My Rutles ‘thing’ is:
Get up and go. X 2
Get up and go back home.
On the non-Weird Al note…Guantanamera, I can only hear ‘One ton tomato, I have a one ton tomato’…
I’ve only heard that parody once, on a Mike Nesmith TV special circa 1986.
I remember portions of a verse that had the teacher getting into a motorcycle wreck and “she was lying in the grass with a muffler up her ass and her tits were playing music on the spokes”
Glory, glory, Halleujah!
Teacher hit me with a ruler.
Shot her with a six-shooter.
Never gonna go to school!
Loov life, loov life…
Loov is the meaning of life, life is the meaning of loov…
I immediately turn to Gilligan’s Island’s mashup of Carmen with Hamlet:
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Don’t you forget - stay out of debt.”
A friend of mine would always substitute “masturbate” for “Celebrate”. You would then get “Masturbate good times. Come on! It’s a masturbation!” Great for weddings!
I was dining with a woman last night who was mourning Sondheim, and I mentioned that I never heard a song of his. (Turned out I was wrong–I didn’t remember that he’d written GYPSY.) But I said that I did know all of the lyrics to Mad Magazine’s Parody of “West Side Story” which they called “East Side Story,” all about the Cold War. “When you’re a Red, you’re a Red all the way, from your first Party purge to your last power play…”
Now this reminded me of an anecdote, which still sticks in my head when I hear another song from West Side Story.
I was in college (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and was walking through campus with a couple of friends one evening. We walked past a group of Asian students, and one of them was singing:
“What’s there to do in America?
Nothing to do in America!”
I think it has something to do with Jewish mothers hovering over their children and saying “Eat, eat! You’re all skin and bones!”
If we are doing WSS parodies then we have to add John Kiester (Almost Live!) singing Clinique Girl.
I don’t get the connection. If it’s specifically relating to Weird Al, he’s not Jewish.
It does amuse me for no particular reason that Al’s big MJ parodies are both about food: “Beat It/Eat It” and “Bad/Fat”.
Kurt Cobain was worried that Weird Al’s parody of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” would be about food.
He was amused about the actual topic.
To be fair, it is hard to bargle nawdle zouss.
Probably more about Mad Magazine, where many of the writers and artists were Jewish.
Correct! 
And which was a huge seminal influence on young Alfred Matthew Yankovic, which he noted on several occasions (including his stint as Mad’s first and only guest editor).
Thanks, never knew Al worked at Mad.
Only for one issue (#533)