“Mahna Mahna” is as catchy as a song can be, like a fishing hook stuck in your tympanum. Most people know the tune from a classic sketch that aired during The Muppet Show’s 1976 ...

Unlike the Sesame Street version with the kid Anything Muppets, the characters we all now associate with the song make their debut: Mahna Mahna (the beardy lead singer) and pink alien-like ...

The Muppets made it famous ... Of course when a few generations grow up with the same song, especially one as earworm-ish as Mahna Mahna, it's bound to pop up in other corners of pop culture.

Thanks, you Swedish sauna ladies, for giving us this irresistible earworm. "Mahna Mahna?" "Rainbow Connection?" Tell us your favorite Muppet songs in the comments. Related content ...

But while most of us think of the song as the opening number on ... is the original, original "Mahna Mahna." In 2011, the Muppets released it as a single and it's been stuck in my head ever ...

Largely due to The Muppets and other inscrutable factors, I was berated by the "Mahna Mahna" song all Thanksgiving weekend. Someone whispered to me that this song was originally from a Swedish ...

The song even continued behind the scenes of the show as Mahna Mahna dances and sings his way off stage, past Kermit, and out of the theater. The Muppets visit Koozebane a number of times ...

Do the Muppets’ Snowths and Mahna Mahna have agents ... two television commercials have tarnished that memory by co-opting the song to hawk their goods. Saturn employs the ditty to sell a ...

I’m not sorry. The song debuted for American audiences on an early episode of Sesame Street, where it was performed by Bip Bippadotta and two Anything Muppet Girls. Mahna Mahna—the Muppet with ...

Neither Sesame Street nor The Muppet Show can take credit for discovering the song. Penned by the Italian film composer Piero Umiliani (if you haven't heard of him, it's okay, "Mahna Mahna" is all ...

The new Disney film 'The Muppets' features an eclectic soundtrack that includes oldies by Paul Simon and Starship and Muppet covers of songs by Cee Lo Green and Nirvana. The collection includes a ...