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(Slate) Amusing That classic "mahna mahna" song has its roots in Italian porn. Porn... is there anything it can't do?   (slate.com) divider line 58
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zez
2011-11-26 11:22:08 AM
That was the lamest porn I've ever seen.
 
2011-11-26 11:24:34 AM
Puppeteers always seem creepier when they stick their fists inside the puppets, if its during porn music.
 
2011-11-26 11:24:50 AM
zez: That was the lamest porn I've ever seen.

Well to be fair we only saw one minute.... considering 12 blond young Europeans going into a steam house, I think there is a lot of possibilities there after that first minute.
 
2011-11-26 11:28:42 AM
zez: That was the lamest porn I've ever seen.

That was obviously just the G-rated intro part of it. But i can definitely see potential there.
 
2011-11-26 11:30:44 AM
dletter: zez: That was the lamest porn I've ever seen.

Well to be fair we only saw one minute.... considering 12 blond young Europeans going into a steam house, I think there is a lot of possibilities there after that first minute.


Riparano la televisione via cavo?
 
2011-11-26 11:34:50 AM
Bunga bunga?
 
2011-11-26 11:48:06 AM
off to the masterbatoriom for further study. i think i can find something with a outcome about the same.
 
2011-11-26 11:54:30 AM
images.wikia.com
Hey guys!

/They're hot dogs. HAWT DAWGS!
 
2011-11-26 11:58:51 AM
Benny Hill use to play Mahna Mahna in some of his bits. I'll see if I can find the evidence on youtube
 
2011-11-26 12:04:01 PM
Here a video of Benny Hill using the Mahna Mahna song: Link (new window)
 
2011-11-26 12:11:42 PM
This is what I liked about the 70's. The subversiveness in children's programming was subtle and obscure.
 
2011-11-26 12:17:29 PM
"Mahna Mahna" is this year's Macarena . I'm strangely okay with that.
 
2011-11-26 12:19:09 PM
I thought pretty much everybody knew this.
 
2011-11-26 12:22:16 PM
Saw the movie yesterday. It's great
 
2011-11-26 12:22:19 PM
The trailer is pretty awesome.

Link (new window)
 
2011-11-26 12:38:47 PM
Apos: "Mahna Mahna" is this year's Macarena . I'm strangely okay with that.

Please explain. I don't understand the connection.
 
2011-11-26 12:47:52 PM
The setup is identical to the more familiar Muppet Show version, with Mahna Mahna's hoarse scat pitted against the dulcet "doo dee doo" of the twin Snouth

I see what you did there.
 
2011-11-26 12:54:15 PM
titwrench: Apos: "Mahna Mahna" is this year's Macarena . I'm strangely okay with that.

Please explain. I don't understand the connection.


Meaning that it's just as catchy,ubiquitous and eventually plain irritating to some.
 
2011-11-26 12:56:35 PM
ThisNameSux ; The trailer is pretty awesome.

Lol at John Facenda, described as "the voice of God" by the NFL, doing the voice over for a porno film promo.
 
2011-11-26 01:49:08 PM
thesharkman: Benny Hill use to play Mahna Mahna in some of his bits. I'll see if I can find the evidence on youtube

'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In' in the late 60's was where I first heard 'Mahna Mahna'.

/Get off my lawn away from my grass.
 
2011-11-26 02:01:20 PM
roflmao (new window)
 
2011-11-26 02:13:39 PM
Softcore porn.
My favorite oxymoron.
 
2011-11-26 02:32:08 PM
Mahna Mahna was my cellular ringtone before it was the soundtrack to Italian porn
 
2011-11-26 02:37:38 PM
 
2011-11-26 02:51:40 PM
Apos: "Mahna Mahna" is this year's much less annoying that the Macarena . I'm strangely okay with that.

There ya go.
 
2011-11-26 02:54:51 PM
This Face Left Blank: The setup is identical to the more familiar Muppet Show version, with Mahna Mahna's hoarse scat pitted against the dulcet "doo dee doo" of the twin Snouth

I see what you did there.


horse scat pitted against southern doodee.

FIGHTING POOP THREAD!!1!
 
2011-11-26 02:57:03 PM
According to the director of the film, the late Luigi Scattini (new window, in Italiano), "In fact, the film was received very badly when it came out in Sweden. The Swedes made it even a diplomatic incident, with official protests and threats that prevented me from returning to Sweden for several years. The film was broadcast on Swedish television on Christmas Eve, thanks to the complicity of some journalists who sought the scandal at all costs."

He also acknowledges that Mahna Mahna was written for his film by Piero Umiliani.
 
2011-11-26 03:11:45 PM
Wikipedia Page on film (new window)

Makes it sound like a 1968 Swedish version of HBO's "Real Sex"... and nothing wrong with something like that.
 
2011-11-26 03:47:56 PM
dletter: zez: That was the lamest porn I've ever seen.

Well to be fair we only saw one minute.... considering 12 blond young Europeans going into a steam house, I think there is a lot of possibilities there after that first minute.


Soft core porn, I doubt it got much better.
 
2011-11-26 04:01:42 PM
voodoowizard: dletter: zez: That was the lamest porn I've ever seen.

Well to be fair we only saw one minute.... considering 12 blond young Europeans going into a steam house, I think there is a lot of possibilities there after that first minute.

Soft core porn, I doubt it got much better.


Oh? (SFW)
 
2011-11-26 04:19:04 PM
Great_Milenko: This is what I liked about the 70's. The subversiveness in children's programming was subtle and obscure.

But now, nothing is obscure on Fark.
 
2011-11-26 04:25:38 PM
I get the song was used in a crappy movie, but it was just a song first. Wasn't written to be a sound track. It was a minor hit in 1969 or so and then got used in that guys film.

So why is this "has its roots in" ?

Like saying Feist has her roots in an Apple commercial.
 
2011-11-26 04:29:24 PM
Do doo do doo do!
 
2011-11-26 04:31:49 PM
Late 60s Italian softcore. Not as raunchy as "Rated A for Adult" or "Real Sex" but funnier.
 
2011-11-26 04:32:22 PM
Xythero: Do doo do doo do!

mahna mahna
 
2011-11-26 04:39:41 PM
ODDwhun: Xythero: Do doo do doo do!

mahna mahna


Do do-do do!
 
2011-11-26 04:46:38 PM
Generation_D: I get the song was used in a crappy movie, but it was just a song first.

A song composed for the primary purpose of being used in said crappy movie, according to TFA.
 
2011-11-26 04:50:20 PM
IT CAN'T MAKE ME A DAGNAB SAMMICH!
 
2011-11-26 04:52:32 PM
Mixing puppets and porn?

www.stockholmfilmfestival.se

Thought we already agreed this was a bad idea?

/Link is hot only in a very limited sense of the word.
 
2011-11-26 04:55:15 PM
Generation_D: Like saying Feist has her roots in an Apple commercial.

Her name is Feiss, goddamnit. Ellen Feiss.

lh3.googleusercontent.com

/beep beep beep beep beep beep
 
2011-11-26 05:02:41 PM
lh3.googleusercontent.com
 
2011-11-26 05:05:05 PM
my bad...my bad...

s3.amazonaws.com

/these are great and the first time I've seen them, and I wouldn't have found them if some asshat didn't misspell her name
//Ellen! call me!
 
2011-11-26 05:43:16 PM
bestuff.com


RIP NUMA NUMA
 
2011-11-26 06:00:45 PM
quatchi: Mixing puppets and porn?

[www.stockholmfilmfestival.se image 600x338]

Thought we already agreed this was a bad idea?

/Link is hot only in a very limited sense of the word.


GIS for "muppet porn"

farm1.static.flickr.com
 
2011-11-26 06:14:48 PM
Hmm...
 
2011-11-26 07:07:53 PM
Link (new window)
 
2011-11-26 07:11:48 PM
Well, not porn at all, just Mondo. Dammit, I hate when "journalists" don't know what they're writing about.

/There's a very distinct difference.
//I swear.
///Damn right I'm a film snob.
 
2011-11-26 08:49:23 PM
The first time Henson used Mahna Mahna was Sesame Street not Muppets.

Just saying.
 
2011-11-26 09:01:16 PM
Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: voodoowizard: dletter: zez: That was the lamest porn I've ever seen.

Well to be fair we only saw one minute.... considering 12 blond young Europeans going into a steam house, I think there is a lot of possibilities there after that first minute.

Soft core porn, I doubt it got much better.

Oh? (SFW)


If I ever meet you in person, I am gonna kick you in the nuts so hard you farking cry. Who the fark links to a 4.4MB GIF?
WHAT ARE YOU, LIKE SOME SORT OF AOL USER? I HOPE YOU DIE IN A FIRE.

/all done
 
2011-11-26 11:58:35 PM
I've seen the rest of that movie. Apart from a few gloriously vintage bods, it's unfappable.
 
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