So we got a new DVD in the mail from Amazon yesterday: the entire first season of The Muppet Show, over ten hours of goodness. Said purchase was inspired by repeated watchings by my kids of that Muppet Show sketch that’s been making the rounds recently, Mahna Mahna. (Thanks, Jaq!)

We watched the show’s first episode after dinner last night, and the kids (and me too) were delighted to discover that Mahna Mahna doesn’t reflect some evolved, perfected, matured Muppet zen, the sort of thing they learned to do over time, but is the type of inspired lunacy they began with. And it’s even more fun in DVD quality. The guest star was dancer Juliet Prowse, who did a delightfully silly number with green vaguely deer-shaped creatures to, of all things, Scott Joplin’s The Easy Winners.

We’re looking forward to the next episode.