Episode 109: Garbage

The Jim Henson Hour
Air Date	July 30, 1989

Sapsorrow

Plot Outline

Cold Opening

Kermit asks Digit to hit the button to start the opning, but Digit mistakenly hits the button that dumps garbage intot eh studio. The garbage comes to live.

Jim Henson's Intro

Jim Henson sees the lion eating chips, and tells him that he'll spoil his appetite. In the controll room, Kermit tells Jim that the place is covered in garbage. The garbage, however, prefers to be called "previously essential material".

MuppeTelevision

• Guest star: k.d. lang

The Muppet studio is overwhelmed with animated garbage bags and Kermit can't find a way to get rid of them.

Segments:

• Bootsie and Brad
• The garbage watch a trash preacher
• k.d. lang and the Muppets perform "(Waltz Me) Once Again Around That Dance Floor"
• k.d. lang sings "I Love Trash"
• Kermit tells the story of how the Nightingale got it's voice
• A bear and a raccoon observe a human family in their backyard
• The Garbage sings "On the Road Again"

Muppets:

Kermit the Frog, Garbage, Bean Bunny, Digit, Gonzo, Leon, Waldo C. Graphic, Clifford, Link Hogthrob, Gramps, The Rats, Rowlf the Dog, Beard, Flash

The StoryTeller

• Sapsorrow: A princess flees when she's forced to marry her father. She poses as a ragged servant in another kingdom -- and then falls in love with a haughty prince.

Jim Henson's Closing

Jim demonstrates performing a Garbage puppet, and says that it was made froma real trash bag.

Credits

Performers

• Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog and Link Hogthrob.
• Dave Goelz as Gonzo and Digit.
• Jerry Nelson as Garbage, Raccoon, Beard, and Slim.
• Steve Whitmire as Bean Bunny, Garbage, Flash, and Billy the Bear.
• Fran Brill as Vicki.
• Kevin Clash as Clifford, Leon, and garbage.
• Gordon Robertson as Lindberg.
• Rob Mills as Gramps.

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