While the key to the episode is a huge Griffin Muppet animated, in part, by Henson's son Brian, the humour of its spoiled prissiness is offset by a melancholy subplot involving a doomed ferryman played with convincing
dourness by veteran character actor Robert Eddison.
The look of the film complements the pervasive
dourness; cinematographer Rachel Morrison captures this purgatorial locale with the same kind of gray - green quotidian palette favored
by Tim Orr in his collaborations with David Gordon Green.