Series of Doozertubes –
New 5-min videos produced in Muppeteers’ homes inspired us to do something … weird.
Sam Machkovech & Lee Hutchinson –
(Apple TV / The Jim Henson Company You may have noticed news of delays, cancellations, and general scrambling from most major TV and film production companies over the past few months. Today, Apple TV showed up with a surprise bit of (good) pandemic-timed news: a classic Muppet series’ return, built from the ground up to function within the constraints of stay-in-place orders across the world.
Since this new Apple TV version revolves around optimism and cheer, it doesn’t go too deeply into the original series’ gimmick of Uncle Matthew venturing into “Outer Space” (aka aboveground on modern-day Earth). Thankfully, we have some overactive imaginations at Ars Technica and have taken it upon ourselves to imagine what one of Uncle Matthew’s letters to his nephew Gobo might look like in early , if they weren’t written through the family-friendly filter of the Jim Henson Company .
(Fraggle Rock) ‘s Uncle Matthew will indeed appear in the new Apple TV series. Just, er, maybe not exactly the way we imagine it in our fan-fiction. – and yet, I cannot . For the Silly People, you see, have given me one last gift.
Though I still travel, I know I am already dead. The dark seed of the Silly People’s gift has taken root, and it sprouts a terrible tree.
Perhaps I shall visit the sea again, the soft sands lapped by unending water. The crying of the gulls shall be the last sounds I hear, a final song to sing me home. Think of me dreaming there.
Matthew
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