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Jingle Bells, Batman Smells?

Asked by augustlan (47745points) December 13th, 2008

How do songs get embellished (for lack of a better word) like this and how do we all come to know them? I’m not talking about legitimate spoofs like Weird Al’s stuff. Just the ones that seem to happen in an organic fashion and take on a life of their own. I can only think of three off the top of my head: Jingle Bells, Happy Birthday to You, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…are there more?

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kevbo's avatar

McDonald’s is the place.
They punch you in the face.
They take your parking place.
Hamburgers up your nose,
French fries between your toes.
Last time I was there,
They fried my underwear.

kevbo's avatar

This land is my land.
It sure ain’t your land.
I got a shotgun,
And you ain’t got one.
I’ll blow you your head off
If you don’t get off.
This land is private property.

kevbo's avatar

Jesus Christ,
Superstar!
I got away
With a stolen car.
Cops were there,
But I don’t care
‘cause I got my bulletproof
Underwear.
When I die
Bury me.
Hang my balls
From a cherry tree.
When they fall,
Take a bite.
Don’t blame me
If they don’t taste right!

AstroChuck's avatar

Joy to the world
The Teacher’s dead
They’ve barbecued her head
What happened to her body?
They’ve flushed it down the potty
And ‘round and ‘round it goes
And ‘round and ‘round it goes…

SuperMouse's avatar

God bless my underwear
My only pair
Stand beside it and guide it
Through the holes and the rips and the tears
From the washer
Through the wringer
From the dryer
To the ironing board
God bless my underwear
My only pair!

El_Cadejo's avatar

Believe it or not, the “Jingle Bells Batman Smells” came from the Batman animated series in the 90s.

its crap quality but here

kevbo's avatar

@uber, I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but I was singing that circa 1980.

kevbo's avatar

Also, “On top of spaghetti…” and “On top of the schoolhouse…”

El_Cadejo's avatar

@kevbo oh way before my time. Nevermind then.

SuperMouse's avatar

I’m looking over my dead dog Rover that I overlooked before…
(sung to the tune of I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover the rest is just gross so I’ll stop there).

AstroChuck's avatar

@uberbatman- I was singing “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” in elementary school in the 1960s.

St.George's avatar

@supermouse…allow me: The first leg is missing; the second is gone. The third leg is scattered all over the lawn…bum bum bum…

El_Cadejo's avatar

Man you guys are all so olddddddd :P

lynzeut's avatar

To the tune of Where is Thumbkin?, Frere Jacques?, Are you sleeping? Etc. Etc.

Marajuana, Marajuana
LSD,LSD
All the teachers make it,
and the bus drivers take it.
Why can’t we?, Why can’t we?

Believe it or not we use to sing this on the school bus durring field trips.

AstroChuck's avatar

We sang that too, only with slightly different lyrics.
It went like this-

Marijuana, Marijuana
LSD, LSD
Scientists make it
Teachers take it
Why can’t we?, Why can’t we?

lynzeut's avatar

@astro, that makes me feel better. I came from a small town and figured that it was some song made up by the hicks that lived there. I am pretty sure that I had no idea what Marajuana or LSD was but hey everybody was singing it. Dang I got sucked into the peer pressure.

AstroChuck's avatar

@kevbo- If I remember correctly, this is how we sang the McDonald’s song-

McDonald’s is your kind of place
They serve up rattlesnakes
Hamburgers up your nose
French fries between your toes
Forget about a parking place
It’s up in outer space
McDonald’s is your kind of place

madcapper's avatar

well kevbo sure knows a lot but..
Fuck fuck fuck a duck
Screw a kangaroo
Finger bang an orangutan
Orgy at the zoo…

madcapper's avatar

ohh and
Joy to the world
My teachers dead
I cut off her head
What happened to the body?
I flushed it down the potty
And round and round it goes (repeat x2)
... this is form the early 90’s before the advent of Columbine so don’t call me sick haha

AstroChuck's avatar

@madcapper- see above (fourth answer).

madcapper's avatar

@ asstro haha oops missed that one haha glad it’s been going around for a while now..

madcapper's avatar

and i have been drinking so I did not mean to call you ASStro haha

AstroChuck's avatar

‘S ok. I’ve been called a lot worse.

madcapper's avatar

haha ok but truly I did not mean to

SuperMouse's avatar

@Megan, “No need explaining the one remaining is cooking in the microwave…”

St.George's avatar

@Supermouse – I must be older…

No need explaining the one remaining; it’s hanging on the kitchen door…

Wow…why do I remember this?

buster's avatar

@ Jackson :) I though the Jingle Bells. Batman Smells. Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel and Joker got away. Hey. Was from an early episode of The Simpsons with Bart singing it. Here it is actually http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwKVSbPZ2U

El_Cadejo's avatar

@buster oh shit i remember that ep too.

augustlan's avatar

@Buster and Uber: Batman smells was definitely around long before the Simpsons. AC is right (and yes, we are old).

augustlan's avatar

Since I lived in Frederick, Maryland – the place they caught the ‘DC Sniper’ – that Joy to the Word song got changed up again to “Joy to the world, the sniper’s dead. What happened to his head?...” by all the school kids around there.

@All: Thanks for all the answers! Some I’d forgotten about, and some I’d never heard. I guess these things were the precursors to ‘viral videos’ : )

buster's avatar

Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead
We bbqued her body
Flushed it down the potty
And round and round it goes
And round and round it goes

shrubbery's avatar

I believe I can die
I got shot by the FBI
All I stole was a chicken wing
From the local burger king

mangeons's avatar

Joy to the world, the lord has come, what happened to his thumb? :D

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