Another funny video...

Here's another funny ass video by Bowling for Soup, "High School Never Ends":


"High School Never Ends" was the first single off their seventh album, "The Great Burrito Extortion Case" (2006). Working in a high school myself, I see all types of stereotypes. I found this song to be quite true back then when I was in school and now, with all the cliques that still exist at every school known to man.  The jocks, the cherleaders, the bullies, the nerds, etc...

As with many of BFS's songs and videos, this one is chock full of juicy pop culture references:

(info from wikipedia's entry on "High School Never Ends (song)":

Song references:

"The song contains many references to today's culture. Specific celebrities mentioned include Mary Kate Olsen (specifically, her alleged eating disorder - How did Mary Kate lose all that weight?), Jessica Simpson (you'll never guess what Jessica did), Bill Gates (Bill Gates, captain of the chess team), Reese Witherspoon (Reese Witherspoon, she's the prom queen), Jack Black (Jack Black, the clown), Brad Pitt (Brad Pitt, the quarterback) and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (Katie had a baby so I guess Tom's straight, also a reference to his litigation against journalists/paparazzi who questioned his sexuality). The song satirizes many aspects of today's society and its scrutiny of celebrity lives.

...and in an attempt to sanitize the song for the younger audience, there was actually a Radio Disney edit. This is so lame; the song sounds like a parody of itself with this "clean" version":

"A separate edit of the song was recorded for Radio Disney. Lyric changes included sanitation, e.g. "all the popular cliques" for "all the total dicks", "whole wide world" for "whole damn world", "what's been suppressed" for "who's having sex", and "who thinks they're funny" for "who gets the honeys".

Additional changes in the second verse and bridge altered or softened the critique of pop culture in the original lyrics. "How did Mary Kate lose all that weight" changed to "How does Mary Kate always look so great?" and "Katie had a baby so I guess Tom’s straight" changed to "Katie's with Tom, okay I got that straight." The lines "Who’s in the club and who’s on the drugs, Who’s throwing up before they digest" were removed entirely."

I love the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" reference when the band spills out of the van, echoing Spicoli and his stoner friends falling out of a smoke filled van (see below)

Another thing I noticed was the Tom Cruise lookalike (the guy who gets the sign "Punch" taped on his back). He really did look like a younger and taller Tom Cruise.  My favorite part of the video is when the younger fat kid gets slipped a laxative by the mean cheerleader and after he drinks it, you can see a wet brown spot on his pants! Gross! Then he gets his revenge on her years later! How come none of this funny shit happened during my 20 year high school reunion??? I would have paid to see that revenge!!!