Best Episode (2000-2001) - Best Writing (2000-2001) - Best Special Effects (2000-2001)

R.A.V.E. visits Sesame Street. No good can come of this.

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Isn't Elmo cute? Sure hope nothing horrible happens to him

Look! It's Kermit and a monkey! Let us hope this also does not end horribly

Camera
Rick Ward
Allen Henderson
Bergan Sipe

Dolly Operators
Rick Ward
James Khanlarian

Lighting
James Khanlarian
Rick Ward
Allen Henderson

Assistant Directors
Rick Ward
James Khanlarian
Bergan Sipe

Muppet Operators
James Khanlarian
Rick Ward
Allen Henderson
Bergan Sipe
Nhoupinh Vongphrachanh
Ryan Rubio
Shelley Franklin

Editor
Allen Henderson

Written and directed by
Allen Henderson

Produced by
Allen Henderson and George Manis

This show was filmed...

at Allen's mom's house in Troutman, N.C.
in Darren's house of the damned in Charlotte, N.C.
in Jenny's lake house outside of Greensboro, N.C.
in R.A.V.E.'s secret military base
in the studio
on Raleigh road in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Micah Owens (above) teaches muppets to read with love and song

*This episode took a total of four days to shoot, at least two of these shooting days lasting longer than twelve hours each*
*The second day of shooting the director drank beer from one p.m. to two a.m. the next morning*
*Shot over spring break and edited immediately afterwards, production and post-production of this episode spanned a record two and a half weeks*
*Aside from Kermit and some incidental puppets, all other muppets were created and doctored within a day's time*
*This episode logged perhaps the most editing time ever in a 48 hour period (in excess of 36 hours)*
*Total editing time for this episode is estimated around 65 hours*
*Allen experienced stroke symptoms by the end of post-production of this episode*
*Parts of the script were written six months prior to shooting, if not longer*
*Parts of the script were written 24 hours prior to shooting*
*Cookie Monster was not written in until two days before shooting when he was found in a small toy shop in Huntersville, N.C.*
*The Count puppet used in the episode was in fact approximately eight inches long*
*The eyebrow for Grumulon, Elmo's evil twin, was made by Micah Owens*
*The teeth were made by the director, and cut from a piece of the script*
*The mutated Grover was made by the director's mom*
*The rabbit puppet was stolen from the director's little brother*
*Every time the director visits home, his little brother asks where the puppet is*
*The night shooting was finished in Charlotte the bloody rabbit puppet was burned in a fire pit*
*In the chase down the hall, the cameraman held Kermit on one hand and the camera in the other*
*Real guns are fired in this episode*
*Only two shots are filmed in Chapel Hill. One is the scene with the storyteller, shot in the studio, and the other is the shot of the moon, shot outside the studio*
*Snuffy's trunk was the sleeve of a suede leather jacket*

Kermit teaches Micah a very special lesson

Zach's hand slightly changes position as we cut to Allen's character sitting down.

Zach's character seems to lose the effeminate accent in the Cookie Monster confrontation, though the director maintains that Cookie Monster "scared the gay out of him."

Kermit - "Monkeys are small creatures that live in the forest-"
"STORIES!"
"I'm tired of running"

Philip - "I like to think of myself as a pretty rational person... but if that information got into the wrong hands...something crazy could happen."
"Joe...Joe, no!!!"
"Let's stop this."
"I don't know...but we can be sure."

Scooter - "RAAAA!!!"
"Come on rabbit!"
"No...no..AAA!"

Cookie - "Cookie can take care of them by Cookie's self."
"Cookie Monster...regret...nothing..."

Cathy - "I was just wondering-"

Monkey - "AAAH! AAAH! AAAH!"
"Ooo ooo ooo AAH! AAAH! AAAH!"

"Hmmm..."