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#1 cathy - the cleaning girl!!!! on 05.04.07 at 8:45 am

Well, what does it mean when you can sing every word along with Ernie? I heard an older lady yesterday being asked what was the key to her happiness towards life - - she said that she only expects good things to happen and never feels sorry for herself. Way cool lady!!!

#2 Karin on 05.04.07 at 12:03 pm

It means you love the Rubber Ducky song…even if your RD was a teddy bear. Sesame Street was just the best!

#3 andrea on 05.05.07 at 2:17 am

Oh, I know all the words, too! But I know all the words to practically all jingly little songs like this. For ones like this it is a blessing, but I once had the Monty Python “Dennis Moore” song running through my head for DAYS and that was surely a curse!
Thanks for this one, though, Karin!
BTW, did you ever see the Muppet version of The Frog Prince? Most wonderful! My best friend from college and I bonded over both being the only ones outside of our families that had seen this–back in the pre-video age. Highly recommended, but you have to buy and old cassette off eBay or something.
Hugs! Andrea

#4 Karin on 05.05.07 at 6:44 pm

I hear you!

I love the Muppet version of The Frog Prince. Aunt Taminela! Break [I never can quite say it as she said it,imagine having to say that fast!] (instead of break the ball in the handle of her cane)

Have you seen the recent one about the frog(s)…one is the king and one is his butler…when I get home, I’ll look it up. Bernadette Peters has a part in it.

#5 andrea on 05.11.07 at 12:52 am

Oh! You DO know The Frog Prince! It’s “Bake the Hall in the Candle of her Brain.” Shhh, very secret….
My favorite part is the King and the soon to be Taunt Aminela meeting in the woods:
“I say! Let’s take care there!”
“Good gracious, it’s the King.”
“And who may I ask are you?”
“I’m a beautiful maiden in distress.”
“I’m sorry to hear that, beautiful maiden.”
(aside)”If he believe’s that, he’ll believe anything.”
“Pardon?”
“I said, actually, I’m your long lost sister, who was kidnapped from her cradle when we were both just babies.”
“Do tell! I didn’t know I even had a sister. I’m afraid you’ll have to prove it to me.”
“Oh kind, good, King Rupert the Second, I should be glad to! What was the name of your father?”
“King Rupert the First.”
“So was mine!”
“Sister!”
“Brother!”

Sheesh! makes our president look like a genius.

This is another bit of my sound memory. If there were videotapes back then my family did not have one (we had an aqua colored Black and White TV that needed a special box to get public TV channels up until maybe 1980), but we got an LP of the story and played it over and over. Slightly different from the video, now that I got one off eBay.

I haven’t seen the new one. But I love Bernadette Peters. I’ll have to look for it.

And how are you, btw?

Hugs! Andrea

#6 Karin on 05.11.07 at 8:58 am

The whole movie makes me chuckle. …Sweatums eat froggie NOW…

I was disappointed my kids didn’t like it (at first.) They just had to be older to appreciate it.

I still need to go find out the name of that other movie. The name is: Prince Charming. Martin Short, Christina Applegate and Bernadette Peters, among others, are in it. We like this one too.

#7 Adrian on 08.21.07 at 3:30 pm

Glad to see they are other Frog Prince fans out there.
My sister bought me this story on a 33 record when I was about 6 years old. It became a classic in our family, with us all dropping quotes at every possible occasion. In fact my sister starts every phone conversation asking me what the name of my father was, to prove her identity.
When I married in 1996, my wife bought me the movie, which was the first time I’d ever seen the visual behind it.
My sister is currently planning our first Frog Prince themed family party. LOL

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