Comedy Central is running commercials for the seven new weeks of the current season of South Park, with swirling cutouts of the popular characters.
There is a piece of classical music that plays in the background that I love but don’t know the name of it or who composed it.
Does anyone else know?
It’s Dance of the Hours by Ponchielli, the first section of which Allan Sherman so wonderfully mangled into Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah.
Grazie!
Well THANK YOU for getting those lyrics stuck in my head.
Particularly since I can only remember the first four lines. And laughing till my stomach hurts every time I hear it.
Whistle . . . (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddh, How’s my sister . . " damned Pig.
It was also, obviously, featured in Fantasia’s ballet parody, with the dancing hippos, ostriches, and crocodiles.