TMBG Concert - 15 Mar 2008
On March 15, 2008, They Might Be Giants performed at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA. They were joined on-stage by Puppet Homestar Runner. They had a discussion and John Linnel told some jokes to the audience, and then sang "I Am Not Your Broom."
Transcript
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hi, kids! Hi, large kids—too—with small kids on their shoulders!
JOHN LINNELL: Hi, Homestar. How's it going?
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hi, Johns! Hi—hi, Dans! {grudgingly} Hi, Marty...How you guys doing?
JOHN LINNELL: We're doing pretty good. Except for the flu thing.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, yeah. He keeps messin' up your song names.
JOHN LINNELL: Yeah.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: He's the song mangulist.
JOHN LINNELL: That's so true, Homestar.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: You said to bring the jokes.
JOHN LINNELL: Yeah. You got any more jokes?
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Nope.
JOHN LINNELL: Apparently you don't. Okay, good. Good. You want to hear a joke?
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: I do, I do!
JOHN LINNELL: What do you call a deer with no eyes?
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: A deer with no eyes...I don't know!
JOHN LINNELL: I have no eye-deer. Wait. I got— I got another one.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh!
JOHN LINNELL: But you've gotta— you've gotta try and— try and come up with an answer for this one.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Okay, okay. Sorry.
JOHN LINNELL: What do you call a fish with no eye?
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: A blue whale!
JOHN LINNELL: That is incorrect.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: What?!
JOHN LINNELL: Where's my buzzer sound? I don't have it out.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Bum-bum-ba-dum!
JOHN LINNELL: Um...the answer— the answer is a fish with— a fish with no eye is called a "fsh."
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: That's pretty good. That's pretty good.
JOHN LINNELL: Yes, it is.
JOHN FLANSBURGH: Hey, I don't wanna— I don't wanna interrupt the whole joke thing, 'cause I know you guys have an engagement, a concord in a couple weeks-
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Right, right.
JOHN FLANSBURGH: But uh...I think— I think maybe we should do a song.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Okay!
JOHN LINNELL: This is how I feel about that.
I Am Not Your Broom
JOHN LINNELL: Now, Broom, you must now sweep for me, the dust that fills my room.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: No, John, I will not sweep for you, for I am not your broom.
JOHN LINNELL: What nonsense are you speaking, Broom? My words you must obey!
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Another life awaits me and I'm leaving you today! I am not your broom! I am not your broom! I've had enough, I'm casting off these chains of servitude! I am not your broom! I am not your broom! No longer will I sweep for you, for I am not your broom!
JOHN FLANSBURGH: Now— now hold on there, Homestar. I'm confused. You— you said a word I didn't know. I've never heard this word before— servitude. What does that— servitude mean? You've gotta—
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: Servitude?
JOHN LINNELL: Yeah.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: That's what you get when you go to the drive through window and there's a teenage kid working there. Get y'all out some servitude!
JOHN LINNELL: Okay.
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: It's like "Get some Oxy Clean, kid!"
JOHN LINNELL: Thanks for coming.
{John begins to play the chorus to I am not your Broom.}
PUPPET HOMESTAR RUNNER: A-swish-swish-swish-swish-swish-swish-swish...swish-swish-swish-swish-swish.
