TV: Muppets make everything better

While there are some who have called "Kokomo" the Beach Boy's worst song, there's something charming about it when it's being performed by voice-actors for characters made out of foam rubber and fleece. Midway through the song, there's even a changed song lyric ("That dreamy look in your eye/Underneath a tropical island sky") which seems like an improvement over the original ("That dreamy look in your eye/Gives me a tropical contact high"). This music video used to play incessantly during Nickelodeon's daytime lineup, so as a kid, it stuck in my head.



Of course, lots of famous living human beings have performed with the Muppets, too. Take Elton John's middling performance of "Crocodile Rock" here - the tempo of this particular performance is a bit slow for the song, IMHO, but there's nothing like actual crocodiles to glam up the whole affair:



Finally, there's the class of music videos where the Muppets themselves are sought out. Weezer, meet Kermit: