Jack Pumpkinhead

But yeah, I'll run through some of these Henson connections real fast.

We got Brian Henson, who is the puppeteer and voice of Jack Pumpkinhead in this.

Obviously, he's the man made of Henson DNA.

Yeah, and you can hear his Henson-ness comes out every now and then.

Because, spoiler alerts, the chickens are banned from the kingdom now because eggs are poisonous to gnomes.

And so the way they defeat the Gnome King at the end of the movie is Balina lays an egg.

It falls out of Jack Pumpkinhead's head as he's about to be eaten by the Gnome King.

And the egg falls down the throat of the Gnome King.

Yes.

So his son, I think his son mainly was controlling Jack Pumpkinhead.

I think that was his, his remit.

He did the voice as well, I believe.

There are lots of, um, kind of parallels with Return to Oz.

You have Tik-Tok, who's kinda like the Tin Man.

You have Jack Pumpkinhead, who's like the Scarecrow.

Gump is like the Cowardly Lion because it's kind of like animal, animal.

And if you're reading the books, in the books, The Wizard of Oz is first and then Marvelous, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then Marvelous Land, Land of Oz.

Which shows the origin of, uh, Ozma, Tip becoming Ozma, Jack Pumpkinhead, and stuff like that.

So it's cool they skip The Wizard of Oz.

Everyone's very familiar with that story, and they kinda move into the other ones.

"'What is this?' asked Dorothy, in wonder.

"'It's Jack Pumpkinhead's private graveyard,' replied the Tin Woodman." But I thought nobody ever died in Oz, she said.

Nor do they, although if one is bad, he may be condemned and killed by the good citizens, he answered.

Dorothy ran over to the little graves, and read the words engraved upon the tombstones.

The first one said, Here lies the mortal part of Jack Pumpkinhead, which spoiled April 9th.

She then went to the next stone, which read, Here lies the mortal part of Jack Pumpkinhead, which spoiled October 2nd.

On the third stone were carved these words, Here lies the mortal part of Jack Pumpkinhead, which spoiled January 24th.

Poor Jack, sighed Dorothy, I'm sorry he had to die in three parts, for I hoped to see him again.

I did, yeah.

He played Jack Pumpkinhead.

Yep.

This guy sounds familiar and looks familiar.

Uh, we find out in a little bit that tick talks action ran out so I can do anything.

Yeah.

dorothea gets taken she gets put in this room and we meet jack pumpkinhead

man i fucking love this guy so much he's so cool i loved him he's just like this little kid kind of yeah

So good a man as this must surely have a name.

I believe, he added, after a moment's thought, I will name the fellow Jack Pumpkinhead.

End of chapter 1 chapter two the marvelous powder of life after considering the matter carefully tip decided that the best place to locate jack would be at the bend in the road a little way from the house so he started to carry his man there, but found him heavy and rather awkward to handle.

After dragging the creature a short distance, Tip stood him on his feet, and by first bending the joints of one leg and then those of the other, at the same time pushing from behind, the boy managed to induce Jack to walk to the bend in the road.

So he hid behind a hedge where he could see without being seen, and prepared to watch.

after some search the woman drew from her basket an old pepper-box upon the faded label of which the wizard had written with a lead pencil powder of life ah here it is she cried joyfully and now let us see if it is potent the stingy wizard didn't give me much of it but i guess there's enough for two or three doses tip was much surprised when he overheard this speech then he saw old mombi raise her arm and sprinkle the powder from the box over the pumpkin head of his man jack she did this in the same way one would pepper a baked potato and the powder sifted down from jack's head and scattered over the red shirt and pink waistcoat and purple trousers tip had dressed him in and a portion even fell upon the patched and worn shoes Then, putting the pepper-box back into her basket, Mambi lifted her left hand.

With its little finger pointed upwards, she said, "'Wee-og!' Then she lifted her right hand, with the thumb pointed upward, and said, "'Tee-og!' Then she lifted both hands, with all the fingers and thumbs spread out, and cried, "'Pee-og!' jack pumpkinhead stepped back a pace at this and said in a reproachful voice don't yell like that do you think i'm deaf old mombi danced around him frantic with delight he lives she screamed he lives he lives he lives Then she threw her stick into the air and caught it as it came down, and she hugged herself with both arms and tried to do a step of a jig, and all the time she repeated rapturously, "'He

lives! He lives! He

Now, she received a joyful welcome, although no one except Ozma knew at first that she had finally come to stay for good and all.

That evening, Dorothy had many callers, and among them were such important people as TikTok, a machine man who thought and spoke and moved by clockwork; her old companion, the genial Shaggy Man; Jack Pumpkinhead, whose body was brushwood and whose head was a ripe pumpkin with a face carved upon it; the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, two great beasts from the forest who served Princess Ozma; and Professor H.M. Wogglebug, T.E.

This Wogglebug was a remarkable creature.

He had once been a tiny little bug crawling around in a schoolroom, but he was discovered and highly magnified so that he could be seen more plainly, and while in this magnified condition, he had escaped.

"You'll see him when he comes back, and you're sure to like him." "And where's the Wonderful Wizard?" asked Aunt Em.

"You'll see him at Ozma's luncheon, for he lives here in this palace," was the reply.

"And Jack Pumpkinhead?" "Oh, he lives a little way out of town in his own pumpkin field.

We'll go there sometime and see him, and we'll call on Professor Wogglebug, too.