# What's the name of the manamana song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309 "2005-04-08T00:18:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/1 "2005-04-08T00:18:35Z")
I remember it from Sesame Street. Manamana Boppee peedebie Manamana Boppee peedee Manamana Boppee peedebie peedebie peedebie debie dee dee dee dee dee. You know what I mean! ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/2 "2005-04-08T00:24:30Z")
Manah manah. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/3 "2005-04-08T00:26:30Z")
Or Mahna Mahna [http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/7452/](http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/7452/) ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/4 "2005-04-08T00:30:14Z")
BTW…It is a quicktime file. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/5 "2005-04-08T01:00:54Z")
**Biggirl.** Nitpick/ It was definitely the Muppet Show… unless it was somehow on both. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/6 "2005-04-08T01:06:32Z")
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahna\_mahna](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahna_mahna) ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/7 "2005-04-08T01:09:04Z")
[Info](http://www.poppyfields.net/poppy/mahna.html) Also, the title is proper title, tho’ no one uses it is “Mah na mah na” behold, the original, premuppet show song: [http://www.geocities.com/pieroumiliani/](http://www.geocities.com/pieroumiliani/) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/8 "2005-04-08T01:19:27Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > **Biggirl.** Nitpick/ It was definitely the Muppet Show… unless it was somehow on both. This just goes to show how old I am. It was on Sesame Street when I was very little. It was on The Muppet Show when I was older. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/9 "2005-04-08T01:29:38Z")
Whataminit! The song is from a soft core movie? It went from a dirty documentary directly into my babysoft, tender ears? How did I manage to grow up unscarred? ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/10 "2005-04-08T01:36:51Z")
Cake does a sweet version of this on some “Rock for the Kids” album that’s not to be missed! ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/11 "2005-04-08T01:47:57Z")
Maybe it’s just me…but the song without the video just sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/12 "2005-04-08T01:56:39Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Maybe it’s just me…but the song without the video just sucks. If you watch the movie it’s originally from, I betcha you’d see some sucking on that too. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/13 "2005-04-08T02:00:46Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > If you watch the movie it’s originally from, I betcha you’d see some sucking on that too. Eh, it’s probably just implied. ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/14 "2005-04-08T02:04:25Z")
I seem to remember it from the Benny Hill show in the late 70’s, when the PBS station carried it. I didn’t remember it on the Muppet show, but after seeing the clip is does seem familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/15 "2005-04-08T11:51:05Z")
It’s actually the theme song to the John Travolta vehicle **Phenomenon**. Phe-no-me-non Doo do doo doo do Phenomenon Doo do do dooo! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/16 "2005-04-08T11:58:29Z")
The correct name is of course _The National Anthem of the Kingdom of Bahrain._ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/17 "2005-04-08T12:28:53Z")
Last weekend, we were spring cleaning. My daughter was very reluctant to get scrubbing in the bathroom for some reason, and as a delaying tactic, she asked that she be allowed to go get her CD player. I cracked my bullwhip in the air and refused. “But Mo-om!” she wailed. “I wanna listen to some music!” So I stood in the doorway and sang the manamana song for the child while she scrubbed the toilet. Damn, it’s fun to annoy your kids. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/18 "2005-04-08T12:42:11Z")
They did a real funny sequence on the British “The Office” with this song. One guy started doing the “mah na mah na” and another would chime in with the do-doooo do-doo doo part. Then the boss came out of his office to join in, and he kind of fucked the whole thing up and they all clammed up. If you’re unfamiliar with the show, this probably doesn’t sound as funny as it actually was. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/19 "2005-04-08T13:00:54Z")
Currently, it’s being used in a Diet Dr. Pepper commercial with an attractive young woman sucking lustily on a straw. Given the origins of the song, I find it appropriate. 😃 (or maybe that should be :o ) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309/20 "2005-04-08T13:29:23Z")
My older brother had a version of that song on an album (yes vinyl) in the 70’s by _Hot Butter_ Four guys playing those huge synthesizers that looked like they had old fashioned telephone switchboards attached. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-the-manamana-song/298309.md?page=2)