Cave Muppets invent orange juice ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

The Blackout of '08 reminds one of this classic 'Sesame Street' sketch:



Once upon a time, in Cincinnati in 2008, 1,000,000 people lived in caves, because the power was out for a week.

Muppet #1: "My new bicycle has a flat tire. I wish I had a new tire. But the bike shop is closed because the power is out."

Muppet #2: "What the fuck difference does it make? The streetlights are out, so you can't see where your bike is going anyway!"

Then Ernie, the King of the Cave People, comes along and says, "I'm very thirsty, but everything in the refrigerator I had to drink went sour, and the water tastes like a 40-year-old road atlas."

So Sherlock Hemlock, the Royal Smart Person, bops along and uses some toilet water and orange hard candy to make orange juice. He has to make more orange juice every day, because it spoils thanks to the lack of refrigeration.

Ernie: "Maybe we can call it toilet juice!" (Laughs.)

So the week was saved by Ernie and Sherlock Hemlock!