Pretty Fly for a Rabbi

"Pretty Fly for a Rabbi"
Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic featuring Tress MacNeille, and Mary Kay Bergman
from the album Running with Scissors
B-side"Amish Paradise"
ReleasedNovember 22, 1999 (1999-11-22)
RecordedApril 19, 1999[1]
Genre
Length3:02
LabelVolcano
Songwriter(s)Dexter Holland, "Weird Al" Yankovic
Producer(s)"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic featuring Tress MacNeille, and Mary Kay Bergman singles chronology
"Polka Power!"
(1999)
"Pretty Fly for a Rabbi"
(1999)
"You're Pitiful"
(2006)

"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.[2] 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.

  1. ^ Yankovic, Alfred. "Recording Dates". weirdal.com. Retrieved November 12, 2024.
  2. ^ Pretty Fly for a Rabbi Single