Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

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When you’re a New Zealander and thought there were just many verses to the same parody. :joy:

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i always did the “jingle bells, batman smells, robin laid an egg, batmobile lost his wheel and the joker got away” but my reference was actually the spongebob parody of that parody lol

i think my parents then told me the aforementioned one without the names of spongebob characters

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I grew up with this in the 1980s, and SpongeBob definitely wasn’t a thing back then.

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Important to cite Tom Scott’s video on the same subject - https://youtu.be/V5u9JSnAAU4?si=h7yKTJLhhkS-59mA - which, as a Brit, makes me wildly patriotic and is a rallying cry for British values akin to Hugh Grant’s speech to Billy Bob Thornton in Love Actually :face_holding_back_tears:

(PS. Growing up it was Uncle Billy losing his willy)

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Love the diagram that’s included there. I know the author refers to it as “silly,” but I feel that this could very seriously fall under the purview of folklore studies? Or maybe even linguistics?

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