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Posted by TomFulp - October 24th, 2009

Now that we're raising a kid, we find ourselves watching a lot of Yo Gabba Gabba, possibly the best kids' show ever. Some of the episodes have a segment in the tradition of Picture Pages where an artist shows kids how to draw stuff. What I never realized is the artist is Devo front man Mark Mothersbaugh!

I've always loved Devo but I never researched any of the band members until this morning. It turns out Mark has done a lot of music for kids' shows, including the Pee Wee's Playhouse theme song. He also scored all the Wes Anderson films, so when you watch Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums or Life Aquatic, you're hearing a lot of Mark.

http://www.markmothersbaugh.com/

I'm officially adding Mark to my short list of awesome people.

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Pokemonpoeguygcn 2009-10-24 08:02:50

You have a list of awesome people?

bocodamondo 2009-10-24 08:06:15

?? never heard from it...

14hourlunchbreak 2009-10-24 08:07:33

I think I saw Yo Gabba Gabba once in my lifetime.

Luis 2009-10-24 08:07:50

You need your office to be like pee-wee's playhouse. Anytime you say cockjoke the whole office goes craaaaazy

TomFulp 2009-10-24 08:07:50

We already put eyes on a lot of the inanimate objects so we're halfway there!

Archawn 2009-10-24 08:13:29

Am I on your short list of awesome people? :D

TomFulp 2009-10-24 08:13:29

Not yet but keep trying!

Catalyste 2009-10-24 08:15:41

Mothersbaugh, didn't he also do the music for Rugrats?

TomFulp 2009-10-24 08:15:41

Yup

Thundaboom 2009-10-24 08:16:50

Get your kid to watch a show where he can learn HTML 5, XML and PHP.

Because wouldn't be nice to say that your own son manages your newgrounds servers?

killerrob 2009-10-24 08:23:08

WHAT ABOUT THOMAS DAMMIT?
I GREW UP WITH THAT FUCKING TALKING TRAIN!

Box-Killa 2009-10-24 08:28:03

Nice Hat :D

Rutger 2009-10-24 08:28:18

wow that's awesome!
a while ago i came across mark's site too, he does dope stuff.
i never knew he did kds music though!

Box-Killa 2009-10-24 08:40:13

I think I might take this opertunity to spam my submission <a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/">http://www.newgrounds.com/</a>
audio/listen/282617

skarai 2009-10-24 08:41:42

Are we not men?

Gojiralph 2009-10-24 08:55:06

He is a genius, barely a day goes by without me humming the awesome tunes from The Life Aquatic.

10JD 2009-10-24 09:10:40

HA there was a guy on NGC forever ago named Devo and his character always had that red cone hat thing

Lol i understand what that was all about now.

VidGameDude 2009-10-24 09:24:25

so does Junior watch rugrats? (god i loved it as a child)

o and i would buy that hat for anything....

l8s

Hulalaoo 2009-10-24 10:13:28

lol, the face !

sucho 2009-10-24 10:21:36

no wonder i find myself hypnotically drawn to that odd black man with his odd black gums and his odd black SOUL

yo gabba gabba is still amazing

Daniel-M 2009-10-24 10:47:59

GO FORWARD!

Boss 2009-10-24 11:01:37

Short list of awesome people, oh boy I bet you a nickel Im gettin' on that in the next five years, you just wait!

turtleco 2009-10-24 11:54:04

wait, your kid isn't even one yet. Is he? Well, keep up the good work you father you...

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