Fi and I love dumb jokes. Like really dumb. One category of dumb jokes started for us while rewatching the muppets with our daughter. Introduced as “The Leprechaun Brothers”, the Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker sang their version of “Danny Boy”.
It’s chaotic and stupid. The Swedish Chef Bork Borks, Beaker Meep Meeps and Animal who notionally can speak some English doesn’t know many of the words of the song so just repeats the words “oh Danny boy” in different orders (oh boy oh boy oh Danny) for his lines. One of our spin off jokes is to sing it to each other using only the words “the pipes”
I remember The Human League coming on to the scene. The rumour about them as told to me by my brother is that they didn’t use the “normal instruments”, they only used these things called synthesisers. This was related to me as if to suggest that they were engaging in truly dark arts. As someone who’s written multiple songs using only software, this seems hilarious now.
Their breakout single was “Don’t You Want Me”, a song sung between two characters reaching the end of a failing romance. I’ll share the original at the bottom, but the connection to the topic of this post is one very confident guy’s karaoke version Fi discovered on Tiktok one day:
Fifty for Fifi 
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