Yankovic, Weird Al - Skipper Dan Lyrics

I'll be very angry if that new movie with The Rock fails to feature this song. It just has to happen,

poor poor skipper dan, F in chat

Yankovic does "style parodies" and the band getting parodied here is Weezer.

Well, at least it's steady work.

The best part is that his co-star in the plays at the beginning is the other tour guide at the end.

Last time I went to Disneyland and went on the Jungle Cruise i actually had a skipper that was named Danny

Was he doing 34 shows everyday?

This is one of my all time favorite weird al songs

I think I know what Dan is going through. Here are a few of my career highlights:
1997 Graduated BCIT with Honours as the Valedictorian
2000 Started working in the hospital laboratory
2011 Wrote, produced, and directed a movie that won 2 awards and got a North American distribution deal
2011 Got replaced at the lab by a machine
2012 Worked as a sign waver
2013 Performed product demos in Wal-Mart
2017 Started working as a security guard

what movie

Anthem of the Broken.

Life and how to be successful:
20% work
40% luck
40% personality to be a dick and screw others over to take their success and make it your own

Weird Al isn't a dick

I would enjoy that job.

no you wouldn't

let me guess
you're an actor instead

It must be tempting, mentally, if you're a working as a skipper on that ride to want to just go off script for a moment and say into the mic, "Well, folks, I hope your group here fares a lot better than this bunch of people we had yesterday afternoon-- because there was a ghastly mishap involving the crocodiles, and I tell you, the lawsuits are gonna be piling up, and our cleanup crew was working their butts off all night long." 😆

Took me a while to realize how Weezer like this was (At least for the time period.) Could totally hear Cuomo singing this.

Last time I was at Disneyland was around 1974, but I still remember the Jungle Cruise ride. I don't know if they still do or not, but back then the skippers would pull out a blank firing pistol and shoot at the hippos when they surfaced and then the hippos would sink under water again, if I remember correctly. Fond childhood memories, along with the Bear Country Jugband the Tiki Room, the Small World ride, and the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean! :)

Artistic jobs are hard to find, be it music, art, or acting. Far more people want them than jobs exist.

That chord progession in the chorus, though. Love itm

For what it's worth, it is the Skipper that makes the Jungle Cruise attraction work.

Not the most glamorous job, but bringing joy to kids and families. So long as it pays the bills it's still an honest job.

Pork And Beans?

Silly Dan, thinking acting skills and talent are what counts in current Hollywood. XD

Ironically, Weird Al's IMDB Page is long and extensive!

Believe it or not Disney's Jungle Cruise movie spot on imdb brought me here.

This better be played during the end credits for the new film. 😂😂

Whos here from the jungle cruise trailer

The irony is that this attraction has quite the wait list for people begging to do it at the parks

that's not ironic

And now there's a movie based on the Jungle Cruise Ride

O2H! O2H! O2H!

Who else came here after the new Jungle Cruise trailer?

Came from the Jungle Cruise trailer

Disappointed this song wasn't used in that.

This Weird Al song is underrated!

What is this song a parody of?

It's not a parody; Weird Al does original songs, too.

Sea-Salt Art Oh Ok thanks! Sorry I should know that! 😅

@Sea-Salt Art Not exactly accurate. This is one of his "style parodies". It's parodying Weezer's general musical style, but not any specific song by them.

I know this is supposed to be lampoon of sort, but this is true where I live. Many graduate with flying colors and high achievements only to end up on the food industry serving...

Did they graduate from useless junk majors like, "drama", gender studies, women studies and the like?

Does anyone else find this song kinda depressing

Yeah. In fact even more now that I'm an adult.

That was hella depressing.

The best comedy is the one bordering on tragedy.

Why dose this remind me of uhf anyone else get that vibe

When I first heard this song it was on his 2013 live tour and when he belted that last note out my heart leapt just AMAZING work!

It's even sadder when you find out that "Skipper Dan" is/was a real person.

I met someone exactly like him.

If only he would have sold his soul to the Illuminati god, then he could have lived his dream for a short while before becoming even more enslaved on Earth, after which he could have lived forever in Hell on the jungle cruise ride as a tour-guide who gets tortured by the tourists with animal parts and the animals with human parts. But he didn't know. :D

Great song to put on the Alpocalypse album. Even though this single was from 2009, the album came with this song 2 years after.

Skipper Dan should drink more, other than that I concur with his life choices.

Still pissed Disney or Dwayne Johnson didn't get Weird Al to cameo in the Jungle Cruise movie!!

This video really speaks to me

For just one second, I thought that Ganesha statue was giving the finger, but he's just making a fist...

one annoying thing, this song is very quiet, and if you wanna listen to it at a good volume with headphones, you can hear the music with your heaphones off

Dear god this song is catchy

The theme song of my hopelessness.

Unfortunately I misread this
"Stripper Dan"

Lucky guy he gets up at 6 am I get up at 5 am for work !

I'd Say "1 one like = 1 acting role For Dan To play" but I think begging for likes is dumb. So instead i'd Like To Wish That One Day Dan Will Find his Role. Keep your chin up Skipper Dan. Lol

He really should have listened to his grandpa.

Disney’s making a movie based around the Jungle Cruise ride

wow they have meeting points and both of the tour guides did a shoot me in the head sign....damn this is dark i avoided watching this cause i thought itd be a boring tour but i stand corrected.

Sad but true

-metallica

This song is unfairly catchy.

He is still acting

I never realised this was supposed to be a weezer parody

This might seem weird, but this song always makes me wish I had stuck with acting. Anyone who's ever been bitten by the acting bug knows that once it gets you, it never really lets go. Dan stuck with it, and he might not be performing on the level he wants to, but he is still acting for a living, every single day. He made it. He got there.


Skipper Dan is my hero.

"There it is, the backside of water! O2H! O2H! O2H!"

This song is, like, perfect.

34 tours a day? So each ride is 10 minutes long?

You're fired, Dan! Now go live your dream as a hobo!

Busch gardens summarized in 4 minutes

Don't worry Skipper Dan, you ARE famous. Millions of people are now singing about you.

DIsney has a Jungle safari movie coming out based on their ride ... they totally need to cameo weird al with a char named SKipper dan

Dedicated to those who let their dreams die :(

Whoa... I’m a college student and now I’m kinda worried...

Huh just noticed 3:20 the girl is the same as at 0:40

Damn, Dan is like 6'8 feet tall

Since I started listening to this song, I started feeling sorry for Adventureland Jungle Cruise Skippers.
😔

He kinda reminds me of Micheal Shannon.

I wish he'd get with the hot red head, then they might both squeeze some happiness out of life

I bet he taps that redhead though

Do you remember that artist made a funky song for green eggs and ham on Netflix?

Sounds like They Might Be Giants.

He could've just learned to code.

In short: always have a "Plan B" just in case Hollyweird doesn't call. For some reason, the movie "Up" comes to mind, along with Harry Chapin's song, "Taxi."

this is why I always have male prostitute on my mind as a backup job

I didn't expect my daily dose of depressing to come from Weird Al, but I'm glad it did.

Is this song an original song or a parody of another song? This song has grown on me and I like how it tells a story. And I honestly wonder if this song was inspired by Al going on a guided tour?

It's an Al original. I saw Al interviewed, and he said he was taking his daughter on the Jungle Cruise Ride when he got inspired to write this song.

Is this the same guy behind "damn good times" by TMBG?

It is! Divya Srinivasan, apparently.

I'm certified in business, but I'm a groundskeeper for a golf course.

At least he hasn't sunk low enough to become stripper dan yet.

The intro sounds like 'Tonight' by Rick Springfield.

This is low key the saddest song I've ever listened to.

It is not just arts majors with this problem. Contrary to popular belief, STEM majors are not guaranteed to find STEM jobs. In fact most STEM majors are in other fields.

This depressed scumbag is disappointed in working on the jungle cruise in Disney world... piece of

Funny thing when I first heard this song I thought it was funny and sad. That working at dead end job like Disneyland tour guide was so bad. I have since learned there are far worse jobs out there, with worse working conditions, lower pay and no stability. So years later I look back on this song and think "hey it's not so bad".

I've listened to this song for 5 years trying to see if it's meant to be funny or if he just tried something different and I still don't know.

Shortly after I graduated college, my parents suggested as a start I should get a job as a cast member at Disney World.
While I wasn't against the idea per se, every time they brought it up I just thought of this song.

Is this an original song or a parody

Over half of the songs on Al's 14 studio albums are his original songs. This is one of them.

@JoannaT It's also a style parody of Weezer.

Imdb existed in 2009??
1:55

IMDb exist since 1990. Is one of the oldest websites in the world.

@Fabricio B. Yeah I just didn't know, oops!

This was depressing

In California we have this exact jungle cruse ride, it's in DisneyLand.

this is truthful to the letter.

I mean, the mediocrity of working on a jungle cruise ride would be preferable to dealing with the cesspool of Hollywood’s film industry.
But that is my opinion.

Am I the only one who wishes they DID work on the Jungle Cruise ride?