(At some point, inexplicably, zombies show up - as well as “Draculas and Frankensteins.”) “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” is stupid and catchy, an unstoppable combination. Especially in the longer version, I can’t get over Glover’s growing frustration that “Tracy” keeps adding new verses to his tale. (The knowingly hokey “Let me tell you a story” concept is straight out of the “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” playbook, and like “Monster Mash” the tune sounds like it’s trying to start a dance craze.) So it’s kinda perfect that “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” has become a popular novelty song in its own right - you know it’s meant to be ironic, but it’s so fun that you want to keep listening to it anyway. Like any good parody, “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” secretly loves the musical targets it’s satirizing. Sorry to anyone trying to speak to me from now until halloween bc i will not be processing anyone’s words, i will only be singing werewolf bar mitzvah in my head- riverBOO! □ October 25, 2021 But for those who don’t know, an actual full-length version of “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” exists. The small snippet was almost better because it gave us a tantalizing taste of the sheer awfulness of Tracy’s concoction - hardly a surprise coming from a man whose Thomas Jefferson biopic was an amateurish disaster. With a video that looked like a bargain-basement “Thriller,” and a melody that recalled the dopiness of “Monster Mash,” “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” was so great because you didn’t need the whole song (or video). So I think part of the fun was, ‘Can we mash up - almost werewolf-like - these different kinds of music, in an effort to exploit all of them?’” I think it was in About a Boy where Hugh Grant is living off the money made from his father’s terrible, terrible Christmas song. In a 2018 LAist oral history, Carlock referenced novelty tunes like “Zombie Jamboree” and “those terrible novelty Halloween songs that get radio time every Halloween. What always made the bit funny was the preciseness of the thing it’s parodying. NxtgpyNLyY- Otto Von Biz Markie October 26, 2021 Might fuck around and play "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" 17 times in a row because it is the season, spooky, scary.
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