Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear

[tecatedan]

One nation under Dog! Impeach Obama, Rowlf for Prez!

[ALOPANES]

i cant watch this video

seen it yesterday! lets chat rY

[psalm2305]

My daughter has done the cutest JAZZ dance to this song! LOVIT!

[Jamiethewookie]

One of my favourite Muppet show songs ever :D

[ViciousSatsuma]

it's originally by randy newman btw, not a mupperts original. still awesome tho.

[Jamiethewookie]

I never said it was. But it was on The muppet show making it One of my favourite Muppet show songs ever.

[JulianThomePictures]

Can you please add Alan Price to the tags??

[fernloft]

brooks and DONE!

[Bonkoz]

Hey, who needs

MONEY

When you're

FUNNY!!! :-D

Love it. :-)

[Soetjoo]

haha?

[thenickfaber]

That's how I feel about most Muppets skits.

[Tomlegionaire]

Numbers like this are why people love the muppets!

[Jamiethewookie]

100% agree with you

[sarutobifreak]

ep.1

[MalaMi57]

wonderfull !! I like Fozzie Bear !!!!!

[Balticmania]

I used to have a cuddly Fozzie Bear!

[Basssinger86]

I swear, I watched this episode and I know I can't get this song out of my head lol. Its a really great and I love the muppets so I guess its no surprise

[NadrianATRS]

I like 1:00-1:03 Fozzie tries to get his closeup

[daddyanimal]

And as for my upbringing, at least it provided me with enough scope so I don't have to add a lame numerical suffix to my my youtube name.

[fernloft]

or whine about bear puppets

[daddyanimal]

So I made a fkn typo, find a decent cause to baww about you furry

[daddyanimal]

"Maybe it's time to retire this skit and stop spreading the wrong message" Maybe its time you PC armchair experts just stfu and stop trying to ruin a happy childhood tv memory and a joyous piece of puppet theatre. If yer that commited to it, go to India and free them, cause voicing yer troubles with it here is like treating cancer with a Band-Aid. Just put in yer blog that know one reads , or write an innane folk song that touchs nobody but yer sycophantic coffe hose friends. Jackass

[journeyman47]

Hm. Great spelling. "Happy TV memory?" Is that the sum total of your childhood? The muppets? Wonder what kind of upbringing you had. Very innane.

[fernloft]

sheesh journeyman47...

Yer kind of a dick. I mean, the muppets are beyond silly and fun, and yer just raindrops and calculus over here.

Lighten the fuck up.

[journeyman47]

Sorry to be a downer here, but isn't anyone else bothered by the fact that this little skit helps perpetuate to children the falsehood that dancing bears are cute & funny when in reality, the "dancing" bears of India and other places are tortured and forced to dance by yanks on ropes cruelly thrust through holes drilled in their noses. Maybe it's time to retire this skit and stop spreading the wrong message.

[fernloft]

are you flippin' serious?

[EldKatt]

I'm more bothered by how Randy Newman's song, which I've always seen as somewhat wittily melancholy, is taken at face value as a funny little thing about a bear.

I was hardly aware of the real dancing bears you talk about, but I feel even worse now. Bad Muppets.

[fernloft]

all you serious sallies can go brood elsewhere. You are no fun and I feel sorry for the people who have to deal with you from day to day.

[WillyHill74]

This is not an uncommon thing with Randy's song, which are very deceptive and much more multilayered than the average pop song or the average kid's song. Just look at the controversy surrounding "Short People," Randy's biggest hit. The line "It's just amazing how fair people can be" is much too cynical and ironic to be understood by the average child viewer.

None of it matters because this is just a nice light-hearted sketch and shouldn't be taken in any other way.

[Balticmania]

The whole irony here is Fozzie walks on two feet (which bears, in general, don't). Therefore, this dancing bear is actually nothing spectacular! At the time this was broadcast, the issue you describe was not known.

[blumonkeyboy]

journeyman47, i would like to point out that fozzie didnt have any holes drilled in his nose. Furthermore, if they had used one of the tortured bears, Scooter would have been shreded

[journeyman47]

Heh, heh, cute.

[lilrocker99]

Wow, I never paid attention to that factor when I watched this as a child, mostly because I was already above the age of 2. If any child DID get that message, I would sure hope that their parents brought them up well enough to understand not to take muppets, cartoons and movies and apply it to daily life. There are no holes in Fozzie's nose and I never knew real bears could talk. I WOULD be concerned if in bright letters it said "TORTURE BEARS", but it doesn't.

[ericelectric]

God bless the great Richard Hunt.

[cne08]

Go Fozzie!

[redtape09]

i can't believe i watched this. lol

[123Scears123]

Fozzy Bear was responsible for one of the best jokes of all time; when asked why he goes fishing, he replied, "Oh, just for the halibut"!

A genius!  :-)

[cheerbear237]

Awesome! Thanks for the childhood memories. Great song!

[mosriteluv]

I love Scooter. This is a cute song & Muppet sketch!

[fireicefalcon2]

Classic

[gustavo2828]

go Fozzie go !!!

[lalocura91]

uju!!! amo esa cancion!!! esta super padre

[njs2311]

zum schreien!!!! fozzie rules!

[Rayrine7Rose]

"How come I'm not doing an act this week?" *lol* Amazing! I love this!!

[skchen831]

"Sometimes I can be very persuasive"

[meamjustme]

fozzie rules!!!

[CinderellaDarling]

I LOVE this song and the muppets!

[Zaphenath4]

I LIKE this song and the muppets...

[oggy1035]

i really need to know how to play the catchy piano tune at the start arghhhhhh !!!!

[70claudia]

Mein Gutelaunelied :O)

[AnonymousWatcher]

Hehe, that's one of my favorite acts.

:3

[bigbeninjax]

It was always amazing how this show could be consistently entertaining............for adults!

[melissa3289]

i like that they keep adults entertianed as well but doing the songs they knew but it was more entertaining for kids, just a great family show and introduced some good bands and artist to younger crowd

[pattiluvxart4eva]

GR8

[BuckWilliams17]

Another great performance by Jim Henson and Frank Oz.

[Musiclover19]

Actually in this case it would be Richard Hunt (Scooter) and Frank Oz (Fozzie).

[BuckWilliams17]

You're right. Although technically, since Kermit was at the beginning of the clip, Jim was in it too.

[therailwayinspector]

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

[amyepage]

I love Randy Newman.

[TokenTim101]

its alan price!

[amyepage]

but it's written by Randy Newman.

[Delorean92]

I've always been fond of this. Did you recieve this from the Season 1 disc?

[fernloft]

Yeah dude. I couldn't find it anywhere online so I just pulled it off the DVD.