Jabberwocky

[LilliamandCito]

COLOH CALAY OH FRACIOS DAY

[penrose3000]

So. Miss Piggy + Kermit the Frog = ... momeraths...

[FutureOrkidTrainer]

My teacher made us watch this in english :3 it was awesome XD

[oranjellofish]

burble burble

[Fiondra]

This is the best version of this poem I've found. XD

[Fiondra]

When I was little, this scared the friggin crap out of me.

Now it's funny. That's so weird.

[BagelCA]

0:28 you can see hand at bottom right

[OfficialJabberwocky]

Yeah

[PhilK1231]

Doing Jabberwocky on the Muppet Show - we don't have any like prog nowadays.

We've got brainless crap like X-Factor instead. No wonder our average IQ has plummeted

[chinnesekitty55]

Good job! look at our jabberwock we did for our english class its funny! just type in youtube.com then put this at the end! watch?v=RlaZ-hmvOfM

[Imforeverone88]

Uh no sorry this is NOT the tone which I believe Caroll intended this to be read. Needs to be more serious with almost a mysterious tone.

[phlizmo]

@Imforeverone88 yeah ..its the muppet show.

[Ozarkeree]

@Imforeverone88 Are you kidding me? The whole poem is a parody. Or were you seriously trying to wax mystical about mimsy borogroves?

[oranjellofish]

@Ozarkeree I don't think that it was necessarily meant to poke fun at the literary sensibilities of the era so much as to amuse and delight children (and adults) in itself. To that end, a more serious, mysterious tone might serve as well as a wholly farcical one by adding a sense of ironic grandeur. I know that I would've preferred the former as a child--it would've added to the tongue-in-cheek effect of the storytelling.

[WorldChallenge]

It's borrow-groves, not borough-groves.

[oranjellofish]

@WorldChallenge I think you mean "borrow-goves".

[beccymalloi]

Seth Rogen sounds like that dog (Ralph) you mean. Word.

[femoman]

LOL, brilliant! I'm glad they kept the images of the creatures properly! The beamish boy is right, this is the weirdest thing they've done on the Muppet Show!

[eric262003]

Sounds like Frank Oz as the voice of one of those brown raccoon like creatures.

[lindaguitar]

Love it! I love the muppets anyway, and love that poem (and all the others in the Alice books). Put 'em together and you've got awesome! :-)

[Madams1977]

This was probably the first poem that I ever memorized, and it was after watching this when I was little. I was there every week for the Muppet Show, and am faithfully collecting the DVD's as they are released. I know this beating a dead horse, but: If you don't like a video, WHY THE FUCK WATCH IT?? Douchebags...

[NikrotiN]

battlefield bc2 4tw!

[Shotgunner56]

at the end, Kermit is like

"Damn, never noticed my feet are huge"

[anthonyreynolds1995]

i hate the poem jabberwocky it make no sense

[jibberjabberwock]

@anthonyreynolds1995 it isn't supposed to. Half the stuff Lewis Carrol writes is nonsense. That's why he's so marvelous.

[predalien211]

at least they kept the look of the jabberwocky like the other idiots didnt

[singslug]

this sucks.

[Kikyobadgirl]

i now disagree cause this is kinda lame. if they want 2 teach our kids good junk then they need the old people who did the sesame street cords. cause this is just lame and SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Courtney77]

As someone who grew up watching The Muppet Show every night, I have to say that kids' (and most adults') programming today, by these standards, is rubbish in terms of sheer creativity & pluck! Plus, I think The Muppet Show helped to expose kids to classics like these without them being stuffy or boring...*sigh*...does anyone else miss Jim Henson?

[Kikyobadgirl]

i agree big time.

[insanitysketch66]

LMAO I tell ya his is the wierdest thing weve ever done on THIS show!!! LMAO

[streetswell]

The existensialists can keep their Kierkegaard and their Sartre. Give me Lewis Carroll anyday -- that guy knows what time it is!

[insanitysketch66]

lmao!!! 1:52

[evilrabbitLinda]

burble burble! XD simply brilliant!

[ElectricEdgewave192]

sounds even more weirder when the muppets do it

[flippywolfie]

I love this!!!! LOL

[andyygz]

does anyone else think that dog kinda sounds like Seth Rogen?? lol

[Zenjedi99]

Jim Henson IZ 1,000,000 X Kooler than Seth Rogan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Courtney77]

Yeah, he kinda does, or maybe Seth Rogen sounds like Rolf? Kind of a "the chicken or the egg" problem!

[CESkootchy]

@andyygz His name is Rowlf, and he was around before Seth Rogen was even born

[andyygz]

@CESkootchy yeah I know... I'm just saying that it's funny :-)

[Madams1977]

@andyygz yeah maybe, not really, LoL, but good observation :-)

[randomandproudqueen]

@andyygz That's because it IS Seth Rogen....not the voice, the puppet XD

[979cake2]

Haha.......we have to memorize this for RLA.

[zoeyluverCG]

O_o

[randompplzdoinrandom]

. . . well then . . .

[WiccanThorn26]

This used to scare me but now i think it's funny XD

[jumpinjax2]

That's still kinda creepy.

[popmummy43]

if you dont understand the words that is because they are suitcase words where you get half of one word and half of another and put them together

[tehreporter]

Alice in Wonderland would have made more sense if Alice had been feeling very nausious prior to seeing the white rabbit (nausia is a common side effect of eating psilocybin mushrooms)

[TheHarlequinHatter]

Except, Alice had nothing to do with drugs. In fact, Lewis Carroll was well known for his adversity to drugs.

[tehreporter]

oh come on back then the victorian method of treating illness was basically 1: mix liquid with opium 2: drink untill symptoms go away ( an alternate version is to drink a mixture of something hideously poisonous to make you poop more

)

[TheHarlequinHatter]

Yeah, but assuming that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is drug influenced is a very bold assumption. Especially since Charles Dodgson was a church deacon, known to be against medicines and drugs, and almost all Carrollian scholars agree that the likely hood that he was on drugs, or that Alice was influenced by drugs is very small. AIW was a story he told some children he was baby sitting once. If you really want to know what influenced AIW, read The Annoted Alice.

[KyleBugaboo]

burble, burble, burble....galomph, galomph, galomph... lol.

[birthmarkslaya826]

what does "outgrabe" mean?

[Ozarkeree]

The majority of the words in this poem are intentional nonsense, but you can find the retconned meanings on Wikipedia.

[birthmarkslaya826]

LOL i was being sarcastic

[Ozarkeree]

Oh, good! XD Sorry, it's YouTube - you never know.

[gaymidas]

@Ozarkeree You don't need wikipedia... Humpty Dumpty makes the translation

[igzodian]

It means running around and causing a racket, as far as I know.

[qwsaaswq]

The jabbawocky got their name from this poem

[Bisaleth]

This is gay.

[xXAnDKaTReTuRnSXx]

WTF?

[Abbeyroad37]

Alice's adventures in wonderland. or actually. This was in through the looking glass. Very beginning

[cub68134]

?ouy era, tsol

[goobyhoo]

this mutha fucka mustve been smoking some heavy shit when he wrote dis

[Klopy1414]

@goobyhoo He wrote it with imagination and originality, which is hard to find in this time and age.

[satinhooks]

absolutely.

[darkprinceadam]

Very cool Alice in wonderland Jabberwocky much scaryer ;0

[ReesiePuffs64]

These muppets look exactly like the creatures that Lewis Carol envisioned! Awesome.

[rasellewolf]

omg so did I!

now I have to memorize it...O.o

[RabbitDance]

You get 'm Scooter! This is simply frabjous!

RIP

Lewis Carrol

Jim Henson

and Richard Hunt

We love you

[redzakkattack]

my fav video ever!!! and i want to fuck elmo!!! ahahhahaha

[junglefuryguy2008]

uhh....

[joementum5]

i thought this was the strangest thing in the world when i used to watch this on the "muppet weird stuff" VHS as a child. after growing up and experiencing the world, i'm happy to say my first instinct was correct. this is the strangest thing in the world.

[lilhano]

i liked this son. we r singing it for choir too.

[TMRonin85]

There's a Bed & Breakfast in Monterey called the 'Jabberwocky Inn'. I was there for my sister's wedding last month. Check it out if you're ever in northern California.

[RabbitDance]

will do!

[lilwoodchuck]

This song is awesome, we are singing it in Choir and it is HARD with all the parts!

[demonbass92]

this scared me SO much as a child

[vielsu]

lol I love this poem because even though almost none of it is in genuine English, you can still understand exactly what it means

[jidjid123]

hahaha.. my english teacher told this poem to us.

it is the most nonsense poem in the world but very ermmm... what was that word again?? neolysis something. :D

hahha

[XxSydneySquidxX]

dude, how can the jabberwocky float with his body come off!!!

[crazykid214]

JabbaWockeeZ!!!

[azrial4421]

was "quit while your a head" in the poem?

j/k

[azrial4421]

omg! i never new muppets did this poem

[SauronPterodactyl]

I always loved this poem! I've had it memorized in my head ever since I was in primary school!

[NaiTaiDai]

Anyone else think the Slithy Toves look more like giant anteaters than badgers/lizard/corkscrew hybrids?

Anyone remember that they used one of the Slithy Tove puppets in the first episode of the Jim Henson Hour?

[Eladnilsor]

That freaking disembodied head scared the sh--- out of me when I was a kid!

But I do love this. =^)

[saturnwithrings]

Funny.

[CoffeeSquid]

Ahh, back to my dear, dear terrified childhood. I had this on a VHS with Gonzo which was a sort of compilation of the weirdest muppets sketches. Being 7 or so at the time I was quite disturbed by the image of it 'wiffling' out of the forest.

[getyamonster]

what is a burble

[Isndez]

A buble is a popping sound, or more like the sound of bubbling water.

[supervideoman347]

i have to remember this poem for school by next week

[Johnny2071]

I heard of this story/poem in 8th grade.

[xroxyluvr36x]

good?

[sibi12123]

wood and burbled as it came

one two one two! and through and through the vorpal blade went snicker snack he left it dead and with its head he went galumphing back

hast thou slain the jabberwock? come to my arms my beamish boy oh frabjous day calooh calay he chrotled in his joy

twas brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimmble in the wabe, all mimsy were the borogroves and the mome raths outgrabe

[sibi12123]

twas brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimmble in the wabe, all mimsy were the borogroves and the mome raths outgrabe

beware the jabberwock my son the jawas that bite the claws that catch beware the jub jub bird and shun the frumious bandersnatch

he took his vorpal sword in hand long time the maxome foe he sought so rested he by the tum tum tree and stood a while in thought

as if in uffish thought he stood the jabberwock with eyes aflame came whiiffling throught the tulgy

[xroxyluvr36x]

yeah i kno the first lines suck! But i did alright ours was out of 100 and i got a 99 i knew the whole thing but i got a point of for not having good eye contact? ha ha im glad its over with though!

[Draglineoperator]

this is stupid as hell my engish is making us resight it in class, Why? the gettysbuger addres wasnt enough, Hell i still cant remember the dam thing. Iv got the middle down the beging is killing me

[xroxyluvr36x]

Our class has to memorize it too! due tommorow! WOW what a quincidence and i know its hard tio memorize! Good Luck!

[Draglineoperator]

sophmores? as you can tell by my videos Im not the one to just be a chiper person in the moringings, I have the clas 2nd per of the day. "Calooh callay" not... my teacher resembles the jabberwock to,so I look at him and the the monster, and the jabberwock. poor creature sturred up every year by thousands of poor students alll around the world.

[xroxyluvr36x]

Well- we r in 7th grade and we had to do the same thing that you did.....but it wuz pretty easy!

[Draglineoperator]

Howd you do? I think Igot lke an 80. I froze up on like th first few lines because they dont roll well the rest roll nice but that starting lines kill me.

[FloatingNotFalling]

You're being made to recite it in class so you can learn something... perhaps you'll pay attention and learn how to spell recite, address, beginning, and various other words.... or you could just make up your own words like Lewis Carroll did...

Is gettysbuger something you find in your nose ? Or perhaps something much worse....

[TIMETOSMILEORFLY]

"quit while you're a head"....

whatever you do, don't watch my version of this....

[JumJumping]

Twas brillig and the slithy toves, did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogroves and the mome raths outgrabe.

love this ^^

[Alex52Jess]

teriffic!

[Skratch234]

EPIC!

[QueenetBowie]

it's things like this that make people do drugs, it's awesome

[turduckenband]

it was an outgrabe!

uh huh

hahaha

[Masshuzai]

I used to watch the Muppet Show every week when I was a kid, CBS Thursdays, and outside of 2 other sketches (the weird round alien singing 'Wheel within a wheel' and the Furniture eating people sketch) this one burned the most in my memory. Probably because all three of them freaked me out to some degree at that age.

[w0lv3rin3s]

LOL so this is where the jabbawockeez got there name from!!!

[irvin2cartel]

yes

[cutiekwea]

yup

[barkerfence]

i love this poem

[vielsu]

I know I should be ashamed that this is the only poem by heart, but my school made me years ago and since half of it is in no language known to man...it kind of sticks with you :)

[Forcomputerclass2]

shoot me. T__T i have no idea how i am supposed to memorize this by the end of today...

[ilovezebras1]

ok, this was really funny "burble burble" lol "galumph galumph" lol

[NinjaShade04]

This is awesome! The Jabberwocky is one of the greatest poems ever written. Add Muppets to the mix and... well. Pure win. Memorizing this isn't too hard at all. If your school is making you, try doing it for fun, not because they told you too. Great video! I loved it.

[glancesherlock]

"I tell ya' this is the wierdest thing we've ever done on THIS show." XD

Lewis Carroll+Muppets=EPIC WIN

[moneymoney12money]

jabbawookez are awesome dancers

[Sacredtexter]

I love this!

[fleetfoot23]

my choir is singing this for UIL XD

[RandomName158]

Ah, I'm memorizing this right now for school, and for that simple matter, this is amazing.

[guineapigboy]

i only have to memorize verse five XD but i have to act it out :(

[EthanSurbaugh]

"Well you should quit while your a head!" LOLOLOLOL muppets are awesome

[Jennifashow]

oh frabjous day, callooh callay :D

[ChessItsWar]

This is outgrabscious!! Thnx! :)

[kor34n]

omg i have to memorize this peom... FUCK MRS> MULLEN!

[WolvenDance]

I had to memorize it for a class (as well as for fun) and it really wasn't hard. I memorized it completely within 20 minutes. That was 3 years ago and I still know it word for word.

[Derrrsh123]

i had to memorize it for theater 1 LOL

[rikkileigh82]

well a little of education about Lewis Carrol. . . first of all he was not high on acid. . . he was pyschotic. . .he was preist that was in love with a little girl named alice who loved nonsense and he made both of the books for her. . . just a little fyi

[Nightman221k]

You're a bit more accurate than what joalskii said. I'm not sure he was psychotic and he wasn't a priest (I think he tried it but left it because he thought he was unworthy because of his sins). But you were right about him being a pedophile and he did write Alice about a little girl he wanted.

[quigonnjon]

GUH-LUMPF GUH-LUMPF GUH-LUMPF :D

[qtkrisy123]

omg

for acting class

we had to take the words that were made up and make up what we thought it ment it was really fun!

[scislandboi]

i love this poem...and the jabbawockeez!

[MikeEsex]

This is my favorite poem of all time =D

[joalskii]

This poem was written by a guy who was high on acid. So really it should only make sence to him.

[anrym08]

omfgggg!!

i had to make sense of this poem for a project at school and it literally gave me a headache!!

[Vayrday]

Doode, me too !

[elementrocks118]

and me LOL!

[xXxiowaroxXx]

i love singing ths for choir

[samcwic]

Hey, Scooter's a lefty! Cool!

[klickenpod]

haha.. rolf is AWESOME here. BeWUUURRRRRRRRRRRRR the jabberwock, my son!

[nerdy123]

the jabbawockeez got their name from this poem.....

[CrazyCartoonCat12]

The Jabberwock freaks me out.

[opsucks69]

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe

[klickenpod]

* momewraths

:)

[opsucks69]

uhh, no. thats what it fuckin said on wikipedia

:)

[klickenpod]

no matter what it fuckin said on wikipedia, my annotated Adventures of Alice In Wonderland/ Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There says "momewraths". I didn't think anyone still took wikipedia seriously anymore, what with it's credibility based on random civilian editing :)

[opsucks69]

you dumb fuck.

[regispek]

*mome raths

by The Hurmorous Verse of Lewis Carroll, from 1933, which I own.

[klickenpod]

no way..

ech- well that book is old, but i'd think it would be true. Mine is from 1914, but i'll take your word for it.

[oakberry61woohalol]

Twas brilling of the slithey toaths.

[Onepiecefan89]

most weirdest sketch i have ever seen..and I like it

I like the Jabberwock though..he looks so cool

[SilentKillah4Sho]

jabbawockeez!

[leafia6]

I agree, this is the weirdest thing they ever did in this show.

[JackSquatJB]

at the end, kermits like, "Boy, where'd these feet come from!?"!

[LazyShark1]

omg muppets!!

[TsWade2]

Rowlf look so cute!

[poelover37]

Ah, the Muppets and the poetry of Lewis Carrol. Life is sweet.

I loved this. Only the Muppets could do it justice.

"Quit while you're ahead." LOL!!!!!

[Harlem659]

i know this whole poem. We had to memorize it in English class from our literature text book

[DalekFe]

oh you lucky bugger i wish we could do that in english it's such a briliant poem

[dackjaniels555]

i take it kermit ate some of those mushrooms in the background at the end.

[teenangel93]

Scooter is my hero! <3 :)

[DaggerSeishin]

LOL i've singing THIS song in Choir

[DalekFe]

i didn't know it had a tune!

[cougfanakd102]

yeah my choir sang it too

i can't read the poem now without singing it hahha

[DaggerSeishin]

lol it was sooo much fun to sing it but hard to learn.

[ZeppoThePuppetMan]

While probably not THE weirdest thing they've ever done it ranks in there at a close second or third.

[Chillnrelaxed]

I have to memorize this and say it to a teacher and get it signed...I procrastinated, so I have...about 4 more hours to memorize it...

[muppetspuppets]

I always thought that sketch was longer.

[Minipower30]

jabbawockeez!

[chaddirects]

um....no.

[13thlemur]

Weirdest thing ever done on the show? Probably. But that makes it amazingly awesome.