Muppet Movie Dream

I just woke up from a dream about seeing "The Muppet Movie" with my family.  It was different from the real muppet movie.   Before the opening credits, there’s a scene where a family has a bad day at the mall and is on the top floor of a parking garage.  The dad says, “I don’t know how this day could get any worse” and a car blows up with three guys in their 20’s thrown from the car onto another car, one dangling through the sunroof.  They’re all dead of course but there is something comical in the way they landed. 

The camera focuses in on a small bottle that fell out of one of the guy’s pockets.  It says “Green Felt” on it as if it were some kind of acid.  Then, it focuses on a patch of clovers that grew on the top of the parking garage.  Then, "The Rainbow Connection" starts.

My mom says, “Let’s go,” because we were on the road and had to keep going.  I say, “Wait,"  as if something were going to happen that would make us want to stay longer and Jackie Cooper is in the next scene, driving a convertible Model T through a open field of people about to watch fireworks.  His passenger looks just like Buffy from Family Affair.

When I woke up I thought about Jim Henson’s Time Piece.


2 Comments

  • Kurtypi

    I have to express to you once again my deep appreciation for all that you do. This time it was opening my eyes to something I had never imagined existed. The whole time I was watching it, (I’m so glad it was available on Youtube), I was thinking about what would I consider to be my favorite part yet only enjoying equally the whole until a proverbial lightning bolt struck. I finally noticed that it was a bottle of J & B Rare Scotch Whiskey which was being glugged and recalled last night when I asked for a shot of it at “The Bar”, because that’s what it has been renamed as of late. The bottle was tipped and only half a shot drained out which was then given to me freely. Now I wish I had asked for the bottle.

  • PoorPete

    I am equally glad you linked to “Time Piece”. It was hilarious and immense fun, and I’ve watched it three times already. Thanks!

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