Late Late Friday night laugh

posted at 2:33 am on November 25, 2006 by Ian

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Ironically, I found this image from a special Thanksgiving weekend edition of Countdown:

In other news: Hell has frozen over.

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My brother and sister tease me to this day because apparently that terrified me as a kid. I don’t even remember it, but they say it would make me cry.

RightWinged on November 25, 2006 at 2:46 AM

Countdown and News is an oxymoron, well, at least a moron. The root word of revolutionize is revolt and Countdown is revolting.

DAT60A3 on November 25, 2006 at 2:47 AM

My brother and sister tease me to this day because apparently that terrified me as a kid. I don’t even remember it, but they say it would make me cry.

The Pink cows are all about the suppression of free speech. Man you saw that, even as a kid.

How can a show with less than 300,000 viewers revolutionize anything outside of San Francisco?

Gwillie on November 25, 2006 at 2:58 AM

Pink Cow, Pinkco, Code Pink. Now I know. The link has been made.
ps I just thought of that has I reread my post, sorry about the double post, but I thought I had to share

Gwillie on November 25, 2006 at 3:02 AM

I’ve been prank calling my sister for years, singing that song.

Dan866 on November 25, 2006 at 3:08 AM

I was about to make the pinko connection, but I’d figure someone would beat me to it.

Ian on November 25, 2006 at 3:27 AM

I believe that video clip was about the quasi-subnational-independent, psuedo-psycosomatic inter-territorial socialist fictional tertiary….. blather, blather.

Nice, Ian. I really needed a laugh and that video was right on time.

hillbillyjim on November 25, 2006 at 5:10 AM

“THANKS A LOT,” Ian; now I can’t get that tune out of my head…….mahna mahna..mah nana mah nana……….AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

hillbillyjim on November 25, 2006 at 6:33 AM

Rusty Humphries version is superior….

“It’s Ramadan!”

Mortis on November 25, 2006 at 7:08 AM

Monkeyfishing?

Sean M. on November 25, 2006 at 7:08 AM

OMG. Bad muppet flashback.

vcferlita on November 25, 2006 at 8:15 AM

Fast forward to 2009.
“And time for another speshul komment. Remember when Bush said…”

p0s3r on November 25, 2006 at 8:20 AM

I want the one with the inch-worm. We’ve only seen it twice over all these years, but we laughed till we cried. Anyone remember it? He’s ‘inchin’ to “Java” by Al Hirt.

jatfla on November 25, 2006 at 8:58 AM

I want the one where two sides are on a battlefield trying to make peaceand “Crazy Harry” comes on with explosives or something and starts blowing people up.
I think they were singing “Why can’t we be friends”.
lol
Btw-Any see what the blogger “Dissident Frogman” did with a punk version of Manah Manah after the 2004 elections?
It was too funny.

annoyinglittletwerp on November 25, 2006 at 9:08 AM

How about a Saturday morning laugh?

When the LLL is involved, laugh is all you can do.

JammieWearingFool on November 25, 2006 at 9:22 AM

You can work this little ditty into conversation whenever someone uses the word “phenomenon”.

mikeyboss on November 25, 2006 at 9:27 AM

I always loved those two old bastards in the balcony. They always cracked me up!

LOL!!!

Yakko77 on November 25, 2006 at 10:20 AM

*chuckling* Thanks! I still think the funniest thing on this show was the Swedish chef and his mumbling then saying”frog’s legs”while Kermit was around…MORE MUPPETSTUFF PLEASE

labwrs on November 25, 2006 at 10:59 AM

Front page story is a fishing monkey razzes the camera? And this warrants 500 words? is that an actual chronicle paper?

lorien1973 on November 25, 2006 at 12:05 PM

Before last year’s Super Bowl, a Steelers fan changed to words from “Manumanu” to “Polumalu” (as in Troy Polumalu).

BigOrangeAxe on November 25, 2006 at 12:41 PM

The headline and the picture! Countdown “evolutionizes” news maybe.

CrimsonFisted on November 25, 2006 at 12:42 PM

Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t understand anything below the muppet video in that post. :-(

And that presumes that the muppet video doesn’t actually mean anything.

DaveS on November 25, 2006 at 12:52 PM

Proof that Jim Henson(R.I.P.) was on some other planet, or did drugs, or both!

Grover rules!

kevcad on November 25, 2006 at 1:08 PM

Hi, kevcad:

Jim Henson was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. Which explains a lot right there.

I can still remember seeing his first generation, proto-Muppets doing classic 30 second ads for Wilkins Coffee. Nearly all involved a cannon or explosives of some sort.

An incredibly talented Marylander, who is sorely missed.

I always prefered Animal!

Jack.

Jack Deth on November 25, 2006 at 1:22 PM

Jim Henson was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. Which explains a lot right there.

Hey, I’m from Baltimore, and I know what you mean.

Ian on November 25, 2006 at 2:33 PM

Wasn’t that song from Sesame Street originally?

Scot on November 25, 2006 at 4:34 PM

I question the timing

RightWinged on November 25, 2006 at 5:28 PM

I always prefered Animal!

Jack.

Jack Deth on November 25, 2006 at 1:22 PM

HELL YEAH!!!

ANIMAL RULES!!!!

Yakko77 on November 25, 2006 at 5:30 PM

Jack –

I agree. Animal’s drum battle with Buddy Rich remains the gold standard, for my money anyway.

Kadnine on November 25, 2006 at 5:38 PM

I think the Pelosi and the House Democrats have just found their theme song.

GT on November 25, 2006 at 6:39 PM

It’s okay, Rightwinged. Watching it just now I got a little scared too.

ZRyan on November 25, 2006 at 9:28 PM

Thanks so much for the link, Kadnine!

I was wondering if You Tube had that tremendous Drum Battle.

BUD-DAY RICH!!!

Wakko, Dot, Dr. Scratchansniff and Helllllo Nurse are looking for you, Yakko.

Jack.

Jack Deth on November 25, 2006 at 11:57 PM

I’ve Ops Checked this link to make sure it works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCYSb-Fr3oM

Searched YouTube for old Wilkins Coffee Ads. If it doesn’y Hyperlink, just Cut & Paste.

Jack.

Jack Deth on November 26, 2006 at 12:08 AM

Jack Deth on November 26, 2006 at 12:08 AM

Excellent link Jack Deth. Those were very much before my time but I appreciate seeing them after hearing about it in an earlier post. I never knew…

thedecider on November 26, 2006 at 12:37 AM

For all of these years I had always thought he was saying “phenomenon”. No wonder my life has been so mixed up.

Maxx on November 26, 2006 at 1:28 AM

The song “Mah’na Mah’na” was originally written and performed by Piero Umiliani, for a documentary (more like a soft-core porn flick in my opinion) called “Sweden: Heaven or Hell?”

I have no idea exactly who or what inspired Jim Henson to make this song the first scene of the very first Muppet Show (someone correct me if I’m wrong on this), but this is definitely seminal Jim Henson.

And by the way, those creatures singing the backup, are known as Snowths, since they have mouths at the end of their snouts. Snowths. ;)

gryphon202 on November 26, 2006 at 2:56 AM

Aaaaaniiiiimaaaaalll!
Animal rocked!

MITX on November 26, 2006 at 10:16 AM

Cake covered this on the soundtrack for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Very cool cover song. About :56 seconds into this clip.

carlitos on November 26, 2006 at 11:05 AM

er, this clip.

carlitos on November 26, 2006 at 11:06 AM

Professor Honeydew and beaker were classic. We had a sports caster in Chicago who looked amazingly like the good Professor. Never met anyone who looked like Beaker, though.

bloggless on November 27, 2006 at 7:36 AM

“Never met anyone who looked like Beaker, though.” I should hope not. Beaker was king of odd looking.

bentman78 on November 27, 2006 at 8:38 AM

Bentman, what???? and Professor Honeydew was normal looking?

bloggless on November 27, 2006 at 9:58 AM