The "Surprise" Song

[bigbird]

OK folks here's another one for you ol' SS buffs like me. Remember the "Surprise" song that was sung by a bunch of I think 50's style muppets? The lyrics went something like..."ooh-aah-do, ooh-aah-do...be du ooh-aah do surprise...oh something suddenly happens when you can't believe your eyes...it's a surpri..i i ise!" Then the Bass singer comes forward and says "Do you know what a surprise is now, we're gonna show you one more time" Then it switches to a scene on SS with one skit involving Susan and Oscar. It seemed that Oscar gave Susan a present which turned out to be a snake can and she was "surprised" when the snake popped out! Then it goes back to the singing muppets again repeating the same lyrics as before and then a few more illustrations of surprise. What were the other illustrations? Anyone remember? what episode was this found on? Anyone have a copy?

 

[fuzzygobo]

If this is the surprise song I remember, it featured much of the cast demonstrating "surprise" with a lot of slapstick humor.

Some highlights:

Bob: Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water...
Cast: SURPRIIIIIIISE!!! as Bob gets a bucket of water dumped on him.

Gordon's in a supermarket: You're in the supermarket
And suddenly you start
The groceries start moving
There's a monster in your cart!
Monster: SURPRIIIIISE!!! and starts rolling Gordon's cart away

Bob: Mary had a little lamb, his fleece was white as snow...
Cast: SURPRIIIIISE!!!! as Bob gets buried under an avalanche of snow.


Big Bird: Today it is your birthday
You're feeling kind of rotten
Noone seems to be around
And everyone's forgotten
(Big Bird goes into Hooper's store and sees a birthday cake)
and everyone yells "SURPRISE!!!!!!!"
A few verses, Mr. Hooper holds up a tiny sweater to Big Bird
Hooper: I hope this is your size!

Then everyone in the cast yells "SURPRISE" and gets hit with a pie.
When it's Maria's turn, she gets hit with a pie, then takes off a mask.
Maria: "DISGUISE!" then gets another pie in the face.

The song ends with the whole cast singing "Everyone loves a SURPRISE!!"
and with the help of some video wizardry, a pie comes flying right at us, the unsuspecting viewers . SPLAT!!!!

 

[bigbird]

I think you have that one confused with the one I had mentioned about...but yours does sound somewhat familiar, but I don't think it was the same one.

 

[bigbird]

Actually, I think the skit I'm talking about was even before Maria was in the show at all. So it can't be it. Sorry, but nice try anyway!

 

[SesameMike]

I remember that song/skit! There was one break point in the song where Bert was sitting calmly and reading in the apartment, when Herry monster sneaks up behind him and suddenly shouted "reh-heh-heh-heheheheh". Bert, not the slightest bit scared, says in a calm but ticked voice, "Would you please stop that? I'm trying to read my book."

Another breakpoint had someone reponding negatively, possibly with an unpleasant cry and/or scream. They cut back to the band and sang "A surprise can be really scary, a surprise can make you ---" (the blank was either cry/sad/mad, can't remember which)

 

[bigbird]

Yes yes yes! That's the one!

 

[mikebennidict]

oh yeah. I think it was little Jerry & The Monotones singing.

 

[PumpkinJ]

Don't wanna bump the thread, but I found the one with the Little Jerry-esque hippies from 1970, but it's not full, though. I added a couple of English audio pieces during the first verse and at the end of the song. Everything else is foreign-dubbed, I used some sources (with the N3 bug) from the 2-hour special "Lange Sesamstraßen Nacht" to splice in some higher-quality video sources, and used the (low-quality) Hebrew sources as well.

I found the other song by Big Bird, Grover, Bob, and the cast from 1975 as well.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Um, if you didn't want to bump this thread.... why did you do it in the first place?

Better term would be, "Sorry to bump this thread."

 

[PumpkinJ]

Oh, yeah, didn't know that. Sorry.