December 12, 2002

MUPPET DEBAUCHERY, CONT'D: Just when

MUPPET DEBAUCHERY, CONT'D: Just when I thought the muppet scandal was finally over with, here comes this: I was perusing the new Tom Shales/James Andrew Miller history of "Saturday Night Live," "Live From New York," when I learned that one of SNL's original writers, Michael O'Donoghue, had previously written a made-for-TV special in 1975 called "Sex and Violence With the Muppets." Yes, you read that correctly: "Sex and Violence With the Muppets." A google search turns up nothing on this other than an excerpt from the book; the book suggests elsewhere that 'Sex and Violence' was actually the pilot of one of the incarnations of "The Muppet Show." Damn- why isn't this part of the cultural canon like it should be?

Posted by Stephen Silver at December 12, 2002 04:36 AM
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