Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

[Sean of the Shed]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tB-In-9pQLs

[3 Colours Red]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Couple of things:

1 - that's probably the most coherent he has ever been and...

2 - the fact he has a Muppet head and human hands is really fucking creepy.

[Sean of the Shed]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

It still made me laugh like an idiot.

[Bored Of Education]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Is that the new Muppets?

[Sean of the Shed]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Yes, on Sky1. It's a bit hit and miss to be honest. There are some really funny lines and moments in it, but it's padded out with some average stuff.

[Patrick Thistle]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

I've been enjoying it. The bar karaoke scene in tonight's episode was highly amusing.

[Sean of the Shed]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Trois Fois Un Rouge wrote: Couple of things:

1 - that's probably the most coherent he has ever been and...

2 - the fact he has a Muppet head and human hands is really fucking creepy.

On reflection it wouldn't have taken much to craft some gloves out of muppet felt (I am presuming that this is the correct term for the material they are made from).
As for coherency, isn't this the case with most Scandinavian recording artists, talking in a thick and discernibly Nordic accent, then singing the tunes like they spent their whole life growing up in California?

[Jah Womble]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Yes, agree re the hands - it wouldn't have taken much to don some sponge Muppet-mittens. (I mean, what is this, Thunderbirds?)

Can't help feeling that the 'moment' was some good while ago now, though.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

I'm also reminded of the old girl in The Wedding Singer.

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Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Sean of the Shed wrote: As for coherency, isn't this the case with most Scandinavian recording artists, talking in a thick and discernibly Nordic accent, then singing the tunes like they spent their whole life growing up in California?

Nah, he sounds exactly the same (or as similar as he could considering they've mostly got different voice artists since the 70s due to... reasons) - it's just less "hurdy gurdy".

[Patrick Thistle]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

The hands thing was quite common in the early days of the Muppets though. Dr Teeth originally had human hands for playing the piano.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Some of the Gerry Anderson shows also had puppets with human hands.

[Jon]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Did anyone else like the Muppets shows from the 90s? I loved them.

Here's Sandra Bullock singing Mana mana

[Jah Womble]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Jongudmund wrote: The hands thing was quite common in the early days of the Muppets though. Dr Teeth originally had human hands for playing the piano.

They weren't wrapped in Muppet gloves?

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Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Stumpy Pepys wrote: Some of the Gerry Anderson shows also had puppets with human hands.

That's different though - they were meant to look like humans... apart from the massively distended craniums, that is.

[Bored Of Education]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Jon wrote: Did anyone else like the Muppets shows from the 90s? I loved them.

Here's Sandra Bullock singing Mana mana

Is it wrong that that clip makes me fancy Sandra Bullock even more. Is it also wrong that I watched that just before the remembrance two minutes silence and was thinking about it more than the fallen dead?

[Patrick Thistle]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

Jah Womble wrote:

The hands thing was quite common in the early days of the Muppets though. Dr Teeth originally had human hands for playing the piano.

They weren't wrapped in Muppet gloves?

Rowlf's were when he played the piano, but Dr Teeth's weren't. They were Jim Henson's hands.

[EIM]

Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA

Peerless.

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Swedish Chef performing Rapper's Delight

EIM wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA

Peerless.

Beaker is the best Muppet - end of discussion.