# Mahna Mahna **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892 "2011-04-18T22:42:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/1 "2011-04-18T22:42:41Z")
Doot doo doot do-doot ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/2 "2011-04-18T22:44:26Z")
That goes through my head every time I hear that name in the news. ---
**Author:** ![HenryGale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@HenryGale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HenryGale)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/3 "2011-04-18T23:54:58Z")
One of the afternoon drive guys on q101 in Chicago used to play a great mashup of this song… Here is (from my memory) a slightly less effective version: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv9JAOzQzJg) Still can’t hear Jet and not think of the Muppets. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/4 "2011-04-18T23:56:13Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > That goes through my head every time I hear that name in the news. What name? ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/5 "2011-04-18T23:59:14Z")
Here in Australia we have a TV advertisement for sunscreen that uses the tune of ‘Mahna Mahna’ and so now I almost completely associate the song with the singing baby they use in the ad. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/6 "2011-04-19T00:33:11Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > What name? [This](http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&pq=mahna+mahna&xhr=t&q=manama&cp=5&qe=bWFuYW0&qesig=U8rISZDZKBPFwNlLnhJezA&pkc=AFgZ2tmN7VQOtPRFIYD_CDUhaY9MExk2RsSnCUqmOJVLKWortrRlTgHDAsWHD1rrdJP7QQ5OUVYjInc3Vv8L9O46C6pdfrG2hg&client=firefox-a&hs=6iz&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Man%C4%81ma,+Bahrain&gl=us&ei=7NesTauqENSSgQf1wbHsCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCcQ8gEwAA) one. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/7 "2011-04-19T00:43:33Z")
The thing that always blows my mind is how that song became an staple of Sesame Street and the Muppets when it originally came from a soft core porn movie, _Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968)_. ---
**Author:** ![Aestivalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Aestivalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aestivalis)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/8 "2011-04-19T00:54:40Z")
The one by [Cake](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us4PJgunZx8)is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/9 "2011-04-19T02:34:58Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > The thing that always blows my mind is how that song became an staple of Sesame Street and the Muppets when it originally came from a soft core porn movie, _Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968)_. Not all that surprising. Henson and Oz, and for that matter their wives and most of the crew, had a very _trippy_ background. Put it this way: During the first season of SNL, Henson and Oz contributed some Muppet sketches. Only they weren’t the CTV Muppets; more like Fraggle Rock, but more adult even than that. I’ve never seen them, but I think if they were deemed too far out for early SNL, they must have been pretty far out. So yeah, it’s not that much of a leap. Jim and Jane could have watched that porn together. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/10 "2011-04-19T03:21:09Z")
Haven’t run into her for a while; I wonder how she’s doing… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/11 "2011-04-19T03:36:10Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Not all that surprising. Henson and Oz, and for that matter their wives and most of the crew, had a very _trippy_ background. Put it this way: During the first season of SNL, Henson and Oz contributed some Muppet sketches. Only they weren’t the CTV Muppets; more like Fraggle Rock, but more adult even than that. I’ve never seen them, but I think if they were deemed too far out for early SNL, they must have been pretty far out. Here’s a video of one of them, Scred, singing with Lily Tomlin. [I Got You, Babe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb68zu_dTmU) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/12 "2011-04-19T04:26:31Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Not all that surprising. Henson and Oz, and for that matter their wives and most of the crew, had a very _trippy_ background. Put it this way: During the first season of SNL, Henson and Oz contributed some Muppet sketches. Only they weren’t the CTV Muppets; more like Fraggle Rock, but more adult even than that. I’ve never seen them, but I think if they were deemed too far out for early SNL, they must have been pretty far out. [The Land of Gorch](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Land_of_Gorch). I really loved those segments, and was sorry they didn’t continue them. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/13 "2011-04-19T04:42:41Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > I think if they were deemed too far out for early SNL, they must have been pretty far out. They weren’t really ‘too far out’…the SNL writers just hated writing for them. (WHY the SNL staff were writing Muppet sketches instead of leaving that to Henson’s crew, I don’t know.) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/14 "2011-04-19T05:00:13Z")
“What’s the ideal rhythm?” “The [Noumenon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noumenon)!” (Now you Kant get it out of your head, either!) ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/15 "2011-04-19T05:05:41Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > The thing that always blows my mind is how that song became an staple of Sesame Street and the Muppets when it originally came from a soft core porn movie, _Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968)_. Are you serious? :p:p:p:p omg, I have to pass that one on. This is the tune that I regularly get into every roommate’s head as often as I can, to the point that years later I can send ‘mahna mahna’ as a simple text and get a ‘ARRRGH FUCK YOU!!!’ back in return. It’s awesome. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anticounterrevolutionary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Anticounterrevolutionary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anticounterrevolutionary)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/16 "2011-04-19T05:30:03Z")
When I was a kid I heard the lyric as ‘phenomenon’. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/17 "2011-04-19T05:47:43Z")
> [@Anticounterrevolutionary](#): > > When I was a kid I heard the lyric as ‘phenomenon’. ☹ And now that’s how I am going to hear it, too! Aargh!! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/18 "2011-04-19T05:51:03Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > And now that’s how I am going to hear it, too! > Aargh!! [More like “rawrrr!!”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Mc55P1i9g) **ETA: Tengu** , I see. Still, they were on SNL. And I agree: why not let H&O create the sketches? ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/19 "2011-04-19T14:35:38Z")
> [@Anticounterrevolutionary](#): > > When I was a kid I heard the lyric as ‘phenomenon’. ☹ [You’re not the only one.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Mc55P1i9g) ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892/20 "2011-04-19T15:34:53Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > This is the tune that I regularly get into every roommate’s head as often as I can, to the point that years later I can send ‘mahna mahna’ as a simple text and get a ‘ARRRGH FUCK YOU!!!’ back in return. It’s awesome. 😛 Not **Bananaphone**? http: [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4j-MBnLQo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4j-MBnLQo) Warning, NSFW: Language. Gore. Raffi. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahna-mahna/578892.md?page=2)