Lesbian BDSM and the Muppets
I just learned something totally amusing and insane! The "Mahna Mahna" song made famous by the Muppets started out in the soundtrack to Svezia, inferno e paradiso (1968), a softcore pornography film! It was apparently used as the backing music for a scene involving lesbian BDSM! I completely need to see this movie! And yet, it doesn't seem to be on sale anywhere. I've said this before, but something has clearly gone wrong with capitalism.
Update: My friend Sean has alerted me to the existence of the trailer on YouTube. Warning: contains boobs and butss. Also warning: Does not contain the Mahna-Mahna song.
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huh. I think that's really about the only response I have to this one. oh - and to point out the humor in the fact that the film is billed as a documentary. right. "Sweden" is a documentary like, well, like Sesame Street's a porno...please no one take that any further.
Posted by: Steve | September 18, 2006 01:35 PM
i couldn't remember it, so i went and found the original video on the intertron. i guess you could see the lesbian subtexts, but i didn't know that birdo was originally a muppet.
Posted by: minister lantius | September 18, 2006 02:10 PM
It gets more disturbing than that - the first Muppet use of Mahna Mahna was actually in [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVjNX73l858"]Sesame Street[/url].
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September 18, 2006 03:49 PM
I'm not sure who was responsible for the scripts, but the muppet sketches that ran on early episodes of "Saturday Night Live" were bizarre in their own right.
In one episode, the sidekick-character gets aroused when the guest host comforts him.
Posted by: Stefan Jones | September 18, 2006 05:13 PM
Every so often someone posts this video in their Livejournal. I have an animated gif of Birdo blinking flirtatiously, ready just in case.
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September 18, 2006 07:34 PM
I only hope I someday understand why hitting pinatas with sticks is disturbing but lesbian BDSM isn't.
Posted by: Bob S. | September 19, 2006 07:04 AM
Where did you learn this? I'll be annoying people with this tidbit for years!
Posted by: Ian Wallace | September 19, 2006 12:36 PM
Consider this Swede amused. (Definitely not "Bored with sex, bored with drugs, bored with life itself.")
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September 19, 2006 09:41 PM
Oh dear. The especially disturbing bit about this for me is that my wife and I used the Muppet Show version of the song as the recessional for our wedding. That, I suppose, is what we get for trying to be goofily hip or something.
Fortunately, I doubt anyone there was aware of the connection.
Posted by: Avrom | September 21, 2006 03:11 PM
Oddly enough, I discovered this exact same odd fact a few weeks ago. (Posted it on yam, even.)
Thank you for reminding me, so I can be weirded out by it all anew.
Mahna Mahna was written for a swedish porno. Huh.
Posted by: Evan | September 22, 2006 08:02 AM
Not exactly. It was a French novelty pop song that got grabbed for the movie. (Those movies often did not pay rights for music.)
When anyone says "phenomenon" in the singular or the plural, it is required by international law that you say: "doot dooooo de doo doo".
Posted by: Craig Shergold | October 8, 2006 02:39 AM