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For nostalgia fans: Ben Folds Five’s comeback single (with Fraggle Rock)

The year was 2002. A famously nerdy, well-loved 1990s alt-pop band, looking for the perfect foil for their music-video rep, pulls out a dormant pop-culture phenomenon and breathes new life into it. That band was Weezer. That phenomenon was The Muppets. It took another try or two to fully pull it off, but The Muppets managed to earn their place back in the A list thanks to the template set by that video. Can lightning strike twice? Fortunately, there’s another famously nerdy, well-loved 1990s alt-pop band looking for the perfect foil for their music-video rep. Aren’t comebacks splendid, Ben Folds Five and Fraggle Rock? source