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Bloodhound Gang - Along Comes Mary

Music Video | 1999
ArtistBloodhound Gang
SongAlong Comes Mary
AlbumSoundtrack _Half Baked_
DirectorMichael Alperowitz
MusicJimmy Pop Franks
GenreRock
IntroYes
OutroYes
SpecialYes
Full StoryA guy and his girlfriend go to a movie called _Half Baked_ in a drive-in theater. At the ticket booth he talks to his girlfriend about how bad the bloodhound gang is. Surprisingly the ticket salesman is the singer of the band and later on the boyfriend has to suffer for this...
Intro runtime0:35
LyricsJimmy Pop Franks
Outro runtime0:15
Set Locationa drive-in theater, USA
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown
Techniqueexcerpts from _Half Baked_

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Synopsis

Bloodhound Gang perform "Along Comes Mary" in the guise of fast-food restaurant employees, turning the song's wistful lyrics into a deliberately mundane and comic workplace spectacle. The band members sing and play amid restaurant fixtures, uniforms, and diner-style surroundings, while the visual presentation leans into the contrast between the song's psychedelic, romantic language and the aggressively ordinary setting. The result is a deadpan parody of a service-industry performance that keeps the band's irreverent personality at the center.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video dates from 1998 and was made for Bloodhound Gang's punk-inflected cover of "Along Comes Mary," a song written by Tandyn Almer and first popularized by the Association in 1966.
  • The band's version first appeared on the soundtrack to the 1998 film "Half Baked" before being included on the 1999 album "Hooray for Boobies."
  • The fast-food setting is the video's defining visual joke: the band performs in employee uniforms, applying the group's taste for lowbrow comedy to a song that originated as polished sunshine pop.
  • IMDb lists Spanky G. alongside the band in the video, with the running time given as approximately four minutes.
  • "Along Comes Mary" became one of the more unusual songs associated with the Bloodhound Gang's late-1990s European success, with the track reaching the top 10 in Germany.

Lyrics

Every time I think that I'm the only one who's lonely
Someone calls on me
And every now and then I spend my time at rhyme and verse
And curse those faults in me

And then along comes Mary (Mary, Mary)
And along comes Mary (Mary, Mary)
And does she want to give me kicks and be my steady chick
And give me pick of memories
Or maybe rather gather tales from all the fails and tribulations
No one ever sees
When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

...
© Bloodhound Gang - Along Comes Mary. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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