The Muppet Show

Is coming my way via the Seattle Public Library. Gonzo, that nose, those chickens, the horn and the motorcycle stunts... Pigs In Space... The giant shaggy monster that was a common sight in one-a those big musical numbers. hee... Can almost see one-a those songs right now. Looking forward to the episode that guest stars Peter Sellers. He's been in many more good movies than what I'd be able list offa the top-o my head, so I'll lay one out on the proverbial "plate", but with some "real" bread and cheese... one you may've not seen, Being There. His character is Chauncey Gardener... er, that's what people think his name is. The basic story, though adapted and changed for film, was a short book written by one of my top- top-favorite authors, Jerzy Kosinski.
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider. -scott renshaw

Also while stumbling through the library catalog, I came across a compilation of classic Muppet music.

*Mahna Mahna Video*
(right click, save target as... if you want a copy or want to see it FULL SCREEN)
Ugly (CookieMonster Diet Tipster) owned a cd very similar to this hits collection. He gave it to Mr. Angad. Mr. Angad, under spurious circumstances, put many of his posssessions in my guardianship for months and months and months. This cd was in with all of his things... i was given permission to play with his tech gadgetry and listen to his cds... somehow, I lost this muppets disc, but now it's coming back and is almost the same... very nearly, close
So, Mr. Angad, I'll be sending you a copy here pretty soon. It is classic music, can be wildly entertaining.
mahnama-nu doo dee da doot doo mahnamana....

IN HONOR OF AN OLD CONTROVERSY(sp?):
"Why are there... so many... songs about rainbows... and what's on the other side?" You know the song, er, I guess you know it or not. I bet you do, "The Rainbow Connection". There is only one rainbow song that comes to my mind "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" made famous by Judy Garland in a movie called The Wizard of Oz. Every Thanksgiving that thing would come on network television. I don't know about you, but every single year I looked forward to seeing that thing. I guess someone like Michael Jackson or Ted Turner bought the rights to it and now I never see it. I mean, is Matt's son (ie Matt's property), Luca, to grow up in a world without Wizard of Oz? I liked it with Thanksgiving, that's all.
Regardless, 1 RainBow song does not qualify as "so many" to me or many of you, I presume. So today's challenge is to come up with songs that even have a passing reference to RainbowS. I Kermit a Liar? Only you can vindicate him, only you.

*Now thinking about those Muppets singing and dancing I simply can't not highlight my favorite non-human dancers. Those nutball Peanuts characters. Super chin-in-the-air, waggin' your tail, funnest(!) dancin' around
**And so you know, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a cartoon, and very funny
***The original The Office is that much better after seeing the American version... I'm giving the new one a chance.
****If you loved Seinfeld, why have you not hunted down the dvds of Curb Your Enthusiasm? 3 seasons are out on dvd, lucky the library had'm all. Larry David = Funnier
*****Remember, rainbOw Songs