Welcome to Doper Labs, where the future is being made today

<upbeat, Sciencey music plays as the camera pans across a plasma globe, jacobs ladder, and a rack of chemicals in beakers all bubbling away, the camera pans over to MacTech, ready to reveal the latest D.L. experiment>

Welcone to Doper Labs, where the Future is being made today, I’m Dr. MacTech, here with my trusty assistant Wild EEP’er, here to introduce our latest invention…

Do you have some shrubbery around your house that you’re not satisfied with, maybe it’s not big enough, or green enough, maybe you paid too much for it, well, your problems are over thanks to Doper Labs new invention…

Honey Roasted Shrubbery™

yes, this lovely shrubbery is a wonderful shade of bright green, looks nice, isn’t too expensive, and also tastes delicious with it’s delicate honey glazing and delicate roasting, isn’t that right, EEP’er

<EEP!>

yes, now go ahead EEP’er break off a piece of that shrubbery, and enjoy it’s Honey Roasted goodness, brought to you by your freinds at Doper Labs

[EEP’er looks uneasily at the shrubbery, then back to Dr. MacTech]
well, go ahead, it’s almost certainly very safe…
<EEP, EEP, EEP…EEP!>
no, you have nothing to be afraid of, go ahead, try it
<EEP, EEP!>
oh come on, that grew back last week, just like i said it would…
<EEP!>
no, the experiment had nothing to do with it, now go on and eat some delicious, mouthwatering, high in fiber and protien, low in fat Honey Roasted Shrubbery™

[EEP’er sighs, resigned to his fate, whatever it might be, and breaks off a small piece, gingerly he shoves it into his mouth and eats it, pauses, smacks his lips and hungrily begins devouring the rest of the HRS]

See, i told you, EEP’er, nothing to worry about…

Well, that’s all the time we have for Doper Labs this week, tune in next week…
[as Dr. MacTech speaks, EEP’er starts growing branches from his head, and his hair begins to turn into leaves with a delicious honey glazing, EEP’er begins screaming in terror]
Oh dear…
well, next week on Doper Labs, we’ll introduce my next invention, Dehydrated Water…don’t worry EEP’er, i’ll fix your little regrowth problem [dissapears under the counter then comes back up with a pair of pruning shears, EEP’er sees them, screams and runs away]

why not stay tuned and see what else we have growing here in D.L. , NO, EEP’er, that last comment wasn’t aimed at you, really, EEP’er, COME BACK! I’M trying to HELP you! [begins chasing EEP’er waving the pruning shears in a dangerous manner]…

<next inventor, please>
:wink:

Genius. Pure, unadulterated comic GENIUS.

Well, to give credit where credit is due, the original idea is not mine, for our younger Dopers who haven’t seen the Late Jim Henson’s “The Muppet Show” the OP was a parody/homage to the "Muppet Labs sequences which followed a formulaic, but amusing pattern…

1; Dr. Bunsen Honeydew opens the segment, introduces his trusty assistant, Beaker (who speaks in a variety of “Meep” noises)
2; Dr. H introduces some overdesigned, silly, useless, or dangerous invention (Edible Paperclips, Shrinking Pills, a device to turn gold into cottage cheese, a teleporter, etc…) and forces his hapless assistant, Beaker, to test it
3; Beaker, a veteran of these abuses knows things will end badly for him and resists being the “guinea pig”, playing to the audiences knowledge of impendingdoom, but eventually gives up, resigned to his fate, and tests the item in question
4; the worst happens (using the examples above; his nose falls off, he shrinks to a tiny size when he eats the entire bottle of pills, a Fort Knox guard beats him up, he is teleported to Africa and returns with a gorrilla on his back)
5; Dr. H. tries vainly to help Beaker and invariably ends up innefective, or makes it worse
6; the segment ends

i just figured i’d create a version that we Dopers could use to introduce our “crazy inventions”

Jim, you were a man ahead of your time and you’ll be missed…

You know, I have always had a problem with gorillas sneaking up on me while I am not looking, and destroying everything around me. Do you have some sort of early warning sytem? :stuck_out_tongue:

I do: a mirror on a stick.

Well, yes, but frankly, I was hoping to set up some sort of line involving the gorrila detector sketch. It can be seen next to Beaker in this picture, and resembles a metal gorrila head. I looked for more info, but couldn’t find it, besides peoples found memories.