Look Out There's A Monster Coming

I had a "Lost" moment while watching Craig Ferguson last night.

Oh, you're confused?  Well that's how Lost works, but let me explain.  I don't know much about any of these things: Craig Ferguson, The Bonzo Dog, monster songs, or co-hosting so if you don't either then we are starting out in the same place.

I had the boob tube on to distract me while I was brushing my teeth and getting ready for bed.  Craig Ferguson was on and I accidentally heard and saw this:



[Ed. note: though  my favorite part is Ferguson's dancing, and my second favorite part is how the black guy in the tux looks at the monster.]

Well, clearly none of that makes sense.  Much like the show Lost, you had to know a little bit about a lot of things to have any idea what was going down and normally I would have shut off the television and moved on with my night - namely by reading or trying to fall asleep to a tivoed Chelsey Lately episode.

But that "look out there's a monster coming" really stuck in my head.  So I had to look up the skit on hulu.  Then I did some very cursory research on google and apparently this is not an original song, it was written and performed by a band called Bonzo Dog, sometimes called the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

So naturally these questions evolved:
Why is this song on the Craig Ferguson show?
What kind of band name is that?  Why does it have a long and short version?

Why is there a monster coming on this show or in a song?
Why is that little man dressed as a miniature S&M participant?
Who is that alligator?

"Why is this song on Craig Ferguson?" you might start with, since this simple show has brought up many questions (just like Lost, ya see?) and I'll tell you why: Craig Ferguson is apparently taking on a robot sidekick.  Just leads to more questions, right?

Why is he taking on a side kick, and why is that sidekick a robot with a mohawk who only knows eight catch phrases?  Is this a permanent thing?  And what kind of other songs did this band sing?

Apparently Bonzo Dog is a British band from the 60s that sometimes played on a kids' show called Do Not Adjust Your Set.  They sang other songs like I'm the Urban Spaceman and Can Blue Men Sing the Whites.  And they clearly did the psychedelic thing (which I always thought was 1960s code for experimenting with drugs?) since they had a song called Canyons of Your Mind.

Look buddy, you're going to have to google some of these things yourself.  I'm not your effing secretary and I have stuff to do, like set Craig Ferguson's show to Tivo so I can figure out what was going on.  Also, that skit was kinda funny...in a psychedelic way.

But as you can see, the more I learned the less I knew.  I hope you can see how I was totally Lost.

Heinous hair, soiled suits.
And only eight bywords to boot!
Not sure where Craig got the game plan.
To pick up a mystifying metal McMahon.