Weasel Stomping Day

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Weasel Stomping Day is the title of a song by American parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic, which appears on his 2006 album, Straight Outta Lynwood. It is also one of six songs on the album to have an animated music video, created for the Adult Swim show, Robot Chicken. This video appeared in "The Munnery," the twelfth episode of the second season, which aired on September 24, 2006, two days before the album was released. Al has jokingly said that Weasel Stomping Day falls on June 31st, which of course is impossible.[1]

[edit] Lyrics

Civilians unroll the "Weasel Stomping Day" sign in the music video, as seen on Robot Chicken.

The lyrics describe a fictitious holiday, which involves putting on a Viking helmet, spreading mayonnaise on one's lawn (presumably to attract the weasels) and stomping weasels to death. It is indicated that the participants don't know the history behind it, but do it anyway because it's a "tradition" (similar to Whacking Day and "The Lottery"). The song itself contains a cheery melody, reminiscent of animated musical specials of the 1960s, punctuated by sounds of weasels being crushed. The music video, in Robot Chicken's stop motion animation style, generally follows the lyrics, and very graphically depicts weasels being crushed in various ways.

In the mini-documentary on the DualDisc release, it is revealed that the sounds of the weasels being stomped are produced by Weird Al abusing fruit and various other items of food. Also, in the CD insert, there is credit given to Suzanne (Al's wife), Nina (Al's daughter), and Bo (Al's pet bird), for contributing parts of the weasel sounds. Nina's and Bo's screeching sounds are cleary audible in the song.

[edit] External links

• Music video on Google Video

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