feathers, fur and fighting

[jlh]

DVR really saves the Olympics for the sports fans. You don't have to sit through endless packages about how Mary Carillo went to the Netherlands and omg they love speedskating or whatever; you can just watch the goddamned speedskating. So I'm watching speedskating and skijumping from yesterday, and just caught up on my tumblr, and came across this:

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On my tumblr-and this is awesome enough that I'm multiplatforming this shit, sorry for the duplicates-I said that there must be things as awesome as this but I couldn't think of any. Reasons why Liza Minelli singing "Copacabana" on The Muppet Show may be the awesomest thing ever:

1. Between them, Liza and Barry Manilow pretty much own the 70s. You know that he must have played piano for some Liza Minelli drag queen at a bathhouse, in between playing for Bette.
   
2. The best numbers on The Muppet Show were always the story-songs. See also, "The Gambler."
   
3. Two large muppets fighting over her, and dancing with her. The "Tony" muppet slides across the bar.
   
4. Liza as the drunken, faded Lola in the disco, with the crowd of other muppets disco dancing in the foreground is amazing.
   
5. The framing device of "narrator" Liza in a black turtleneck sweater, especially when she appears in the top of the frame, like those weird Olan Mills portraits, singing "don't fall in love."
   
6. Liza breaking character after she finishes singing to give us her trademark giggle and bow to the audience that isn't really there.

I just … I can't even.

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