I don’t know if this was a regional thing or what, but it’s time to put this thorny issue to bed so that we can grow closer as a community.
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I've also never heard "and Robin flew away".I've never heard the first one, like ever.
There are other examples of this (although I'm blanking at present). The global children's playground information network, in an age before the internet, was wild.it's not that much weirder than some kids coming up with it and having it sweep the nation and the world, which is apparently what happened?
Jingle Bells, Batman smells
Manson self-fellates
It's all real, I heard the deal
From my best playground mates
"This isn't a mud pit, it's a Dutch oven. And I'm the chef."tbf batman probably does smell tho
It's a metaphor. A metaphor for a particularly sulfurous smelling fart. Like a rotten egg, you see.This may have perhaps been an Octohouse original lyric, based on evidence
However, if the point of this famous holiday single is to denigrate Batman, and his Mission, saying that he smells “from 100 miles away” makes far more sense than “Robin laid an egg”
That doesn’t mean anything. Go to your room!
A little late commenting on this, but having been in elementary school in the 80s, I can attest that we were singing it well before The Simpsons came into existence.I had no idea there was an older source for "Batman smells" than the Simpsons. Never heard any other parody version of Jingle Bells. In retrospect, the idea that the Simpsons writers would just invent a Batman-themed Jingle Bells parody is pretty weird, but on the other hand it's not that much weirder than some kids coming up with it and having it sweep the nation and the world, which is apparently what happened?