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UPDATE: I got a new phone, that doubles as a far better camera than the one I used before. So I was able to upload a better quality version of this.

This colleague contains odes to the "Muppets," "Sesame Street," and a little-known children's show called "Eureeka's Castle" (not by Jim Henson, but inspired by his work).

"Eureeka's Castle" was a show from the '90s, cast with Muppet-like puppets and aimed at *very* young kids, like "Sesame Street."

My childhood memories are vague on this show, but I know I adored it, and took it hard when it was cancled. Upon rematching clips as an adult, I find that the Castle has an interesting hierarchy. The "castle" is in fact a giant music box, wound up by a jolly giant at the start of each episode. Inside the castle live several creatures. Eureeka, a child sorceress in training, acts as the ruler/baby-sitter. Her subjects/students/mental patients include a nerdy, cranky bat; a dragon who believes his tail and blanket designs have minds of their own; two moat monsters who make were Fred and George before there *was* a Fred and George; some mischevious castle mice (because the Muppets had a copyright on rats, maybe), and a foreign pleader. Then several of *those* characters has their own pets (the bat has a pet spider, the dragon has some racing worms and a yellow...thing, etc.) Very feudal, in retrospect.

And...ah yes! The Stonefish (their canon name, apparently): three fish statues who act as a chorus group for musical numbers, and occasionally a fountain. As a child, I probably dozed while they sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," but at age 25, I was mesmerized, and they have now surpassed Magellan as my favorite characters.

Other than "Eureeka's Castle," this picture pays tribute to "Pigs in Space;" "A Muppet Christmas Carol;" the one "Sesame Street" character I never grew out of; Constantine (or "Evlyn Froggen"); and a brief scene from the first "Muppet Movie," where Piggy imagines herself and Kermit in various romantic-movie situations, including one film noir shot by a lamp post.

I do not own "The Muppets," "Eureeka's Castle," or "Sesame Street."

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UPDATE: I got a new phone, that doubles as a far better camera than the one I used before. So I was able to upload a better quality version of this.

This colleague contains odes to the "Muppets," "Sesame Street," and a little-known children's show called "Eureeka's Castle" (not by Jim Henson, but inspired by his work).

"Eureeka's Castle" was a show from the '90s, cast with Muppet-like puppets and aimed at *very* young kids, like "Sesame Street."

My childhood memories are vague on this show, but I know I adored it, and took it hard when it was cancled. Upon rematching clips as an adult, I find that the Castle has an interesting hierarchy. The "castle" is in fact a giant music box, wound up by a jolly giant at the start of each episode. Inside the castle live several creatures. Eureeka, a child sorceress in training, acts as the ruler/baby-sitter. Her subjects/students/mental patients include a nerdy, cranky bat; a dragon who believes his tail and blanket designs have minds of their own; two moat monsters who make were Fred and George before there *was* a Fred and George; some mischevious castle mice (because the Muppets had a copyright on rats, maybe), and a foreign pleader. Then several of *those* characters has their own pets (the bat has a pet spider, the dragon has some racing worms and a yellow...thing, etc.) Very feudal, in retrospect.

And...ah yes! The Stonefish (their canon name, apparently): three fish statues who act as a chorus group for musical numbers, and occasionally a fountain. As a child, I probably dozed while they sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," but at age 25, I was mesmerized, and they have now surpassed Magellan as my favorite characters.

Other than "Eureeka's Castle," this picture pays tribute to "Pigs in Space;" "A Muppet Christmas Carol;" the one "Sesame Street" character I never grew out of; Constantine (or "Evlyn Froggen"); and a brief scene from the first "Muppet Movie," where Piggy imagines herself and Kermit in various romantic-movie situations, including one film noir shot by a lamp post.

I do not own "The Muppets," "Eureeka's Castle," or "Sesame Street."