ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” by Elmo and Patsy
Grandma got run over by a reviewer.
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@オラオラオラ
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I’ve also always detested this song. Tom Lehrer does what they’re trying to do much better.
@borntogazeintonightskies
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I think we need the guys who did those" Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" movies to do a horror movie version of this song.
@Qrqyt
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I thought this was Ray Stevens my whole life
@dudewithachannel1163
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
"Did they deserve better?" made me laugh so hard. Fitting answer.
@jmagowan12
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Nice & miserable, just how Todd likes it! 😂
@AntagonistChan
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
It's funny. Every time Todd brings up Christmas At Ground Zero, I always think "That's not even the first absurdly dark christmas song by Weird Al that comes to mind" because my childhood was always more defined by The Night Santa Went Crazy.
@keepsakecube
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
The movie made me hate fruitcake for some reason. Maybe it was the poisoned fruitcake? It just looked so strange. The entire movie gives the same feeling as the song. It’s hard to sit through but some parts just live rent free in your brain against your will. It is truly the squatter of Christmas movies and music.
@christianzombievampire
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Every time i hear this song, my brain sings "grandma got run over despacito, oppa gangnam style christmas eve, you might say to go and whip and nae nae, but im happy in my home with minecraft steve"
It was like my genz version of sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler
@Robbie_Lugos
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
7:23 In the music video, they show him drinking heavily. I think that should answer your question.
@Mitsuraga
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I'm surprised that anyone hates this song. Even as a kid, I quickly tired of the happy-sappy stuff you get force-fed during the holiday season, so when I first heard this song as my second grade teacher played it for the class, I instantly laughed from the first few words stating the title and premise of the song, and realized almost as instantly that Grandma was very much dead, something I had to explain to some of my classmates, who misheard "me and Grandpa" as "me and Grandma," which made them think she'd loved to tell the tale.
Obviously, I'm much older now and don't find it so riotously hilarious, but it's certainly still amusing and usually gets me to at least crack a smile. One major point in its favour is that you don't hear it all over the place, all of the time. It only occasionally pops up and rarely more than once per December, so I've never had to deal with getting sick of it.
@leaffinite2001
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Just one of those songs i cant imagine caring about to hate or love. It isnt funny or good music, it sucks, but like. Whatever. Who could care. I dont think its all that morbid though. Maybe just a generational or personal thing but death isnt all that shocking a premise for anything honestly
@theunlawfulsponge5908
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Either grandma's family were terrible people or grandma herself was such an awful person, her family including her own husband don't give a shit she's dead
@SailorMaxie
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Lest we forget the greatest Christmas song ever made.
“Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)” by the Ramones.
@normanbuchwald
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
If ONLY it was really like a John Waters movie. LOL.
@mizushimo
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Ironically, my grandma loved 'Percy the Puny Poinsetta'.
@tsade6119
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I didn’t know grandma died I thought she just broke her hip 😢
@christopherwall2121
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
You know, the album collecting all of Elmo Shropshire's Christmas novelty songs even has a song about the backlash of his big hit. It's called "Don't Make Me Play That Grandma Song Again", and it's about a DJ who's reached the end of his tether, to the point where he begs for/threatens to play 24 hours of dogs barking Christmas carols instead.
@DutchVanDerLinde-sx1ox
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
That cartoon is an unignorable part of my youth during Christmas. For years i would somehow end up watching it at least once every year around Christmas
@lukepurser3432
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
6:00 Shout out to Mt favorite christmas song
@lukepurser3432
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
At this time of year, I listen to mcr's cover of all I want for christmas is you. It's such a bait and switch, that counters everything you've git to associate with christmas. Mariah Carey wouldn't approve. Hell yeah.
@Bacopa68
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I thought this was a new video, but it was just Christmas cheer from the algorithm.
@arachne6074
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I really thought this song was sung by Jeff Foxworthy.
@NBKVamp
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Two hits actually… grandma's killer fruit cake.
@dylan9025
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Where did you find an Oregon ducks singing poinsetta???
@smilingnid4276
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
One of the oddest parts of the backlog is seeing the leftside of Todd instead of the right.
@RTAbram
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I don't understand why people like A Christmas Story either, but I know people who watch it every year. They deserve this song…
@nonamelegend_vapor
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
You perfectly articulated everything i feel about A Christmas Story lol. Like, i even want to like it, but it just hits… so wrong
@luckybear101
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Another Weird Al Christmas must listen: The Night Santa Went Crazy
@jacobgregersen377
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
my dad is somehow freinds with randy brooks, I was shocked when i found out randy the old guy was the creator of such an iconic song.
@masterzoroark6664
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
So, milage may varry on how edgy you are and if you have good connection to your grandparents.
And in my case- I don't have good connection with mine, for…. a lot of reasons (one of which is that grandma from my dad's side is a backstabbing snake) and I'm still somewhat edgy.
@Disassociated24
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Finally I found someone else who doesn’t like Christmas Story. “Isn’t it funny he’s miserable?” No???
@MitsyWuzHere
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I hate A Christmas Story. There's no plot. There's through lines, but no plot
@atanvardecunambiel8917
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Not many people know this, but the now-widowed Grandpa Got Plowed Over By a Seme
@daemonspudguy
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 pm
I've only ever seen the Christmas special on TV once, and not on Cartoon Network but on fellow Warner Bros. stablemate the CW, of all things.
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