It's Time To Play the Music . . .

Something that Riley and I both enjoy, is watching The Muppet Show together on DVD.  They've recently released Season 2 -- and it's as good as I remember.

Kermit and the gang have also unleashed a whole new level of complexity to my 3 1/2-year old's imagination.  In simpler times she was happy just playing princesses.  Disney Princesses.  She is able to be Jasmine one minute (while Mommy or I play Aladdin), and she's Cinderella the next.  It's fun, if not a bit tedious.

Well NOW, we play Muppet Show with Cinderella as the special guest star.  "How the hell would that work?" you ask.  Like this --

I play Kermit, Riley is Cinderella.  She puts on her beloved "princess dress" (a white flower girl dress that her Grammy got for her) and her "romantic shoes" (a pair of pink mules that are twice the size of her feet -- they look just like the shoes that Eva Gabor used to wear on Green Acres).  They kind of look like this.

I put on my best Kermit voice and begin:

"It's The Muppet Show . . . with our very special guest star Princess Cinderella!!  Yayyyyy!"

Riley pops up from behind the couch and dances to my performance of the theme song ("It's time to play the music . . . It's time to light the lights . . . etc.).  Once that is out of the way, Kermit intros the star --

"And now Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for our special guest -- the beautiful and talented Princess Cinderella doing her exquisite ballet dance!!  Yayyyyyy!"

She holds her fingers together over her head and galumphs around the living room as I offer encouraging commentary that she has SPECIFICALLY instructed my to say --

"Look at the grace of Cinderella . . ."
"She is the most beautiful dancer in the whole kingdom . . ."
"How can she move like that . . .?"

When the dance is over . . . back to the beginning.  Rinse.  Repeat.

As odd as it is, I guess it's better than her pretending to be one of the real guests that we see on the show.  Somehow, I can't help but believe that she thinks the big stars of today are Harvey Korman, Kaye Ballard, and Sandy Duncan.

That said, I'd love to see her be Ethyl Merman for an evening.

Comments

[Grammy]

I read this over and over and can just picture the whole thing. I LOL.

[Pamela]

Now THAT is comedy. Sounds like the Family has found a way to survive the writer's strike.