Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

Re:Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-... by hecanjog on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @05:57PM (#46380186)

"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost its wheel and the Joker ran away." is the version I heard as a kid in the American midwest. It's fascinating to me that this rhyme was international at a time in my life before I'd ever heard about the internet.

Edit: Oh, it's simple. This is the version broadcast on The Simpsons TV show in 1989 and I must have heard it second-hand from my fellow students who were allowed to watch the Simpsons.

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Re:Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-... by cgriswald on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @07:25PM (#46380876)

We were singing this before the The Simpsons, so I wonder if it was the show that made it international or it already was that way.

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Re:Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-... by jephson on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @10:30PM (#46381826)

I recall being 6 years old and singing the "Wonder Woman lost her bosoms" variant at primary school in New Zealand. This was 1982 so definitely sung internationally prior to The Simpsons.

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Re:Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-... by paulmooreparks on Thursday December 25, 2025 @02:57AM (#46382920)

Same. I was singing this in the very early 80's, if not late 70's.

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