This is not only a hilarious and cute skit, it's also evidence of an enduring phenomenon: when given the option to build human representations, eventually, you WILL make yourself and your friends.
@@bloodanddajugs The guy in the back is Frank Oz aka Yoda and Fozzie Bear, and the guy to the right is Jerry Nelson aka The Count (Among dozens and dozens more)
I saw these actual puppets in the Jim Henson Experience that traveled to my town, along with many other old Jim Henson puppets throughout the decades. It was one of the coolest exhibits I think I’ve ever seen. I highly recommend attending this wonderful exhibit.
Jim Henson once said if someone had told his mother he would take a golf ball and her old green coat and become famous, she probably would have believed them.
Legends Jim Henson and Frank Oz made really impressive, silly, and heart-warming songs and Muppet skits. Their imaginations combined makes for unforgettable memories that we all can share. :)
What makes this video so great is that Roger Miller (who sang this song originally I think) loved making kids smile and laugh and wrote some of the music for Robin Hood. The fact that it can still make me smile amd laugh at my age is amazing and my 3 year old goes to daycare singin "momma woujoo weep fer me, DEE TEE DEDALEE BOW BA BA BO BO BOY!"
I remember an episode where they had the Henson Muppet out for a song, then he returned backstage, and Kermit does a little double-take. "Hmm, one of them looks familiar!" 🤣🤣
i cant beleive i was really alive and able to comprehend this show when it aired in the 70's o m g im old but even after all these years the muppets rock like no other show !!!!
Since you posted this video in 2007, I have come back here several times a year, listening to this song, and it always puts a smile on my face. Jim Henson was truly a great artist, and all his work is so heartwarming and entertaining and funny at the same moment. Thanks for the upload!
Really? I loved this as a kid - unthreatening - funny - cute - hilarious -- and I never got that "uncanny valley" effect until I saw some bad (common) CGI... I still love it now. Hope it has stopped scaring "the crap" out of you!
@@schubertuk Not anymore, thankfully! I loved muppets of all sorts growing up, but there was just something about the ones that looked too human that really creeped me out :)
I can't believe I've never seen this skit or the Jim Henson (or Frank Oz) Muppet before! Thought I'd seen them all. Thanks for posting! (By the way, if anyone is ever near Astoria, Queens, NY, the Museum of the Moving Image has a permanent Jim Henson/Muppet exhibit there. Extensive and wonderful.)
I first heard this song at the Jackson County fair in the early 70's. The band was called California Zephyr. I bought their album, and I still have it.
I grew up with the muppets as a big part of my life! I have the entire collection! I'm so glad to see others still enjoying them still too! I feel like part of the Henson family! lol I still laugh my head off at this video too... have for years!!! :)
well just in case you all dont know each of these specific muppets were made after the originals, as you can see the banjo player is Jim Hensn i do beleive the others were a producer and an assistant of some sort and i agree nothing makes me smile more than this video thanks for all the laughs when i was a kid Jim may you rest in peace god bless you!.
Jim Henson...... he created magic with those puppets....he was a gift to this world. A super hero that had 4 super powers.....integrity, humor, heart and imagination.....
My grandpa played Roger Miller all the time and I watched the Muppet Show all the time. This and when Loretta Lynn were on the Muppet Show was some serious convergence of childhood memories.
Gabrielle this mad genius only had a few song that this trio did, which is to bad they were hillarious. and i did grow up in the muppets era and it was some of the greatest family television of the time.
You are not alone there. The talented Jack Parnell & his associates helped Jim Henson arrange numerous songs - and quite a few of those arrangements were arguably improvements on the originals.
@fractuss Because it's easier for a muppet performer to use the rods with the left hand and manipulate anything else (i.e. the mouth) with the right hand.
I love how the Jim Henson muppet scrunches his face up as he sings "You don't want my lurrrrrve". Such an insanely catchy song.
The most powerful muppet emotion: The Scrunch
Best part!
@@somoneelse3488 I love ur name;)
From the same guy who came up with the Hampster Dance, Roger Miller
Same thing Kermit does
This is not only a hilarious and cute skit, it's also evidence of an enduring phenomenon: when given the option to build human representations, eventually, you WILL make yourself and your friends.
We tend to recreate what's familiar before venturing into the unknown possibilities of our creative imaginations.
I didn’t he was friends with Wilford Brimley, or that WilBrim was Ginger in his youth
@@bloodanddajugs The guy in the back is Frank Oz aka Yoda and Fozzie Bear, and the guy to the right is Jerry Nelson aka The Count (Among dozens and dozens more)
@@stevem7192 Thank you kindly
I would not be surprised if this was written in an anthropology textbook
I love the way "Jim's" face scrunches up on the word "love". cracks me up every time.
These muppets have more emotive capacity than 99% of TikTokers.
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I saw these actual puppets in the Jim Henson Experience that traveled to my town, along with many other old Jim Henson puppets throughout the decades. It was one of the coolest exhibits I think I’ve ever seen. I highly recommend attending this wonderful exhibit.
Where did you see it? I think I'd make a spectacle of myself I'd cry so much. I'm crying now for god's sake.
Jim Henson once said if someone had told his mother he would take a golf ball and her old green coat and become famous, she probably would have believed them.
So... She was right?
Except it was a ping pong ball.
The Henson face scrunchies! Haha!
I love this so much. Still my favorite Muppet sketch of all time.
"You don't want my luuuuuuuuuuurrve"
Legends Jim Henson and Frank Oz made really impressive, silly, and heart-warming songs and Muppet skits. Their imaginations combined makes for unforgettable memories that we all can share. :)
I am so happy I grew up with the Muppets. They shaped me into the crazy and silly adult I am today. :)
And Jerry Nelson was no slouch either.
Now I have something new to play in loop along with Cotton Eyed Joe while playing American Truck Simulator.
What makes this video so great is that Roger Miller (who sang this song originally I think) loved making kids smile and laugh and wrote some of the music for Robin Hood. The fact that it can still make me smile amd laugh at my age is amazing and my 3 year old goes to daycare singin "momma woujoo weep fer me, DEE TEE DEDALEE BOW BA BA BO BO BOY!"
As silly as it is, this is quite a catchy song.
roger miller
Gregory Paul It was meant to be silly!!!😆😆😆
Can confirm. it's 2 years later and it's still dang catchy.
Wish more song artists, would have songs like this...
He also wisely informed us that "You cannot roller skate in a watermelon patch, but you can be happy if you've got a mind to.'
the algorithm knows me so well. it took 15 years to get to me, but it did. thank you.
Let us not forget that Roger Miller, who wrote this song and guest starred on the muppets, is also dead. RIP guys.
Such huge losses they were.
Frank Oz is the only person in this song who's still alive.
Is that Roger Miller from "King of the Road" fame?
And ... did he voice the muppet with the string bass?
@@DugrozReports Rodger Miller isn't in this particular show, but he wrote the song, and yes King of the Road is one of his most famous songs.
@@JosephJamesScott Thank you!
Let us not enjoy this, but be unhappy, lol
I remember an episode where they had the Henson Muppet out for a song, then he returned backstage, and Kermit does a little double-take. "Hmm, one of them looks familiar!"
🤣🤣
i cant beleive i was really alive and able to comprehend this show when it aired in the 70's o m g im old but even after all these years the muppets rock like no other show !!!!
You’re even older now
Jim Henson, Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson. NICE DESIGNS! That Jim likeness is cool! Great memories.
wow these puppets are desigened to look like Henson, Nelson and Oz. The Henson puppet is used on the back of his biography by Brian Jay Jones.
10/10 The world needs more of this...
The song alone made my day bright through the rain in southeast Kentucky today ty
Everyone loves the Jim Muppet's face scrunches. And so do I. :)
Hahaha, this video still has me laughing almost 3 years after posting it. :)
How about now
Totally...legend for posting..
@@theobserver1925 Yep, still laughing
I really admire the work that went into just this one skit. They really made the muppets look like themselves.
11 years later and it still cracks me up as well! ❤
I can't stop watching this!!!!!!!! And I love the silly noises they make!
I forgot just how much I love this show.
Since you posted this video in 2007, I have come back here several times a year, listening to this song, and it always puts a smile on my face.
Jim Henson was truly a great artist, and all his work is so heartwarming and entertaining and funny at the same moment. Thanks for the upload!
This is absolutely without a doubt the purest genius I have ever seen!
I love it.
Great Muppets and Hanson singing as himself
0:56 watch the face he makes when he says "cuz you don't want my love"
I love it
Done with his hands... Skill.
Puppetry aside, the vocal stylings are pretty high-level in this!
It's so nice to see lynyrd skynyrd play live.
Before CGI, THIS was the kind of uncanny valley stuff that scared the crap out of me as a kid!
Really? I loved this as a kid - unthreatening - funny - cute - hilarious -- and I never got that "uncanny valley" effect until I saw some bad (common) CGI...
I still love it now. Hope it has stopped scaring "the crap" out of you!
@@schubertuk Not anymore, thankfully! I loved muppets of all sorts growing up, but there was just something about the ones that looked too human that really creeped me out :)
OMG that. Was. Awesome! Hahaha I was in an absolute shyte mood and now I'm grinning and guffawing. Thank you so much!
This never ceases to make me giggle.
Don't know why this came up on my recommended videos, but I'm sure glad it DID!!! :) Thanks, I needed this 👍👍
Sadness mixed with absurdity, my favorite
Jim Henson...we still miss you!
Frank Oz (base player) is a hoot in this. Man, I miss Jim Henson
I don' get it!
Brilliance in its purest form
Imagine a guy with tears down his face just going around going “dingdongding bidldldldldling dongdingdong”
It's Jim, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz...I love it!
LOVE IT!! One of the reasons I loved watching the Muppet Show... well whenever the re-runs came on...
I can't believe I've never seen this skit or the Jim Henson (or Frank Oz) Muppet before! Thought I'd seen them all. Thanks for posting!
(By the way, if anyone is ever near Astoria, Queens, NY, the Museum of the Moving Image has a permanent Jim Henson/Muppet exhibit there. Extensive and wonderful.)
I first heard this song at the Jackson County fair in the early 70's. The band was called California Zephyr. I bought their album, and I still have it.
40 years later and it could still get a better number than 9/10 of the shows on television
I cant believe im 41 and never saw these scenes. pure gold
Took me till 42, at least we found it
I love it, LOL! Ging gong ging gong gong......
Can't get enough of this...thanks a million HumNummaHumma!
Well, Muppets never were a part of my childhood but I really like this video
I kinda want to finally introduce myself to this show now
Like this song, need to listen to it at least a few times a week.
I grew up with the muppets as a big part of my life! I have the entire collection! I'm so glad to see others still enjoying them still too! I feel like part of the Henson family! lol I still laugh my head off at this video too... have for years!!! :)
Jim's mouth banjo gets me every time.
oh fuck I'm cracking up over this...they were always frikkin brilliant!
Haven't heard this one since I was a kid. I always remember it as the song my neighbor would sing when he was ready to commit a felony.
That song makes me laugh too. :) I remember those same Muppets sang a neat song called, The Road To Morrow.
LOL me to, but it's hard to belive two of the three of them are gone now
I know right
The base-player checking his fingers at 1:09... hilarious
ellalt That Frank, Frank Oz.
*sigh*
These guys should've had a cameo in The Muppet Movie, like their human counterparts.
It's amazing. Puppets at 240p have more real emotion than most modern content creators have in 4k.
POV: it’s been over 15 years and youtube is now recommending this video to you
The channel name is just the icing on the cake for me with this 😂
Always liked the muppets, love this song and how it was done. They must have had a good time doing this show!
I miss this wholesome and wonderful art...
well just in case you all dont know each of these specific muppets were made after the originals, as you can see the banjo player is Jim Hensn i do beleive the others were a producer and an assistant of some sort and i agree nothing makes me smile more than this video thanks for all the laughs when i was a kid Jim may you rest in peace god bless you!.
Jim Henson...... he created magic with those puppets....he was a gift to this world. A super hero that had 4 super powers.....integrity, humor, heart and imagination.....
Love Jim's face as he says you don't want my love such a catchy song
One of the better country songs in history.
My grandpa played Roger Miller all the time and I watched the Muppet Show all the time. This and when Loretta Lynn were on the Muppet Show was some serious convergence of childhood memories.
i like the bass player best - the way he looks at his fretboard from time to time is hilarious😂😂😂
This bumps so hard
You dont want my looooove
This is an intense performance. The muppets make people miss that.
Gabrielle this mad genius only had a few song that this trio did, which is to bad they were hillarious. and i did grow up in the muppets era and it was some of the greatest family television of the time.
in the second he goes "loove" he starts the voice for the swedish chef :)
Outside: Hah hah! Hippie Muppets!
Inside: 😥 bro same.
On the left is Jim Henson, in the middle is Frank Oz, and on the right is Jerry Nelson. Fantabulous!
That's my new ringtone sorted.
Why can't I stop watching this??
This is amazing
Genius! Pure genius!
They were great 😻
New favorite song!
Omg the way the upright bassist tucjed away in the back is so funny lmao Jim Henson was really just a genius
It is, and Jerry Nelson and Frank Oz
The great roger miller. Best American lyricist ever.
This one song was Les Claypool's inspiration for everything.
That was savage Fred , but probably half true lol
Wonderful I watched this before bed. Creepy as hell.
Why you don't want my luuuurv 😄😭🤣❤️
Shades of Primus
this is fantastic
i am also on acid
I like the lead singer's facial expressions.
I love how Jim’s puppet looks like a country/hippy Jesus
Because Jim Henson looked like a tall country/hippie Jesus.
So catchy. Top of the charts for sure.
0:57 MUH LUUUHHHV
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Have to admit, I love this version more than the original. ;)
You are not alone there. The talented Jack Parnell & his associates helped Jim Henson arrange numerous songs - and quite a few of those arrangements were arguably improvements on the originals.
Odetari vs Jum Henson Muppet
Who wins?
👇
I once dated a guy who told me he hated the Muppets. That's a deal breaker.
Play this at 1.25 speed. It's really fun at that speed, or even 1.5x!
This is freaking awesome
@fractuss Because it's easier for a muppet performer to use the rods with the left hand and manipulate anything else (i.e. the mouth) with the right hand.
My last brain cell ... Well at this moment in 2020 :3
That's really wonderful I love it to death 💕
Thank you, Neko Case