History Funny / ToddInTheShadowsOneHitWonderland2023

* Just the fact that he timed this to release ''right'' as the [[Film/Barbie2023 ''Barbie'' movie came out. He even admitted he had been holding off on this one for years for that very reason.

-->'''Todd:''' If Google is correct, he's literally shorter than Too Short, ''who is literally named 'Too Short'!''

-->'''Todd:''' Having to do the voice for German ''Quest for Camelot''; the indignity.

--->'''Todd:''' "You're like, ''[agreeing]'' 'Yeah! Yeah! YEAH.'" ''[beat]'' "'DoubleTake Wait... the thing before last, what was that?'"

* Given that Skee-Lo lamenting his height is both the main hook in the chorus and all over the verses, Todd himself can't resist a couple of jokes, even introducing him as a "[[MemeticMutation short king]]".

** On a related note, immediately after Skee-Lo achieved success with a song about how he was a lovable loser that didn't have a girl, a recurring theme is the number of other tracks in his catalog about how, if anything, [[HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday he has TOO MANY girls]]. Todd finds his posturing unbefitting at best, and ridiculous at worst, singling out a bar from "Top of the Stairs" about how Skee-Lo turns down women because he's worried about venereal disease.

* Todd takes a brief sidebar to detail the history of the sax sample, which came from a track off a jazz fusion album by keyboardist Bernard Wright. He does not let the fact that it was titled [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle 'NARD]], or that Wright's third album had a single titled "Yo 'Nard", go unmentioned.

-->'''Todd:''' See, I might have bought it without the Bacardi stuff, but this sounds like a prank written by Darryl from ''The Office''.\\
'''[[Series/TheOfficeUS Darryl:]]''' ''[with barely restrained contempt for Michael]'' [[Recap/TheOfficeUSS2E22CasinoNight You know, things us Negroes say]].
** Part of the strangeness for Todd is that it's "sandwiched" between more conventional desires and ambitions, essentially forcing you to do a double take the first time you hear it.
--->'''Todd:''' "You're like, ''[agreeing]'' 'Yeah! Yeah! YEAH.'" ''[beat]'' "'[[DoubleTake Wait... the thing before last, what was that?]]'"
* Todd notes that, when it comes to Skee-Lo's post-"I Wish" career, a series of interviews with Skee-Lo himself are the primary and only source for most of what happened, making stuff difficult to verify.[[note]]As a disclaimer explains, in spite of what he himself may have claimed online, Tony Burrows from Edison Lighthouse likely did not sing "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke", so Todd wants to avoid one-sided accounts.[[/note]] He clarifies that it's not because he doesn't ''trust'' Skee-Lo, but because between 1996 and then, absolutely NOBODY in the press cared enough to even speculate on what he was up to.

** When going over his acting credits, which are equally obscure[[note]]As of this episode's release, Skee-Lo had a grand total of ''three'' credited roles on [=IMDb=], all of them for his own music videos, and his ''Baywatch Nights'' cameo was only added after the video came out.[[/note]], Todd is shocked to find that there was a television show based on the movie ''Film/DangerousMinds'', that Skee-Lo guested on an episode of ''Series/BaywatchNights'', AND that Lou Rawls, of all people, was a regular cast member on that show.
* Todd thinks Skee-Lo's single "At The Mall" is funny and was even funnier a year earlier when it was "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy.

** When going over his acting credits, which are equally obscure, Todd is shocked to find that there was a television show based on the movie ''Film/DangerousMinds'', that Skee-Lo guested on an episode of ''Series/BaywatchNights'', AND that Lou Rawls, of all people, was a regular cast member on that show.

-->'''Todd:''' "What would Captain Kirk do? He'd blow that shit up!"

-->"That's not me saying, 'he's lying'; that's me saying, 'no one wrote a goddamn thing about this guy for 17 years, or, if they did, it's been erased from the Internet'!"

--->"You're like, ''[agreeing]'' 'Yeah! Yeah! YEAH.'" ''[beat]'' "'Wait... the thing before last, what was that?'"

** On a related note, immediately after Skee-Lo achieved success with a song about how he was a lovable loser that didn't have a girl, a recurring theme is the number of other tracks in his catalog about how, if anything, [[HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActive he has TOO MANY girls]]. Todd finds his posturing unbefitting at best, and ridiculous at worst, even sighting a bar from "Top of the Stairs" about how Skee-Lo turns down women because he's worried about venereal disease.
--->'''Skee-Lo:''' 'Cause I gotta million honeys knockin' on my door / And I'm not tryin' to score with one / 'cause diseases kill and that's ill / to make a mill and then you gettin' done''\\

* Inevitably, the question of "what's the deal with [[WordSaladLyrics the rabbit in the hat with the bat]]" comes up, a question Todd finds himself unable to answer. After consulting with a very strained theory as to what it might mean on Genius.com, Todd concludes that it's probably just silly wordplay and that the explanation is bullshit.

* Todd notes that, when it comes to Skee-Lo's post-"I Wish" career, a series of interviews with Skee-Lo himself are the primary and only source for most of what happened, making stuff difficult to verify. He clarifies that it's not because he doesn't ''trust'' Skee-Lo, but because between 1996 and then, absolutely NOBODY in the press cared enough to even speculate on what he was up to.

* Todd takes a brief sidebar to detail the history of the sample, which came from a jazz fusion album by keyboardist Bernard Wright. He does not let the fact that it's titled [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle 'NARD]], or that Wright's third album had a single titled "Yo 'Nard", go unmentioned.
* He brings up the infamous Rabbit in a Hat line and pretends to do a DoubleTake at it.

-->'''Todd:''' "If Google is correct, he's literally shorter than Too Short, ''who is literally named 'Too Short'!"''

* Todd notes that, when it comes to Skee-Lo's post-"I Wish" career, a single interview with Skee-Lo himself is the primary and only source for most of what happened, making stuff difficult to verify. He clarifies that it's not because he doesn't ''trust'' Skee-Lo, but because between 1996 and then, absolutely NOBODY in the press cared enough to even speculate on what he was up to.

** When going over his acting credits, which are equally obscure, Todd is shocked to find that there was a television show based on the movie ''Film/DangerousMinds'', that Skee-Lo guested on an episode of ''Series/BaywatchNights'', AND that Creator/LouRawls was a regular cast member on that show.

* When going over Skee-Lo's acting career, most of which he can't confirm, Todd is shocked to find that there was a television show based on the movie ''Film/DangerousMinds''. And that Creator/LouRawls was a cast member of ''Series/BaywatchNights''.

* When going over Skee-Lo's acting career, most of which he can't confirm, Todd is shocked to find that there was a television show based on the movie ''Film/DangerousMinds''. And that Creator/LouRawls was a cast member of ''LiveActionTV/BaywatchNights''.

* When going over Skee-Lo's acting career, most of which he can't confirm, Todd is shocked to find that there was a television show based on the movie Film/DangerousMinds

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-->'''Todd:''' ...and to be fair to what happens later, 99 balloons is just way too many balloons. Like what are you, like a car dealership? The house from ''{{WesternAnimation/Up}}''? What are you doing?

* During the Where Are They Now segment Todd finds out that Nena developed controversial opinions on the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Todd decides to chalk it up to the language barrier, and [[IllPretendIDidntHearThat pretends he didn't see them]].