Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?

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"Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?" is the fourth single off The Bloodhound Gang's 1996 (re-released in 1998) album One Fierce Beer Coaster. The song is mainly about how Jimmy Pop was constantly picked on in high school and has since developed extreme catagelophobia, an intense fear of being ridiculed.

[edit] Music Video

The music video starts out with Jimmy Pop in a psychiatrist's office. The doctor (whose name is Scott P. Nussenvy, a tongue-in-cheek reference to penis envy) proceeds to take Jimmy over to the couch and hypnotize him, in which Jimmy goes back over his horrible experience in high school and we see why he is the paranoid katagelophobic he is today. There are many tongue-in-cheek references to sex and drug use over the course of the video (they attend Wannagett High School, the homecoming queen is named Ivana Getchuharde, and the school's team is the Wannagett Beavers). The video shows Jimmy Pop's desperate attempts at trying to gain a little popularity, that fail miserably. He spends the whole of the video being picked on mainly by the other members of the band, until the bridge of the song which goes: "Like that episode where Gilligan gets sick of being teased/ so he breaks into the professor's lab and makes some LSD/ peaks, freaks, and eats The Skipper's brain then beats Ginger with coconuts/ as Mr. Howell and Lovey burn alive inside of their grass hut/ oh he'll kill again, that Gilligan, they should've let him be/ and like a postal clerk, I'll go berserk if you don't stop teasin' me/ see the trick is to only pick on those who can't do you no harm/ like the drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm." At this point, it is probably safe to assume that Jimmy has caused some sort of harm to, or possibly even killed the people who pick on him. After the bridge, we see the other four members of the band come into the psychiatrist's office, put Jimmy Pop in a straitjacket, put him in a wheelchair and throw him down the stairs. Jimmy has the last laugh though, as the video states, "Jimmy's former classmates all suffered from hemorrhoids. Luckily for them, Jimmy went on to become a successful proctologist."

This song samples "Spooky," a song by Classics IV.

The song also features the guitar riff from Depeche mode's song, "Never Let Me Down Again".

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