Oh, you all hate “It’s a Small World?” How novel. How observant and clever and Seinfeld to seize on something universally known and beloved and to set set us all straight about how truly awful it really is. Just like “Jingle Bells.” Or ketchup. You’re mavericks, that’s what you are!
Richard and Robert Sherman were incredibly talented. Their contributions to Walt Disney’s work — who created and defined an artistic vision for America as much as any one person ever has — can’t be overstated. And when you don’t know that or dismiss it and get on the Disney-scoffing cognoscenti bandwagon — well, you’re just enabling the other side in the culture war. And the culture battlefield is where all battles are ultimately won or lost, as Andrew Breitbart observed.
By all means, let’s have tears and shirt-rending for Whitney Houston and Steve Jobs — the left liked them, too! — but that old man who wrote that irritating song? Let’s just mock him.
You dis the Sherman Brothers, you dis America!
“You’re mavericks, that’s what you are!”
We’re curmudgeons, and proud of it.
Animal House, Delta's on Trial
Otter: Point of parliamentary procedure!
Hoover: Don't screw around, they're serious this time!
Otter: [aside] Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon: I thought you were pre-med.
Otter: What's the difference? [aloud] Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests—we did. [winks at Dean Wormer] But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick perverted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg: isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do what you you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
[Leads the Deltas out of the hearing, all humming the Star-Spangled Banner]
Greg: Order!
Dean Wormer: You've done it this time buster! No more Delta! I'm calling the national office! I'm going to revoke your charter! And if you wiseguys do one more thing, one more, I'm going to kick you out of college! No more fun of any kind!
The Sherman brothers were definitely great.
I still can’t stand “It’s a Small World.”
Good post.
I don't care. The song still sucks.