The Muppets do Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody
Animal playing in the video
Wednesday November 25 2009
The Muppets have taken YouTube by storm with a video of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
The video has had close to one million hits in its first 24 hours of being posted on the site.
It stars dozens of Muppet characters, opening with Gonzo singing the first verse before Rowlf the Dog comes in on piano and Animal performs a drum solo.
Beaker, Fozzie Bear, Statler and Waldorf, Swedish Chef, Sam the Eagle and Dr Bunsen Honeydew all pop up, while Kermit and Scooter make a late appearance. The video ends with Miss Piggy yelling: "Nothing really matters... but MOI."
The video was posted on the new Muppets Studio YouTube channel and quickly went viral.
Last year the Muppets ventured online with a 4th of July video.
The Muppet Show originally ran on television from 1976 to 1981 and Jim Henson's puppet creations went on to star in a series of movies, including The Muppet Christmas Carol and The Muppets Take Manhattan.
Jason Segel, the actor who appeared in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Knocked Up, is reportedly writing a new Muppets movie in which Kermit and co attempt to save their old theatre from developers intent on tearing it down.
Segel said he was a lifelong Muppets fan and working on the project "feels like all of my dreams are coming true".
© Telegraph.co.uk
- Anita Singh
