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The Henry and June Showis a special episode of the Nickelodeon animated sketch comedy series KaBlam!.
Premiered during the Nickel-O-Zone block on Friday, June 25, 1999 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, it was originally intended as a pilot episode that would lead to spinning off the Henry and June segments of KaBlam! into their own half-hour show, although not in a comic book-like setting which KaBlam! was presented in.
With the attempt unsuccessful, the episode only aired once. Because it hadn't been seen on television or the Internet since, the episode was then considered lost media. On March 26, 2015, YouTube user Setnaro X uploaded the Nickel-O-Zone airing of the episode. Henry and June segment creator Mark Marek later uploaded the episode to his website from a personal beta tape, then on April 30 of the same year another YouTube user named ZSL123 uploaded that version. Setnaro X's video has since been deleted, although it can be accessed via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Henry and June are getting ready to star in their own comedy show with a plethora of special guests! The next day, they attend school to tackle hard subjects.
Segments[]
"A Show of Their Own"[]
In Lot K Studio, it's five minutes until The Henry & June Show! June asks if Henry is nervous, but he wonders what for. She says it's the fact that they're about to star in their very own show in front of millions of people ready to tear them apart like jackals if they flub it up! Henry gets June's point, and then asks her if his breath smells, which it does...badly! Henry needs a mint and can't afford to have stinky breath, now that he's a humongous, super-famous megastar. June tells Henry to ease up, because although they have their own TV show, that doesn't mean they have to act like "big-headed jerks." Suddenly, a man drives into the studio with a Gran Machismo 2000, a fancy sports car with genuine corduroy interior and plushy seats. Henry tells June that it's the "bad motor scooter" that Tom Cruise drives, and she hopes that he didn't spend all of the money the network gave him on a car he can't even drive for six years. Henry didn't, but tells June instead it was all the money they gave both of them. She is livid, and fights him through various programming including an Emeril Lagasse cooking show, Al Roker's weather forecast and a professional wrestling match featuring "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and The Undertaker.
When Henry and June roll back into the studio while continuing to fight, they bump into stage manager Larry, who announces to them that there is just now two minutes until showtime! June rushes to do her vocal exercises before Fred Stockdale, the network executive, is looking for her and Henry. Stockdale then gives Henry, who is about to open a water bottle, some advice that he previously gave Macaulay Culkin on the set of Dances with Wolves, "a star never opens his own water." Stockdale then brings forth Mr. Foot to open a water bottle for him. This excites Henry, so he asks if Mr. Foot has a breath mint, which he doesn't. Henry takes the rejection fine, before Stockdale says that's not how Cuba Gooding Jr. would ask for one. Henry, now with a little more motivation, demands for a breath mint, as Mr. Foot complies and Stockdale thinks Henry catches on fast. Noticing the Gran Machismo 2000 is unoccupied, he takes it out of the studio. 30 seconds until showtime, Henry and June are introduced by announcer Jimmy McGee and hard rock house band Nuklear Oxygin, Henry wonders what happened to Dave Matthews, but June says Nuklear Oxygin is better and thinks their guitarist is cute. After Nuklear Oxygin finishes playing, the studio audience gasps and sits in silence. Henry tries to warm them up with a pun, saying "that's one band that should be banned for life." The audience becomes restless and wants Wheel of Fortune instead, but June tells them to "put a sock in it," quieting them down! Now to spice up the show, Henry and June bring out the Olsen twins, which gets the audience excited, but Larry says they won't come out of their dressing room. So, "the guy from the zoo with all the animals" is brought out first, even though he hasn't finished his cookie backstage. Gathering all of his creatures behind the curtain, Henry jokes that it sounds like a real zoo back there, but no one finds it funny. The Zoo Guy appears and shows off one of the animals, named Howard the Hapsin' Hamster, which is the last living one in existence. Henry gets a closer look, but his bad breath knocks Howard out. The show takes a commercial break, as June calls it a disaster, and Henry agrees, wondering where Mr. Foot is with the breath mints.
With the radio playing REO Speedwagon's "Roll with the Changes," Mr. Foot cruises through downtown in the Gran Machismo 2000 and finds what he's looking for at The Mint Mint. Backstage at the studio, Henry and June are not happy that the Olsens refuse to come out of their dressing room, Larry explains it's because they don't like the way they're drawn. Henry rants that the show is going to "heck in a handbasket," as his bad breath breaks Larry's glasses and knocks him unconscious! Stockdale thinks he hasn't smelled such bad breath since Buddy Ebsen did a milk commercial, and someone should be sent out for some breath mints. An annoyed Henry and June say they already sent out Mr. Foot, as Stockdale knew it was a good idea! Mr. Foot is now on his way back to the studio with breath mints, but the police are now following him in a high-speed chase. Back on the air, the audience still clamors for Wheel of Fortune and its prizes. June shakes her fist and says they have prizes if they come up to the stage and get them. With that being said, she gets back to the task at hand and brings out Henry — as The Great Henrini — with a magic trick performance, but this fails and he's pelted with fruit. The police's high-speed chase with Mr. Foot reaches the studio in a breaking news report, as Henry and June realize their car is the one involved in it! Henry asks when he and June will be going back on the air, but Stockdale talked to the network and they're replacing the two with "static," much to the co-hosts' dismay. Mr. Foot continues to lead the police on the chase as Henry and June cower in fear, watching their car avoid destruction, until he drives through the studio and crashes into the Olsen twins' dressing room door. They will finally agree to do the show, appearing on stage! The audience starts to applaud and cheer before Emeril Lagasse, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, The Undertaker and Al Roker also make appearances. After all this, Stockdale is pleased to announce that Henry and June are back on the air! Henry finally gets his breath mints, but one problem, they're not wintergreen, so Henry fires Mr. Foot. Mr. Foot, angered by this, chases Henry on the set as everyone else laughs and applauds. June says on with the show!
After the show ends, Stockdale is now sitting by himself in the audience area, applauding and cheering. Larry says the studio is about to close for the night but Stockdale thinks that's ridiculous and the show is just getting good!
"Be True to Your School"[]
The morning after the show, Henry goes to pick up June at her house before they go to school. June tries to point out something is missing on Henry, but he doesn't listen and thinks fame hasn't changed him a bit. A passing truck driver then tells Henry to put some pants on, as he is shocked after looking down and only sees his underwear. June agrees that fame hasn't changed Henry a bit, as he runs back home in embarrassment. Getting to school, June talks with her friends Lernie and Mary in gym about if they watched anything good on TV last night. They thought it was "mind-blowing," and June is happy to hear that, but Lernie and Mary clarify it was a half-hour "hunkumentary" on James Van Der Beek. June is upset that they're her best friends and they didn't even watch the show, but Lernie and Mary lie that their TV is busted and don't even have one, until their teacher says gym class isn't a coffee klatch and demands they get tumbling. A crazed June then goes into a somersault frenzy, before crashing into the wall! Meanwhile, Henry walks into class and his teacher, Mrs. Yashinski, asks for everyone to pass their homework assignments to the front of the room. Henry realizes he forgot his, but instead turns in a publicity still, which all the big stars have, nicknamed "headshots." Mrs. Yashinksi is afraid to say that it's unacceptable, though. Henry realizes he's such an idiot, and then autographs it before turning it in. Regardless, he receives a F. Henry and June meet up in the cafeteria, but are frustrated that nobody cared about their show. A kid, wearing Henry's blue shirt and sporting June's blue hair, meets them and is absolutely star-struck, even reciting The Great Henrini magic act from the show. Henry is impressed that the kid, named Ryan, has a very good taste in viewing. Ryan says it's his lucky day as he's sitting with them and can't believe that Henry and June still go to school here! June doesn't understand, but Ryan thought that she and Henry would be at H.I.T.S. (Higher Institute for Tomorrow's Superstars), where all the kids with "showbiz sizzle" go. Ryan asks for a tongue-scraping or any tissue sample for his collection, but Henry and June have already left for H.I.T.S.
Henry and June approach H.I.T.S., being greeted by some of its students in song. During first period, June is in a dance class and thinks at her old school, she'd be doing negative fractions right now. According to Mackenzie, a student in the class, H.I.T.S. only teaches important things. June hopes she does well, despite never auditioning for a real troupe before. Mackenzie then criticizes June's look, thinking she doesn't have a dancer's build, with short legs and overall squatness, despite not intending offense. June says none is taken, before calling Mackenzie a "hag" under her breath. As class begins, June receives universal praise from the teacher, but Mackenzie gets jealous and bumps her into the piano. Henry is in a gym class during second period, lifting free weights and says he never had personal trainers in his old gym class. His trainer explains it's to get toned up so one looks their best on television. The trainer admits he hasn't seen Henry and June's show, not caring much for slapstick humor and rather a fan of something sophisticated with fleshed out characters. Henry and June then eat in the cafeteria thinking they made a big mistake going to H.I.T.S., but notice Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Tara Lipinski, Zac Hanson and Madonna's baby daughter, Lourdes Leon, at a nearby table and eat with them. However, they all break into strange songs, just as Henry and June sneak away and leave H.I.T.S. for good. Back at their old school, Ryan sees Henry and June again, wanting a souvenir bag of their blood! Henry and June then give Ryan an all-access pass to H.I.T.S. to get him out of their sights, recommending he bring lots of blood bags. Henry and June then go into the school, and will see each other later at lunch, not as superstars, but rather anonymous American preadolescents and faces in the crowd.
Trivia[]
WCF, seen in The Undertaker and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin wrestling match, is a parody of the two major professional wrestling organizations at the time — WCW (World Championship Wrestling) and WWF (World Wrestling Federation). Coincidentally, they wrestled in both WCW and WWF during their careers (in WCW, however, Undertaker was known as "Mean Mark" Callous while Austin went by "Stunning" Steve Austin and was a member of The Hollywood Blonds tag team with the late Brian Pillman). Undertaker and Austin's characters in The Henry and June Show are based off their WWF Attitude Era gimmicks.
Henry's magic trick performance and vocalizing the song "Fine and Dandy" (a tune from of the 1930 Broadway musical of the same name) was in the style of Art Metrano, as part of his Amazing Metrano act that he would do on talk and variety shows in the 1970s. This was parodied in the 2005 American direct-to-DVD adult animated comedy film Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (set in the Family Guy fictional universe) where in a cutaway segment, Jesus Christ entertained his followers with it. Metrano in December 2007 would sue FOX and Family Guy's creators for copyright infringement; the case was settled out of court in 2010 with undisclosed terms.
When June is doing her vocal exercises, she says "Through three cheese trees, three free fleas flew." This is a line from Dr. Seuss's classic tongue-twister book, Fox in Socks.
The title of the first segment "A Show of Their Own" is a reference to the 1992 sports-drama movie A League of Their Own.
Goofs[]
Although Henry forgot his pants in the beginning of "Be True to Your School," they are just out-of-frame as he talks with June outside her house.
June's light yellow shirt in the first period dance class is shown as a pantone yellow (similar to her regular yellow shirt worn with her orange cardigan) when she calls Mackenzie a "hag."
