All the good stuff belongs to Henson And Company. The other stuff belongs to Universal Pictures, and some guys.

These little stories all exist in the same universe as "Color, Magic Color" but are not in any chronological order at all. If you wish, you can blame Jareth for messing with the clocks.

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53: Double Secret Mission

Five dark goblin shapes coalesced in the darkness. Bluto, Otter, Boone, Flounder and Pinto were dragging a cart and skulking through the midnight empty throne room. Flounder had agreed to provide libations for his sister's engagement party and so had recruited some friends. They had a mission that required stealth, precise timing and sustained effort. They were doomed.

While drunkenness was not an official job requirement for throne room goblins, it tended to be the norm and the five imbeciles were at present, well within the normal range. Bluto's toes had been painfully stubbed in the dimness and Boone had taken a pratfall. The cart had run over Pinto's foot.

Otter eventually ran across an unopened keg in the blackness. In haste, they hoisted it, but the heist was going badly. They could hear the guards approaching. Their bumbling efforts came to naught when, with a mighty, splashing crash, the keg upended the cart and broke open on the stone floor.

The next morning, Jareth told the Queen to determine their punishment, just for the practice. Sarah, giggling, suggested "double secret probation." Jareth didn't understand why that was funny and was annoyed that she wasn't taking her responsibilities seriously.

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Where did she come up with the idea for "double secret probation?"

No fair Googling.