Whenever I hear a Bowling for Soup song, I always think about one of two things:
- The screenshot where someone DM’d them asking if they were bowling on behalf of soup, or to earn it (they confirmed it was to earn).
- The fact that they do the intro song for Phineas and Ferb.
And if there are other people around when either of those cross my mind, I almost always verbalize it.
I was never really a huge Phineas and Ferb girl because it made me mad that their sister could never catch them. I was also, like, fifteen years old when the show was in its prime – at which point I should’ve graduated to watching shows with human actors like The Real World. But Phineas and Ferb was practically the only thing on Disney Channel past 10pm on weeknights, and I needed to fall asleep to Disney Channel because Paranormal Activity had convinced me that I’d be killed by a demon in my sleep. My rationale was: is a demon really going to attack me while Disney Channel is on? How embarrassing would that be for the demon?
My point being, I’ve seen a fair share of episodes despite not being a fan. So now there are just random Phineas and Ferb-isms that live inside my head. For example: “So peanutty you won’t even taste the chicken,” which a friend in my math class and I used to whisper to each other out of context and giggle over. We did the same with, “That’s my horse!” from Ed, Edd, and Eddy but that’s a different, equally-past-our-age-range cartoon that we won’t explore today.
One time an acquaintance of mine got a bad haircut and I referred to it as the Doofencut, for no reason other than to seek revenge for the time years ago when I went to Super Cut and let the hairdresser convince me into getting bangs – leading to the guy I was with to refer to it as, “THE Super Cut.”
I’m afraid of the day when people realize that half of my personality is quoting cartoons, and the other half is just recycling bits from past talking stages. One of my favorite bits includes WWE culture. Which I don’t really ‘recycle’ per se, but love to reference.
I put myself on record admitting that I enjoy when men reenact the WWE with their friends, although I’m not sure how common of a thing that actually is. Like imagine you’re at a house party and someone takes over the bluetooth speaker, plays the Triple H walk-in song, and then starts spraying a High Noon out into the air in the same fashion – proceeding to fake wrestle with their buddies. It’s funny and I hate it. Because NOW picture the Triple H spray routine (if you can call it that) happening at a Bruins game with a Dr. McGillicuddy’s nip. I witnessed it, it really happened, and I’m sad to report that it was a crowd pleaser for the two rows behind us.
People forget that the muse for “The Girl All the Bad Guys Want” by Bowling for Soup watches wrestling, by the way!!! It’s in the lyrics. Hey – did you know that Bowling for Soup does the intro song for Phineas and Ferb?
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