World of Weird Al Yankovic

Orthography Enthusiast @ Oct 27 2006, 02:28 PM wrote: The National Anthem has been so sorely abused by singers with an unfounded sense of confidence in their own abilities, in so many sports venues over the years, I don't think whatever Al could do to it would be that much worse.

I know of at least three instances in pop culture (just off the top of my head) where the National Anthem has been used as the subject of a joke.

- On "The Jamie Kennedy Experience," Jamie did a joke with the song where he sang THE ENTIRE SONG before a MLB game

- Rosanne

- And of course the one that you should all think of immediately - Frank Drebin's butchering of the song in "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad."

So, no it doesn't make you a "bad American" to like this idea. In fact, I like it quite a bit. It would actually get me to watch a MLB baseball game. Well, at least the beginning of it. And then...

Bruce the Duck @ Oct 27 2006, 08:40 PM wrote: - On "The Jamie Kennedy Experience," Jamie did a joke with the song where he sang THE ENTIRE SONG before a MLB game.

There must have been a whole lot of fidgeting in the seats before he got to the end of the fourth verse.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto:  "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!