I turned myself into a duck, Morty. I'M DUCK RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!!

I'm Disco Rick!

toddsco toddsco duck!

“Influencer gets a Top 40 hit off a song he wrote solely because he knew a guy who could do a credible Rick impression to put on it” feels like a 2020s headline I wouldn’t be surprised to wake up to tomorrow

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Disco Duck. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of duck physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head.

i was looking for this comment exactly.

Got em

I am actively astonished he hasn't released this song yet.

I was looking for it, you were the first person I saw that said it, thus you may have my thumbs up. Enjoy.

@@brandonjustis Me too!

That was her shtick.

It's glorious. Even children know: Rick Dees is not worthy of excitement.

@@timkramar9729 interesting gimmick

@@JCOdrjones It made more sense in the context of the show. Not the show that she's in on the video. On her sitcom, What's Happening, where she played the little sister.

That's Danielle Spencer, who played Dee Thomas on What's Happening!!

That sounds like it could be a video in itself.

He pushed his luck For 5000 bucks

...Do you think Rick Dees told him to put it on his bill?

@@frnz1943 nice

@@frnz1943 nah he probably told him to go cluck himself

I support Ray Parker Jr's view of things

And you wonder why I prefer On Our Own by Bobby Brown. At least he doesn’t steal from Patrick Bateman’s idol.

@@afuzzycreature8387 why

I prefer the Ghostbusters theme to be honest. (Will Todd ever do that song?)

@@jr2904 Girls are more fun.

The Christopher Walken of it's time.

The only person I know who can do the Donald Duck voice is my grandmother.

@@autumnphillips151 the only person I know who can do it is my grandfather

Worked out great for Chris Chan...

im sorry

What’s funny to me tho is that if Howard actually existed (the comic version not the shitty movie version) he would 100% fucking despise this song.

@@rhodopisdenile8977 if there wasn't a scene of Howard going into to murderous rage at hearing the 'legally distinct' version of Disco Duck, it was a missed opportunity.

I'm not even a huge Marvel fan but somehow I know who Howard The Duck is.

Discomorphisis

Deep literary analysis of disco duck

​@@justvibin1447Now we just need a video essay

Nope it's a real song

Yup!

My mother has told me on multiple occasions that she loves this song

No the joke is that it hit number 1 in the charts

This video was released on April 2nd.

Punk Platypus? I've heard that green day song

"Sucks" was probably still considered slightly dirty in the 70s too. But I wouldn't be surprised if you're right.

Well I asked my dad a while ago and he seemed to think "sucks" wasn't that dirty even back then so maybe it is more Disco Duck.

Rick Dees is the Rick Dees of unfunny Radio DJs

@@KatarnCrusader He's like the Amy Schumer of Rick Dees.

Eeeewwwwww\

>implying that most of the stuff weird al makes is funny to begin with.

@@pittafat6310 As a longtime fan of Weird Al from way way back, I can say that most of his stuff is meh at best, just like most musicians. But his good songs are REALLY good.

This first draft of I Took A Pill In Ibiza’s weeeiiird, man

I think this is my new headcanon

We've been spending most our lives living in a house of mouse and mice

No, I think it's actual body horror

Disco Dust

Nah. More like Sharknado.

Honestly The Room is a pop culture icon so I could see that happenning. It might be a pop culture icon of awfulness but I could see it.

​@@kimifw58sharknado is unironically dope as hell

I actually want to see "Discorilla" in its entirety.

Especially when he made the gorilla chants was when it was over with...It all is too funny ..

The Chorus is 2 bars of Disco Ducks chorus, the it goes left. What a rip lol

"you're not gonna complain about my music once you hear this"

'Silly Love Songs' won't sound quite as silly now!

@@FFKonoko PSY and BTS will reference this with equal sense.

He was just doing what he had to do.

This was basically his way of saying "I never want to hear you bloody Yanks complain about Wonderful Christmastime again.""

He's the Lil Ducky, if you will.

Now that's unfair to Rick Dees. Man never pretended to present himself as a legit disco star while Dave just flip flops between wanting to be taken seriously or not

@@JCOdrjones true. Rick always was "that DJ who makes parody songs" and he just so happened to have one of those songs become a hit.

Has anybody made a Rick Dees Nuts joke yet?

Todd said in a reply to an earlier comment that the only reason he didn't was because Rick Dees himself already had.

Rick Dees has been around a long time, I’m sure he has.

By coincidence I just watched Todd's video about Cher Lloyd's "Want U Back," and he mentions Crazy Frog as an example of horrendously bad music that became popular in Britain but not in America. (Also The Cheeky Girls.)

@@zombiedodge1426 I can't deny, the British public will vote for novelty music in their droves. Mr Blobby, that Opera bloke and his wife, Joe Dolce. It's like an avenue for democratic mischief.

@@michaelkitchin9665 I find that the range of quality for British music, TV shows and movies is much greater than that in the US. The best British stuff is better than anything from America, but Britain’s worst stuff is much, much more horrible than anything from the United States.

Crazy frog deserved better than disco duck

Shout out to Crazy Frog's cover of We Are The Champions that was released to coincide with the Fifa World Cup and charted in a bunch of countries in Europe (it even reached number 1 in France)

I'm pretty sure it was a talk show appearance so he probably just did that for publicity.

I haven't. I bet most of europe hasn't.

First song I ever hated was "Dance Little Bird" by the Electronicas. Now that is a bird-themed one hit wonder that really deserves to be on the list of worst songs of all time.

I was 6.

Funny. First song I actively hated was Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne, cause I listened to Sk8r Boi and Complicated as a kid and Girlfriend felt like the highlight of her getting progressively worse from those early songs.

@@SomeRPGFan People from English-speaking countries will know this as the Chicken Dance. It was also originally duck-themed by the way. In my country, it spent a whole 51 weeks in the charts. Its eight-week number-one reign was succeeded by a cover version of the same song that stayed there for another four weeks. What I'm trying to say here is that 1981 was a bad year to be alive in Germany for anyone who had ears.

Mine was The Crazy Frog. Back in 2004 or so, the UK had a ringtone become number 1. Not a song that was turned into a ringtone. Just a ringtone. 9 year old me lost a little bit of faith in humanity

And it sure does exist

It also was more popular than Kiss' Rock and Roll all Night

And it's only the 97th biggest song of 76

@@nickrustyson8124 Funnily enough, this song tied with “Beth” from kiss as best song of 1976 in the people’s choice awards.

Nobody expects the US to do any better.

It _couldn't_ be a One Hit Wonderland episode; it didn't even chart. "I Melt With You" might have peaked at #76, well before the arbitrary Top 40 threshold, but "Dog Police" didn't even bubble under the Hot 100. It _did_ however get spun into a TV pilot with Jeremy Piven and Adam Sandler in 1990, nearly a decade after its release. Not sure if there's enough dirt on them to fill a quarter hour, but there's something.

I have a vid on the whole dog police scene if you wanna watch it

It would have had to have been a HIT to be on here.

There's also the fact that the chorus is just taken from the Spider-Man theme song from the Electric Company.

As previously stated, it does not need to be a One Hit Wonderland. Todd has a video on best 90s buses.

I have a theory as to why but i don't think you would like it

I choose to believe it’s an ironic name

Same for me

Self-explanatory....

The same thing happened to me when I came across the song for the first time in Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs. The band name sounded so much like something Barry would make up for a spur-of-the-moment quip that I eventually just Googled it to make sure. No, that’s what they’re called, all right!

I’m so sorry

@@psyche5893 Can't turn back the clock, gotta take it one day at a time. Why a duck? Why does the duck like disco? I need to keep my mind off this shit or I'll be back in rehab or worse in the next couple months. Fuckin duck... He quacc...

Instead of rehab, next time you should just try using only every second day. It seems to work for most drugs. Still get to take the drugs too, which is great. Cheers.

@@LeatherCladVegan *points* No. Bad dog. Bad bad. You stay away... ....ok you can get away with this if its pot. Nothing else. Stay off the street, and stay in school Jimmy. Drugs only make you cool if you are already rich, talented and famous.

I think if I had to choose between the hook from Disco Duck on loop for three months and a bullet in my head, it would be a legitimately tough decision.

Embarrassing himself? No no...Fucker knew what he was doing.

That was clearly a joke, you think Paul actually wants the blame for Disco Duck?

@@justanotherrandomcrit8115 No, but him introducing Disco Duck at all is kinda embarrassing.

to be fair, and i mean no disrespect to a legend - paul mccartney spent a not insignificant amount of time embarrassing himself

@@neverhowever3231 Yeah, a huge amount of his life was corny at best, outright embarrassing at worst. But, you know, he's earnt his pass.

Still such a bop.

Move Your Feet is one of the greatest of all time, seriously

I always forget about that

I'm so sorry.......

If I'd done that job I'd never tell a soul.

@@Zero_Ninety no daycare on the weekends so guess who got to spend five hours in shopping centers on one weekend watching his mom dance around in a basically modified donald duck outfit.

and I was really little so I probably liked it.

Best reason I’ve ever seen to dismantle capitalism

Disco Dolphin Discobra Dicentepede Disquokka

​@@zqueen3871 discat discodog discofox discowolf

Someone should turn that into a cartoon

Rick Dees, haggard and exhausted, after decades of disco torture: "Uh... disco, discoyote? Is that any good?"

TODD YES

There's a Mickey and friends themed rap album published by Disney. Search if you dare.

I thinks it's brought up in the OHW on Tag Team.

@@FM-cp6kc wasn’t Todd the one who posted the audio of this?

@@LittlePinkMew nah it wasnt. iirc todd did post audio of another obscure song

This

Anyone understand why kids love bad annoying songs so much? I don't have kids but I remember liking a lot of really annoying garbage as a smol spider.

@@ohmygoditisspider7953 I won't pretend to have a musicology or sociology degree, but I have theories. Kids don't really have fully-formed tastes at that point, so they aren't really going to enjoy things for aesthetic reasons (e.g. Slint's Spiderland is a beautiful and twisting depiction of loneliness in various forms, but it's also 40 minutes of obtuse, mostly-spoken-word lyrics and repetitive, dissonant clean guitar riffs over uncomfortable odd-time beats. If you can't appreciate the atmosphere and emotional effect of Slint's music, you will hate Spiderland so much). That just leaves the basic building blocks of catchy music to work with, which to anyone who cares about aesthetic value seem painfully obvious and obnoxiously simple. Add to it that children tend to really enjoy the same thing over and over (and not in a subtle, atmospheric Krautrock/Motorik kind of way), loud noises, and silly voices. You have a recipe for sheer agony when it gets stuck in the head of any adult. An ideal song for children sounds like a normal song that's taken several lead pipes to the head.

@@noesunyoutuber7680 So, TL;DR, it's like that episode of South Park where the music you enjoyed as a kid now can sound like crap as an adult, right?

@@noesunyoutuber7680 Nah, it's more simple than that. Socrates figured it out, but if you bring it up people will deny it and argue with you about it. Basically, preferences in regards to what kind of art you like and dislike isn't something that you're born with, it's something you develop as you get older and learn more about art. Until you develop your own taste, you'll just say that you like what people in positions of authority (critics, your parents) say that they like. That's why you have kids in comments sections on older songs saying that they love older music that their parents like. It's also why little kids 'like' cutesy novelty songs, because that's what their teachers, caregivers, and parents tell them that they should like at that age instead of the inappropriate rap music and metal music (though, some parents will blast Slayer for their kids and play gangster rap for them, just look at Twitter to see proud parents bragging about how much their young kids love Metallica). It's also why the music you 'liked' when you were younger, before you developed your own taste, sounds bad when you get older, or at least, you don't like it as much. Also, Motorik isn't a genre of music, it's a drumbeat. I wouldn't call Spiderland an album about loneliness, though, since Breadcrumb Trail is about two people on a date in a carnival. Good Morning Captain is really the only song about being lonely on the album.

As a 13 year old, I didn't need drugs to enjoy Disco Duck.

@@Tornado1994 Not me.

IT'S NOT THE SIDE EFFECTS OF THE COCAINE, I'M THINKING THAT IT MUST BE DUCKS

I thought it was an 80's drug

@@tafua_a Nah, coke got poplar in the 70s amongst the well to do. 80s was a refinement of that, and crack flooding the inner city.

The Buoys "Timothy"

We survived Monster A Go Go -we can survive this!

Must be all the weed smoking.

Wasn't this around the time Paul was recording such stone cold classics, like Temporary Secretary and Wonderful Christmas Time?

Yeah, it's a joke. The song was a number one and infamously bad. Him using it as a punchline is not really an odd acknowledgement that it existed. And definitely not a result of weed smoking or extra unusual because he was making good music at the time...that's literally why it's a good joke.

No Sir Paul, you don't need Disco Duck. You already have Wings.

Paul McCartney doesn't have the best sense of humor. When Eric Idle did his film "The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash", he was the only Beatle who didn't like it.

Much like when they're waxing nostalgic about cars, when Boomers say that kind of stuff, the time period the really mean is like '66-'72. Most Boomers I've met were not big Disco fans.

Really more of a Gen X song...

@@zazelby The song came out the year I was born. It's not a Gen-X song.

@@IanDunbar1 Disco wasn't really even a huge genre when it was at it's peak. It was just a number of artists among the other soft-rock and pop albums.

@@IanDunbar1 Agreed on Boomers and cars. From post-War to the First Oil Crisis, there were plenty of _awful_ cars put on the market. I'm a huge fan of cars of that era but I also know that about 2 dozen of them are worth a damn. (Context: I'm talking exclusively about American iron.)

But would you have listened to it at a time that you wouldn’t be caught?

@@autumnphillips151 No, I wouldn't have. It didn't just sound silly, it sounded so *insultingly* stupid at the time, even to me...and I liked "A Fifth of Beethoven" and "Stars on 45" around that time. "Disco Duck" sounded more fit for the sippy-cup set than for anyone old enough to buy their own records. It's been well over forty years and I *still* haven't listened to "Disco Duck" beginning-to-end.

​@@AC-ih7jc your loss tbh

@@youdbettertube That will be my burden to bear for the rest of my days, I guess.

Heaven is a disco. Hell is... also a disco. Everything is disco and time is a flat circle.

According to The Good Place, demons prefer "She Hates Me" by Puddle of Mudd. It's a tossup which song is worse.

Hell doesn't sound to bad

With those dancers in the vaguely unsettling duck costumes, too.

And it's always saint Patrick's day

Fun fact: Rick Dees' song "Eat my Shorts" predates The Simpsons by five years!

Bohemian was actually number 18 on the top 100, Disco Duke was number 97

​@@nickrustyson8124 I cited the US Hot 100. Other countries would naturally have it different.

I mean bohemian rhapsody still and is a very popular song even though peaking at number 9 it's kind of like roundabout by yes the song only peaked at number 15 in America the song was very popular and still is popular

@@essmoon2157 Right. But how many people are still flipping out over Midnight At The Oasis by Maria Muldaur? It hit #5 in Cash Box, #6 on Billboard, and was nominated for both song of the year and record of the year at the Grammys for 1974. It's evidence that the truly original, unique, heartfelt, and skillfully made records will frequently endure, while the corny schlock will just be a flash-in-the-pan that people shall forget very quickly. But at the time, you could not escape junk like Afternoon Delight or Midnight At The Oasis, even if you wanted to.

But if you go back to the earlier decade of the 1960s, it becomes a lot HARDER to say music wasn't better. The 70s was when commercial radio really plummeted in quality. In the 60s, it was like a Golden Age of excellence.

He announced this video yesterday. He wanted us to think it was an April Fools joke.

Ironically, Disco Duck was given its wide release by RSO, Robert Stigwood’s label, as in the Robert Stigwood who managed The Bee Gees and produced Saturday Night Fever. Not that Stigwood was immune to poor taste, he also produced the Sgt. Pepper movie. So he holds (partial) responsibility for both disco’s arguably highest and lowest moments.

@@adamkushner6793 The Sgt. Pepper's movie soundtrack is a Trainwreckord on steroids.

"Who invited my man Blud" energy adding Disco Duck alongside disco standards like Staying Alive

It was a common stock sound effect used for jungle scenes in cheaply-made TV shows and movies for a while because it vaguely sounds like the "ooh ooh ahh ahh" sound people think monkeys make.

that’s always been a trope in movies etc that’s kinda confused me

In movie sound effects, eagles are dubbed by red-tailed hawks and most big cats are dubbed by cougars.

@@thirteenfury I find that most big cats are dubbed by tigers. Cougars have a really recognizable sound that pretty much everyone identifies with them, but like... almost all the lions in movies that I've heard have tiger roars because lion roars are very guttural and not what most people think of as "epic sounding".

@@mastermarkus5307 Yeah, you're totally right. I wasn't thinking so much of lions or tigers as I was the smaller big cats. Cheetahs, jaguars, leopards, etc. It's probably more evident in Tarzan films and other older films that take place in Africa. I doubled checked a SFX site with big cat sounds and tigers are absolutely dubbed in for lions. Not many people realize lions don't roar as much or as deeply as tigers.

The April fool song is that some idiot (or a cast of them) made this song in the first place lol

I love this song too It’s Hilarious Todd’s reaction is also Hilarious

Kinda like the opening theme to the anime Kill Me Baby

I Love it too! It ranks with the songs by Weird Al Yakovic and Ray Stevens. I loved novelty and parody songs. And it fit right into the Disco era!

Holy shit I never knew u watched Todd in the Shadows!! Hopefully in ur next video for most evil musicians, u have Todd make a cameo in the video. I would love to see that collaboration!!

@@ishfarahmed3684 That... wouldn't work at all.

A gigantic DISCO duck, mind you

Franz Kafka "Metamorphosis"

So it's really a Kafkaesque tale of body horror, hmm, never thought of it that way.

@@CandGoods An absurdist take on body horror, so let's knock it down to Vonnegutian :p

Duckafka

Did he sing Disco Duck for her wedding

Might not have been allowed to use the word "schmuck"? Unlike today, you couldn't swear or talk about your genitals on a record - if you wanted it to have a general release.

I'd say truck, but if country songs think a backroad is romantic, than calling someone a truck might as well be a marriage proposal.

Sadly 40 years before we came up with a radio-friendly? way to rhyme that. At least common vernacular, I'm sure it happened back in the 70's.

I think Todd erased his random year top 10 videos from his own memory. Bummer, they were gold. Ain't that right *Mr. Sean Faye Wolf?*

@@devlinburgess2463 Someone call up Florida Georgia Line and tell them to make Disco Truck.

Actually in Scandinavia donald is more popular than mickey

@@maximillianlylat1589 I was about to comment that he is more popular in Europe!

@@EternalYorkieMom I think that's because the Donald Duck comics by Carl Barks were highly localized in Europe, although I could be wrong I guess.

Donald is way more popular than Mickey in general, I'd wager. Ducktales was huge.

Donald is the better character.

I'm still not convinced he didn't make it up...

I came here looking for anyone else who watched Todd’s Worst of 1976 and remembers Disco Duck

@@rachel_sj I think Todd just fabricated those audio clips so his offhand addition of "and His cast of Idiots" on the worst list remains hidden. 'Cause that is WAY too convenient of a joke to be true. I mean who else is gonna preform this OTHER than packs of idiots? The next Einstein? Gimme a break. /Sarcasm

You got a strong case for it but of course disco haters then probably disagreed.

Holy shit...

... You know you're onto something

Wrong, it's supposed to be Yakky Doodle the cute little cartoon duck who was always searching for a "mama." Hence the line in the song, "got to have me a mama!"

@@EVzipper48 yeah, that's the character I was talking about, how was I wrong?

Got em

same.

my favorite disco artist is Jon Ligma

@@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks I prefer Steve Boffa

"Dees Ducks!" Also lets be thankful he never capitalized on the popularity in the late 90s and made a "Who let the DUCKS out!?" song.

Same! Listened to the tape a billion times as child, especially Macho Duck.

Duckroll all over the place.

Duck Sauce doesn’t get the critical evaluation I think they should. Todd’s covered a few “one hit wonder in America, huge stars in Europe” songs, Barbara Streisand (the song) would be the one hit wonder in Europe and barely anything in the US.

Covering duck sauce would have been completely acceptable

Duck Sauce is what “Disco Duck” got instead of a critical reevaluation

"NRG" is a great song. "But first, welcome to Horizon!"

"Dream" by Forest for the Trees.

That Whale album(We Care) is really good. It’s one of my favorite albums. The lyrics are awesome

Yes, and if I could have done so, I'd do that. He could make anything sound epic.

"But was this sizzle reel a true story, or just too hot to handle? Find out after the break!"

He was THE voice over guy.

Y'all need to check out Pablo Francisco doing his bit about him. Good shit

@@garyhall7867 *COMING SOON....*

Bro where do you even begin with that

That'd be an interesting turn, given that a) he already did a video review when the song came out, but he was pretty down on it, and b) he's apparently become quite a fan of her since.

I think Carly Rae Jepsen is in the same camp as Devo: Technically a one hit wonder, but has a legacy and following that far surpasses that label.

Good time with Owl city was a hit so she can't be OHW.

Ya know I'm not huge on pop music but i quite enjoy call me maybe.

Carly has 3 top 40 songs, so I don't think she'd qualify, but I get why people would think she deserves better, especially with the reception her albums following her hit got.

I know! I was expecting one too. I think he assumed the comments would have that covered.

Todd might just be old

Gotta be honest: It's because Rick himself beat me to it. Look it up

@@andthelastshallbefirsttoim2795 Rick Deez just outed you as a fool, for thinking that deez nuts jokes are somehow only for young people and not so old that he made the joke himself....

@@ToddintheShadows I simultaneously can’t believe it and totally believe it

For some reason I always associated Rick Dees as the same DJ who orchestrated the infamous disco demolition night at the baseball game (it was a different DJ) but I guess it made sense to me because a song like Disco Duck had to be created by someone who actually hated disco right? Thanks TiS for helping to set my memories straight!

To be fair, I feel like Weird Al more than makes up for Disco Duck.

@@billyweed835 Accurate.

Yes, especially Julie Brown. And songs like 'They're Coming To Take Me Away' and its numerous copycats/parodies and also I Want My Baby Back.

@@nathanforester5993 The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun could have only been made in the 80s

To me it sounds like any generic disco beat, which I’ll say as a drummer, is not overly complicated to play. Any good studio musician could knock it out in a few takes. Same goes for the generic disco bass lines. It’s almost like stock music.

@@galleryofrogues Something doesn't have to be hard to play to sound good. And something can be very complicated and not sound good. I'm talking about the for majority, non-musician, audience.

I would not have resisted the urge

Rick doesn't deserve the decency that Todd has.

That joke is low hanging fruit. So to speak.

Well, Rick Dees himself actually made that joke apparently so uh...yeah.

Surprising Rick didn't produce the hit song "Rick Dees Nuts" yet.