A classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XU6zrGyUUo
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
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#12Growing up, the lyrics always included the verse as well as the chorus: “… and the joker got away! // Batman in the kitchen // Robin in the hall // Joker in the bathroom // peeing on the wall. // …” but I can’t remember how it ended. does anyone else remember this?
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#13Tom Scott did a video in 2020 on the exact same subject and premise[0], and it's super interesting. I'd recommend it to anybody who enjoyed this article, honestly. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5u9JSnAAU4 - Tom Scott, 'I Asked 64,182 People About “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's What I Found Out.'
Thank you for remembering and sharing this - I knew I'd seen it before, I just couldn't recall where. Mr Scott is and was (and maybe will be?) the obligatory xkcd of nerd experiments.
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#14"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost its wheel and the Joker ran away." is the version I heard as a kid in the American midwest. It's fascinating to me that this rhyme was international at a time in my life before I'd ever heard about the internet. Edit: Oh, it's simple. This is the version broadcast on The Simpsons TV show in 1989 and I must have heard it second-hand from my fellow stu…
We were singing this before the The Simpsons, so I wonder if it was the show that made it international or it already was that way.
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#15The redneck version goes something like "Jingle Bells, shotgun shells, Santa Claus is dead. Grandma got her .44 and shot him in the head." Don't ask, it's not original with me.
Must have been other Grandma, since Santa Claus killed Grandma in a hit-and-run. Revenge maybe?
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#16Growing up, the lyrics always included the verse as well as the chorus: “… and the joker got away! // Batman in the kitchen // Robin in the hall // Joker in the bathroom // peeing on the wall. // …” but I can’t remember how it ended. does anyone else remember this?
We usually ended it there, but I vaguely recall a version where Batman slips on it (the pee) and breaks his balls; I don't recall the actual verse though.
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#17The redneck version goes something like "Jingle Bells, shotgun shells, Santa Claus is dead. Grandma got her .44 and shot him in the head." Don't ask, it's not original with me.
The redneck version that I heard as a kid was way worse than that. Things I won’t repeat…
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#18Does "While Shepherds Washed their Socks by Night" count?
While Shepherds watched their kidney beans
All boiling in a pot
A load of soot came tumbling down
and spoiled the blinking lot
Alternative. The Angel of the Lord came down and eat the blinking lot.
Definitely British. Evidenced by the term 'kidney bean'
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#19I heard it in the UK before the Simpsons.
Robin flew away
Mr silly bit his willy on the M1 motorway.
I seem to remember hearing the standard US one in the bit at the end of The Cosby Show, which was on free to air TV soon after getting home from school.
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#20I heard it in the UK before the Simpsons. Robin flew away Mr silly bit his willy on the M1 motorway. I seem to remember hearing the standard US one in the bit at the end of The Cosby Show, which was on free to air TV soon after getting home from school.
Edit:
Robin laid an egg. Batmobile lost its wheel and the commissioner broke his leg...I think.