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Hall and Oates' Version[]
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater (Official Video)
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Maneater opens with a woman walking down a red staircase, and the band playing in a dimly lit studio with shafts of light projecting down on them. This may be an attempt to mimic a bar-dance club setting. The band members step in and out of the light for their lip sync. A young woman in a short party dress is shown in fade-in and fade-out shots, along with a black jaguar, hence the song line "The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar," which likely refers to a gold digger who prefers to ride in an up-scale luxury automobile such as a Jaguar. |
The Muppets' Version[]
The Jim Henson Hour ManEater Muppet Songs
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The Muppet Maneater music video made for The Jim Henson Hour episode "Oceans" featuring the Extremes. In the video, three lobsters from right to left dance before swim in shouting twice. The extremes one by one sing and the shark moves to the right before the orange extreme comes close to the screen. Before the shark gradually swims, the blue one shouts "Look Out" , the yellow and blue extremes scream as they get scared of vulnerable bites by the shark and then it moves away. The shark comes back after the blue extreme swims close to it and swims back. The orange extreme comes close to the view and then after the shark came, the shark bites the orange extreme's vastus medialis and the leg bone tissues resulting a painful grab, but without bleeding. The next extreme to be pulled from is the yellow one by the abdominal muscles and they both shout "Oh No". When the shark comes back, it grabs the blue extreme by the tail leaving only the purple one unharmed. The three extremes come back standing on the shark's back which then hops off and then the purple extreme bites the shark back and they swim away. |