Which version of "Rainbow Connection" Do you like?

[Skye]

Really, the only version I've ever heard was the original one. But I don't think any other one would beat that one for me!

 

[Teheheman]

Peter Griffin didn't technically sing it, but I can recall he had some sort of Puppet, and he was going to perform it... I forget which episode it was.

The puppet was Madam, and the episode was Fifteen Minutes of Shame, when he's trying to get the cameras attention, he pulls out Madam, and they go in the house then he says "Wait, she was gonna sing "Rainbow Connection"" or something like that.

Daniel

 

[Skeeter Muppet]

I like Kermit's version, natch. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to go against the popular vote and say that it's not my favorite version.

My favorite version of Rainbow Connection is the one sung by Vonda Shepard in the Ally McBeal episode "Angels and Blimps". The episode was about a boy (Haley Joel Osment) dying of cancer who decided to sue God, and had his case represented by Ling. Osment's character dies at the end of the episode, and the second and third verses play over scenes of Ling crying in the ambulance bay of the hospital (after she coldly tells Ally to "get over" the boy's death) and an angel leading the spirit of the boy through the hospital up to Heaven.

Unfortunately only a couple chunks of the song are heard in the episode, and I wish that Vonda would have released a complete version of it on one of the Ally soundtracks. But despite those flaws, the sentiment of the song, the emotion of the episode and Vonda's voice make it my favorite rendition.

-Kim

 

[CensoredAlso]

I like Sarah McLaughlin's and Less Than Jake's.

 

[D'Snowth]

Less Than Jake's.

Isn't that the one that was played during the blooper reel at the end of Kermit's Swamp Years?

 

[Speed Tracer]

I think so. It's just... I dunno, I actually like Less Than Jake, but... that version of the song doesn't work for me at all.

 

[SillyRed]

I did mean other than Kermit's version.

 

[SillyRed]

The one being played at the end of KSY is Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Heh! I like the name of the band!