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10-21-2025, 06:59 PM
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Jim Henson’s wildest and most forgotten experiment happened on Saturday Night Live (https://youtu.be/VQmN710fzZ0), with a bizarre puppet segment called The Land of Gorch (https://youtu.be/lMqKnQ7SKLI).
Before The Dark Crystal or Labyrinth, Henson tried to reinvent the Muppets for adults... and it went terribly wrong. The Land of Gorch was SNL’s strangest experiment: a late-night puppet soap opera filled with crude jokes, horny lizard-creatures, and behind-the-scenes chaos. The show’s writers hated it, NBC panicked, and Henson found himself caught between kids TV fame and creative disaster.
But this failure would change everything. From the ashes of Gorch, Henson discovered what it really meant to build his own world - one that would lead directly to The Muppet Show and, eventually, The Dark Crystal.
This is the buried history of Jim Henson’s failed SNL Muppets - one of the wildest, weirdest chapter in his career.
Jim Henson’s wildest and most forgotten experiment happened on Saturday Night Live (https://youtu.be/VQmN710fzZ0), with a bizarre puppet segment called The Land of Gorch (https://youtu.be/lMqKnQ7SKLI).
Before The Dark Crystal or Labyrinth, Henson tried to reinvent the Muppets for adults... and it went terribly wrong. The Land of Gorch was SNL’s strangest experiment: a late-night puppet soap opera filled with crude jokes, horny lizard-creatures, and behind-the-scenes chaos. The show’s writers hated it, NBC panicked, and Henson found himself caught between kids TV fame and creative disaster.
But this failure would change everything. From the ashes of Gorch, Henson discovered what it really meant to build his own world - one that would lead directly to The Muppet Show and, eventually, The Dark Crystal.
This is the buried history of Jim Henson’s failed SNL Muppets - one of the wildest, weirdest chapter in his career.