# R. Pepper jingle name

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-pepper-jingle-name/291371>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 22, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-pepper-jingle-name/291371 "2005-02-22T18:00:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-pepper-jingle-name/291371/1 "2005-02-22T18:00:18Z")

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In the new (diet?) Dr. Pepper (cherry/vanilla?) they had a familiar scat ditty:

_Muh-nuh-muh-nuh_  
_Do-Doooo-de-do-dit._  
_Muh-nuh-muh-nuh_  
_Do-do-dit-doot_  
_Muh-nuh-muh-nuh_  
_Do-doooo-de-do-dit,dododit,dododit,dododit-dododit-dootdoodoodoodoodoot-doot!_

Does this scat have a name?

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-pepper-jingle-name/291371/2 "2005-02-22T18:07:23Z")

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Haven’t seen the commercial, but it sounds like the Muppet’s Mannah-Mannah song, or however it’s spelled.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-pepper-jingle-name/291371/3 "2005-02-22T19:04:06Z")

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Yes, it’s the Muppet song but it’s so much more!

It was originally written by Piero Umiliani and was used in a 1968 Italian porn film called _Sweden: Heaven or Hell_ – a film so salicious, it was actually banned in Sweden!

It was then covered by the French singer Henri Salvador as “Mais non, mais non” and then found its way across the Atlantic by 1969. How the Muppets wound up singing a song from an Italian porn film that was covered by a French singer is anyone’s guess.