Mahna Mahna
 

Mahna Mahna

The second-best Muppets bit ever.

I loved that bit!

God I miss the Muppets. Quality TV entertainment died with them.

I'm actively looking for the original shows on DVD as of right NOW!

Brian

Doh! don't let Homer hear you say that.

Sadly we Brits have to put up with the usual old rubbish like 'One Foot in the Grave', 'Only Fools and Horses', and more recently 'Little Britain'. Don't know how put up with it all. Somehow we just keep churning them out: 'Monty Python', 'Faulty Towers', 'Smith and Jones', 'The Office', 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme', 'Fast Show', - we just can't seem to make em like the Muppets! :cry: ;)

PS - I can't access the Muppets extract so will take you at your word that it is 5-star rated

Season 1 is out on DVD - I saw it at the store on Friday.

[trivia] That music is originally from a scandinavian porno. [/trivia]



edit: see Piero Umiliani

:lol: Can you imagine two people doin' it on screen... and that's the soundtrack? :lol:

Now try to imagine anything _else_ for the next hour or so.

(Muppet Show Season 1 on DVD == HIGHEST recommendation. The pilot alone is worth the purchase price. And, for reference, Mahna Mahna is the first sketch on the first pisode.)

You're going to make someone ask what your #1 bit is, aren't you?

I'm guessing Swedish Chef.

Although this piece is certainly part of The Muppet Show, I could have sworn that this bit was originally done on Sesame Street.

Rolf first appeared on the Jimmy Dean show, so yeah, there's characters and bits that existed already before the Muppets Show came along.

My fave? Pigs in Space.

#1 is pre-Muppet Show. It's the bit where the two space aliens come across a ringing phone.

Fav muppets were Skred and ( I can't rember his name ) on SNL WAAAAAAY back in the day !!!

The squiddish ones that said "Yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep Uh-huh Uh-huh"?

That's the one!

They may have been my single favorite part of Sesame Street.

The ringing ones have always been my favorite! Brrrrrrriiinng Briiiiiiiiing.....yup yup

That show makes my skin crawl. But I laugh every time I watch it. It's a disturbing combination....

What's funny is that you KNOW the punch line before a bit even starts, but you are powerless to keep from laughing when they finally deliver it.

The guy in the wheelchair who always changes his mind after his friend has done some pain-in-the-ass chore to make him happy is my favorite. That and the "I'm the only gay in the village" guy...Daffyd? Oh, and the pirate matching game skit.


Back to the muppets, sorry :blush:

did someone say ring, ring?

Lj--from the very bottom of my heart, where the corpse-water laps at the ruptured and bursting septic tank, I thank you for the remembrance of something so very close to my heart.

you cock.

Oh Undertoad, I have a treat for you. Look about a quarter of the way down, number 18. Or do a search on the page for yip yip yip. :)

http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/lol.gifhttp://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/jig.gif
That's awesome.

My wife and I just sat here and watched the Martians and the telephone. Thanks, BigV...it has been *years* since I saw that! We cracked ass!

It seems my Mrs. and her brother used to do this skit when they were teenagers, so she was particularly impressed with your find.

Saweet! That early item is amazing when you consider they did it with, basically, towels, ping pong balls, and a few pipe cleaners. Put it under the "silliness that changed you" thread...

Happy to oblige, all. It's nice to be able to find a little something to put back into the cellar. :tips cap:

The "Teeny Little Superguy" and "Counting Song" MP3s on that page are fun, too.

For lumberjim
Another take on Ring Ring

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

Time Life has had a 10 DVD set of the muppets out for several years now. It's got all of the best episodes from the show. I'm not sure if it has all of them or not.

I knew my wife was a keeper when I was dating her and saw her movie collection had the same 10 DVD muppet set that I had.

The Muppet Show appeared not long before I did, but it plays a part in some of my fondest early memories. Statler and Waldorf were my heroes.

Did you know they made some Muppet Show action figures a few years back? Hell yeah.

When I was in high school I had a pose-able Gonzo. I loved Gonzo ... especially his attempt to go for the Maynard Ferguson-like high note at the end of the open credits evrey week. I may still have it in a box that I haven't unpacked in 20 or so years.

My Drumline had an Animal stuffed toy strapped to the front of one of our Glockenspiels.

http://muppets.go.com/main.html

Here's the muppet site. They have trailers and previews for The Muppet Show 1st Season DVD there. Gotta love the blooper clip ^_^

Yaaay! My sister and I used to love the yip yip phone thing.... I already sent it to her - she is going to laugh her ass off!!!

Am I the only person who was creeped out by the Muppets?

I liked Animal, but that was because my Dad used to makie & paint plaster cast models and made me one of Animal at his drums.

They all seemed a bit dangerous to me - like they would come pouring endlessly out of your TV and trash your living room. And I am still freaked out by the Muppets who don't have eyes :worried:

Well if they did.... it would be fun. :D

Your specialness was never in question, Sundae Girl*, but your opinion places you in the minority among your neighbors.

Bunsen Honeydew rocks and Beaker is the *perfect* foil for him.


* you have to ask...

Survey must have been rigged or loaded somehow. I cannot believe that Beaker and Bunsen Honeydew, much as I love them, would beat out Spock and The Doctor.

Oh well. I have learned as an adult that other people are disturbed by clowns - I guess you can't win them all.

No win or lose here.....just the differences that make other people interesting.
Wolf can't believe that everyone isn't a trekie. LJ probably doesn't understand why we all aren't "Dead Heads". Many can't believe that anyone would be turned off by "The Department of Silly Walks".
But opposites attract which makes this Cellar so interesting. Hell, even Urbane Guerrilla is interesting......wrong, but interesting. :lol:

Wolf is a Trekkie?

gulp

[Darth Vader when he found out that Padmei was dead (fists in air)] Nooooooooooooooo [/Darth]

Wolf is a MAJOR Trekkie.

Original Series.

I remember Mah Na Mah Na being on the radio in the 60s - before both muppet versions (and the Cake version). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Na_Mah_Na

What a thread bump. LJ gets credit for digging this up rather than starting a new thread.

Irony at work, or I'm being watched:

I happened upon that song on youtube when looking for war pigs by Cake. So, I posted it in this thread. I had to turn Pandora off to listen to it, and then got busy with customers, so it stayed off for the last 3 hours..... I just started it back up, and it immediately played mahna mahna by Cake. srsly.