The Muppet Show... one of the many classic yet awesome "i'd still watch it even when i'm old and gray" shows I used to watch when I was a kid. It was part of my routine every weekday, and i remembered that it would always air between 6 and/or 7 when I used to live in Flushing Queens (if I remember correctly, it was on TNT at the time) when i was going to P.S. 107 from Kindergarden through 2nd grade. Jim Henson was a genius (may he rest in peace), and between that and Sesame Street, I was very entertained as a child. However, the truth is that The Muppet Show was aimed more for older viewers, and aside from the jokes that they would spew every so often, I never knew why that was until Episode 118.

Let's face it... everyone knew that half of the idea's from that show were being triggered by whatever drugs the makers of that show were taking at the time. Specially the ideas for the monster designs... U.G.L.WHY??? Most of them to me were tolerable, but one in particular had me so scared that it became my childhood nightmare for life. Most people know him as the Hugga Wugga monster... because thats all the fucker ever said. Anywho, I remember seeing this skit, frozen to my coutch going "wtf am i watching?", thinkin that this dude was gonna jump through the tv and eat me or somethin. And my imagination back then was VERY over-active, so you can imagine the hole that monster left in my brain to hide inside for all eternity, scaring me in my dreams almost every night. This was one of the reasons why I had to have my bed next to the wall, cause I thought it was gonna slither up behind me to attack me while i was asleep, but even the bed next to the wall wasn't enough cause I covered my entire self with the covers except a small portion of my face so that I could breath. Time passed and I saw a Fraggle Rock episode where Boober looses his hat to this monster that at the time i thought looked EXACTLY like the "Hugga Wugga" monster. So yea, that didnt help my situation any. This lasted till when I was in middle school. I figured I'd TRY to do something about it, so the only thing that came to mind was drawing him. Once i did that, I gave him a background story, and a name of my own (cause at the time I had NO idea what his name was and he only appeared ONCE ever in the muppet show), the fear of him deteriorated and he basically became a misunderstood character that everyone thinks is a bad guy but is really a good guy (which was used for Piccolo in DragonballZ and Knuckles when he made his debute in the Sonic series).

Recently I decided to over-come my fear and visit the wonderful world of "YouTube" to find this creature and see him face to face once again. Turns out, he's not as scary as i imagined him to be. The odd thing is that he's purple with a short blownose and has three leaves sticking out of the tip of his head. This whole time I thought he was an ORAGNE monster with a LONG blownose and had HORNS sticking out of his head... how the hell did i confuse myself on THOSE details?? Well, if anything i DID get the eyes right though... evil lookin with those long bushy "eyebrows and eyelids"... although I thought he had eyelids too but I guess they were too lazy to include those. They just made two holes on the side of his head to slide the eyes down to male it like he IS closing his eyes. Clever, but it has its flaws, specially if not covered properly. Also, and more obvious, he is not the monster from that Fraggle Rock Episode. Turns out, the other monster (which in Fraggle Rock is known as "Blustering Bellowpane Monster") is a recycled puppet used in a few other shows. I guess in a weird way, I mixed both the Hugga Wugga monster and this dude to create the "what would be love child" of them both... but still... where the fuck did the horns come from??? Oh well, guess that was my own touch, lol.

Now of course I have two new fears (both Japanese ghosts from "The Grudge" and "The Ring"), but who knows... maybe just like Hugga Wugga, it'll take like 20 somethin years to get over that fear too. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut i dont think drawing would help this time, lol.

Heres a video of that Hugga Wugga skit from the muppet show

And heres the only video i COULD find of the monster from fraggle rock. Skip to about 3:50 and you'll see him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWe4VEf 4wlo