A Little Drunker, Still Weird: Henrietta Pussycat

This Roy Orbison thing is getting me down.

I don't get it. The guy made good money, right? I always liked his songs.

This is kinda shaking up my world. It's like that Mr. Rogers bootleg video some buddies of mine had back in high school, they thought it was hilarious but it just made me sad and anxious and nervous.

That episode where they replaced the Henrietta Pussycat puppet with a mummified human hand. Nobody at PBS noticed at first, and it ran in reruns for awhile until they pulled it and erased all mention of it from the syndication catalogue. It was one of the Purple Planet episodes, with Purple Panda talking to this mummified hand about how lying makes your friends feel bad.

I kind of remembered that episode from when I was little, because I loved Purple Panda and all that. But I remembered Purple Panda talking to Henrietta Pussycat, not a mummified human hand. But there it was on the bootleg--a mummified human hand living in that tree next to X the Owl.

Messed up.

Why was Roy Orbison eating dog food off a frisbee with a wooden spoon?