They Might Be Giants - "Why Does The Sun (Really) Shine?" on Late Late Show, 2009-12-11 [1080p60]

[@TheWingus]

Only TMBG would fact check their own jam with an even hotter jam

[@playinjane8349]

I remember growing up and watching the dvd of “they might be giants here vines science”. I never imagined how good they’d be live

[@obamaisdaddy6595]

SAME

[@jasonpatterson9821]

Here Comes Science. And yes, TMBG is amazing live, one of the best concerts I ever went to.

[@jessenathan9346]

Of the three albums in the "Here Comes..." trilogy, that's the only one that I never owned on CD/DVD combo (I own the Audio + Video version on iTunes).

[@boat_of_car]

they have not one song where flans needs to be doin all that😭🙏

[@tetraploid5000]

the sun is a quagmire

[@maiabones]

for a while i'd been singing "the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasmaaaaaaa-gigantic nuclear furnace", blending the first two lines a bit, and out of sheer curiosity i googled my new version and found this video and was so fucking vindicated that the guys beat me to it

[@marlaallen9602]

"Forget that song!" Such passion 😆❗

[@Sheepy765.]

John is great at singing

[@BanksBanks420]

Flansburgh is very pretty

[@arthurdent578]

so true

[@cakebrunch]

so true

[@gus7964]

oh of course your here

[@BanksBanks420]

@@gus7964 yup

[@pizzvore]

yeah

[@gus7964]

wtf flansburgh is a fucking epic singer

[@HeyHeyChey]

Indeed, i recommend you listen to their "music jail" song for a really good example of this

[@an-ADHD-Infested-Nerd]

Sing it Flans!

[@loolinonilool]

i understand that they're trying to clarify a now-irrelevant theory, but playing these two songs back-to-back does make it seem like they're (if you'll excuse the pun) gaslighting us

[@theflumponator7719]

Actually that's outdated, the science now says that they are "plasmalighting" us

[@devoncormier5490]

lol 3 years later, just take my upvote and know I needed an inhaler for my lagging and plasthma attack…

[@grrrrarrgh]

What a great performance!!!

[@d1nn3r_b3ll]

John Hodgeman cameo !!!!

[@jessenathan9346]

Ha, both voices of the Father in Coraline!

[@mobius273]

Tired: "and estrogen!" WIRED: *"rosevelt franklin"*

[@Sloop_Goop]

flans did NOT have to go that hard

[@bassman5825]

By the middle of the song, the crowd is over it lol. Thinking is hard!

[@rattyeely]

Who the hell is that guy on the facts section of "Why Does The Sun Shine?". Why is he trapped in a void?

[@CapitalQ]

TMBG collaborator John Hodgman

[@thespiciestperson]

why is flans not singing :(

[@CapitalQ]

Did you get to the second half

[@thespiciestperson]

@@CapitalQ yeah, i should have clarified, i thought he sung the first song on lead vocals

[@L0REN0R2Z0RR0]

@@thespiciestperson in the 2008 rock version Linnell is singing lead there idk why.

[@thespiciestperson]

@@L0REN0R2Z0RR0 seems when they re released it on one of their kids album Linnell sung lead for some reason

[@L0REN0R2Z0RR0]

@@thespiciestperson it's probably because Flans is correcting him afterwards, although "I forget what I was told by myself (elf, elf)" makes less sense subsequently