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Nov. 28th, 2004 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I tried Googling on "Pirate Adventures with Captain Hook" and various combinations of the words today, and none of them pointed to the former Christian kiddie show of that name. How quickly they forget. What's that? You too?
Okay, here's the situation. A biker had an accident that took a hand away, and maybe part of a leg... it's been a while. What do you do in a situation like that? You got it! You produce your own Christian kiddie show, with yourself as a pirate. It's just obvious, right?
The show also featured Mrs. Hook, who labored mightily to tell vague, boring parables. I remember she did a sermon of the five dollar bill, which somebody had and spent on something, and somebody else spent it on something else, and so on. I forget whether it had a point, but it probably filled the time they had available, and since they didn't have to part with the bill, it cost practically nothing.
The Gospel Ship was also peopled with a crew of sincere fellows with as many bad English accents as there were, um, actors. They performed skits and supported the Captain, and swabbed the deck.
Besides the humans, there were also puppets. Terrible puppets. Puppets that demonstrated beyond doubt that some Muppets do indeed have sex with close family members. And for some reason, there was also a second rank of even worse puppets that prove the same thing about the first bunch of puppets. I expect the offspring of the latter bunch were non-viable. Maybe just little knots of foam rubber, gibbering on the floor. The first time I tuned in, I happened on one of the first group, portraying the shorn and blind Samson, with white staring eyeballs, languishing in a jail cell. "Oh, WHY did I listen to my FRIENDS!" he lamented, at great length and volume. I was hooked! So to speak.
Alas, nothing lasts forever. One day geckoman was watching the show, and it finished with an announcement to the effect that the Captain had passed away, and the show had joined the snows of yesteryear, except for a fairly small number of episodes on videotapes in the homes of the show's fans. I'm surprised there's no memorial on the web.
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I tried Googling on "Pirate Adventures with Captain Hook" and various combinations of the words today, and none of them pointed to the former Christian kiddie show of that name. How quickly they forget. What's that? You too?
Okay, here's the situation. A biker had an accident that took a hand away, and maybe part of a leg... it's been a while. What do you do in a situation like that? You got it! You produce your own Christian kiddie show, with yourself as a pirate. It's just obvious, right?
The show also featured Mrs. Hook, who labored mightily to tell vague, boring parables. I remember she did a sermon of the five dollar bill, which somebody had and spent on something, and somebody else spent it on something else, and so on. I forget whether it had a point, but it probably filled the time they had available, and since they didn't have to part with the bill, it cost practically nothing.
The Gospel Ship was also peopled with a crew of sincere fellows with as many bad English accents as there were, um, actors. They performed skits and supported the Captain, and swabbed the deck.
Besides the humans, there were also puppets. Terrible puppets. Puppets that demonstrated beyond doubt that some Muppets do indeed have sex with close family members. And for some reason, there was also a second rank of even worse puppets that prove the same thing about the first bunch of puppets. I expect the offspring of the latter bunch were non-viable. Maybe just little knots of foam rubber, gibbering on the floor. The first time I tuned in, I happened on one of the first group, portraying the shorn and blind Samson, with white staring eyeballs, languishing in a jail cell. "Oh, WHY did I listen to my FRIENDS!" he lamented, at great length and volume. I was hooked! So to speak.
Alas, nothing lasts forever. One day geckoman was watching the show, and it finished with an announcement to the effect that the Captain had passed away, and the show had joined the snows of yesteryear, except for a fairly small number of episodes on videotapes in the homes of the show's fans. I'm surprised there's no memorial on the web.
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