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Shaenon: Jeff nixed the line “Waltz with your bad self!” because Sousa marches aren’t in a waltz tempo. This is the dedication to accuracy you just don’t get in “Luann.”
Channing: I know some of y’all are into the musics and such, and I thought it might drive you into some sort of conniption. This is how much I care about you.
Thank you, Channing. That was very thoughtful. Obviously if Moustachio wanted to get people to waltz, he would play Strauss, but Sousa seems more his style.
Moustachio: What? Strauss? The *counter-imperialist*?
Yeah, but “Waltz with your bad self” is such a great line that I would have kept it and changed Sousa instead. In fact, I will now practice saying “Waltz with your bad self,” in the hope that I can find situations where that is the perfect interjection.
tune: “Let’s Go Fly a Kite,” Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman, Mary Poppins, 1964
Wi-ith Tip as our mentor we’ll thrive
As the Prince and Princess of Jive
I am Mamma Foxfire, You are Captain Beyond
With these outfits we’ve donned
Watch those losers get pwned
Oh, oh, oh!
Waltz with your bad self
Don’t just sit on the shelf
Waltz with your bad self, and make it funky
Learn from Moustachio
He’s the Kaiser of Soul
Oh, waltz with your bad self
I was gonna bring up waltz time but you beat me to it.
Sousa wrote waltzes, you know. He was the March King, but he wrote other kinds of music as well, including nine operettas.
On the other hand, “One – Two – Three – Four! Waltz with your bad self!” is just wrong wrong wrong wrong.
True. Should be ONE-two-three-ONE-two-three.
I like the line though.
Keep hearing James Brown, “Waltz with yo bad self one time!”.
We lost “Waltz with your bad self”, but we gained Chris just standing there and a couple of spectators, which doesn’t seem that bad an exchange to me.