A series of images of @huecycles OC Halojack, set to lyrics of songs from Jim Henson’s failed pilot Inner Tube, plus one raunchy Kermit the Frog quote. It’s a mental association I’ve always made, so I figured it was high time I drew something with it, and frankly this is probably the biggest thing I’ve drawn in years to boot.

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Muppet Fact #924

In the Inner Tube special, which became the pitch pilot for The Jim Henson Hour, a salesman tried to sell Denmark for $200,199,622,122.95.

Source:

Inner Tube. 1987. (Transcript).

So I redesigned that chick from the Inner Tube pilot to give Digit a girlfriend lol

Ignore how crappy she looks in the second pic there she's been hard for me to get a hang of her design-

The muppets Show: life in the boarding home

Maya Chick doodles

Since i have asked who wants more doodles of Maya Chick, And since i have became interested in @cartoonqtpie 's doodles of Maya x digit, heres more =^_^=

And even @ducktoonz903707 (aka Aaliyah) Said that she wants to see more doodles of her, so here they are!

The first one is here with her full body that i imagined of her, the second one is a small cute Doodle of her And digit, And the third one is her doodled with an Pink color pencil =^v^=

And also! Have an Doodle of Digit flapping his hands =^///^=

Im still practicing drawing autistic people flapping their hands ^///^;

I hope y'all will like this! 💕

in a worse timeline..

there's too many cancelled muppet projects

muppet wiki pages for reference:

Unfinished TV Projects

Unfinished Movies

Minor Unfinished Projects

WHO is your favorite muppet. tell me. if you can't decide then top 3?

AUGH this is so difficult. thank you for the top 3 option but even then this was like the greatest challenge of my career there are so many good muppets...this list is definitely subject to change in the future

uhhh one of them definitely has to be Kermit! I know Kermit is kind of the default answer, but he's the default answer for a reason - he's such a versatile character while still retaining such a clear personality, and you can really put Kermit into any situation and it'll work! He's such an interesting character to look at evolution-wise, too, considering he's one of the earliest muppets; Sam and Friends-era Kermit is still recognizable as Kermit, but he's so distinct at the same time. Also this is going to be so cheesy but Kermit is genuinely such a comforting figure to me, that frog is my dad for real <3 sometimes if I'm having a rough day I'll put on a playlist of Kermit Sesame Street moments and just watch him talk to kids or draw the letter J in the air lol

Another is Red Fraggle! Red is SUCH a good character oh my gosh, the Fraggle Rock writers struck gold with her. Fraggle Rock does such a good job at making its characters flawed, if that makes sense, and Red is no exception; she's mean, she's self-obsessed, she refuses to admit when she's wrong, and I LOVE her for it ^-^ but at the same time too she isn't JUST the mean self-obsessed one! She's also the silly one, and the one who Gets Cotterpin when nobody else does and starts a massive domino chain that leads to harmony between the Doozers and the Fraggles, and a great singer, and the star athlete, and Mokey's Totally Platonic Gal Pal, and UGHH I could gush about Red all day she's so well-rounded. It certainly helps that Karen Prell (her puppeteer) is tied for my Favorite Muppet Performer alongside Richard Hunt :)

SPEAKING OF RICHARD HUNT I LOVE FORGETFUL JONES SO MUCH!! probably not the most well-known character, but I was suffering with some memory issues in late 2023 (which thankfully seem to be gone), and as silly as it sounds Forgetful made it somewhat tolerable :) he definitely started out as a joke character, but Richard Hunt was SUCH a good puppeteer and really elevated him to a whole other level. He's so caring and kind and the fact that canonically the two things he'll always remember are his girlfriend's name (Clementine) and that he loves her is just 🥺 oughhh I love Forgetful and Clementine so much, I wish they had appeared more often (and I wish I could actually find the episodes where they do CURSE YOU HBO MAX FOR GETTING RID OF ALL OF YOUR SESAME STREET STUFF)

augh there are still so many muppets I wanna mention. uhhh honorable mentions to: gobo fraggle. boober fraggle. mokey fraggle. wembley fraggle. zondra jim henson hour. digit jim henson hour. cotterpin doozer. emmet otter. alice otter. every single dude from the inner tube pilot. TAMINELLA GRINDERFALL WITCHIEST WITCH OF THEM ALL. melora is not a muppet but she was in a muppet production so I'm counting her. yorick sam and friends. bernice sam and friends. sprocket. miss piggy obviously I love her and her dubiously canon traumatic past. scooter and skeeter. jojo jim henson hour. rowlf. robin. denise muppets 2015 who was done so dirty. sidebottom fraggle. LIMBO HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN LIMBO. uhhh okay cutting it off here because if I don't this honorable mention will just be me listing off every muppet ever. actually wait tug boo and molly. there now I'm done. thank you for this ask I very much appreciated it :D

If you compare Digit to the rest of the Inner Tube Muppets, he's the least creepiest one there. But if you compare Digit to the MuppeTelevision crew, he's looks weird as fuck

Liked on YouTube: "Inner Tube: The Jim Henson Hour Test Pilot" https://youtu.be/mD9cbMy4zEw

((Things I have learned from working at both the Bar and Cafe, and helping out next door with taking food orders and directing people to the showers: - Japanese children give exactly ZERO fucks about public nudity. I have seen more little boy wiener in the past two days than I have in my entire life, and believe me when I saw I was NOT trying to look. - Seriously, I mean it, so many little naked children running around. Two little boys literally walked out of the place with just towels wrapped around their shoulders and literally swept their towels back like a cape and flashed anyone in the general vicinity. These moms have a heck of a job. - When people are asking things they think might be inconvenient, they talk more softly. If you're still learning Japanese and in the midst of trying to translate things in your head, good luck trying to understand what they're asking you without asking them to repeat it ten times. - Mimiko-san, the lady who I was helping out, has a VERY specific way of saying my name when she's calling me over to do things. She also gives zero fucks, but more in the sense of just throwing me into the deep end and seeing if I can swim/understand enough Japanese to get stuff done. Also, she has a 20-year-old cat named Mimi-chan who looks like she was designed by Jim Henson. I liken her to Yoda. - Have plenty of VERY clear signs pointing to the Public toilets 100 meters away, otherwise everyone and their mother will come and ask you if you have a toilet. -Japanese people are just as gross as Americans when it comes to littering, especially because the island is not public and even public places don't have trash cans. I have to clean up plenty of bottles, cans, plastic wrappers, plastic spoons, foam plates and bowls, a single sock, a selfie stick, a couple of floaties, a blanket, corn cobs, etc. every morning and every evening. - People will point to you and excitedly tell their friends, 'Gaijin!' And literally every teenage boy who has studied English in school will pass you and say 'hello', but not remember any responses if you saw anything but 'hello' back. Sometimes you get random phrases like 'good morning!' at 5 PM and the like. - 'あつ' or 'atsu' is the catchphrase of every grandmother, small child, adult man, teenager, human being, and is said many, many times both to themselves and to others. Basically it just means 'it's hot'. - EVERYONE HAS A FLOATY OR TUBE. Everyone. And everyone walks around with them at all times, except the really big ones shaped like flamingos or rainbow unicorns (had at least one of each every day). Saw a guy dressed like a gang member with a pink inner tube around his waist. No one gave him a second glance. It's nice that these things don't matter so much, but a little troubling when you realize a lot of the people with tubes are so keen on safety because they don't know how to swim. O-Bon is shaping up to be interesting.))

Vacancy

Why do we feel misunderstood?

Whether one feels empty or full of emotion we all battle voices in our heads. A murmuring stream of thoughts that act as a narrator of our life. Encouraging us to keep going and shaming us when we do.

An Inner voice always used to be an outer voice from someone who sounded  compelling in the past. An angry parent, schoolyard bullies, or a disappointed teacher. 

At often times we trust too much in these voices and we start to believe the recesses of our minds are too odd to be safely revealed to anyone. So we choose out of 2 options, as we grow into adults - embrace honesty or acceptability. most of us choose acceptability.

by choosing the comfort of acceptability we stray farther away from  the satidifcation we can get from real human intimacy  this is the gift we gather when we are honest and unafraid to face up to our weirder outlandish self-thoughts .and  find those who can truly love us for being strange, by being free and totally honest.

Many of our real opinions & life experiences  we would feel comfort from sharing, are going to be disturbing to society at large

In life we are wandering in a vacant dessert, with our friends standing outside of the glass bottle giving us words of encouragemnt, while we long for utter congruity but constant dissanocne because it is unlikey that we will ever find someone who is on the exactly the same page as the soul as us. 

Unfortuntely the problems with feeling misunderstood only gets worse the more thoughtful and perceptive we are

 Loneliness is a tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of the mind but shameful for any ‘respectable person’ unless having been recently widowed or moved to another country.

Today I find it kind of Ironic that we moved back to an Australian town called  ‘run away bay’  

Where life for my parents began, and where life without one of them plus 2 children would begin again.  Had we stayed in California my life would have been very different. Part of me has unresolved anger towards the move back to Australia , but as an adult I understand this maybe the atonment for the lonliness tax of a grieving widow. 

She was wandering a desert with no friends around the outside of the bottle to encourage her, stuck with her inner voice telling her being closer to her deceased husband, the man who gave fire to her dreams, and passion to her life and 2 children was the right thing to do.

My mom worked really hard to keep us afloat, I know this because, she was never around. But  I had a roof over my head and though little affection, there was love, Jim Henson style puppet shows at story time and flushing the monster in my dreams down the toilet in the middle of the night. 

My memories of love, and happiness are far and few in between but almost always shake me to the core when they come flooding back one of which was the moment I learnt what ‘Vacancy’ meant.

We were on a way to a Hotel, a long day of stretching highway, the dusk sun warming the cheeks of my face as my head rest against the tinted window. Th car radio giving its best solo preformance setting in my head the deepest nostalgia for music and long road trips. I always loved car rides because driving seemed to be one of the only times we spent together as a family.

The yellow and oranges soon faded to midsummer blues and the slow inertia of the car turning into the  parking lot of a fairly average looking higheay hotel woke me from my  hypnotic passenger seat nap ( that I  still  get to this day)  I have fixated on the glowing blue and red sign ‘NO VACANCY’ with half the letters lit up, though I couldn't read yet the flourecent tubes  fascinaated me enough to be curious so I asked why they hadn’t fixed the broken sign.

My mom explained the sign said ‘NO VACANCY’ and that the No was lit up when no room was available at the hotel.

Later this would lead to drawing myself living on the moon with no vacancy signs lit up around me. 

Maybe she empathized with this picture because she loved it. Has America been to her a  Hotel with No Vancancy, and had Australia more room available? I once heard her use health care as an excuse in passing conversation with a babysitter as it wasn’t free in America but later on in life I would sit outside her locked bedroom door listening to her drunken slurs on the phone to her at the time lesbian lover  crying about how she resented her own alcoholic father, that she had watch him beat her brother and how betrayed she felt from her own mother choosing to stay with him, until he’d die just the same way she would 10 years later. 

It seems histroy really does repeat itself - if only in the smallest ways.

Now that I’m older i’m resigned to think my mother held her dreams in my Dad, and though they seemed very much in love in photos I wonder if this fuelled her grief the most.

it seemed 2 children were not good enough for her to make decisions, not without a husband. She needed a lifestyle, she so desperately wanted to fit into a picture. The ones you see in magazines that she worked so hard to eventually get a little bit close to something normal before utterly destroying her self.

She had my sister and I take cutlery lessons to learn how to use a set of 7 utensils before attending a funeral for my dad at his development. Wherre we would fly up in his helicopter and spread his ashes over the golf course part of his Luxury resort. I remember my mothers Louis Voutton hand bag being stolen out of the boot of her car that day, and the chaos that insued when she blamed my half brothers and sisters, who were of adult age at this point. She looked at me sternly and told me ‘never to trust them’.

And even though she had tried, to put my sister and I in velevt stockings and white dresses, to eat like the upper class and understand the gravity of what was going on. I was still just a kid, and really all I remember of my fathers funeral was hiding under the table and playing on a small hand held videogame console someone gave me as a gift. 

The death of my dad, the grantituous gestures of love we jump to - spreading ashes in his helicopter over a golf course.. and dining lessons

but to me - all I cared about was video games and gobbling my dessert with a spoon even if it wasn’t the correct one.

My mom was a very scary and powerful woman to me, and so I turned inward very early on attempting to find comfort there.

I was a weird little kid.

 As kids we have no one to compare our reality too, so I didn’t mind being diferent, or even know my family was ‘abnormal’ 

Children and Adults cope in the same way when  reality is too painful, on impulse it seems we construct our own made up worlds to escape boredom and awaiting attention. A baby screaming in its cot will eventually soothe itself by imagining his mother is their by sucking his thumb for example.

At age 4 mine was being Veterinarian Astronaut.  I would run around the house with a bag on my head catching small lizards and putting them in my space shuttle a.k.a my Barbie traveling dream house. I remember trying to pay for a space burger by inserting paper money into my moms computer from the 90′s which were a fairly heavy looking thing but still delicate, so I ruined it. 

I will never forget how much she yelled at me, the way she looked at me so utterly ashamed.

I must of been fairly difficult to deal with, I liked staying up late at night and sitting in the middle of the lounge room convinced of aliens visiting.

I believed I was protecting my family by being the first to greet otherworldly intruders. I would find weird places to hide and wait in hopes of meeting them and sometimes I would cry at the realization everyone was asleep and i was sitting in the dark alone until my sister or the babysitter would come turn a light on for me

Now that I’m older I realise my childhood imagination was a way for coping with early anxiety. The aliens I had been wait for were my mom stumbling in drunk from a night of drinking, it seems I was always hiding but waiting for her.

My moms picturesque need to have the lifestyle of a perfect family, velvet stockings, country clubs and fine art, and the disapointment of not being able to achieve that slowly turning to numbing it with a drink  while  I , her lizard catching, barbie hating, astronaut veterinarian daughter  ruining her computer 

Was both of us in our own ways just begging to be understood, but not quite on the same page.

Who wants to see more Maya Chick drawings And doodles? =^.^=

Leon: Maya... Does Digit really love ya?

Maya: why ofcourse he does! Right, digit?

Digit: *staring at a wall And then looks at Maya And nods* no.

Maya: that Means "yes".

Leon: I know that.

Jim Henson hour: inner tube doodles

I have now doodled Maya Chick, And Duke And crasher! =^_^= And also I have a little headache And it sorta annoys me- ^///^; its been an hour since i have this little headache- but I have still managed to Doodle these three ❤️

Just to know, Duke And crasher appeared in the pilot episode too! And theres a few more muppets on that pilot that i'll Doodle later. And yes! I have gave Duke And Crasher last names just like how I gave Maya a last name =^v^= And i'll color them later! And hmmm... Maybe I should give the Main muppets gang last names! That would be very Creative! =•o•= ❤️

I hope y'all will like this! Especially @cartoonqtpie =^///^=

Y'all! =^v^=

Lets talk about...

This girl that appeared on jim Henson hour pilot episode called "inner tube" =^v^=

Since i have now saw And reblogged @cartoonqtpie post And their doodles of this girl, i just now thought about the headcanons for her =^///^=

And yes her name is Maya, And i thought of giving her a last name "Chick", sooo... Maya Chick! =^v^=

And honestly, just as I saw her, I immediately fell INLOVE with her design, And also i have gotten some plans now for april:

1. Do all the Days for musical muppet april

2. Make a jim Henson hour 35th anniversary drawing

3. Make my other Grandma Džemila's Birthday drawing gift since her Birthday is on april 14th too, the Day And month jim Henson hour was made!

4. Post all the drawings of muppetoons, muppets wonderland AU... And the other few AU's I made

5. Make more crossover friends show drawings

6. Post all the moopets gang and whatnot Show gang doodles And drawings of them, ESPECIALLY their info.

Sooo... thats my list of to-do for april =^v^=

Now, heres some headcanons for Maya Chick:

• she flirts with digit, And she isnt really like his GIRLFRIEND. But she does flirt with him, making him blush And get flustered.

• she is somewhere is her 30's.

• she sorta has an Jamaican accent.

• Gives the vibes of toralei stripes, cleo de nile And lagoona Blue all together from Monster high.

• she doesnt live with The muppets in the boarding home with The other muppets, but she does live with The other bandmates from the inner tube episode, beside the teppums Show gang boarding home.

• she is either straight or pansexual. But even if she's straight, she supports And respects her lgbtq friends.

Im still thinking about her info ^///^;

But you all can give me some suggestions And ideas for her! =^v^=

alright, i know people aren’t exactly dying for content about inner tube and especially not its iteration of digit, but alas it’s a somewhat important part of his backstory in the archive vault au so uh. hcs about his inner tube days

to be completely blunt: digit spent most of his band days high out of his mind off the effects of electrical shocks to his cybernetics. in retrospect, this probably didn’t do good things for him since too much electricity is Very Bad for electronics, but at the time he didn’t see an issue and neither did his bandmates.

it did occasionally become a problem when he’d space out/forget what he was supposed to play/fall asleep at his keyboard, though (these incidents grew more common late into his band days).

he had his cybernetics installed when he was a young adult, since cyberpunk was very popular with his age group at the time. his modifications are definitely one of the more extreme examples of this trend, though; most people didn’t go anywhere near that far. he also had a voice modulator installed because it sounded cool to him (again, at the time); his voice in the jhh is closer to his natural voice, albeit with some alterations (with that same modulator, because he wasn’t going to let it go to waste).

digit was something of a (passive) rebel as a teenager/young adult. he didn’t actively speak/act out against authority figures, but he didn’t like listening to them if he could help it either.

at some point, the band broke up, leaving digit out of a job, so he moved away, stopped his electrical cable habit, and went into the entertainment business (altering his voice to sound a little more professional). as an older adult, he’s super embarrassed about his band days and is extremely hesitant to talk about them in detail.