it now before the copyright jerks take it away again...

Personal note: this episode was the inspiration/cause of the first actual nightmare I ever remembered having, around age 7.

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[kiltboy]

Now that's a decidedly darker version of that song than I ever imagined.

Vincent Price. Go figure.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

yeah. he once, on the Improv, said that he always hated being accused of being a vampire.

"i mean, after hearing that accusation for the last 6 hundred years..."

[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

That was FABULOUS! Thanks for sharing that.

[rsteachout.livejournal.com]

That was great. I got to meet VP once and he was very nice. He autographed one of his cookbooks for my mom (which she has since given to me).

[dreamtigress.livejournal.com]

I can see how that would inspire a nightmare.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

well, the nightmare (strong enough and often recalled enough that i still remember parts of it now) was a weird combination of all of the sci-fi/scary TV i'd been watching that year up to that point, with shades of Sid & Marty Kroft's "Far Out Space Nuts", that muppet show episode, and Slim Goodbody being chased by star-wars like space ships down a weird video-effect corridor (yes my brain actually imagined the green-screening and cheap video effects typical of Kroft productions at the time), and escaping by showing up on a jeopardy-like game show (not that I'd seen jeopardy at the time) with two other monsters, one from Space Nuts, the other from Muppets.

the wake-up was riding in a car as a huge bright light happened in front of me, which I recall pinning to an episode of Project UFO at the time.

the really scary bit that had no basis in any tv show i'd seen but had shades of Fantasia in it, was gargoyles from a castle with a broken drawbridge (like the one in Shrek, but of course I hadn't seen that at the time) flying across to the other side where the field was green and sunny and no shades of "evil" were around, turning into normal humans in period costume and having a Edwardian picnic, then sprouting wings and flying back to the castle, turning back into gargoyles the closer they got to it. i don't remember how it went from the castle to the slim goodbody segment, but that's what's still in my head after all these years.

yes, all that happened in my head in one night, so clearly I can still recall it 30 years later.

to this day, i still have no idea how my brain constructed the gargoyles -> english picnic scene, as I really have no basis for either the transitions from gargoyle to human and back nor ever seeing a proper english picnic (unless it was on some PBS thing mom was watching that i can't remember).

knowing "pagan" folklore now, i actually wonder if this is really something of a race memory, and then wonder if it IS such a memory, how much influence such visions might have had on the inquisition and the witch hunts all those centuries ago.

[vyxenmacd.livejournal.com]

In the mid 70's he toured in a one man play about Oscar Wilde. In Chicago, I took off work one day to catch the matinee. He was extremely talented.

Although in this appearance, to me, he looks like a cross between David Bowie as the Goblin King in Labyrinth and Alan Rickman as Snape in Harry Potter.