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Seeing as how the Boston Pops played tonight and all…

Published 3:15AM, Wednesday, 07/05/2006 in The beauty of the Interweb, SCIENCE!, Uncategorized

When I were a lad, my mom had a boxed set of the Boston Pops doing — wait for it — popular songs. Among them was one of her favorites (a family favorite, really), “Mah-Nah-Mah-Nah.” Family consensus regarded the Boston Pops version as a cover tune, though. Everyone knows that if “Mah-Nah-Mah-Nah” is to be sung, it is to be sung by muppets.

Now, through the magic of YouTube, which is really the greatest thing to hit the Internets since Google, here’s the original muppet version from Sesame Street:

Seriously: huge open-mouthed OMG smile, doing the chairbound “I can’t believe how fucking wonderful this is” dance.

(via Slacktivist)

UPDATE: Holy crap.

12 Responses to “Seeing as how the Boston Pops played tonight and all…”  

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  1. 1 Nicole Jul 5th, 2006 at 10:16 pm

    I always thought that the band sang that song- and Animal did the mah nah mah nuh part! Who knew?

  2. 2 Ananth Jul 5th, 2006 at 11:19 pm

    there are more videos….

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3146119748971880102

  3. 3 Steve Jul 6th, 2006 at 3:14 am

    When someone asks you, what has America done for the world, you may tell them, muppets.

  4. 4 Steve Jul 6th, 2006 at 3:16 am

    Also, have y’all watched the Johnny Cash video? It’s fucking brilliant.

  5. 5 Tom Jul 6th, 2006 at 9:34 am

    I thought the definitive version was the Rowlf (sp?) version? No?

  6. 6 Jennifer Jul 8th, 2006 at 12:41 pm

    There is too much rock for just one hand.

  7. 7 Steve Jul 11th, 2006 at 11:58 pm

    I thought the definitive version was the Rowlf (sp?) version? No?

    Is there a Rolf version? I demand that you mine YouTube and find out.

    There is too much rock for just one hand.

    Right. Jesus. That should be the motto on all American currency.

  8. 8 Tom Jul 12th, 2006 at 9:09 am

    My bad. The version you have is the version I’m familiar with, though I’ve only heard it, and never seen it (I wrote the above comment before clicking on it). The voice of the dude sounds like Rowlf, probably the same guy.

  9. 9 Steve Jul 12th, 2006 at 12:41 pm

    The voice of the dude in the above clip is Jim Henson. I’m almost positive Rolf was done by Frank Oz.

  10. 10 Steve Jul 12th, 2006 at 12:46 pm

    Wait, this is the Internet, I can find out whether I’m right in seconds.

    Nope, look at that. Rowlf was totally voiced by Jim Henson. In fact, he appears to have been Henson’s favorite muppet. Advantage: Tom.

  11. 11 Ananth Jul 12th, 2006 at 5:37 pm

    In fact, rowlf was henson’s first mupppet I believe. It is now policy that rowlf will forever remain silent after henderon’s death.

  12. 12 Steve Jul 14th, 2006 at 1:43 am

    Aha! Turns out it’s not Rowlf I was thinking of, it’s Rick Santorum.

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