It's time to play the music, It's time to light the lights

Next weekend is going to be a crazy busy weekend away as I go to see the Dave Matthews Band up in Indiana (can.not.wait!). So I'm going to try to chill this weekend and enjoy a little downtime. And that will include....

The Muppet Show!!

I got the first disk of season three from Netflix yesterday. I am excited. I am also hoping to not be disappointed. See, I got the season one set a few years back and, while it's good, it's not the Muppet Show I remember. Miss Piggy and Janice's voices are not the same. There is very little Swedish Chef and Sam the Eagle. No Pigs In Space or Bunson and Beeker. And besides a laugh out loud moment or two, it wasn't really all that funny.

That's why I skipped to season three. I want to see the show I remember as a kid. My sister and I would sit on the floor in front of the tv every Saturday night at 6:30. Mom would make homemade pizza and we would lay down newspapers so pizza sauce would not make it onto the carpeting. Oh and the giggling. You know when you're at that age where EVERYTHING is funny? The Muppets came during that age. One skit I remember making us laugh until our sides hurt involved the song The Witch Doctor. The character playing the song had a xylephone make of little fuzzy balls that would yell out has he bopped them on the head ("Ooo!" "Eee!" "Ooo!" "Ah, Ah!") Something about those fuzz balls struck the funny bone. I hope I find it and it makes me laugh just as hard as when I was eight.

I relish being a child of the 70's....being a part of the first Seseme Street generation (the first season was the year before I was born), watching Romper Room, Bozo the Clown (we lived in Chicago where the original Bozo was taped), Zoom, Electric Company, Mr. Rogers, Land of the Lost, all the Sid and Marty Croft stuff (H.R. Pufnstuf anyone?) then later moving on to Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Three's Company (all on Tuesday night), Mork and Mindy,
and even watching M*A*S*H* at my grandparents house. Life was good.

So I'm ready for some nostalgia. Some laughs. Some Animal chasing a female guest star yelling "Wo-Man! Wo-Man!"

Bork! Bork! Bork!