Manamana!

After putting up with years of me occasionally breaking into song with 'Manamana!', Kimberly finally caved-in this afternoon and asked to see the classic Muppets Manamana song video. And so for all of you who haven't been exposed to those cultural icons of 70s and 80s, the Muppets, checkout the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC9FtLQJoGM.

[Edit: the YouTube video has gone – try http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4737429188097095733]

Manamana!

11 thoughts on “Manamana!

  1. Doesn’t she lose some sort of geek points for not having seen this? Does she at least know what Muppets are? (I guess I’m older than I thought I was if she doesn’t. :) )

    On a more related note, we once featured this (as a joke and you had to look for it) and gave out a pretty cool prize package to the first one who could tell us the secret word the following day. Let’s just say that "Manamana" was the theme word for that conference, at least among the workers.

  2. Spooky!
    I had this song in my head today. That’s until somebody in my team pointed me to your blog.
    Spooky!

  3. XM radio has been playing a cover of this song by the band Cake on the kids station pretty frequently for the last couple of months, and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head either. Listening to it doesn’t help. Not listening to it doesn’t help. There’s no hope…

  4. Oh, no – I definitely knew what this was and I definitely know the Muppets (no worries there!)… and I have seen this before but not for quite some time!! It’s just that I figured Paul definitely needed to get this out of his head (he needs to make room for other useless stuff :) and I thought watching it would help. Nope, it didn’t. I’ve now had this in my head for the past few days… breaking into song in the strangest of times (like while we were playing cribbage the other day).

    Anyway, you can’t even imagine what goes through his head (well, mine too :) sometimes. I have a feeling a lot of you are the same…………… ;-)

    Happy Holidays everyone!!
    kt

  5. I still remember the first time I heard Manamana. It was on Benny Hill of all places. I didn’t realize until years later that it had it’s first incarnation as a Muppet show song.

  6. I’m dying! I haven’t heard this in years but I always think about my sister and I singing that song to each other. Great memories and thanks for the laugh!

    …and Kimberely, I definitely know what you mean about "breaking into the song at the strangest of times". :)

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