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Song Parodies -> "When You Really Need TV"
Original Song Title:
"Manic Monday"
(MP3)Original Performer:
The Bangles
Parody Song Title:
"When You Really Need TV"
Parody Written by:
Charlie Ergen 2024
The Lyrics
A 2022 television advertisement aired by Dish Network featuring rain and sugar-free cake.
Rain, (Start in to rain, it’ll have to rain)
Here’s that rain, (Start in to rain, it’ll have to rain)
That rainfall is bound to get you,
Oh, (What’s on? It’s “My Mermaid & Me”)
Don’t go slow, (What’s on? It’s “My Mermaid & Me”)
That rainfall is bound to get you,
Rainfall... rainfall... rainfall... rainfall... rainfall... mmm...
(female vocal solo)
Dish Switch Steps,
Call for the rain, soon, it will be raining,
Dish Switch Steps,
Pool party planned, almost out of handling,
One, two, three,
Signal through the nation, (dee-de-oh!)
Sugar-free,
Is the cake that’s putting the world on its feet,
Dish Switch Steps,
Once you begin, you have to give in to
Dish Switch Steps,
Get on your toes, ‘cause everyone knows that
If you’re not a dunce,
Oh, you’ll get Dish at once,
Well, keep that cake sugar-free,
Do the Dish Switch Steps!
(vocal trio)
Dish Switch Steps,
Call for the rain, soon, it will be raining,
Dish Switch Steps,
Pool party planned, almost out of handling,
One, two, three,
Signal through the nation, (doo-doo-do-doo!)
Sugar-free,
Is the cake that’s putting the world on its feet,
Dish Switch Steps,
Once you begin, you have to give in to
Dish Switch Steps,
Get on your toes, ‘cause everyone knows that
If you’re not a dunce,
You’ll get Dish at once,
Keep that cake sugar-free,
Do the Dish Switch Steps, whoa!
Dish Switch Steps,
(instrumental call-back)
Dish Switch Steps,
(instrumental call-back)
One, two, three,
Signal through the nation, (doo-doo-do-doo!)
Sugar-free,
Is the cake that’s putting the world on its feet,
Dish Switch Steps,
(instrumental call-back)
Dish Switch Steps,
(instrumental call-back)
If you’re not a dunce,
You’ll get Dish at once,
Keep that cake sugar-free,
Do the Dish Switch Steps, whoa!
Simple as the day is long!
Here’s that rain, (Start in to rain, it’ll have to rain)
That rainfall is bound to get you,
Oh, (What’s on? It’s “My Mermaid & Me”)
Don’t go slow, (What’s on? It’s “My Mermaid & Me”)
That rainfall is bound to get you,
Rainfall... rainfall... rainfall... rainfall... rainfall... mmm...
(female vocal solo)
Dish Switch Steps,
Call for the rain, soon, it will be raining,
Dish Switch Steps,
Pool party planned, almost out of handling,
One, two, three,
Signal through the nation, (dee-de-oh!)
Sugar-free,
Is the cake that’s putting the world on its feet,
Dish Switch Steps,
Once you begin, you have to give in to
Dish Switch Steps,
Get on your toes, ‘cause everyone knows that
If you’re not a dunce,
Oh, you’ll get Dish at once,
Well, keep that cake sugar-free,
Do the Dish Switch Steps!
(vocal trio)
Dish Switch Steps,
Call for the rain, soon, it will be raining,
Dish Switch Steps,
Pool party planned, almost out of handling,
One, two, three,
Signal through the nation, (doo-doo-do-doo!)
Sugar-free,
Is the cake that’s putting the world on its feet,
Dish Switch Steps,
Once you begin, you have to give in to
Dish Switch Steps,
Get on your toes, ‘cause everyone knows that
If you’re not a dunce,
You’ll get Dish at once,
Keep that cake sugar-free,
Do the Dish Switch Steps, whoa!
Dish Switch Steps,
(instrumental call-back)
Dish Switch Steps,
(instrumental call-back)
One, two, three,
Signal through the nation, (doo-doo-do-doo!)
Sugar-free,
Is the cake that’s putting the world on its feet,
Dish Switch Steps,
(instrumental call-back)
Dish Switch Steps,
(instrumental call-back)
If you’re not a dunce,
You’ll get Dish at once,
Keep that cake sugar-free,
Do the Dish Switch Steps, whoa!
Simple as the day is long!
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Oh joy, somehow the relentless rest home rotter's Depends leaked yet another reprise of his favorite hoboes-with-oboes tune onto the board. OTOH, Greta Thunberg would be proud of all the recycling you've done: same old song, same old subjects, ad infinitum. Just out of curiosity, does your dictionary even have listings for "originality" or "wit"? I ask because most others try to work those into their parodies, but hey, you do you.
Once again Phil Ossifer proves he is incapable of doing much more than providing attack variants against a 90 year old song or a high school graduation line. At least I actually had a hand in saving this topic (along with others) from complete and total obscurity. Act offended by the topics all you want, but you’ll never know that feeling in this lifetime.
Hey moron, I don’t need to raise my commentary standards when I’ve got you lowering yours every day. During your time here you’ve fixated on the most mundane things possible and given us nothing but slight variations on songs from +/- a century ago, not to mention promote absurd conspiracy theories, like Gary McNamara being the second coming of Jesus Christ, TV commercials being end world time signs, or Alex Weibel starting Holocaust II. Also, I’ve never acted offended over the G.M. story, but to quote one of your favorite lines, I guess I can’t handle the truth. Lastly, you have called me racist, sexist, a pedophile and other things you don’t know how to spell. Coming from someone who can’t tie their shoes or even write a sentence correctly, I do not think that means what you think it means.
^^^^^Nice try at co-opting my name and style of commentary, but everyone knows it’s you, George&GermaineBriantFan. As regards saving stuff from obscurity, your efforts and intentions rank right up there with those of the dust mite preservation society.
Please Phil Ossifer, George&GermaineBriantFan and Captain Obvious, why won't all 3 of you just bury the hatchet and become good friends? Life it too short to keep squabbling online all the time. Why don't all 3 of you go out for a nice candlelit meal and become great buddies? Or why don't all 3 of you club together and make a parody written by all 3 of you!
Have you ever even read George&GermaineBriantFan's pathetic entries? Go dig up "The Ed Wynn Show (aka Wynn Beats Them All)" and tell me you'd pair up with someone that untalented.
NOBODY CARES.
Says the guy who posted his opinion anyway.
I don't know what's worse for this site, the trolls, or the ones who feed the trolls.
G&GBF, I don’t think you’ve ever given me an explanation as to why you’ve A) insisted on using the same song (Rhythm Steps) for 95% of your entries over the past year, B) why you insisted on preaching the greatness of it each time you post it, yet could never manage to prove your claim, and C) why you chose a +/- 100-year-old song, out of literally billions of others, to turn into a franchise by annoying as many people as possible. Probably the dumbest tactic ever tried here on this board.
^^^^^More G&GBF BS, disguised as someone else’s comments. If nothing else, it shows he’s fully aware of what most of us are thinking. Why he can’t/won’t act on that is the mystery.
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