Henson favored the bodiless Limbo (who eventually morphed in Sesame Street’s Nobody) as a delivery mechanism for some of his more profound musings.
His vocal characterization imbued Limbo with a fairly Eeyore-ish outlook, though occasionally one catches an echo of Henson’s most famous creation—Kermit the Frog, making a brief, unbilled appearance, here, along with John F. Kennedy, Mad magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman, and Kukla of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
Limbo, now just a disembodied voice as far as you and I are concerned, bemoans that all the really good ideas have already been taken—the safety pin, television, Atomic energy…
Eventually, though, he succumbs to the sort of excited curiosity that fired his creator, conceding the possibility of one “gloriously marvelous, great big beautiful idea,” visualized as the sort of giddy, collage pile-up beloved by Terry Gilliam.
Watch more of Henson’s experimental short films here.
viaopenculture
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