This show actually helped me pass history, and still does.
And it also created one of my favorite songs to bother my mother... It gets on her nerves.
"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves! Everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves! I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes!"
Oh she hates that!
And my history teacher never understood why I would sing that during a test. It recalled memories. None of my history teachers believed me when I said that cartoons actually helped me pass their classes with a 100% average.
That's the Story That's Told by the Bard Kid Chorus: Froggo, Aka, Loud, Charity
Chorus: A play by William Shakespeare always stimulates your thought, Because you spent two hours trying to figure out the plot, He wrote famous lines and phrases for his dog like "out, damned Spot!" Fetch: I'm a victim of circumstance! Chorus: So who is this guy the critics praise, Who's famous for his turn of phrase, Wrote thirty-seven different plays, And lived in Elizabethan days, WOW: And made Lawrence Oliver's career? Mike Tyson: Lend me your ear! Chorus: He lived in Stratford von Avon apartment 2-B, Was it 2-B, or not 2-B? Miss Info: I really don't know, it's confusing to me! How do you understand Shakespeare with all of the harks and the hos and all the flowery prose that he writes? Chorus: For men wearing tights! So bring up the lights, And let's meet the bard!
Father Time: Ladies and gentlemen, Histeria! proudly presents the plots of all thirty-seven plays by William Shakespeare!
Chorus: Hamlet's real father is killed by his brother, Who now becomes king and then marries his mother, It ends up with everyone killing each other, And that is the story that's told by the bard! Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la, fa la la la la la la! King Henry V is a play about war, And so is King John and King Henry IV, While Falstaff laughed, and fell on the floor, So Henry VI went back to the gore. Joan of Arc: King Lear, Shakespeare's Tragical ruler who casts out his daughter, The story is sad, 'cause then he feels bad, And then he goes mad, and both of them die! Chorus: Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la, fa la la la la la la! Pepper: At Romeo and Juliet, everyone cries, At Titus Andronicus everyone dies, Don't you just love these Shakespearean guys? Aah haa ha haa ha haaa!!! Jefferson: You go to the theatre and pay all that money, To see all these actors who dress really funny, You say to your date, "Are you getting this, honey? 'Cause I'm really lost, so explain it to me!" Chorus: Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la, fa la la la la la la! Shakespeare: MacBeth is a guy who is really ambitious And that's why the king sleeps with the fishes Then he kills others, it's really quite vicious, Until in the end, he gets stabbed in the duff! Lydia: Oh, no-no! Shakespeare: By MacDuff! Lydia: Better! Girls: He wrote comic romances with laughter and dances, Where everyone prances while taking their chances With love, love, love, love, love! Boys: [make gagging noises] Chorus: Like The Comedy of Errors and Pericles too, Then Measure for Measure and Taming the Shrew, Two Gents from Verona and then Much Ado About Nothing Then he'd write The Tempest and Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, and Cymbaline, Love's Labours Lost, A Winter's Tale, And also Midsummer Night's Dream Marc Antony: Then The Merchant of Venice a debt is entangled, As Coriolanus where soldiers get mangled, Marco Polo: Othello's the fellow whose wife ends up strangled, Marc Antony: And that is the story that's told by the bard! Chorus: Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la, fa la la la la la la! Cassius: Troilus and Cressida, now there was a pair, They were in love and she had an affair, It's not a great play so we really don't care, Chorus: Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la! Nixon: King Richard II's a guy that went dumb, King Richard III is the guy with the hump, Chatterson: Timon of Athens, he was a chump, 'Cause all of his money was lent, Now it's spent, And he can't, Pay the rent, And he has to go live in a tent! Caesar: Julius Caesar's about an attack, All of his friends put a knife in his back, And then a great play that would come after that, Is Anthony and Cleopat... Chorus: Tra la la, tra la la, tra la la la la la la la la! King Henry VIII has six different wives, He's faithful to each 'til the next one arrives, Most of them ended up losing their lives, WOW: One minute they're wedded, and then they're beheaded, It's something that later he kinda regretted, Chorus: But Shakespeare's plays are the places to be, But violence and killing and murder you see, You really can't show it on childrens' TV, But that is the story, Though it's bloody and gory, Yes, that is the story that is told by the bard! All's well that ends well!
While they might have introduced you to the song, "I Know A Song That Gets On Everybody's Nerves" has been around for YEARS. I knew it as a kid and I just turned 30. Heck, it probably was around back when my 63 year old mom was a kid.
I loved this show! I learned so much and retained most of the information. I think my favorite topic was about King Henry VIII when the boy kept screaming: DIVORCED, BEHEADED, DIED! DIVORCE, BEHEADED, ALIVE! LOL
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