The Muppet Musicians of Bremen - 1

[quizmaster85]

"I'M GONNA GET ME MY GUN, AND RETIRE YOU PROPER!!!"

[cainster]

the donkey sounds like Bender from Futurama

[ubuck99]

I wish i had this on DvD, but this will do just fine :)

[Chanceynamahoe]

oh good old times!!!

[TheBookWorm1718]

Another lost classic from my childhood! I always loved this! My favorite part was always the creepy storm segment with Rover Joe, thank you for putting this up!

[42whatelse]

He look like the foul man from Bean Bunny movie, and he is a friend he had a fight with him. And vision are alike they did to make "The Princess and the Frog" and this is a fine idea, before "Happily Ever After, Fairy Tales for Every Childs"!

[sirjosh9]

"Put down that devil horn, blusher any! You chuckle fresh sweeper!" XD 4:38



[genestarwindjf80]

How come I was not known bout this classic or fairy tale?

[JakobDailes]

"Hope none of you takes that personally."

It's too late for that, Kermit! (sob) :*(

[brynsampottie]

This shit creeped me out a lot

[JimmyCaravan]

3:05 "What the clunge is this?!" I loled XD

[PokemonSpectrum92]

God, I wish this was available on DVD. Then I could watch it all in one go instead of in 6 9-minute increments. Oh, well. You can't have everything.

[NaiTaiDai]

"Okay, but I kinda feel like a jackass."

"Well that figgers."

XD Get it?

[Snoopy120380]

Would be awesome if they mentioned the Musicians of Bremen are from Bremen, Germany NOT Louisianna!

[Jenniphier]

They definately need to put this on DVD. The only way to watch this now is either here (Thank you for that, by the way!) or to get it on VHS.

[screwthenet]

Yet another classic. Like animal farm...with moonshine...and puppets

[nightavatar76]

I loved this movie in about grade 3 or 4, I used to get it out on video all the time :)

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[yamiyugifangirl]

my gosh, they've done a really good job on the puppettering in this film O.O

[CMoneyMillz]

What the klunge is this?

[johnhamilton08]

I think Yosemite Sam would even tell Modercai to calm down

[johnhamilton08]

0:49 because they used to work at McDonalds?

[ElectricShark]

Love Morechai's drunken bayou redneck talk!

"What the clunge is this? A drum? A whatchu' callin' banjo? This junk no good! I don't believe it! We just stole shim shammin'!"

"Jim Jammin' devil horn!"

"Crawlsnarkle tree!"

[GothaBella]

This makes me so happy!!

I had the album when I was younger.

[LadyFantastic131]

Thank you so much for putting this up!! We used to have it on VHS, but we lost it... :( I love this so much!! Thanks!

[wakaratwakawaka]

Wow, I can see the whole thing on here. This will be a treat, I don't know how many times I listened to the LP version as a kid, didn't even know it was a TV program for for a while.

[rinney333]

Awesome a trombone playing dog!!!

[eblasphamy1]

OH MY GOD I LOVEDDD THIS MOVIE!!!!MUPPETS RULE I FEEL BAD FOR THE KIDS NOW THEY DONT HAVEany cool shit like jim hensen when he past away i stayed home from school i was devistated loved that man!sammy davis died the same day i rem the news ill never forget>we lost a amazing child entertainer that day!THANK U JIM FOR THE MEMORIES AND MY IMAGINATION U SPARKED WITH YOUR TALENT AND INSPIRATION!

[Tyronor]

Watch the Fearless Four on Youtube. It is an amazing animated film based on this story. The villain looks like Mr. Burns.

[Giovanni222]

Bremen... is a large city in Northern Germany actually. And a fantastic place it is.

[Keijz74]

I like how ugly the human characters are and how cute the animals are <3

[stoncoldrob]

The human characters used to freak me out as a child

[NutsInGuts]

meeeee tooooo

[TsWade2]

Me three.

[BrickLaneBetty]

wow!!! fun to watch this with my son! thanks so much!

[angrycaveman]

mordecai is a bit clumsy aint he? haha lol

[Bacillus4]

mordecai is a lot of things...clumsy being the least of them...

[xenu4life]

The characters in this are a lot uglier than I remember...

[quizmaster85]

I can practically remember most of the dialogue by heart - that's how well I remember this Muppet classic

[yukseleyy]

Halloween in canada when I was a kid Loved this Thanks for posting

[dennydell2121]

i bought this dvd online only to find out they have yet to make the dvd, so i ended up gettitng a vcr to dvd conversion disc. still love owning it. maybe if i knew this was on youtube i wouldnt have spend the 20 bucks

[pytko3]

Kermit said that Bremen is a little town in Louisiana. I thought it was a town in Germany.

[tubaplayindonkey]

From the Muppet Wiki:

"In a departure from the source material (the folk tale "The Musicians of Bremen"), the action takes place not in Germany but in the Louisiana countryside."

[jeremalaria]

@tubaplayindonkey that's why it's jazz! i never caught that part of what he said.

[RainMan34]

What are the chances of two cities in the world sharing a name? Impossible?

[Cajek2]

Holy crap, I remember this!

[MrNeptoonz]

was this on hbo

[LaDracul]

Hey, isn't Gogolala where that famous jug band from "The Muppet Show" is from? :D

[thrashmetalmike]

one of my all time favorites then and now

[tnchaptnchap]

I remeber this movie from my childhood. Thanks for posting!! Brings back many happy memories.

[lovethesip]

I think that it's awesome that you put this on here. I had a hard time paying 50 buck on ebay for a copy of a copy of this show. Thanks!

[geisler78]

As I told Dave Goetz a year ago at a convention, "I've seen about every ghost and slasher movie ever. But when I saw and when I still see the face of Mordacai Sledge, I freak out!" Scariest face!!!

[LaDracul]

Probably a good one, as well as the one from "Happily Ever After" which had female versions of the donkey, cat and dog and George Clinton as the Rooster, wanting to make it big as soul singers in Bremen. :)

[quizmaster85]

1:35 - classic!

[doctorwhoobawooba]

Okaaaaaaay, a donkey playin a tuba. LOL!

[randomtoxy]

Too cool. I have this LP.

[batlrar]

Wow.

I haven't seen this since I was very, very little. I learned the original German story in high school, and I couldn't figure out why the heck it was so familiar. It's great to see it again, but now I'm amazed at the puppetry techniques and their complexity and how it all looks so natural. In fact, when I was little, I don't remember thinking the characters were puppets at all.

Again, wow.

[johnhamilton08]

It wouldn't surprise me if this was an ancestor of the Dad from A Christmas Story.. HAHAHAHA... but seriously i love this movie.

[johnhamilton08]

"I feel like a jackass" Haha.

[bookmoviesnob]

I bet they had a time deciding if that on could get past the censors!

[FLPman]

@bookmoviesnob

well it was 1972... i'm sure it was a lot easier then

(case in point on how things have changed.. the first two season of sesame street comes with a Parental Warning)

[crazyflat]

I had the record version, growing up in the 80s. Never seen it. Watching it now, what I love SO MUCH is how they clearly want to do some Southern dialog, but don't really know how, so they wing it. Witness Mordacai Sledge... and "put me in boots and call me a duck!"

It's so creative! and of course, "I'm a travelin musician! Don't you love me all to crazy?"

[theukarchivist]

thanks so much for posting this. I see it's not available on DVD, and the last time I saw this was in 1972. I just sat and watched the whole thing (thanks to you here) and laughed myself silly throughout. No wonder the Muppets and Henson went on to greater things - the script, the amazing puppetry and the hilarious voices were superb - enthralling for a 7 year old and so much deeper. The cat had me in stitches and Leroy is a diamond.

[idiotsloveboxes]

I think this would be perfect for like a dinner theatre somewhere. Just pure kinda soulful upbeat music.

[spikelilgirl]

I remember this when it was first one. Scared the heck out of me! Though I did have the soundtrack album and love the music!

[RadAlly]

chester the molester!!!!!!!!!!

[F1315NJ]

the guy who voices Mordecai is awesome. hes got great anger in his tone

[brownsugah66]

Oh my goodness I watched this when it first came out... 'were the traveling musicians ' has stuck with me since it came out in '72

[emd1085]

lol at 6:13

[hawkwind5]

AMAZING!!! Thanks so much for posting!!! :D

[spyrothedragon590]

THIS IS IT!!!! LOL that farmer is XD

[Lizkrose]

I never saw this movie before but as a kid I had it on a record. Almost wore it out. I love it!! Gave the record away, how dumb was I?

[jamesoffutt]

So do I.

[BeatlesAmiYumi]

The part where Mortikye triped always made me laugh! X D

[knibscratch]

This was shown in two parts in the uk & it was a life changing show, I had never seen anything like it, anyway to cut a long story short years later I worked for Hensons on a couple of movies as a puppeteer also the Easter special 'The Tale of The Bunny Picnic' One day while shooting, the head of the farmer was bought out for the first time & put on a table so I went to have a look, & who looked up at me but one of the bad guys from Muppet Musicians, a magic moment for me.

[tubaplayindonkey]

That's a great story, knibscratch! Thanks for sharing. The show impacted me pretty deeply as a youth, too. I know what you mean when you say you'd never seen anything like it. Pretty magical. What an honor to be visited by a Muppeteer! Thanks again for stopping by, watching, and commenting.

[doctorwhoobawooba]

If you worked on them then what is your name?

[knibscratch]

My name is Dave Showler .... whats yours?

[doctorwhoobawooba]

Mine is Samuel Shields, or Sam Shields.

[PokemonSpectrum92]

@knibscratch AHA! So "Tale of the Bunny Picnic" IS an Easter special! I was wondering about that for a while now.

[ZNKChannel]

@knibscratch After reading your comment, I never saw Bunny Picnic. Here it is in 2011, I finally look it up & I see Mean Floyd with a mustache! Was it Mean Floyd or a different farmer?

[knibscratch]

@ZNKChannel Mordecai was used for Bunny Picnic, I thought he looked like Jack Elam who was in lots of cowboy movies in the 1960's/70's.

[ZNKChannel]

@knibscratch Mordecai? It looked like Floyd to me. He had his wide square-like head but with a newly added red mustache. I'll have to watch again & look harder when his head IS shown.

[him6661]

you rule so much for doing this, I can't find a copy anywhere local! major props :)

[b4ifly2paradise]

0:58-0:59 - It's the Glutton from the Ed Sullivan Show!

[reese419]

THANK YOU!!

[glowworm2]

YAY! I remember watching this one as a kid!"It's hard to understand what Mordechai is saying sometimes, and I think that's a good thing!" XD!

[funnyguise]

where did you get this??

I also had the LP and saw it only once on TV

I must have a copy of this...

[FLPman]

i think i've officially seen every single piece of video related to jim henson on youtube.. lol

[Colidape]

Actully Breman is in Germany but its a kids program so I guess they can overlook that.

[FLPman]

well yeah , i suppose it was more relatable, and also jim grew up (early years) in louisiana

[lilystarx5]

I loved this. Please tell me it's on dvd

[rosario508]

It sounded like Leroy was playing the theme from Jaws for a second.

[doctorwhoobawooba]

YES! XD

[MadJohnEscapes]

This takes me back! Oh I love it I love it. Hoorah for nostalgia.

Oh mordecai you a Hi-larious

[Jtaylor1]

The donkey sounds like Bender.

[Garrettk41]

Which Bender are you referring to?

[Jtaylor1]

The donkey

[Garrettk41]

I don't know of any donkey named Bender. Personally, I think Leroy sounds like an older version of X the Owl from Mr. Rogers. Actually, he's voiced by Nick Nichols.

[Garrettk41]

Wait. Forget about X. He sounds, and for that matter looks, like Donkey Hodie.

[irvag]

Do you mean Bender from Futurama?

[Jtaylor1]

Yes.

[wakaratwakawaka]

John Di Maggio was 4 year old when this came out!

[doctorwhoobawooba]

Yeah he sorta does! XD

[thommieboy89]

Thank you, you are briljant

[crowamonghens]

i had the album of this as a kid too, and remember them showing this once on tv in the 70s. i never saw it again til now. bless you youtube

[SeanGoatboy]

Oh man, this was one of my favorite movies I used to rent at the video store as a kid in the 80's. They did show a re-run on Nickelodeon in '93/'94 during the fall which I was lucky enough to record it on VHS then and still have it, althought the quality is starting to go away.

[13MindsEye]

My life has meaning again!!

I love this show!

WHY ISN'T THIS ON DVD!?!

.....or is it?

TO THE BATCAVE!!!

[carebear12499]

Definitely one of my favorites from childhood. I used to have this recorded on a VHS until one of my family members recorded something over it. I was so bummed. Now I can show this one to my kids now that I have a link to it. Thanks so much!

[tubaplayindonkey]

One of my faves too. I'm glad you got to re-discover it here. I used to listen to the soundtrack over and over as a kid and wished I could watch it again. Finally, 35 years later, we can see it whenever we want!

[zoezeppelin]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!! I hadn't seen this in soooo many years! :D

[slashman65748]

THANK YOU!

[Kevorcist]

This was one of my favorite shows as a kid, thank you so much

[armiesofthenorth]

OMG! i had a vinyl version of this and listened to it all the time as a kid-- but i've never seen it before. i am FREAKING OUT!!1!

[wrestler991]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!  I loved this as a child

[rkean44]

My favorite childhood record album come to life. Bless you.

[BeatlesAmiYumi]

Wow!! Awsome! I'm so glad you posted this vid, and that's the truth! Thanks so very much for posting this!

[CanadianKelley]

I am thrilled! This is one of my favorite childhood programmes!

Actually, I was trying to find it on DVD about a year ago; and I couldn't find it

Thank you so much. I can't wait to see the rest!

[classicssmfan]

OMG! Is this supposed to be for kids or grown ups? Considering what Leory said at 6:15.

[Madhatter1903]

Well it wasn't a bad word back then.

[tubaplayindonkey]

A jackass is defined in my dictionary both as a stupid person and a male donkey. As a vulgarity, it's pretty mild, and funny in this particular context.

[classicssmfan]

How was I supposed to know that?  I wasn't there in the 70's and 80's, I was born in 1993, for corn's sake!

[tubaplayindonkey]

I'm glad I was able to make it available to the community. It seemed like the only Muppet-oriented material that hadn't made it to YouTube yet. One of my favorite childhood TV and LP experiences!

[thedivinemsm923]

I have been looking for this video for forever! Thank you so much for posting this!!!

[hanon21]

oh my god. i never thought i ever see this show again. thank you so much. can't wait to see more