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Jingle Bells…

…Batman smells…

…Robin laid an egg…

…Batmobile lost its wheel…

…and the Joker got away!

Remember that old childhood variation on the song?   I certainly do, and at least to my memory, that was pretty much it for the parody of Jingle Bells.

Except that time being what it is, it appears a whole second verse was added to the song since my childhood back in the stone age and, much to my surprise, Tom Scocca over at theconcourse.com writes about it here:

Do you know the second verse to “Jingle Bells, Batman smells?”

For those like me who never even knew about this mysterious second verse (something which clearly came to be sometime after my own childhood in the 1970’s), I’m sooooo tempted to not reveal it here and help out Mr. Scocca to get whatever pitiful clicks he can get via my site…

…but I just have to put it here, so Mr. Scocca, my deepest apologies.

And now, SPOILERS!, the second verse of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells

 

SPOILERS!!!!

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!

 

Batman’s in the kitchen

Robin’s in the hall

Joker’s in the bathroom

Peeing on the wall, hey!

Never heard those lines before.  Ever.

Interestingly, there are variations to even those lines.  If you do go to the website and check out the article (its not terribly long and, yes, I gave pretty much everything away here), scroll down to some of the comments.

Indeed, it appears this second verse found its way into the song sometime in the later 1980’s or perhaps into the 1990’s (which would make sense as my childhood was reeeeeallly far in my rear-view mirror by that time), and that even the first and this new second verse has its own variations…

For example, some people note that the line “Blew his nose in Cheerios and ate ‘em anyway” also appeared in the song at some point.

Then there’s “and joker took ballet, hey!”, which another one notes was a thing.

I vaguely recall another person who noted that at one point the line “Commissioner broke his leg” was a alternate variation of the “Batmobile lost its wheel” line.

Anyway, interesting stuff from childhood…

…oh, and to everyone out there:

Have a very Happy Holiday!

(And to those impatient for news about my latest/concluding chapter of the Corrosive Knights series… I’m working hard on it.  It will come out sometime in 2018)