The Dark Crystal
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Sep 16, 2026
Sarah KanowskiHOST
Jim Henson first started messing around with puppets as a teenager, and not long afterwards, he began collaborating with Lisa's mum, Jane, and together they founded Muppets, Inc. Puppets became the way that Jim could share his extraordinary imagination with the world, and he went on to become one of the most influential creative talents of the 20th century.
Sarah KanowskiHOST
His legacy includes the TV shows Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, and the movies The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
Sarah KanowskiHOST
While his creations, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, the Cookie Monster, remain recognizable and beloved all around the world.
Sarah KanowskiHOST
Jim Henson died in 1990, but the Jim Henson Company is still a family business.
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Lisa HensonGUEST
He was originally a vaudevillian, and his influence on the Muppet Show was to introduce this element of music hall.
Lisa HensonGUEST
So, you know, there is a, a sort of vaudevillian music hall aspect to the Muppet Show that wasn't in the American pilots.
Lisa HensonGUEST
Um, but mostly he let my father do whatever he wanted, and he was a fantastic benefactor in that way 'cause he al- he also made the first two Muppet movies as well as The Dark Crystal.
Lisa HensonGUEST
And he believed in Jim Henson as an artist so much and gave him tremendous artistic freedom, and in some cases, almost to an unprecedented degree because when my father was developing The Dark Crystal with Brian Froud, he was so deep into it financially without any form of script, and Lord Grade just kept giving him funding to do further visual development, building things, m- learning about the, the technology, how to do d- puppetry differently, and, uh, you know, he truly, he truly was an amazing-
Kayla MoriaHOST
Trial by Stone.
Kayla MoriaHOST
Yeah, what is that from? The Dark Crystal.
Kayla MoriaHOST
It has puppets.
Kayla MoriaHOST
You hate it.
Katie StoneHOST
The Muppet version of the Christmas Carol.
Katie StoneHOST
How about you, Keaton? Did you watch any Muppets? No, but I watched The Dark Crystal.
Katie StoneHOST
I love The Dark Crystal.
Katie StoneHOST
We're going to be playing music from The Dark Crystal later on in the show.
Katie StoneHOST
We have a lot to learn with Brian J. Jones.
Katie StoneHOST
He's a writer and a biographer, and he wrote one of the most definitive biographies of Jim Henson that exists.
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Brian J. JonesGUEST
And Brian Henson talked about how he got to perform a penguin on The Muppet Show at one point.
Brian J. JonesGUEST
So they loved working with him.
Mike DillonGUEST
They're not menacing enough.
Mike DillonGUEST
Like, like the Skeksis from Dark Crystal are menacing.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
Yeah.
Mike DillonGUEST
These guys are, you know, they're, they're goofy.
Jaime Lopez Jr.HOST
Um, so hearing it is canceled made me think, "Oh, well, I didn't even expect there to be, like, a season two necessarily." Uh, pleasantly surprised if they, if they do it.
Jaime Lopez Jr.HOST
Um, and then, you know, this is, this is the same problem, uh, possibly even the same reason that, um, I'm gonna mess this up, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance-
Jonathan KuehleinHOST
Yes
Jaime Lopez Jr.HOST
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Cameron YoungHOST
Big time.
Cameron YoungHOST
OK, so most famous for The Muppets, I suppose, but also was the guy that designed all the puppets for The Dark Crystal.
Cameron YoungHOST
When I first saw the dark crystal, I didn't even see it from the start.
Cameron YoungHOST
I was quite young.
Cameron YoungHOST
Um, and you know, do you remember back in the day I was trying to, I've got this idea.
Cameron YoungHOST
I wanted to search for it, but I didn't have any clues as to what it actually was.
Cameron YoungHOST
So it was just this thing in my memory for a long time.
Cameron YoungHOST
And when I finally did watch The Dark Crystal properly and put it together, that was kind of like a weird moment too.
TommyHOST
And I'm just finished the second book in my four-part series of-
DanielHOST
Of The Dark Crystal
TommyHOST
...
TommyHOST
The Dark Crystal saga.
TommyHOST
I'm about to start the third book.
TommyHOST
It's going well.
CharlesHOST
I think, uh, I think so too.
CharlesHOST
It all started with a little thing called Dark Crystal.
IvanHOST
It started with Dark Crystal, and I-- we are now on The Forbidden Planet.
CharlesHOST
The Forbidden Planet today.
CharlesHOST
That is true.
Jocelyn StevensonGUEST
I can tell you, yeah.
Jocelyn StevensonGUEST
Brian Froud, who did the artwork, and who I have to give him a lot of credit because he's brilliant, old friend, but he really does have genius he can bring he can bring creatures in from other dimensions into our dimension because he did many books about fairies and trolls and all this in the 80s he designed the film dark crystal he designed the film labyrinth so this is what he does right and um he was i didn't expect him to help to to actually give me art but but um he uh he got intrigued by the idea of of creatures that are water he got really intrigued by that and and then gave me 19 of them while I was writing, while I was beginning to write the book, which opened the whole thing up because I could describe them then.
Jocelyn StevensonGUEST
But he has done films and he and I would both dearly love this to be a film.
Jocelyn StevensonGUEST
The story finishes at book two.
Robin BeckHOST
imagine a better partner for it.
Robin BeckHOST
Brian Froud's work is amazing.
Robin BeckHOST
And as someone who so enjoyed the Dark Crystal reboot, you know, having grown up with it in my childhood, I can only imagine the kind of success that y'all could have if you worked on this together.
Robin BeckHOST
Well,
GriffeyHOST
But I don't need it to be, right? No.
GriffeyHOST
The same way when I watch The Dark Crystal, I'm not mad that the sleep stacks look like someone in a suit.
HeathHOST
Exactly.
HeathHOST
That's a great point.
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