Ok Lemmings look, I love life and I love my family, so I’d hate to have to blow my fucking brains out. So what’s another strategy for tuning out this incessant lava chicken?
Alternatively, does anyone have a time machine and enough money to convince Jack Black to not do the Minecraft movie?
Record it from all angles at all opportunities and play the video at their wedding. Until then, sustain yourself on the antici
spoiler
pation.
That is some damn fine dadding right there. I think this is a perfect plan.
Genuine question - why is that deemed a good answer? I’d expect an actual solution for a child to be more apropriate than humiliating an adult later in life. Like the suggestions telling to start singing it yourself, wrongly, seem much more effective and appropriate to me.
Full disclosure tho: Not a parent and no plans to ever be one
The suggestion and response are both meant humorously. It clearly isn’t actually a good answer because it doesn’t actually solve the problem, except in some passive-agressive far-off-in-the-future way.
Ah that’s on me missing the clue then, apologies. Though in my defense, there are parents that do stuff like this.
Go out for a pack of cigarettes, start over.
Mine has largely gotten over the lava chicken phase, and has moved on to the next incredibly annoying barely sentient compulsion.
Last I checked it was the intro to Ducktales. Have you shown them that? It’s so ruinously catchy it may never leave your mind.
Duck Tales! Awoo-oo!
We might solve a mysteryyy… 😀
Or rewrite history! 😬
I might also humbly suggest the theme to TaleSpin, that one’s a beaut ☺️
Ha ha ha ha haha! Spin it!
Yeah but DuckTales is quality. So that’s fine.
Yep. He immediately dialed into it because Gravity Falls is an old favourite, and these shows share a good bit of DNA. I just like to hear Danny Pudi.
That song never left my head and its been living rent free up there since I was a kid
Which one? (ꏿ﹏ꏿ;)
1987 version
RIP
Interrupt by yelling “CHICKEN JOCKEY” every few bars.
I’m not sure that’s really gonna make the situation better though…
First you mine. Then you craft. MINECRAFT!
You deafen yourself with a sharp pencil. Only way.
Oh my gosh, your comment made me sick.
I mean really, who in their right mind would even consider that? Personally I can’t even imagine just wasting a perfectly good pencil. Please be a responsible adult and use a fork instead (in case you can’t fit the fork into your ear canal you might wanna widen it with a spoon first. Btw. spoons are the goto in case your ability to see is bothering you too)
Who’s wasting it? Just wipe it off with a paper towel and you can use it on your crossword!
Why would you waste perfectly fine food by wiping it off with a towel? Kids in africa can surely still eat that!
Also just in case your crossword puzzle starts talking to you: no it didn’t (they’re not actually sentient, but can still feel pain of course). And please for the love of god, don’t ask it about it’s opinion on skin colors
See if they like “Yellow Submarine” and switch over to the Beatles?
Oh man, this was my history teacher’s favorite song back in middle school. Used to play it in class every. day. I thought I got away from that song… And I did for 17 years…
Now it’s stuck in my head again!
since the kid presumably likes games and/or memes i would suggest starting with this beatle classic https://youtu.be/dJ1KaspORsE
Wow, you actually managed to find the other song I absolutely hate when he plays!
Our neighbor got him started with undertale and let me tell you… He is not good at it, and man does he get angry when he dies.
But his undertale tantrums are another story, for now let me just express how tired I am of hearing the undertake soundtrack which he plays on loop, especially megalovania!
You know I played that game once, I thought it did some clever things, but never again… That boy has ruined it for me.
Really any musical, especially one that hits that “I maybe shouldn’t be watching this” is a good option. Maybe Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog? Probably too young for Sweeney Todd
Sink enough money into lava chicken paraphernalia for the child to instantly lose all interest in it.
Loop this and tell them that Frank is the best entertainer of all time
I mean it’s not Baby Shark?
It can still be worse,
I once overheard a group of kindergarteners continually yelling “Skibidi toilet” at repeat.
He has a set of shark PJs, and whenever he wears them I sing [his name] shark do do do do do…
And he immediately responds “STOOOOP DAD! PLEASE! I ALREADY TOLD YOU BEFORE!”
And I’ll never stop doing it
We have a no baby shark rule, my daughter hasn’t latched onto it yet. Whenever it comes on Spotify skip it but sometimes I start singing along before I realize what I’m doing.
La la la lava!
Ch ch ch chicken!
Steve’s Lava Chicken, yeah it’s tasty as hell
Ooh mamacita, now you’re ringin’ the bell!
Crispy and juicy, now you’re havin’ a snack
I don’t wanna sound old here, but I finally watched that thing a couple days ago and boy did I feel my age there. Clearly I’ve lived long enough that a whole movie failed to connect with me on any level. I mean it has Jack Black in it and I adore him. I guess what I’m saying is I have no idea how to fix your kid because they’re a different people now.
However , the classic old group defense against young slang is taking it up and enthusiastically using it wrong. So enjoy your hot poultry song.
Do you play Minecraft?
I have yet to watch it but i assume there is very little to connect with if you don’t?
Depending on how old your kids are and if you are not already playing, playing on a local server together is great family time and can provide situations for real bonding aswell as real world educational discussions.
It has very little to connect with even if you do play minecraft. If you watch youtubers play minecraft, on the other hand, it’s probably perfect.
It’s basically a gen Alpha (maybe Z at a stretch) cringe comedy movie more than a minecraft movie. That’s mostly just the setting.
His uncle took him to see the movie (a real bullet dodged for me).
I saw the honest trailer for it and decided it was exactly as much of the movie as I needed to see.
It is not a good movie, but my kids enjoyed it, so I got some vicarious pleasure out of the experience. I wouldn’t watch it on my own.
I don’t know why people dislike it so much other than the girl and her brother doing a terrible job at being relatable or authentic. I thought Jack Black and Jason Momoa did a great job and I’m not even a fan of Momoa.
Agreed. It was a fine example of a kid movie with kid actors. If you go in with low expectations, you probably won’t be disappointed.
Yeah same. It was our first theater experience together and we had a blast. The movie is aggressively mediocre although it does have a few moments.
I put it on for myself(42) the other day it took all my will to not turn it off 3 mins in, I broke by 25 mins and turned it off. I then mocked my buddy who said it wasn’t bad(he has 2 boys in prime Minecraft movie age).
I have an 18 month old girl with another on the way, not looking forward to whatever her equivalent frozen/Minecraft movie is. But I have also sung more wheels on the bus than I can stand.
I sat through a couple of the Paw Patrol movies when my guys were younger. It helps if you can find a way to appreciate them for what they are.
Or sleep. I slept through the Mario movie and I think that made it way better.
Depending on how cool you are maybe if you start singing it they’ll stop
that’s what they™ want you to do
Right!
Nice try son.
Whenever they would start singing it, I would sing
Cha-cha-cha-lava, La-la-la-chicken!
back at them until they got annoyed enough that they stopped.
🤷♂️
THAT’S NOT HOW IT GOES, DAD!
… Oh? It doesn’t?
I do live for those moments…
Mine would crack up and switch to that
- results not guaranteed. 🤣
Ok, I’ve officially employed this method, mixing it with some other suggestions in the thread.
Cha-cha-cha-lava,
La-la-la-chicken!
Oooh chicken jockey
It’s a chicken jockey!
Woooon-derboy!
I did get a satisfying “no dad, that’s not how it goes”, but then it resulted in him singing it a few more times… I think I’ll just keep it up until it’s clear to him he’s being trolled, then we’ll see what happens.
that may be even harder than tuning it out
About 3 days. 🤷♂️ Edit: for clarity, I haven’t heard this song in a long while now, those 3-ish days were right after they saw it.
Every dad can decide their own ROI for this. 🤣
