This is one of my all-time favorite songs, seriously. I have the full-length on vinyl and play it pretty regularly at a weekly "Bring Your Own Vinyl Night" I host at my neighborhood bar.

I came across this a few months back... great fan video.

Although I'm pretty there's no reason for the "gay" tag. The "I'm straight" lyrics in the song deal with the fact that Richman isn't a stoner. "Straight" was a term (at the time) that meant "clean" or "sober."

These guys are from Pennsylvania. But you can still call 'em grunge, I guess!

I've never seen the "sunny side up" version that's in this video, but "Breakfast Pizza" with scrambled eggs is fairly popular here in upstate NY.

I used to work just a mile or so from the mesa where this takes place... in an industrial park that also housed a General Mills cereal factory. You could walk outside, see all the balloons floating by, while the scent of Alpha-Bits filled the air. 'Twas magical!

Don't forget "Alfonso's Breakin' Board," a preprinted piece of corrugated cardboard that he hawked via TV ads around the same time.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sd4C8_FMdjA

I would love to see the unedited version of this.

Is it just me, or does the nervous newbie look a little like a young Kevin Tighe?

So when the lights go out... is that her getting out of range of the driveway's motion-sensing light?

Not only is this song (and video) great, but the entire "mini documentary" that accompanies it is priceless — you can get the whole shebang (as well as a crapload of Spike Jonze other fan-fucking-tastic videos) on the DVD "The Work of Director Spike Jonze."

End plug!