Weirdest musical moments on TV in a motel room for one night?

After a show in Gothenburg, Sweden, my last night in that country before going back to sloooow Bavaria, I'm up at 3:00 a.m. feeling post-ecstatic about the preceding couple of days. Flip on the TV. Jon Bon Jovi is singing "I Don't Like Mondays" in duet with Bob Geldof. It's French television; after the song, the interviewer asks them if they're aware of one another's work. Bon Jovi claims the Boomtown Rats as an influence. Calls them "the Rats." The duet, though, people...holy cow.

Weirdest musical moment in a hotel room was actually during my recent trip to Seattle. I woke up a bit earlier than I'd anticipated, as my internal clock was still set three hours ahead for Toronto time. After stumbling out of the shower I noticed that the bathroom had this tiny little black and white television mounted from the ceiling, so I turned it on and spun the tuning dial until it settled on Sesame Street. Ernie was singing with Elmo, but the picture was all fuzzy. I wandered out into the main room while that was still going, and turned on the big TV in the main room...flipped channels until I got to Sesame Street again, and discovered that the signal in the bathroom was actually half a second out of sync with the one in the main room. About that point one of the animated bits came on singing the praises of the letter 'O', so this weird voice saying "oooooo!" repeatedly with different intonations started ping- ponging around the hotel room. Then a flamenco guitar kicked in, and the delay made it seem utterly bizarre...kind of like the beginning of Severed Heads' "Oscar's Grind Mambo Fist Miasma". I enjoyed it for a bit but then ran out quickly for coffee.

I have a friend who maintains that Kermit the Frog, Kermit the Frog, Kermit the Frog, Kermit the Frog, & Kermit the Frog (yes, five Kermits) did a rendition of "Once in a Lifetime". Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Your friend is right. Kermit, in fact, did perform the song on the television shoe Muppets Tonight, the June seventh 1996 episode.

damn, an mp3 of that would rock

When I was on my 1988 European Teen Tour From Hell, there was this odd little show on English TV that played nothing but extremely obscure, naff videos that were probably all five years old, including a "live" performance of some young men dressed as Hasidim bobbing up and down and miming an ethnically-grounded euro-pop dance thing. In between, there was a commercial for a detective TV show guest starring Toyah Wilcox!