I'm my own grandpa!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Stupids
novastar_6 — 20 years ago(January 31, 2006 01:36 PM)
I love that song, the first and only time I'd ever heard it was in this movie. The first thing my mother and I thought when we saw it was that they probably made it for the movie, but then we found out the Grateful Dead did itwe thought that made some sense, but we never could guess how they managed to write something that nicethen we find out in all honesty that the song's close to 58 years old. 58 years, and last year when we first saw that movie, was the first time we even heard that song. That was one thing that Tom Arnold did quite well. Does anybody know if that song was ever performed in any other movies?
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blteigen — 20 years ago(February 03, 2006 05:35 PM)
The song was stupid, just like the movie. The reason it is 58 years old and you never heard of it, is because it is so stupid. Just like the movie. By the way, did I mention the movie was stupid. Knock knock, the movie was stupid!
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oldman195 — 18 years ago(July 27, 2007 09:36 AM)
Amazing you can find a movie named Stupid stupid.
What did you expect Stupid tp be.
And since you find it stupid then I guess you agree that it excellently protrayed it's intent.
for an adjective use damn. The editor will remove it and work will be perfect. M.Twain -
Promontorium — 18 years ago(August 12, 2007 07:42 PM)
I came to this movie's page because of the song. I hadn't heard it in 8 years but a Futurama clip brought it back in mind (when Fry becomes his own Gradpa by getting his original Grandpa killed and banging his Grandma back in the 50's). I looked it up on iTunes, and there are more covers of this song than any other I have ever seen. I loved it the first time I heard it (as sung by Tom Arnold). It didn't actually make sense but if you look it up on youtube or iTunes and listen to the Ray Stephens version it actually does add up, essentially a string of technicalities, If your biological father marries your step daughter, she's now your Mom, since you are married to your "Mom's" mother, you are married to your Grandma, so you are your own Grandpa. The song is way more complicated than that, but that is the song's fundamental reasoning.
THE TOM ARNOLD MOVIE VERSION: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8E3-FJk6yVw -
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SidekickinWhiteFury — 16 years ago(November 05, 2009 10:37 AM)
I haven't seen this movie in a while,
and the lyrics they used were a little different,
but when I was a kid ( 1960's) this was the song:
I'm My Own Grandpa
Many many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be.
This widow had a grown up daughter who had hair of red,
My father fell in love with her and soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son in law and changed my very life,
for my daughter was my mother cause she was my father's wife,
to complicate the matter even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
The little baby then became a brother in law to dad,
And so became my uncle though it made me very sad,
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue,
even though she is my wife, she's my grandmother too.
Oh, I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa.
(Something like that. Working on memory.)