Comments on: Late Late Friday night laugh

By: bloggless

bloggless — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:53:04 +0000

Yes, carlitos. Perhaps you could do a side by side for us, as I am not tech savy.

By: carlitos

carlitos — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:43:25 +0000

We had a sports caster in Chicago who looked amazingly like the good Professor.

Brad Palmer, right?

By: bloggless

bloggless — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:58:46 +0000

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

By: bentman78

bentman78 — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:38:37 +0000

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

By: bloggless

bloggless — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:36:32 +0000

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.

By: carlitos

carlitos — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:06:14 +0000

er, this clip.

By: carlitos

carlitos — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:05:47 +0000

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

By: MITX

MITX — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:16:08 +0000

Aaaaaniiiiimaaaaalll!
Animal rocked!

By: gryphon202

gryphon202 — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:56:09 +0000

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. ;)

By: Maxx

Maxx — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 06:28:33 +0000

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

By: thedecider

thedecider — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:37:37 +0000

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…

By: Jack Deth

Jack Deth — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:08:35 +0000

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.

By: Jack Deth

Jack Deth — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:57:56 +0000

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.

By: ZRyan

ZRyan — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:28:44 +0000

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

By: GT

GT — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:39:33 +0000

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

By: Kadnine

Kadnine — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:38:57 +0000

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

By: Yakko77

Yakko77 — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:30:29 +0000

I always prefered Animal!

Jack.

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

HELL YEAH!!!

ANIMAL RULES!!!!

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:28:05 +0000

I question the timing

By: Scot

Scot — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:34:10 +0000

Wasn’t that song from Sesame Street originally?

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:33:50 +0000

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.

By: Jack Deth

Jack Deth — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:22:30 +0000

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.

By: kevcad

kevcad — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:08:26 +0000

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

Grover rules!

By: DaveS

DaveS — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:52:08 +0000

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.

By: CrimsonFisted

CrimsonFisted — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:42:22 +0000

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

By: BigOrangeAxe

BigOrangeAxe — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:41:56 +0000

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