For some reason this installment and the follow-up next Sunday are transposed in the unannotated archives. But that’s why we have the Director’s Cut: to fix these little gaffes.

Anyway, James and Jeff arranged this adventure between themselves; I knew nothing about it until Jeff showed up at Narbonicon with Speedy in tow. I’m sorry we weren’t allowed to take photos inside the Vee Corporation, which makes the costumes for “Sesame Street on Ice” and other shows, because it was full of drawers of Muppet noses and Big Birds hanging from meathooks on the ceiling and other sights to destroy your childhood. It was awesome.

This may have been the year we saw the pre-Senate Al Franken at Hell’s Kitchen. He was eating oatmeal.