User:Hrodulf

Hi, I'm a huge muppets fan (like many here I presume) and love this wiki. I'm particularly interested in learning more about Jim Henson's earlier work and getting a deeper understanding of what he was doing beyond comedy, as well as the context of his work in the larger period of time he was active, in terms of responding to events in popular culture and history and, in turn, natually, coming to influence them to at least some degree.

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Some information about myself
Favorite Muppet:Mokey

Muppet memories
I have a pretty interesting memory, as a very young kid, of seeing a display of many of the muppets at New York City's Lincoln Center many years ago, in glass cases. It was a truly cool (and a little creepy, to a kid) experience. I distinctly remember seeing Zoot. It's crossed my mind that I could be confused and dreamed the whole thing: maybe someone knows if this really happened, or am I remembering a dream as reality instead? Maybe someday I'll figure it out if nobody else knows.

Update: I wasn't dreaming: The Art of the Muppets (exhibit)

Two times muppets have played a role in my dreams/nightmares: once as a kid I had this really disturbing dream that Kermit got dissected: he was in one piece, but he had lines all over him where he was going to be cut up, or where he perhaps had alread been cut up. Very creepy and weird, and strangely evocative of some of Henson's earlier work, where the punchline was sometimes that Kermit got eaten alive.

It doesn't really count as an appearance, but I had another dream where I got lost in a strange place, perhaps a museum, and found a metal drum with a picture of Animal on it. Weird!

Another strange dream occurs to me; a weird amalgam of the bible and sesame street. I had a children's book of noah's ark, and I dreamed that I saw the illustration of the ark at sea, only with a giant number "40" on the horizon, which wasn't in the real book. And on the back cover there were muppets, but they weren't recognizable to me as any actual muppets. That's all I remember.

As you may have guessed already, Fraggle Rock is my favorite muppet feature.