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| Music by | Pamela Brandt |
| Lyrics by | Helen Hooke |
| Publisher | Sesame Street, Inc. |
| First | Episode 1309 |
"Do the Wash" is an upbeat '50s-style dance song performed by the Anything Muppets on Sesame Street.
A group of Muppets explain that when your clothes get dirty for any reason, you do the wash. "The Wash" is also represented as a dance involving the rotation of one's body in the same manner as the inside of a washing machine.
The song was also used in a live-action insert with some revised lyrics. The song plays over film of a young boy getting his clothes messy, prompting him and his mother to do a wash. (First: Episode 1423)
Zero sings the song to himself as he prepares laundry in Episode 1623.
Notes[]
- Performers in the Muppet version include Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Fran Brill, and Frank Oz.
- At the beginning of the Muppet version, a boy hits the side of a washing machine to get it to start working. This is a reference to Happy Days, when the Fonz would hit the jukebox at Arnold's to make it play.
- The tune was derived from "Under the Boardwalk."