Where is The Land of Gorch tribute page?
Monica J. Roxburgh
Does anyone know anything about William Sullivan III's missing Land of
Gorch Tribute Page? Seen any signs of it returning?
It's old server, www.fishnet.com is apparently no longer with us. The URL
USED to be at http://www.fishnet.net/~wsullivan/wwgorch.html
-Monica R.
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Dr. Kate McRae
>
> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone know anything about William Sullivan III's missing Land of
> Gorch Tribute Page? Seen any signs of it returning?
>
> It's old server, www.fishnet.com is apparently no longer with us. The URL
> USED to be at http://www.fishnet.net/~wsullivan/wwgorch.html
>
Long time no hear from! ;)
Fishnet went out of business and forgot to tell it's customers. The
Land of Gorch page will eventually be back, (along with it's sponsor) at
the following URL:
www.jetlink.net/~grysken
Hope that helps! :)
"It's difficult for a woman in my position to have my name linked
romantically to a puppet." -Lily Tomlin
Monica J. Roxburgh
By the way, I recognize that sig quote..... William!
Dr Kate McRae indeed. ;)
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Dr. Kate McRae wrote in article <37C235...@Hole.com>...
Giftgiver
The toilet god sacrifice gimmick was damned cool!
I was searching for info today, here's what resulted (much from this very
thread, included anyway).
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To: femin...@bigfoot.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Skred, Ploobus, Buta & The Great Flavog!
Thank you for your query regarding the Muppet "Land of Gorch" sketches
from Saturday Night Live. The Muppets appeared only on the first season
of SNL. There is a good overview of this period in Christopher Finch's
book, Jim Henson - the Works. The following is a chart of the airdates
for that first season. It is my understanding that the Gorch Muppets
appeared on each show listed.
The Jim Henson Company has never released these on home video, but there
is a possibility that they may appear on some SNL video compilations. I
am quite certain there are Saturday Night Live sites out there, but I
couldn't direct you to a specific one.
Hope this helps!
Sincerely,
Karen Falk
Archives
The Jim Henson Company
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
air dates
DATE HOST
NOTES
10/11/75 George Carlin
10/18/75 Paul Simon
10/25/75 Rob Reiner
11/8/75 Candice Bergen
11/15/75 Robert Klein
11/22/75 Lily Tomlin Lily
Tomlin and Scred
12/13/75
Drunk Bit
12/20/75
1/10/76 Elliot Gould
1/17/76 Buck Henry
1/24/76 Peter Cooke/Dudley Moore Muppets prerecorded
1/10
2/14/76
3/13/76
4/24/76 Raquel Welch
written by Jim
At 04:38 PM 9/8/1999 -0700, you wrote:
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:56:24 GMT
To: webm...@henson.com
From: femin...@bigfoot.com (Tree Lewinsky)
Subject: Skred, Ploobus, Buta & The Great Flavog!
X-Mailer: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Opera/3.0; Windows 95) 3.50
Hi,
I didn't see any info on the segments that ran on the 1975 (first,
anyway) season of NBC's "Saturday Night." Is any information available?
I was hoping to find a fan site somewhere since those sketches were so
cool! Naturally, The Great Flavog is my all-time favourite Muppet...
How many episodes were produced with that sketch?
Were they ever offered for sale on video?
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Land Of Gorch
King Ploobis Jim Henson
Mighty Favog Frank Oz
Scred Jerry Nelson
Wisss Richard Hunt
Vazh Fran Brill
Queen Peuta Alice Tweedy
LAND OF GORCH
LAND OF GORCH TRIBUTE PAGE. "This is the Mighty Favog. How many in your
party?" Barely mentioned in most histories of Saturday Night Live, the
Land of...
[not working 99/09/09] http://www.fishnet.net/~wsullivan/wwgorch.htm...
75a George Carlin
Ploobis (Jim Henson) & Scred (Jerry Nelson) visit Mighty Favog (Frank Oz)
75e Robert Klein
Scred tries to come up with ways to remedy Ploobis' migraine headache
75g Richard Pryor
drunk Ploobis & Scred decide to pay a visit to the Mighty Favog
75o Jill Clayburgh
CHC's hand puppets perform "Paying The Milkman" to fill in for Muppets
75p Anthony Perkins
their set destroyed, Ploobis & Scred ask host's help in returning to SNL
75s Madeline Kahn
Mighty Favog says he can deliver the Beatles if the Muppets return to SNL
[I know there were more than six skits -Tub]
Here's a blurb about Favog from the "Muppets Inside" booklet: he "was
named after the clock in the Green Room of 'The Ed Sullivan Show'.
Whenever the show ran long, the Muppet performers would pray to the
clock - which they dubbed 'The Mighty Favog' - in hopes that they
wouldn't get bumped from the lineup." :-)
The star was King Ploobis (Henson), and his right-hand creature was Scred
(Jerry Nelson). They would mostly argue and get drunk. Ploobis' wife was
Queen Peuta, the beautiful serving wench was Vazh, and the weird old guy
was Wisss. The god was the Mighty Favog (Frank Oz), the funniest
character in the whole shebang -- he kept asking for sacrifices: "Lay it
on yer god!" -- and haggling over the price for wisdom. Pretty excellent.
Ploobis: You know why I drink whiskey? It's cause I hate myself. Scred:
Oh! That must be why I drink.
Ploobis: Yeah?
Scred: I hate you too!
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 06:03:59 GMT, "Dr. Kate McRae" <Bl...@Hole.com>
wrote:
>Monica J. Roxburgh wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Does anyone know anything about William Sullivan III's missing Land of
>> Gorch Tribute Page? Seen any signs of it returning?
>>
>> It's old server, www.fishnet.com is apparently no longer with us. The URL
>> USED to be at http://www.fishnet.net/~wsullivan/wwgorch.html
>>
> Hi Monica!
> Long time no hear from! ;)
> Fishnet went out of business and forgot to tell it's customers. The
>Land of Gorch page will eventually be back, (along with it's sponsor) at
>the following URL:
> www.jetlink.net/~grysken
>
> Hope that helps! :)
>
> "It's difficult for a woman in my position to have my name linked
>romantically to a puppet." -Lily Tomlin
**********
your pal,
The *MIGHTY* (yet modest) Two Tub Man
femin...@bigfoot.com