I rarely have Muppet-related dreams, but I just woke up from one of those weird scene-changing dreams. You know, where it starts out as something, and then becomes something completely, yet logically different.
Anyway, it started out with me watching the shooting of a classic Sesame episode in which Oscar sings "I Love Trash." I remember Caroll and his assistant puppeteer had difficulty getting the trash out of the can, and had to do multiple takes.
That led to me explaining to somebody that "I Love Trash" is Oscar's signature song. I then began to mention other signature Sesame songs, including Ernie's "Rubber Duckie." The dream then cut to Ernie in his bathtub singing you know what.
Suddenly, Ernie starts singing Mahna Mahna, and the Snowths pop up in his tub to interrupt him.
This then led to some clips that were apparently from the fifth season of the Muppet Show. The Electric Mayhem sang something that sounded like it was from Fraggle Rock. For some reason, as part of their sketch, a few of the members were painted white.
Cut to a scene in which some of the gang celebrates the birthday of a rather unhappy Piggy. Rizzo appears in the background eating her cake. For some odd reason a very early version of Pepe was also there.
Next up, a ton of Muppets gathered around to face off some sort of villain, who has kidnapped Kermit. Or rather, they face off his Muppet henchman. It was a strange mix of Muppets that included the original Rowlf from the '60s (the dark colored one with the bald head) and Baskerville, Leon (from JHH), and an early version of Wembley Fraggle.
The dream ended with a human detective (played by Kevin Clash) showing up at the front door of the Muppets' home, which for some reason looked like the set from "Full House."
Either there's some deep psychological reasoning behind all of this, or I've been watching too much of the Muppets lately.