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ANNOUNCER: And now, Sesame Street Dinner Theater proudly
presents the great musical South Potato.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
DAD: Mmm-mm.
Sonny, your mama makes the best baked potatoes in the
entire state of Alabama.
SON: You said it, Daddy.
MOM: Oh, shucks.
SON: You make the best potatoes
every which way, Mama.
MOM: Well, we do love our potatoes.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
SON: [SINGING]
They're good boiled, fried, or mashed.
DAD: [SINGING]
Or roasted, baked, or hashed.
MOM: [SINGING]
You can even bake them twice with some
broccoli, cheese, and spice.
SON: They're good with chicken, fish, and vegetables.
DAD: And eggs and burgers, too.
ALL: We love potatoes.
POTATOES: [SINGING]
And potatoes love you.
DAD: We love peas, rice, and squash.
SON: And sometimes a goober.
MOM: But what we love most in the whole wide world is our
favorite tuber.
POTATO: There is nothing like potato, nothing on your plate.
Not a corn or a tomato, I'm potato.
And I'm great.
ALL: There is nothing like potato, nothing on our plate.
Not a corn or a tomato, it's potato.
And it's great.
DAD: Nothing flakes like potato.
MOM: Or makes pancakes like potaters.
SON: No dish like potato.
DAD: Or knish like potato.
MOM: No carbohydrate like potaters--
SON: Tastes as great as potato.
ALL: It's naturally high in potassium, and underground is
where it's from.
The red skin and brown skin, and don't
forget the sweet potatoes.
SON: I love you, potato.
POTATO: And I only got eyes for you.
POTATO: [BRITISH ACCENT]
I thought I was a
"po-tah-to." [LAUGHTER]
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
DAD: You are a funny potato.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]