Scarred for Life

Pete (and his shirt) is my new hero. I can’t tell if this guy is all kinds of awesome or all kinds of wrong, but I’m buying it either way. I think as a kid I would have loved him. Kids love the absurd, and Pete seems to get that. BUT THAT DOESN’T SPARE HIM FROM THE ACID TONGUE OF THE EVILCUPCAKED ONE! Shall we begin?

As I was searching for other camp songs as performed by Pete (and his shirt), I came across this incredibly strange video of Pete (sans his shirt and dressed like he’s about to perform some occult ceremony) and some other guy in bunny ears who looks like he plays the roll of Booger* in Pete’s gang (other members possibly being named things like Gadget, Tiny, Pete’s Shirt, and Pony Boy) singing a song about shark attacks.

Keep the quirk coming, Pete.

*I kid Mr. Bunny Ears, your hygiene appears to MUCH better than Boogers. However, my husband may have to sue you for stealing his trademark facial hair pattern!

Bopping field mice on the head? Bunny Foo Foo is a JERK! And what the heck is a goon? For some reason, I always pictured a goon as some sort of malevolent goblin. How is that going to improve the situation? Gee, thanks, Good Fairy, for unleashing a monstrous rabbit-demon hybrid with head crushing proclivities on the world!

Sing us out, Pete the Camp and Experiential Education Enthusiast (and his shirt)!

Ah, the gross-out song. This song still makes me gag a little. No one is sure of its origins, or why someone decided to immortalize a decaying rodent around the campfire, but millions of kids want to thank that person for giving them a foul weapon against their fussy kid sister.

There is a scene in the book “The Dead Zone”, where, as a child, the protagonist accidentally puts his hand into the remains of a putrid, dead gopher. If I remember correctly, the passage even quotes this song.

Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat
Dirty little birdie feet.
Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
And me without my spoon.

This guy is Pete. According to his YouTube profile, Pete is a “camp and experiential education enthusiast”. You will be seeing more of Pete and his shirt in the future.