After a short intermission, the lights dimmed and the orchestra kicked into “Fun Zone.” This would be absolutely meaningless to anyone not intimately familiar with the 1989 box-office fiasco, but to this crowd of proud nerds it was as recognizable as any of the John Williams scores we’d just heard. It also meant that the king of nerds everywhere was about to come out and launch into a medley of “I Lost on Jeopardy,” “I Love Rocky Road,” and “Like a Surgeon.
With that, we got all one minute and 45 seconds of his 2006 super deep cut “Weasel Stomping Day,” the best song ever written about ritualistically crushing weasels until their intestines smear all over the ground. “All the little girls and boys,” he sang while highly trained members of an orchestra carefully played along as a conductor guided them. “Love that wonderful crunching noise/You’ll know what this day’s about/When you stomp a weasel’s guts right out.
The first part of the show was centered around lesser-known pieces of like brilliant insanity like that, while the second part was nothing but his biggest parody hits like “Dare to be Stupid,” “White and Nerdy,” and “Amish Paradise.” The symphony often faded into the background on these songs, though they occasionally were a big asset, most notably on the intro to “Amish Paradise” when they recreated Stevie Wonder’s synthesizer parts on “Pastime Paradise” to great effect.affair.
I still think this would be a great Super Bowl half time show and a break from the norm.
Dare to Be Stupid blew my friggin MIND! Thanks Al!
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