Song: Close But No Cigar
Running Time: 3:57
Year: 2005
Album: Straight Outta Lynwood
Style Parody of: Short Skirt/Long Jacket, Love You Madly, and Opera Singer by Cake
Genre: Alternative rock
Guitar tuning: E standard
Lyrics: Lyrics
Video: Yes
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Trivia[]
- John Kricfalusi, the creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, animated the video.
- The cat is called Cigarettes the Cat from John Kricfalusi's cartoon Weekend P*ssy Hunt.
- Mama Cass was a singer in the folk group The Mamas and the Papas. An urban legend claims that she choked to death on a ham sandwich, giving inspiration for the line "got me all choked up like Mama Cass".
- Buddy Rich is considered to be one of the best and most influential drummers of all time ("my heart was beating like a Buddy Rich solo").
- In each chorus, the singer asks "are we playing horseshoes/lobbing hand grenades/doing government work, no I don't think we are!". These are references to the idiomatic expressions "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" and "good enough for government work".
- "Missed it by that much!" was a catchphrase popularized by 1960's spy-parody show Get Smart.