Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head: A Tongue-Twisting TMBG Classic

Why I’ve written "do the dumb things I gotta do" on office memos for decades

Have you ever tried to sing along to this song? I have. And let me tell you—John Flansburgh somehow manages to make the verses of "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" sound like the syllables are folding over into each other, creating this oddly satisfying, flowing rhythm. It’s almost like the words are on a conveyor belt that just keeps moving, and n…