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    TMS Script - Valerie Bertinelli! (by Gorgon Heap & kathy26)

    Before her cookbooks and shows on Food Network, before she was "Hot in Cleveland", Valerie Bertinelli was the popular star of the Norman Lear sitcom "One Day at a Time" as wisecracking good girl Barbara Cooper. She received so much fan mail that the studio could barely keep up. Submitted for...
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    TMS outline - Jodie Foster!

    SPECIAL GUEST STAR: JODIE FOSTER STYLE: MID-SEASON FIVE (circa Senor Wences, Roger Moore) COLD OPENING: Pops lifts a dumbbell. Pops: “One!” (He grunts and puts it down. Jodie enters.) Jodie: “Hi, how ya doin’?” Pops: “Sixty-two -- Oh! Who’re you?” Jodie: “I’m Jodie Foster, I’m the guest...
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    TMS outline - Angela Lansbury!

    SPECIAL GUEST STAR: ANGELA LANSBURY STYLE: LATE SEASON FOUR (circa Carol Channing, Alan Arkin episodes) COLD OPENING: Angela, clad in a robe, thanks Scooter for the Muppets’ hospitality. Angela: “I've played many theaters in my life, but never one with a hot tub in the dressing room!”...
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    TMS outline - Carol Kane! (by Gorgon Heap & kathy26)

    AKA: The Return of Taminella Grinderfall! Submitted for your approval: "It's The Muppet Show, with our very special guest star, Miss Carol Kane!" SPECIAL GUEST STAR: CAROL KANE STYLE: EARLY-MID SEASON TWO (circa Edgar Bergen, Steve Martin) COLD OPENING: Scooter knocks and enters. Scooter...
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    TMS outline - John Ritter!

    SPECIAL GUEST STAR: JOHN RITTER STYLE: LATE SEASON THREE (circa Sylvester Stallone, Roger Miller episodes) COLD OPENING: Scooter knocks and enters. Scooter: “John Ritter! 35 seconds to curtain, John!” John: “Thanks, Scooter!” (Next to him, a possum uses his dressing room table as a podium...
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    TMS outline - Mel Brooks (& Oscar the Grouch)! (by Gorgon Heap & Barry Lee)

    We worked on this so long ago that our correspondence was through AOL Instant Messenger. But, once ideas started coming to me again, I went back and finished it. Since Barry already included Oscar the Grouch in the closing number, and since it was set around the time Big Bird was on the show...
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    TMS outline - Stephanie Mills!

    At the age of 18, Stephanie Mills starred as the lead, Dorothy, in the original Broadway cast of "The Wiz", and went on to achieve several hits in the disco / post-disco era. Submitted for your approval: "It's The Muppet Show, with our very special guest star, Stephanie Mills! YAY!" SPECIAL...
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    TMS outline - Teri Garr!

    This was inspired by a visit to the Jim Henson exhibit at the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts! Submitted for your approval: "It's The Muppet Show, with our very special guest star, Teri Garr! YAY!" SPECIAL GUEST STAR: TERI GARR STYLE: EARLY SEASON FIVE (circa Shirley Bassey, James Coburn)...
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    TMS outline - Hermione Gingold! (by Gorgon Heap, TravellingMatt & Philip Kippel)

    Best known for her roles in "Gigi" (as Gigi's grandmother and guardian) and "The Music Man" (as the mayor's wife, Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn), she appeared once with the Muppets on "The Mike Douglas Show" duetting her best-known song, "I Remember It Well" with King Goshposh (introduced here as...
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    TMS outline - Martha Raye!

    SPECIAL GUEST STAR: MARTHA RAYE STYLE: EARLY-MID SEASON ONE (circa Florence Henderson, Paul Williams) OPENING THEME: FOZZIE: “Hey! I wouldn’t call Dr. Bob a quack, but every year, he gets a Christmas card from the undertaker!” MARTHA RAYE: in the Talk Spot set with Fozzie, Gonzo, Rowlf...
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    TMS outline - Peter Falk!

    SPECIAL GUEST STAR: PETER FALK STYLE: MID-LATE SEASON ONE (circa Ben Vereen, Phyllis Diller episodes) OPENING THEME: FOZZIE: “Two bear hunters from Czechoslovakia and Poland were eaten by a mama bear and a papa bear. A forest ranger looked down the bears’ mouths and remarked, “The Czech’s in...
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    TMS outline - Mick Jagger!

    Had this one in various stages of near completion, just polished it off today! Submitted for your approval: "It's The Muppet Show, with our very special guest star, Mick Jagger! YAAAAYYY!" SPECIAL GUEST STAR: MICK JAGGER STYLE: LATE SEASON FIVE (circa Debbie Harry, Chris Langham episodes)...
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    TMS outline - Suzanne Pleshette!

    Looking back over my catalog of TMS outlines, I find that I've written far too few with female guest stars, so I'm resolving to remedy that and even it out by writing more female guest star centered fanfics. I'm also going to do some more that, in my imagination, bridge the gap between episodes...
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    TMS Script - Lily Tomlin!

    Starting from a desire to incorporate a Muppet musical number that never made it to "The Muppet Show" into one of my fan fictions, continuing with writing another "Muppet Show" outline with a female guest star since too many of mine have male guest stars, and concluding with my writing full...
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    Just got custom Gorgon Heap!

    I've had this username ever since I joined in the early 00's. Never dreamed I would have a figure of the actual character, but thrilled to say I now do!
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    Playhouse Video: Rock Classics with the Muppets

    A fanfic entry in the Playhouse Video series "Jim Henson's Muppet Video" -- a sequel to "Rock Music with the Muppets"! Rock Classics with the Muppets (“Sweet Tooth Jam” plays over the speakers as the camera pans over the walls of the studio.) “Hey, slide on by whilst I lay a little welcome on...
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    TMS outline - Michael Palin!

    SPECIAL GUEST STAR: MICHAEL PALIN STYLE: MID SEASON THREE (circa Liberace, Marisa Berenson episodes) COLD OPENING: Scooter knocks and enters. Scooter: "Michael Palin! 30 seconds to curtain!" Michael: "Quite right, very good. Umm... 30 seconds until the curtain does what, exactly?" Scooter...
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    TMS outline - Chevy Chase!

    From his appearances with them on SNL (one of more upbeat later ones written by him) and his cameo in "Follow That Bird", it would be reasonable to say that Mr. Chase likes the Muppets. Submitted for your approval: "It's The Muppet Show, with our very special guest star, Chevy Chase...
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    Closing Theme "Funky Chimes" copyright help

    Hi all, I am arranging a "Sesame Street" medley for a local a cappella group and plan to include a riff off of the the "Funky Chimes" reprise of the "Sesame Street" theme: I wasn't sure if this was legally considered to be just a variation of the "Sesame Street Theme" or if it carried its...
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    TMS Script - Cat Stevens! (by Gorgon Heap & kathy26)

    I originally started off working on two other outlines, and only got back into this one because I was debating which one to use a certain song in. I started coming up with whole scenes and when I was only a few Kermit intros, backstage scenes and S&W comments away from a whole script, I decided...
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