I Am Jim Henson

## **The** **Plot:**

Yadina and her friends are performing a puppet show when her puppet is ripped by itself. Xavier, Yadina, Brad, and Sharktopus travel back in time to meet puppeteer, Jim Henson. But while there, they run into two giant, worm-like, blind mollusk sisters with three eel-like tongues with mouths of their own.

## **Voice Cast:**

* Cassandra Lee Morris as North American Graboid
* Laura Bailey as African Graboid

## **Transcript:**

* (We see Xavier, Yadina and Brad holding up puppets of each other)
* Brad: (In Xavier impression) Hello everybody, And welcome to the show
* Yadina: (In Brad impression) Today, We are meeting the world's famous puppeteer, Jim Henson
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) He made a lot of puppets, And he never gets tired of doing it over the years
* Brad: Hey, We sound like each other.
* (They laughed)
* Yadina: Anyways, Let's start the show
* (She pushes the button)
* (The scene cuts to where Yadina, Brad, Xavier are doing a puppet show about themselves)
* Sharktopus: And now, For your viewing pleasure, Please welcome, Xavier as Yadina, Yadina as Brad, and Brad as Xavier.
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) Hi you two, How's everything going?
* Brad: (In Xavier impression) Great.
* Yadina: (In Brad impression) Fantastic.
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) It's a beautiful day outside
* Yadina: (In Brad impression) That’s good.
* Brad: (In Xavier impression) Yeah, it looks beautiful
* Yadina: (In Brad impression) What shall we do now?
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) Go outside.
* Brad: (In Xavier impression) Yeah!
* Yadina: (In Brad impression) Let’s go.
* (They make some sound effects of birds)
* Brad: (In Xavier impression) Boy, I love playing outside
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) I do too.
* Yadina: (In Brad impression) Me three.
* (Suddenly, Yadina’s puppet was ripped by itself)
* Yadina: My Brad puppet!
* Brad: Huh?
* Xavier: It’s okay, Yadina.
* Brad: Maybe it will get fixed
* Yadina: Maybe.
* Brad: What do we do?
* Xavier: To the Secret Museum!
* (The music stops)
* Brad: Hey, Where's the music?
* Yadina: Don't worry, Brad
* Xavier: We can make our own music and sound effects with our mouths.
* Brad: Okay.
* (They make music with their mouths, while heading there way to the Secret Museum)
* Brad: I wonder who the Secret Museum will send us to meet?
* Yadina: And where we’ll go
* Xavier: And when.
* (Xavier makes a sound of a door opening, while the secret museum door opens)
* (Yadina makes a sound of her and Xavier sliding down the pole)
* (Brad makes a sound of his body shaking while he is scared)
* Yadina: Look out below!
* Xavier: Hi, Berby.
* Yadina: Hi, Berby.
* Brad: Hi, Berby.
* Sharktopus: Hello there.
* Xavier: We're getting something.
* (It summons a puppet)
* Yadina: A puppet.
* Xavier: Wonder who it belonged to.
* (It reveals to be Jim Henson)
* Brad: Jim Henson! A puppeteer
* Yadina: In Greenville, In the year 1943.
* Xavier: That's over eighty years ago.
* Brad: Hopefully, Jim can help you, Yadina.
* Yadina: I hope.
* (Berby sneezes)
* Xavier: Hey, Since Berby sneezed, The music and sound effects are back!
* Brad: Thank you, Berby.
* Yadina: Anyway, Only one way to find out. Ready for adventure?
* Xavier: Hey, That's my line. But, Ready!
* Brad: Uh...sort of ready.
* Yadina: Then, Let's do this
* (They hold onto Berby, Who sends them back in time to the year 1943)
* Xavier: So this is Greenville in 1943.
* Yadina: Wow, Now where's Jim?
* Jim: Hey guys, I'm doing a puppet show.
* Brad: Oh cool.
* Yadina: Awesome.
* Xavier: Can we come?
* (Suddenly, the ground began shaking, knocking them off balance.)
* Yadina: Help!
* Brad: What is going on?
* (Two Graboid Sisters appear)
* Graboid Sisters: Hi!
* (Yadina falls down underground, while she screams).
* Xavier and Brad: Yadina!
* Jim: There's no time for cliffhangers! With this long tongue puppet I've made, I'll...
* Brad: Not now, Jim.
* Xavier: My sister is down there with those... whatever those creatures are.
* Sharktopus: They are Graboids from the film Tremors, Which came out in the year 1990.
* Brad: How do you know them?
* Xavier: Exactly.
* Sharktopus: I know them because they are my friends
* Jim: Oh.
* Brad: Okay.
* Xavier: Let's save, Yadina!
* Jim: And fast.
* Brad: Here we come, Yadina!
* (Yadina‘s leg was hurt. Suddenly, large tongues came out of the dirt behind her.)
* Yadina: Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!! Xavier! Brad! Jim! Sharktopus!
* Graboid Sister 1: Calm down, little girl.
* Graboid Sister 2: We have no intention of eating you.
* Yadina: You do?
* Graboid Sister 1: Yes.
* Yadina: Oh thank goodness.
* Graboid Sister 2: What's the trouble, Yadina?
* Yadina: Get me out of here!
* Graboid Sister 1: If you told us what's wrong.
* Yadina: My Brad puppet got ripped.
* Graboid Sister 2: Okay.
* Graboid Sister 1: We’ll help.
* Yadina: Thank you.
* (They fix a Brad puppet for Yadina)
* Graboid Sister 1: Here you go.
* Yadina: Thank you.
* Xavier: Yadina, Here you are!
* Yadina: I'm down here!
* Jim: We're going to get you out of that hole
* Brad: Grab this!
* Yadina: Okay.
* Xavier: Come on, Yadina. Climb your way to the top, and rise up like you mean it!
* Yadina: Okay.
* (Yadina imitates the rise up while she climbs up the tunnel).
* Brad: Go, Yadina!
* Xavier: You can do it!
* Yadina: I’m out!
* Xavier: Yeah!
* Brad: Now we're talking!
* Jim: Yeah!
* Yadina: Thank you, Graboids.
* Brad: Let's do your puppet show.
* (They hold their puppets of each other)
* Jim: What?
* Xavier: I'll be, (Holds up Yadina puppet), Yadina.
* Brad: I'll be, (Holds up Xavier puppet), Xavier
* Yadina: And I'll be, (Holds up Brad puppet), Brad
* Jim: That's great puppets you got here
* Yadina: Thank you.
* Brad: Alright, Let's get this puppet show on the road
* Jim: I'll tell this story
* (Xavier, Yadina and Brad are making sounds of birds)
* Jim: It was a bright sunny morning.
* (Xavier, Yadina and Brad are imitating the rise up, while the sun goes up)
* Jim: And Xavier, Yadina and Brad are rising up.
* Brad; Ahem
* Jim: I mean, playing outside
* Brad: Thank you.
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) Morning, You two.
* Brad: (In Xavier impression) Morning, Yadina.
* Yadina: (In Brad impression) Hey, Yadina
* Jim: They play together for all morning, But then,
* (They make sounds of something underground.)
* Brad: (In Xavier impression) What was that?
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) I don’t know but...
* (Suddenly, the Yadina puppet falls down the hole, while Brad makes a sound of falling)
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) Aah!
* Jim: Yadina is trapped underground.
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) Help!
* Jim: When suddenly, 2 Graboid sisters appeared. (In Graboid Sister impression) Hi.
* (They make sounds of the Graboids)
* Jim: Yadina was terrified.
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) Somebody help me!
* Jim: (In Graboid Sister impression) Calm down.
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) How come I never meet you before?
* Jim: (In Graboid Sister impression) Well, I come from North America, While she comes from Africa
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) Oh.
* Jim: But then, her friends showed up.
* Brad: (In Xavier impression) We're coming to get you, Yadina
* Yadina: (In Brad impression) Don’t worry.
* Xavier (In Yadina impression) Thank you, guys
* Yadina (In Brad impression): Come on, Yadina, Climb back up to us, and rise up like no one has ever done it before.
* Xavier (In Yadina impression) Okay.
* Jim: And so, Yadina decided to climb, and rised right back up to the gang
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) I'm out of the hole, guys!
* Brad: (In Xavier impression) Yeah!
* Jim: Yadina was safe.
* Yadina: (In Brad impression) I'm glad you're alive
* Xavier: (In Yadina impression) I know.
* Jim:

## **Trivia:**

* The Graboid Sisters featured on the show come from *Tremors*, a 1990 comedy-horror film.