Year-round Yuletide oddities
Many nurses, interns, and med students are creative, ADHD busy bees. They make fun videos to blow off steam, or–in this case–educate with catchy mnemonics songs.
Simple Nursing has impressed me with the diagnostic tool “Beginning to Look a Lot Like Cirrhosis.” It’s well done, fun, and smart. You might learn something.
The Big guy has all year to rest and relax (relatively). What if he’s come down with sumpin THAT day?!
The Crystalairs doo wop the cool outta “Santa’s Sick.” Hypothetically, right?
Not much about these guys except this poppin’ 45: Dick & Richard present “Santa Caught a Cold on Christmas Eve.” Dig that bamboo piccolo.
Home strumming from Terry Lingwood. “The Christmas Eve that Santa Got the Flu” sounds like a cautionary folk tale. Well, be prepared always works.
Let’s get historic just for a bit. “Santa’s Got the Swine Flu” by Tom Latourette returns us to the thrilling days of yester-oh-nine when we freaked out that The Pandemic would end us. Or at least, Mr. Claus. (To the tune of that ‘Dreidel’ song.)
Influenza can be influential on your holiday joy. What could be worse? (We’ll find our tomorrow.)
Bubble Gum Becky from Mighty Magical Pants tells us nothing could be worse than the “Flu on Christmas.” Gift over!
Right Between the Ears parodies ‘Blue’ with “Flu for Christmas.” Stage frightening.
Prophylactically, nurses from Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals lip sync to the parody “I Don’t Want a Christmas with Flu” sung by Jennifer Redston. Fun-lovers, yeah, they want you to get shot. (Um, a shot.)
ELFIS also warns “I Want an H1N1 Shot for Christmas.” Swine Flu phobia, much. It’s a ‘Hipopotamus’ take off.
‘Course Bob Rivers delivers with his ‘Sleigh Ride’ parody “Flu Ride.” Classy coughing routine.
Stuffed noses are not stuffed turkeys. ‘Snot nice around the holidays.
Beth McDonald has a “Snotty Christmas Song” just for you young parents. Noni Dolphin does this a bit better.
Zetallon Gaming follows with more parody of carols via “‘Tis the Season to be Snotty.”
Since these are all childish, silly, overly broad descents into tomfoolery, let’s feature the one with the nose-blowing sfx: “Rudolph the Runny-Nosed Reindeer” by Bartok Music (no one’s taking credit for this).
The thing about camouflge clothing–remember where you put it!
The sadness of serving is missing family, and some times are worse than others. So here comes country western to make you cry harder. (I’ve mentioned most of these afore.)
Let’s try “Camouflage and Christmas Lights” by someone new, the Duck Dynasty crew. Maudlin scene building of what it’s like over there with slow honky tonk.
Jenny Brown sings “Camouflage Christmas” missing her soldiering other. Tender country twanging, soaring angelic vocals. Gives the other boys jealousy.
Is this new? Michelle Lombardi pushes hard her “Christmas in Camouflage,” a pop country family sing-along. Slick sentiment.
Here’s one i know i haven’t mentioned: Slidawg & The Redneck Ramblers twist the sentiment to white trash comedy with a parody of ol’ yule ‘Blue Christmas’ into “Blue Camo Christmas.” Seems like ol’ Jethro was out inna woods huntin’ when he missed the holidays….
Funning up other songs is MY own special category.
‘O Christmas Tree’ gets a fumble with “My Christmas Cards Came Back to Me” by Carol Denney. Humor, if you need to know.
Billy Joe Duprix gets off track with his ‘Rudolph’ run “Christmas Cards.” They’re credit cards, these cards. That’s something else. Sorry.
While we’re tangential, Alan Sherman has a parody he never quite released: “Christmas ’65 (Draft Cards).” It starts as ‘The Christmas Song’, then gets to commenting on all of last year–like a family letter for the holidays, now that you mention it.
Joel Kopischke has a way with a parody. Imagine ‘Sweet Caroline’ but through the the little drummer boy’s musical gifts. “Sweet Caroling” et voila.
It’s fun to say no no no (around Christmas time we call that ‘coal mining’). That Something Piñata gets experimentally kidsong for “Don’t Play Me that Christmas Song.” Uncategorizable nonsense, but in a good way.
Dr. Elmo got famous for a Christmas novelty song. So, for an hilarious sequel, he spun out an FM DJ singing “Don’t Make Me Play that Grandma Song Again.” Ha what ha.
On the other hand, hipsters gotta hate. Todd Chappelle (funny Philly guy) parodies McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmastime’ to the tune of earworm dithering. Don’t you wish they would NOT play some songs? Then why’s he gotta go the ENTIRE distance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCxInfmJDLk
While the hilarious show was often stuffed with musical bits (including a musical episode), most were pop songs from the charts. Nothing original for Christmas… unless we count this angry ’12 Days’ parody. Thank you, very much.
Hyperventilating comedy nearly as jam packed with schtick and ideas as a live action The Simpsons, this show did include a slight bit about Tracy Jordan’s ill advised holiday album and a sliver of his big hit “It’s a Jordan Christmas.” Just improv? you ask. Why would that matter?
While a few standout songs peppered the perfectly cast series, not much in the way of Xmas tunes. So Neil Patrick Harris murders a few carols insinuating how much he’d like to have sex with Ted’s sister. Let’s watch the entire “Barney Stinson Christmas Songs” bit, shall we?
Snarking on crummy old z-grade movies hasn’t really been my giddiap, but Joel Hodgson has been a cottage industry of it for decades now. I’ve only offered one of his songs “Patrick Swayze Christmas” before. “Merry Christmas–If That’s OK” is more sophomoric boys being boys (witty, yes… clever, ok).
As i was a fan of the flagship of Adult Swim toons, i will allow these daffy dadaists to insinuate their way into my blog with a “12 Days of Christmas” routine. (I am usually so jaded with ’12 Days’ parodies i get all Oscar Wilde inside and rush on to something else.) But this one’s super-rando!
This show was nothing more than recycled cartoons i grew up with reimagined as a drug trip of epic oddity. At the end of the Christmas episode was another mangled carol “We Wish You a Happy Birthday.” Click click.