There are days when a simple question can make your world collide. I was looking for non-Henson hand puppets from feature length fantasy films so I tossed the question up on twitter to see what would come back. (Gremlins are serving my purpose). In the midst of this Berry Kercheval sends me this message. “Shari Lewis wrote a Star Trek TOS episode!!!”
Yes. Lambchop’s puppeteer, that beloved ventriloquist children’s entertainer wrote “Star Trek” The Lights of Zetar
This is the show that boldly goes…
Edited to add: The picture is photoshopped. The idea amused me, but I’ve just had three people respond as if it were real. Shari Lewis evidently lobbied for the role but was not cast. Lambchop never appeared on the Enterprise.
Life is truly stranger then fiction…
So true.
Funny!!
“Mind your own business, Lambchop. I’m sick of your half-bodied interference!”
Yeah, wrong episode I know, but the line just fits. 😉
Ha! Yes, but that’s good.
Beautiful! Clearly, you are a genius. Now you need to have a caption contest.
“Yeoman Lewis, your hair…it smells…so…sheepish…”
::snort:: I might do that next time I photoshop something. Other people doodle, I combine pictures.
Well, that was a good photoshop edit. For some reason, I didn’t notice Lambchop there the first time I saw this, I have no idea why. I thought Shari Lewis looked a little off, but so is the idea that she wrote an episode of Star Trek. 🙂
Now, If Lamb Chop wrote an episode, that would be truly bizarre!
Thank you! I was very lucky to find the photo of the Yeoman with her arm bent like that.
Lambchop sort of blends with the walls of the Enterprise.
Lambchop…you’re so…beautiful….
“Bones! Tell the galley dinner escaped again. AND NO MINT JELLY THIS TIME!”
Lambchop never appeared on the Enterprise.
I believe the phrase “Tojo never made it to Darwin” as a phrase of frustrated ambition has just been replaced in our house. 🙂
Has anyone else noticed your resemblance to Shari Lewis? It seems pretty striking on your webpage, as she looks like the picture you have of yourself in the upper left corner, just flipped.