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| Written by | Stephen Foster |
| Date | 1851 |
"Old Folks at Home" is also frequently called by its first line, "Way Down Upon the Swanee River," or even just "Swanee River". This classic Stephen Foster song is parodied as "Swanee Ribbit" by Mary Louise and Friend (a frog) when they audition for The Muppet Show in episode 208.
Unfortunately, as with their subsequent frog-themed auditions ("Tie a Yellow Ribbit Round the Old Oak Tree" and "Ol' Man Ribbit"), they don't get past the song's first line before getting yanked offstage with a vaudevillian cane.
Harry the Duck's singing toy, Swannie Rivers, sings the first lines of the song in the Bear in the Big Blue House episode "When Harry Met Hallie."
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- In reference to The Honeymooners episode "The $99,000 Answer," the Grand High Triangle Lover plays a riff of the song on the piano before transitioning to "The Alphabet Song" in Episode 3756 of Sesame Street.