Start singing it with them. Do it sincerely. You'll either kill their joy or you two will have a moment.
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Or find a song they hate to constantly sing. Maybe some old person music like Hoobastank.
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Mine has largely gotten over the lava chicken phase, and has moved on to the next incredibly annoying barely sentient compulsion.
Last I checked it was the intro to Ducktales. Have you shown them that? It's so ruinously catchy it may never leave your mind.
Duck Tales! Awoo-oo!
We might solve a mysteryyy... 😀
Or rewrite history! 😬
I might also humbly suggest the theme to TaleSpin, that one's a beaut ☺️
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Yeah but DuckTales is quality. So that's fine.
Yep. He immediately dialed into it because Gravity Falls is an old favourite, and these shows share a good bit of DNA. I just like to hear Danny Pudi.
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Have them watch too many cooks.
Oh shit... I don't think he's ready for that level of weird...
Hah, now I just want to know what he'd think of it.
It takes a lot to make a stew
A pinch of salt and laughter too
Depending on how cool you are maybe if you start singing it they'll stop
that's what they™ want you to do
Right!
Nice try son.
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Whenever they would start singing it, I would sing
Cha-cha-cha-lava, La-la-la-chicken!
back at them until they got annoyed enough that they stopped.
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THAT'S NOT HOW IT GOES, DAD!
... Oh? It doesn't?
I do live for those moments...
that may be even harder than tuning it out
About 3 days. 🤷♂️ Edit: for clarity, I haven't heard this song in a long while now, those 3-ish days were right after they saw it.
Every dad can decide their own ROI for this. 🤣
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Sue him. Or record him, upload to Youtube and threaten to copyright strike him.
Unleash the Crazy Frog. Or go nuclear with playing non-stop every single kitsch 70’s romantic songs on repeat—while singing them passionately.
It give’em an hour.
H a m p s t e r d a n c e
You… still want to keep contact with them, right? I mean, who will take care of you when you’re older?
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Unleash...the Sandstorm!
Tell him or her that if it's underground, it's called magma rather than lava.
Haha, that's a pretty good plan for whenever he does something annoying. Just "well actually" at him until he stops.
Record it from all angles at all opportunities and play the video at their wedding. Until then, sustain yourself on the antici
spoiler
pation.
That is some damn fine dadding right there. I think this is a perfect plan.
Genuine question - why is that deemed a good answer? I'd expect an actual solution for a child to be more apropriate than humiliating an adult later in life. Like the suggestions telling to start singing it yourself, wrongly, seem much more effective and appropriate to me.
Full disclosure tho: Not a parent and no plans to ever be one
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I don't wanna sound old here, but I finally watched that thing a couple days ago and boy did I feel my age there. Clearly I've lived long enough that a whole movie failed to connect with me on any level. I mean it has Jack Black in it and I adore him. I guess what I'm saying is I have no idea how to fix your kid because they're a different people now.
However , the classic old group defense against young slang is taking it up and enthusiastically using it wrong. So enjoy your hot poultry song.
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Sink enough money into lava chicken paraphernalia for the child to instantly lose all interest in it.
La la la lava!
Ch ch ch chicken!
Steve's Lava Chicken, yeah it's tasty as hell