“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That honour would go to one of the excellent musical numbers that feature in the show, which opens with one of the Muppets’most beloved songs, Mahna Mahna. Another song that was used previously ...

Instead they've been told to, well, act like Muppets and greet each other with ... salutations such as ''hello'' and opt instead for ''mahna mahna'', a nonsense phrase made famous in a 1976 ...