Minor Music Mentions

The following is a list of Muppet Mentions made in music and songs outside of the Henson/Sesame/Muppet worlds, none of which is significant enough to have its own page in the Music Mentions category.

See also Samples of Muppet audio.

The Bloodhound Gang

• In the first verse of the song "Shut Up" off The Bloodhound Gang's 1996 album One Fierce Beer Coaster, frontman Jimmy Pop alludes to The Swedish Chef and his "Børk! Børk! Børk!" catchphrase.

Bubba the Love Sponge

• The 1998 track "Sensimilla Street" is a parody of Sesame Street in which Kermit the Frog and Big Bird smoke marijuana. Elmo also makes a brief appearance. In the early days of peer-to-peer music sharing online, this track was often shared under the name "Stoned On Sesame Street", and was frequently misattributed to Adam Sandler or "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Circus of Dead Squirrels

• The industrial metal band's 2007 album "Pop Culture Massacre and the End of the World Sing A Long Song Book!" features a track called "Elmo's Last Laugh", with an animated music video on their Youtube channel. (YouTube)

Classified

• The song "Three Foot Tall" includes lyrics from the bridge of "Life's a Happy Song".

Das EFX

• The Rap duo's reference heavy debut single "They Want EFX" features the lyrics "I caught a Snuffleupagus and smoked a boogaloo spliff."

Rick Dees

• In the song, "We Are the Weird", which is a parody of the celebrity famine relief single "We Are the World", one of the celebrity impersonators sings in a Kermit-like voice, "We are the weird, but we're not stupid", and then says, "And we're laughing all the way to the bank! Yaaaaayyyyy!"

Eiffel 65

• In the music video for their song "Cosa Resterà (In A Song)", two of the band members are seen in a toy store playing with a Kermit hand puppet. Other Muppet and Sesame Street plush/puppets can be seen in the background as well.

Fam-Lay

• In the song "Rock N Roll (Remix)" produced by Pharrell Williams, guest rapper Lil' Flip makes several references to Sesame Street, "The only time you saw a bird was on Sesame Street / I got them Big Birds / and I keep them in my pouch / play with my money and I turn into Oscar the Grouch." Note, that in this context by "bird" he means crack cocaine.

The Great Luke Ski

• The Great Luke Ski wrote a parody of "Who Let The Dogs Out?" by the Baha Men entitled "Who Let the Frog Out?" which is about Kermit the Frog and the Muppets.
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Hardy

• "One Beer" is about how one beer cause a couple to have a baby at a young age. The song contains the lyric "Sesame Street on the TV."

Hot Stylz

• In the third verse of the reference-heavy debut single of "Lookin Boy" by rap group Hot Stylz, guest rapper Young Joc impersonates Elmo's laugh followed by the lyrics "Tickle Me Elmo Lookin Boy."

Iron Maiden

• Oscar the Grouch is seen on the cover art for the single "Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter" from their 1990 album No Prayer for the Dying.

Lenny Kuhr

• Dutch singer Lenny Kuhr mentions Kermit de Kikker and Aart Staartjes (of Sesamstraat) as her party guests in the 1980 song Visite.

Machine Gun Kelly

• In his diss track to Eminem, "Rap Devil", he refers to Eminem as "Oscar the Grouch" in one line.

MF Doom

• The song "Kon Karne," contains the lyric "The ruckus ain’t up to Snuffleupagus."

Nekrogoblikon

• The song "Prince of the Land of Stench" takes its name from the film Labyrinth, sampling the line from the film in the intro, and amongst the singer's threats in the chorus is to "immerse you into the bog headfirst".

The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge boys going into Sesame Place.

• The Oak Ridge Boys filmed their music video for "Thank God for Kids" at Texas' Sesame Place. The song also contains the lyrics "We'd all live in a quiet house / Without Big Bird or a Mickey Mouse."

A replica of Rosie

On the steps on a replica of 123 Sesame Street

Offset

• The song "Clout" featuring Cardi B from the album Father of 4 contains the lyric "Bitches is mad / bitches is trash / Oscar the Grouch".

Elliot Park

• Park's 2021 song "I've Watched Everything" spoofs the song "I've Been Everywhere," replacing all the location names with TV program titles. The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock are among those mentioned.

Reaction Formation

• This band released a 6-song cassette in 1984 titled "In Memory of Mr. Hooper...", which included a cover version of Sesame Street.

Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day!

The front cover of the Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day! Volume 1 CD.

• Big Bird appears on the front covers of all 25 volumes of the Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day! series.

They Might Be Giants

• "Animal from The Muppet Show" is used as one of the drum solos in "Dan Hickey's Actual Drums," which was included as a part of the live version of "She's Actual Size" found on the Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants compilation.

Tony Touch

• The track "Symphony in H" from the hip-hop DJ's 2013 album The Piece Maker 3: Return of the 50 MC's contains the following line sung by featured artist Eminem: "Love stinks, that explains all this anger that's spillin' out / And I ain't chilling out. Got an Oscar but I'm still a grouch."

Young Dolph

• In the song "RNB", guest rapper Megan Thee Stallion says the line, "This is not Sesame Street, I do not kick it with no birds, ah".

Young M.A.

• The song "Ooouuu" contains the lyrics "Like we ain't in these Streets more than Sesame."

Young Sportsmen

• The band Young Sportsmen has a song called "Sesame Street Fightin Man", which starts off with the opening chords to the Sesame Street Theme, performed up tempo with a rock sound.

Your Favorite Martian

• The song "Puppet Break-Up" has several Sesame Street references in the first two verses.