Song Parodies -> The Bent Retainer
| Original Song Title: | "The Entertainer" |
| Original Performer: | Billy Joel |
| Parody Song Title: | "The Bent Retainer" |
| Parody Written by: | Leo Jay |
I am the bent retainer: a warped sadistic tool
I'm merely 'acci-dental', I mainly make you drool
My purpose is to harm you, my goal's to make you hurt:
Spend your nights awake with an oral ache
While your days are spent in embarrassment
As you dribble on your shirt...
I am the bent retainer -- I make your folks insane
They had to spend their savings, but it's money down the drain
Well, your mommy loves to live well, but your daddy's just been canned
And they'd just bought a car on their MasterCard
So their credit's tight, and their cash is light
So they bought me second-hand...
I am the bent retainer: I've thwarted lots of teens
From 'would-be' womanizers to 'won't-be' beauty queens
I'll give you more neuroses than anyone alive
For your teenage years will be filled with the fear
That this oral hex means you won't have sex
'Til you're well past thirty-five...
I am the bent retainer: a truly twisted mess
A god-dam (dental) nuisance -- a torture, more or less
You thought oral 'fix-ation' would straighten out your teeth
But you look like a geek and can't even speak:
Cause the pain in your mouth just makes you scream "Outh!"
Ath your thliced thtongue thtarths to bleeth...
I am the bent retainer: the orthodontist's joy
(Another fat consulting fee! Another yacht - "Ahoy!")
You tried to pay to fix me - but it was good cash after bad
You still look like a fool and can't go to school
Cause the teaching staff and the kids all laugh
(You can thank your mom and dad...)
I am the bent retainer, so now I've bent your ear
My plans to wreck your teen years are more than crystal clear
The moral of the story: I am just an oral curse
To save your teeth, you must dispose of me
Because if I could, I'd do more harm than good
And I'd make things even worse!
I'm merely 'acci-dental', I mainly make you drool
My purpose is to harm you, my goal's to make you hurt:
Spend your nights awake with an oral ache
While your days are spent in embarrassment
As you dribble on your shirt...
I am the bent retainer -- I make your folks insane
They had to spend their savings, but it's money down the drain
Well, your mommy loves to live well, but your daddy's just been canned
And they'd just bought a car on their MasterCard
So their credit's tight, and their cash is light
So they bought me second-hand...
I am the bent retainer: I've thwarted lots of teens
From 'would-be' womanizers to 'won't-be' beauty queens
I'll give you more neuroses than anyone alive
For your teenage years will be filled with the fear
That this oral hex means you won't have sex
'Til you're well past thirty-five...
I am the bent retainer: a truly twisted mess
A god-dam (dental) nuisance -- a torture, more or less
You thought oral 'fix-ation' would straighten out your teeth
But you look like a geek and can't even speak:
Cause the pain in your mouth just makes you scream "Outh!"
Ath your thliced thtongue thtarths to bleeth...
I am the bent retainer: the orthodontist's joy
(Another fat consulting fee! Another yacht - "Ahoy!")
You tried to pay to fix me - but it was good cash after bad
You still look like a fool and can't go to school
Cause the teaching staff and the kids all laugh
(You can thank your mom and dad...)
I am the bent retainer, so now I've bent your ear
My plans to wreck your teen years are more than crystal clear
The moral of the story: I am just an oral curse
To save your teeth, you must dispose of me
Because if I could, I'd do more harm than good
And I'd make things even worse!
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| 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
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This is incredible. 5's for the title alone (which I decided I wasn't going to do anymore - pfft). Every line is a gem. Every stanza is a Borsheims. Holy buckets, Leo, I think you've outdone yourself this time! I'm absolutely hoppy-jump excited about this one, which is a weird feeling at 9:20 a.m.
I have a retainer myself that I "wear at night" (more like, threw away two months ago) and can completely relate. "Acci-dental" is right. And...it would be stupid to quote the entire thing back to you. I don't know about you, but if I were you, I'd donate some of my talent to EmiLoca and send it to her via UPS. But that's just me. 5-5-5, and I'm not just being nice this time. ;-)
I have a retainer myself that I "wear at night" (more like, threw away two months ago) and can completely relate. "Acci-dental" is right. And...it would be stupid to quote the entire thing back to you. I don't know about you, but if I were you, I'd donate some of my talent to EmiLoca and send it to her via UPS. But that's just me. 5-5-5, and I'm not just being nice this time. ;-)
Well, ain't you jes' the sweetes' thang! Shore do 'preciate yer stoppin' by t'read m'little ditty. An' shucks, ma'am, if'n it's any good, a'tall, it's jes' cuz I learns from good folks like yerself.
It's really bad that I don't know this Billy Joel song, but you have some really good lyrics here
[completely shocked out of playful-syntax-mode from having read JARLB's recent submission]
Thanks much, Royce, for reading, especially since you DKTOS.
Thanks much, Royce, for reading, especially since you DKTOS.
Here's one you can really sink your teeth into. Nicely orthodone.
Thanks, JB! I appreciate it.
Good subject. Fantastic original song. And a true true story for anyone that's lived it... and i have. 5s here.
Very palatable. 555
I think this proves you are retaining a lot of talent! Excellent job to take such a long song and such a simple subject and make every verse a gem!
I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! Jeepers, I would have thought parody writers would be the last people alive to take a song seriously. A thousand tacks of sin have mowed through me for ending your playful syntax mode. Please resume! DKTOS but this has some great jokes, in the words of me with my smelly ol' retainer in: 'It'th tooth-uper!' "I am so scant in brains-a, so when I wrote a song. It was so damn off-ensive, it simply wasn't on. I tried making it witty, but wrote in a hurry. Now there's narrowed eyes, Emi's stern outcries, Went down pretty bad with that Leo lad, So I say now: I'm sorry!"
LOL! A brilliant job on a song with some tricky pacing (yes I do know the original). It reminds me of how happy my orthodontist always seemed. Orthodontists are sadists! (Rich sadists, that is...)
Loosekanen, Jim Lewis, Meriadoc, JARLB and MasonR -- thanks very much for reading and leaving comments, with particular gratitude going out to those who of you who DKTOS (shame on you, by the way -- Billy Joel is a god!), and to those who have lived the experience and permitted me to attempt to derive humour from your suffering.
JARLB, I'll post to your own song again later...
JARLB, I'll post to your own song again later...
OK, OK, you get 5's simply on the basis of the line "Cause the pain in your mouth just makes you scream "Outh!" " !
Thanks, Johnny D. Creativity borne of sheer desperation.
Damn, but this is good. Surprised you didn't wangle in "Transcendental" somehow ;-)
Funny, I was stuck with one of those things for three years!
Phil: 'transcendental' would have been a divine addition, by gum -- and (as Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann would say) that's the tooth!
Jeff: thanks for stopping by!
Jeff: thanks for stopping by!
What Royce said. But this is one of those where the lyrics stand on their own. Excellent!
Excellent rhyming and a lot of good lines - particularly "'would-be' womanizers to 'won't-be' beauty queens."
(SOTM) Nice weork Leo, all fives from me..never had a retainer or braces myself, but I still loved this
(SOTM) *treading nervously* Once again, a great parody. And that's the tooth.
Masterfully done. Outstanding. Too many great lines to mention.
(SOTM) See above!
+++Restoring vote that was lost due to 7-28-04 system problem+++
Excellent! BTW, I didn't know it either! But I got it! Well done!
(SOTM) Restoring my 5's vote to you also.
this got a lot of hype so far in the voting thread and lived up to it or at least didn't fall too far short
Great work, Leo. It takes bravery to attempt any decent Billy Joel song, and talent to carry the humor through his pacing rigors. You have justly displayed both. If I could give a fourth vote in SOTM, you'd be it.
Hilarious! The rhyme scheme was pretty awesome too, and what a great idea!
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