"To think you swore our love was real!" "But baby, let us not forget that I'm a heel!"
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Hint # 2: the quoted song was performed on The Muppet Show (the Muppets had nothing to do with the movie the song was written for, though).
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"How about the time you went to Indiana?" "I was lyin', I was down in Alabam'." "You said you had some business you had to complete." "What I was doing, I would be a cad to repeat!"
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Sorry, I'm completely stumped. And they've only released Season One of the Muppet Show on DVD, so I can't even go back and check!
From: Norcross, GA | Registered: May 2005
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The first clue grabbed my attention because it sounded so familiar. And now it's been in the back of my head all day. The Muppet Show aired in the late seventies and possibly the early eighties. There's a pretty good chance the guest star that week was in the musical. I don't believe there were alot of movie musicals produced in that era. The only ones coming to mind are "Annie" (which I don't recall seeing all the way through) and something called "Movie Movie"(which I did but barely remember). Both of those were set in the 1930's. And the lyrics have that feel to them. And now I'm wondering if Mel Brook's "History of the World" had a musical number in it. I can totally see him singing a duet with Miss Piggy. I give up.
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Elaborations on previous hints, by the numbers:
1. The movie the quoted song was written for was released in the early 1950s.
2. The performance of the song on The Muppet Show did not involve the guest star (who was not in the movie the song was written for -- but, coincidentally, was in the movie version of Annie). Both parts of the duet were sung by Muppets.
3. I believe that this song was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the longest song title ever, but I have been unable to confirm this (recent editions of the GBWR available in my local library do not include that category)(OK, not such a good hint if it's unverifiable ).
(Side Note: the musical number in History Of The World, Part 1 was "The Spanish Inquisition", with Mel (as Torquemada) singing the lead)
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"How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You (When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life)?"
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(Written for the 1951 film Royal Wedding, in which it was performed by Fred Astaire and Jane Powell; performed on The Muppet Show by Kermit the Frog and "Miss Mousey" as the opening number of the Bernadette Peters episode, launching Miss Piggy into an episode-long jealous snit)
Over to Calybos.
-------------------- "Gee, Brainy, what do you want to do tonight?" "The same thing we do every night, Bouncing Boy: try to take over the United Planets!!" They're B.B. and The Brain ...
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That's Cole Porter's "Well, Did You Evah?" from High Society.
It was also featured in the films At Long Last Love and De-Lovely.
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-------------------- The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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-------------------- The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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