Tuesday, December 4
He's The Joker, He's a smoker.It's the holiday season, and you know what that means here at Busymom.net?
Yep, the 5th Annual "What Are the Right Words to 'Jingle Bells, Batman Smells'"? Holiday Comment Extravaganza.
Every year since 2003, we've discussed the "right" way to sing that classic holiday ditty.
Why should this year be any different?
Really, though, the question is why would the Joker take ballet when, after all, the Batmobile had just lost a wheel?
Oh, puhleeeze.
Like he would really do that.
So, how does the song go in your neck of the woods?
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Okay, I'll play your stupid game (JK)! Around here it goes like this:
Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. Batmobile lost it's wheel, and the Riddler got away.
But, that's not my favorite holiday song gone wrong, oh no! If you want to know what I really miss the most about my late husband, it's his holiday rendition of "Hark the Hare-lipped Angels Sing" complete with a very pronounced fake lisp on the second part of the first verse! And the rat would sing it that way in church too... knowing that he was going to make me almost pee from trying not to crack up! There was also his equally blasphemous version of "Up From the Grave He Arose" which he trotted out for Easter. It went like this: "Up from the grave he arose (he arose). With a big fat booger in his nose (in his nose)." No, there was no more, there didn't need to be, that was quite enough to leave me shaking with surpressed mirth beside my Nana at the First Baptist in Dandridge, trying to keep my composure and hoping to heck nobody else heard him. A regular religious subversive he was... but I still sing "Hark the Harelipped Angels sing, glory to the newborn king" and do the lisp in memory of him.
Okay, the version I recall goes: Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away. The Batmobile lost a wheel and landed in the hay. I will check with my 9 and 7 year old sons when I get home, though, just to make sure there hasn't been some cool update I am not aware of.
Ah, now I know it as:
Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
Robin flew away.
Father Christmas lost his whiskers
On the motorwaaaaa-aay!
Jingle Bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg...
Batmobile lost a wheel
and Joker got away.
Am curious now if this is the way my 8 year old sings it. Will definitely have to ask over breakfast this morning - good holiday bonding moment.
Ah, you have to love annual traditions.
Suffice it to say, Batman still smells, Robin is still laying said egg, the batmobile still lost a wheel and again, the joker got awaaaaaaaaay.
Jingle bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The Batmobile lost a wheel
and the Joker took ballet
Jingle bells,
Batman smells,
Robin laid an egg
Riddler died, Penguin cried
And Joker ran away
Thing 1 sang something like this " Sliding down a hill on a pair of broken skis, crashing into mailboxes slamming into trees. The snow is turning red, I think I am almost dead. I woke up in the hospital drooling on my bed"...... All to the tune of Jingle Bells. Yep catholic education at its finest.
ooh! JUST sang this in the car to HBB a couple of days ago so I have GOT it!!!
jingle bells, batman smells, robin laid an egg...
batmobile lost it's wheel and the joker got away.
And then we had a debate that the last line didn't rhyme and thus didn't sound good at all and so we sat and debated for a few minutes what the right words must therefore be??? HBB decided he must have broken a leg.
Do you think he's right???
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Our version was:
Jingle bells,
Santa smells,
and Rudolph ran away.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a cracked-up Chevrolet.
Ahem. We must be from a different part of the country.
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Let's see if I can remember it.
Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin laid an egg.
Picks his nose with Cheerios and eats it all the day.
Must be a regional version...I'm from New Hampshire. :o)
As a child in Connecticut in the early 1970's, I learned it this way:
"Jingle bells, Batman smells,
Robin laid an egg,
Batmobile lost a wheel,
and Batman broke his leg."
I love warped Christmas songs!
We had a version when I was a kid which is no longer sung as TAA (TransAustralian Airways) went belly up in the eighties, but it went like this:
Jingle Bells Batman smells
Robin flew away
Wonder Woman lost her bosom Flying TAA.
Mine is the same as Judy's version.
I didn't realize there were alternatives until just now.
I'm with GroovyOldLady:
Jingle Bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg...
Batmobile lost a wheel
and Joker got away.
Oops I meant too ballet not "got away" lol
Jingle bells, Batman smells,
Robin laid an egg,
Batmobile lost a wheel,
and Commissioner broke his leg."
Jingle bells, Batman smells,
Robin laid an egg,
Batmobile lost a wheel,
and Commissioner broke his leg."
Oh dear! When I was a kid, me and one of my ratty little friends made up or used alternate lyrics to pretty much every holiday song in the canon. My personal favorite is the modified version of "Angels We Have Heard On High," which we reworked to a druggy theme. We were about 12 and thought it was incredibly hilarious to make a song about "Angels We Have Heard While High."
But to answer your query, the lyrics are as follow:
Jingle Bells, Batman smells
Robin laid an egg!
Batmobile lost a wheel
And Joker took Ballet!
It goes like this:
Jingle bells
batman smells
robin laid an egg
bat mobile lost it's wheels
and joker ran away.
some song I remembered from the old Batman cartoon on Fox.