Another Strong Songs recommendation from this season: A couple of friends recently introduced their eight- and ten-year-old kids to the “Mah na mah na” song from Sesame Street and The Muppet Show (which the kids insisted I sing along to with them all afternoon—twist my arm, why don’tcha?), so I shared this episode of Strong Songs with them, which dissects “Mah na mah na” (along with “Rainbow Connection,” the Sesame Street theme, and “Pinball Number Count”). I had no idea “Mah na mah na” was a real and established song and not just a bunch of nonsense syllables sung by an orange-haired beatnik Muppet.

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