This is what you get when you combine OK Go’s visually intriguing music videos with the Muppet’s doing their classic Muppet Theme. I love how even cranky old Waldord and Astoria are included.
Might I also include an adorable Simpson’s quote about the Muppets while I’m at it?
Lisa: “Dad what’s a Muppet?”
Homer: “Well, it’s not quite a mop, and its not quite a puppet, but man (laughing)… So to answer your question I don’t know.”
Not only are there some ideas in this video for making puppets out of household items but it’s so cool to see such early footage of the legendary Jim Henson. (via boingboing)
OK Go puts out yet another video you can’t take your eyes off of. Cute and funny.
This reminds me what a great show the Muppet Show was. I was just a kid but it does seem like they successfully created a show that adults could enjoy watching with their kids.
I’m pretty positive the clip above is from the Ed Sullivan Show in 1969. (Before my time. And even before the Muppet Show itself.)
Want to know the origins of this song? In the late 1960’s Italian composer Piero Umiliani wrote the song “Mah Nà Mah Nà” for a controversial mondo film about the seedy underbelly of Sweden called Svezia, inferno e paradiso (Sweden: Heaven and Hell). You can listen to the original version of Mah Nà Mah Nà here. (Thank you Wikipedia!)
P.S. My favorite memory of this song is that when I was a really little kid, my dance teacher picked this song as our tap dance recital number. (Hmmmm, there must be a betamax video of that floating around somewhere!)