The Aquabats!, "Idiot Box!" from The Fury of the Aquabats! (Captain Thumbs Up!)
Skammentary: GOGO13's original recording of "Idiot Box" was part of the first SKApril way back in '11, but The Aquabats!' cover, "Idiot Box!," is sufficiently differentiated to merit inclusion in SKApril '19. Plus, Exodus 90 has crystallized my already strengthening conviction that television is by & large a waste of time, a most pernicious thief of our most precious & utterly irreplaceable resource.
"Turn off the idiot box! Hey!Mr. Magoo,
It's a disease just like the chicken pox! Now
Turn off the idiot box! Now!
"Find yourself a partner,
Turn off the television,
Don't let it control your mind!
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, I've got something to say,
(Nobody knows, nobody knows)
Get off your butt, get up, go out and play,
(Nobody knows, nobody knows)
Sitting in my living room with nothing left to do,
I think I'm going blind watching
I know every single ending of every Scooby-Doo. Now!
"Turn off the idiot box! Hey!
It's a disease just like the chicken pox! Now
Turn off the idiot box! Now!…"Except of course for The Aquabats! Super Show! The Aquabats! Super Show! is pure gold.
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