Part Three: The Snowth With His Head in the Clouds (March 2005 - March 2006)

By the tailend of March in 2005, I launched my
first website that nobody really cared about, and not sure they still do today, but other than that, I was really posting on MC on a regular basis; in fact, I remember around that time, Beauregard made a thread about the current state of affairs at MC, and he mentioned how he noticed I had come out of my shell quite a bit... though if I also remember correctly, I remember feeling a little unusual about the comment, but I think at the time, I just simply didn't realize that I really was, indeed, coming out of my shell, but I do believe I really, truly felt at home at MC starting at that time. In fact, over the course of the next couple of months, I must have really started drawing attention to myself, because I noticed during those couple of months, I started making more and more friends here, including That Announcer and MrsPepper to name a couple.
MC also happened to hit a bit of a population explosion in more ways than one with the premiere of
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (wonder where MWoO's been lately)... I don't know about you guys, but I thought it was a pretty good movie... MUCH better than
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas in my opinion... *Ducks out of shooting range*

By the summer of 2005, I couldn't have been happier at MC; I had friends, I had a good time talking about just about anything. And this is when I REALLY started to expand my posting range on MC. In the old days, I posted STRICTLY in the
Sesame Street section, but then I slowly would start posting in the General Discussion board, and eventually, the Friends and Family board, and I think that further helped me earn new friends around here since I was actually starting to get around; in fact, that summer, I saw my first birthday thread, as started by HPDJ. It was all well and good, but after a while, I slowly started to realize something... I had the feel that I was driving people away from certain threads... like for example, if there was a hot topic with a lot of posting going on, once I would post in thread, it was like the topic just simply died or something; or if I started a thread, nobody seemed to interested in it. I was happy to saee, however, that I wasn't alone... my good buddy Vic Romano also shared his feelings about being regarded as a "Thread Killah" (as he coined it), as did That Announcer, and eventually MrsPepper; this lead to MrsPepper's awesome new thread:
The "Tread Killers Organization", or "TKO", basically what it was was a "club", so-to-speak for the four of us, and others who shared the feeling of being a thread killer as well! Well, this is where I suddenly hit one of my nerdy, creative vibes... I was all too familiar with the infamous
Moppet Family as a matter of fact, I have admit, I kind of wanted to be a part of it (New York, New York), but the problem was there were simply too goshdarn many people involved, and it moved so fast, I couldn't keep up with it (ironically, I'm part of a three-person RPG on another forum, and it's passed over 100 pages in like a two month period)... so I suddenly felt like this could be our equivilant to
The Moppet Family, and give it a bit of healthy competition! So after I kidnapped MrsPepper, hog-tied her, dropped ants down her pants, held a tazer to her back, pressed a knife up against her neck, and shoved a gun into her head (huh, where'd I get three hands all of the sudden), she reluctantly agreed, and pretty soon, I had a
pilot script, and using my favorite show,
M*A*S*H as a model, MrsPepper idea became the premise for a new Muppet Central Forum sitcom, and after more talks with my best buddy,
T*K*O premiered on Muppet Central Forum on June 23, 2005 and was an instant success! The series revolved around four thread killers: MrsPepper, Vic Romano, That Announcer, and D'Snowth, who were a part of their own unit in the Thread Killers Organization.
Now of course,
T*K*O isn't the ONLY thing I remember best about the 2005 period of my stay here at MC, in fact, not too long ago, I did an insignificant retrospective thread called
Remembrance of Snowth Past, in which, I highlighted all of my favorite memories from the year of 2005 in honor of my 10,000th post. Unfortunately, some of those threads HAVE been bumped since then, but it's all well and good to me, just a change to further visit Memory Lane, eh?

2005 slowly began to wind down, by August, I was a part of what became the last pledge drive of ETPtv, and what seemed like the last television audiences would see of Steve D'Monster. By the fall of that year, Season One of
T*K*O had come to an end, and with such success, MrsPepper and I were already making talks of renewing for another season (I also remember that she felt afterwards, we should've gone down the route of continuing our franchise with a series of "specials" like the muppets do so we wouldn't be pushing a good thing too far, but wouldn't also be depriving our fans either), and by November of 2005, Season Two of
T*K*O premiered with new characters including ThePrawnCracker who replaced That Announcer, TogetherAgain who replaced recurring character KermieBaby47, Vibs (who was a recurring character in Season One), and Beauregard (also a recurring character in Season One), a few more friends came (AM, William, Beth, Kendra), some friends left (namely That Announcer, HPDJ, Kendra sometimes, FishNWolfe, Beebers sometimes), but it was all well and good. Soon, 2005 gave way to 2006, and suddenly, even more new wonderful friends came into the picture (Marty, Skye to name a couple), and in all honesty, it was then and there that I realized that Muppet Central wasn't just an internet forum, or a virtual community, but it really was a second family to me! What more could I ask for? Life was good! Little did I know that life was about to take a wrong turn just around the corner...