Jeff The Landshark's 12 Days of Christmas- by Anabelle

HO HO HO everyone and welcome to the Christmas Festivities! I am your host, Jeff the Landshark  - the superior of all Marvel Legends Figures. Today I would like to show you my favorite Christmas song, with a little Marvel Legends twist!! (with help from Anabelle trying to destress before her finals of course)
For your own mental sanity, let’s just skip to the twelfth day. If you want to sing this fully at home to irritate everyone you probably know how to figure out each day working backwards yourself. 😃 Let’s GO!

Anabelle's Christmas Calculus Song

Hi all!

Anabelle had another assignment to write a Christmas song parody for math and once again she chipped off the old block her way into geek hilarity.

Happy new year everyone!

 

Ode to Integrals

By Anabelle McGinley  19 Dec 2020

(To the Tune of “Silver Bells”)

Collaborative Songs Part 2

My brother-in-law sent me the beginning of this many years ago. I threw on some verses and sent it back, and we e-mailed back and forth, during what must have been an outstandingly productive day at work for both of us, until it reached its completed state.

Then we forgot about it for eleven years, until he found it on an old storage drive.

And now, here it is!

Collaborative Songs Part 1

The absolute best part of Laughter Hours was bouncing comedy ideas around and writing funny stuff with Jesse.

I had an idea for a song parody back in 2000, so I sent him the bits I had, and he sent some back. It led to an extremely silly evening over the phone, and this:

Man, I still really miss doing Laughter Hours.

Christmas Calculation!

Looks like a get an early Christmas present this year.  A day off!

For extra credit, my daughter's math class was tasked with writing a math based Christmas carol.

Most others wrote or typed out something short and basic, to a simple song.

She made a giant, multicolored page with images, and parodied a Rankin Bass storytelling number.

I have no idea where she gets it from.

Come back next time for the usual Action Figure based holiday fun.

This Song Can Only Mean One Thing!

Warning

This post contains bad, foul, filthy and unacceptable language - the words that “will curve your spine, grow hair on your hands and maybe, even bring us, God help us, peace without honor.”

This is not a post for children.  Kids, take a hike.

This is also not a post for those adults who are offended by this type of language.  Do yourself a favor, and go read some of my cute stuff before moral outrage can kick in.

Just about everything else on this blog is clean…Stupid sometimes, but clean.

End of Warning.

Shuffled Up the Lake Song

Warning

This post contains bad, foul, filthy and unacceptable language - the words that “will curve your spine, grow hair on your hands and maybe, even bring us, God help us, peace without honor.”

This is not a post for children.  Kids, take a hike. 

This is also not a post for those adults who are offended by this type of language.  Do yourself a favor, and go read some of my cute stuff before moral outrage can kick in.

End of Warning.

The previously posted Up the Lake song, was requested after this one was seen. 

Yes, my filing system needs work.

Anyway, it seems appropriate to post this one now to commemorate the birth of the namesake and Great Granddaughter of Johanna – the record holder for the youngest baby brought Up the Lake, and probably the first baby ever brought Up the Lake Eighty Five Summers ago.

She popularized the word “Iffy” describing an in progress poker hand.  Her inflection made it abundantly clear why there are two “F’s” in that word.

She’s also the person I learned the lyrics to, “The First Marine he Ate the Beans, Par Le Vous”

from, as well as many similar useful period words, phrases and poems.

She may be gone, but her legacy will last forever.

Fold Your Tent

(Parody of “If You’re Happy and you Know It”

No, there’s no music this time. Like you really need it.)

Musical Lunacy By Request

To mark the end of yet another season Up the Lake, here’s a song parody of Dean Martin’s signature tune back in 2004.  Linda Degl said I should do a song about always losing if you win the first hand after seeing one on a similar topic.

Didn’t realize my particular brand of insanity works by request.

Up the Lake: Music Video! Stinging the Blues

Key things in life are often:

A) Who you know

and 

B) Timing

Lucking out in these two areas led to the first ever original song I wrote that actually has a music video to be posted on this blog.

A Different Kind of Frozen Parody

Disney certainly outdid itself with Frozen.   It certainly deserves all the praise, awards, and box office bucks it generated.  The story, the animation, the music were all above and beyond what they’ve done recently.

                      

And that’s coming from someone who thinks what they’ve done recently was awesome.

The popularity of “Let it Go” has, justifiably given Idina Menzel’s performance of the impressive and empowering song, managed to outmatch even that of the film itself.  This despite the fact that (or perhaps because) along with building a castle and a sparkly wardrobe, Elsa appears to also build herself a new bust line mid song.

Yes, I have been informed by those who know more about women’s fashions than I (translation: everyone) that the two dresses she wears in the song would require vastly different undergarments which may be responsible for that effect.

I’m sticking with my original idea  though, because while the thought of an ice brassiere is humorous, it is nowhere near as funny as bazoomcicles. 

During the near infinite shoveling and scraping days, I found myself often singing “No More Snow” to the tune of that fantastic number. (Along with the occasional demented howling of "In Summer.") 

I was going to write it down, but two things prevented me.

Christmas Village 2013

“Lovely Weather for a Slay Night Together With You”

Or

“Merry Christmas, mein Joe”- By the Royal Crimson Guardsmen

The annual winter struggles for Tabletop Plateau continue once more this year.

But what’s this?

Something very strange is occurring.

What Does the Spock Say?

Yeah, this one got stuck in my head too.  Here’s the inexplicably catchy Ylvis smash, "The Fox," mangled into a Star Trek setting.

For those of you who have isolated yourselves from the internet, TV, radio and most other human contact an instrumental version of the music is embedded below to help with the sing along.

An Engineer Bites the Dust

I’m concerned that my songs celebrating the joys of engineering make it look like I am losing my cynical edge, which is very important for comedy.  Therefore I submit the following “anthem” for Technical Employees with lower levels of loyalty. 

It's a parody of Queen’s…

Really, do you need this one spelled out?

Taylor Sith?

Now that Disney owns Star Wars, they have announced Episodes VII-IX and a myriad of expanded universe movies.  All that’s missing from these announcements is a new Disnified home release of the original films.

Disney loves to throw music videos on their discs, featuring popular current performers on Radio Disney singing songs from, or homages to, the film in question.

Therefore, I would like to submit this little diddy, to the tune of Taylor Swift’s “We are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” for the home release of The Empire Strikes Back: Super Duper Special Edition. It is a musical celebration of Luke’s big “NO!” right after,

“No… I am your father.”

Which USED to be the greatest reveal in cinema history, before the prequels spoiled it by revealing Vader’s entire back story. (Not that I’m still bitter or anything.)

Feel free to blame my daughter for getting yet another girly song stuck in my head, forcing me to release this on an unsuspecting public.  This one's for you, kiddo!

Classic Doctor Who – Modern Song

Does the world REALLY need another “Call Me Maybe" parody?

There are millions of them out there, many of which have fully produced videos.

In fact there are already several Doctor Who themed ones.

However, since I am not a twenty something girl with a crush on David Tennant or Matt Smith, I thought I could bring something new to the table as there was a perfect fit for this song in the most famous run of the Classic Incarnation of Doctor Who.

More importantly, the down side of having a daughter at the age where she’s discovering pop music and bringing it home, means I can’t get the dang thing out of my head.  Of course the up side was she was a valuable assistant in proofreading to make sure it matched the meter and music. Thanx kiddo!

Moo Mighty Moo Cow

Years back, my cousin sent me bizarre E‑mails about moo cows for a while, culminating in a little poem. 

It became the first verse of this…thing.

Then I wrote two more verses and a chorus. 

I'm not sure if it's funny, strange, or just stupid (possible all three). 

The fact that she went on to be a veterinarian, and I went on to attempt comedy on the internet twice a week may or may not be relevant, but I feel a bizarre urge to share it.

Maybe the moo cows have gotten to me too...or maybe it’s just the deadlines.

 "Praise The Mighty Moo Cow" 

by Lauren and Jeff

Song for Dad

Again, due to what would have been my Dad’s birthday this weekend, and the long span without power, internet or sanitary conditions thanx to Sandy the Frankenstorm:


Here’s a tune I dedicated to my Dad in 1999. He helped with most technical details.

Ballad of the Millennium Bug
(To the tune of “Yellow Submarine”)

An Unpleasant Song

Inspired by a comment made by my first department head “Doctor Shock”

(Really, that was his name)
surrounding events detailed here

Parody of Madonna’s “Vogue”

The Ballad of the Former Other Superboy

A little background:

In the Superman comics I wasted most of my energy on (the semi consistant DC Universe between the Crisis on Infinite Earths and Flashpoint  reboots for the geekly saavy) Before the reboot), Clark was never Superboy, his powers mostly only manifested fully as an adult.

However in 1993 when superman died (A little, he got better, don’t ask.), some folks at a place called Cadmus tried to clone Superman, resulting in a new Superboy.

Sometimes, I remember...

Sometimes, I forget that I usually really like my job.

Other times, despite the normal levels of chaos and screaming, I remember.

This parody of Billy Joel's "Still Rock N' Roll to Me" was written in one of those latter times.

STILL R&D FOR ME