When George Lucas announced to the world in 1996 that he planned to digitally remaster the Star Wars trilogy, geeks everywhere peed frantically into their tighty-whities. When Lucas announced that he would be adding additional digital footage, the pee turned a creamy white.

The reality, however, was less than orgasmic.

As Lucas clumsily demonstrated, it is rarely a good idea to go back and try to recapture or digitally enhance past achievements. Those past achievements almost always retain a charm that is quickly lost when it is digitally souped-up.

Try telling that to the Henson Company.

According to TV Guide, Jim Henson’s successor’s plan to poop felt-covered turds on his grave with a resurrection of The Muppet Show – complete with digital effects.

Here’s the description from TV Guide:

“The show will have the original puppets but they’ll be able to walk around,” says a source close to the project. “It’s going to be like the original variety show, not the cartoons that came out afterwards.”

Is this necessary?

Adding insult to injury, the still-secret pilot will feature Paul McCartney. The ex-musician, formerly of a band called The Beatles, once shot an episode of the original Muppet Show nearly 27 years ago in-between marijuana arrests.

We can presume that McCartney will carry a Starbucks coffee cup around throughout the episode. Besides that, the source also reveals more about McCartney’s appearance:

According to one Hollywood insider, Paul McCartney will appear as a celebrity guest at the 27-year reunion. “He’s hilarious,” says the source. “The Muppets keep asking what it’s like to be a Beatle and he keeps telling them he has a new band now. They don’t care at all. They just want to hear about the Beatles.”

You know, The Henson Company seems to be in a terrible state of flux. For a while, they planned to create a sequel to The Dark Crystal, but that was shelved. Then they flirted with creating some new Fraggle Rock movies, but that didn’t get far either. Now this, and it sounds like a bad – and horribly gimmicky – idea.

Obviously Jim Henson was more than some guy with his hand up some puppet’s ass. He was a creative visionary. This company needs someone like that again – FAST.