| "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" | ||||
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| Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic featuring Tress MacNeille, and Mary Kay Bergman | ||||
| from the album Running with Scissors | ||||
| B-side | "Amish Paradise" | |||
| Released | November 22, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||
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| Length | 3:02 | |||
| Label | Volcano | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Dexter Holland, "Weird Al" Yankovic | |||
| Producer(s) | "Weird Al" Yankovic | |||
| "Weird Al" Yankovic featuring Tress MacNeille, and Mary Kay Bergman singles chronology | ||||
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"Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" (alternatively called "Pretty Fly (For a Rabbi)" in Australia) is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" by The Offspring, and it was released from the 1999 album Running with Scissors. The song was released as a single exclusively in Australia.[1] Tress MacNeille performs the line "How ya doin' Bernie?", and appears in the music video. Voice actress Mary Kay Bergman also contributes with the "For a rabbi!" line near the middle of the song.
As opposed to the German like nonsense phrase "Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen" (which originated in the hit track Rock Of Ages by Def Leppard) in the original song, Weird Al starts this song with the Yiddish sentence "Veren zol fun dir a blintsa" meaning "You should turn into a blintz." At one point, Yankovic references the line "Mecca lecca hi, mecca hiney hiney ho" and "Mecca-lecca hi mecca lecca chahney ho!", catchphrases of Jambi, the wish-granting disembodied head from Pee-Wee's Playhouse.