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That is a good one, but as a Canadian, I am duty bound to one up Henson here with the iconic (for Canadians) National Film Board version:
Lemme' guess: the abandoned mine scene was filmed a block from your house.
Would you believe that mr_cleome had
never seen this until last week? Don't worry, though. I brought him up to date.
Weirdly, I hadn't ever seen the Muppet version until a couple of weeks ago. We were super-fond of the show in its first run. That bit must've happened some week where I was grounded or chained to a book report or something.