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July 18, 2007
Muppet Moment: Bake the Hall in the Candle of her Brain
For over two weeks now I have had a fragment of a line from a long-ago and 99%-forgotten Muppets movie/show/bit, running through my head. Something about a broken ball. Trying to remember it or trace it nearly made me mad. Couldn't figure out for the life of me where it came from; couldn't remember the line correctly either.
But it wouldn't go away. Awful. Over and over. That fragment of a fragment. If you know me at all, you know that's the sort of thing that drives me nuts.
Until tonight. To my gleeful pleasure, The Better Google -- i.e., an email to my brothers -- helped me finally figure it out. The line, which is from The Frog Prince, a 1971 one-hour Muppet version of the classic fairy tale, was "Bake the hall in the candle of her brain".
Sigh, finding it was, to borrow a line from David Foster Wallace, the click of a well-made box. I feel soooo much better now.
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DFW must have cribbed that line from Yeats.
Yup, cribbed and attributed. I should have been clearer about the original source.
Damn, Paul -- I could have helped you out with that one. The Frog Prince is one of my favourites. "Have another popover, froggy!" Classic.
Paul-
Just this Saturday night 9/8/07 at a restaurant my friend said the quote. It was piceless.
Thanks for your post re/ The Frog Prince.
Al
I still have "The Frog Prince" cast album via a 33 1/3rpm record. It is an all time GREAT Muppet movie long before Muppets became all that they are now.
The Sweetum's lullaby is something I sing to my Godson!!
In the future, Ask the AV Club is just the thing for such requests.