Ok Lemmings look, I love life and I love my family, so I’d hate to have to blow my fucking brains out. So what’s another strategy for tuning out this incessant lava chicken?

Alternatively, does anyone have a time machine and enough money to convince Jack Black to not do the Minecraft movie?

  • andyburke@fedia.io
    45·
    13 days ago

    Whenever they would start singing it, I would sing

    Cha-cha-cha-lava, La-la-la-chicken!

    back at them until they got annoyed enough that they stopped.

    🤷‍♂️

      • andyburke@fedia.io
        15·
        13 days ago

        About 3 days. 🤷‍♂️ Edit: for clarity, I haven’t heard this song in a long while now, those 3-ish days were right after they saw it.

        Every dad can decide their own ROI for this. 🤣

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      12 days ago

      Ok, I’ve officially employed this method, mixing it with some other suggestions in the thread.

      Cha-cha-cha-lava,

      La-la-la-chicken!

      Oooh chicken jockey

      It’s a chicken jockey!

      Woooon-derboy!

      I did get a satisfying “no dad, that’s not how it goes”, but then it resulted in him singing it a few more times… I think I’ll just keep it up until it’s clear to him he’s being trolled, then we’ll see what happens.

  • Sabata@ani.social
    33·
    13 days ago

    Make it inhumanely cringe. Start calling everything lava chicken as a replacement for “cool”, make lame ass Minecraft dad jokes at every opportunity, yell chicken jockey out the window to summon your spawn in public.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    13 days ago

    Mine has largely gotten over the lava chicken phase, and has moved on to the next incredibly annoying barely sentient compulsion.

    Last I checked it was the intro to Ducktales. Have you shown them that? It’s so ruinously catchy it may never leave your mind.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
    27·
    13 days ago

    Record it from all angles at all opportunities and play the video at their wedding. Until then, sustain yourself on the antici

    spoiler

    pation.

      • Blubber28@lemmy.world
        31·
        13 days ago

        Genuine question - why is that deemed a good answer? I’d expect an actual solution for a child to be more apropriate than humiliating an adult later in life. Like the suggestions telling to start singing it yourself, wrongly, seem much more effective and appropriate to me.

        Full disclosure tho: Not a parent and no plans to ever be one

        • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
          10·
          13 days ago

          The suggestion and response are both meant humorously. It clearly isn’t actually a good answer because it doesn’t actually solve the problem, except in some passive-agressive far-off-in-the-future way.

          • Blubber28@lemmy.world
            31·
            13 days ago

            Ah that’s on me missing the clue then, apologies. Though in my defense, there are parents that do stuff like this.

  • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world
    27·
    13 days ago

    I have had this exact issue with that frozen music. You are essentially done. Years later i still recall that music.

  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
    22·
    13 days ago

    Unleash the Crazy Frog. Or go nuclear with playing non-stop every single kitsch 70’s romantic songs on repeat—while singing them passionately.

    It give’em an hour.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    21·
    13 days ago

    Tell him or her that if it’s underground, it’s called magma rather than lava.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldOP
      17·
      13 days ago

      Haha, that’s a pretty good plan for whenever he does something annoying. Just “well actually” at him until he stops.

  • Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyzEnglish
    18·
    13 days ago

    I don’t wanna sound old here, but I finally watched that thing a couple days ago and boy did I feel my age there. Clearly I’ve lived long enough that a whole movie failed to connect with me on any level. I mean it has Jack Black in it and I adore him. I guess what I’m saying is I have no idea how to fix your kid because they’re a different people now.

    However , the classic old group defense against young slang is taking it up and enthusiastically using it wrong. So enjoy your hot poultry song.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      It is not a good movie, but my kids enjoyed it, so I got some vicarious pleasure out of the experience. I wouldn’t watch it on my own.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        13 days ago

        I don’t know why people dislike it so much other than the girl and her brother doing a terrible job at being relatable or authentic. I thought Jack Black and Jason Momoa did a great job and I’m not even a fan of Momoa.

        • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          Agreed. It was a fine example of a kid movie with kid actors. If you go in with low expectations, you probably won’t be disappointed.

      • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
        3·
        13 days ago

        Yeah same. It was our first theater experience together and we had a blast. The movie is aggressively mediocre although it does have a few moments.

      • Zannsolo@lemmy.world
        2·
        13 days ago

        I put it on for myself(42) the other day it took all my will to not turn it off 3 mins in, I broke by 25 mins and turned it off. I then mocked my buddy who said it wasn’t bad(he has 2 boys in prime Minecraft movie age).

        I have an 18 month old girl with another on the way, not looking forward to whatever her equivalent frozen/Minecraft movie is. But I have also sung more wheels on the bus than I can stand.

        • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          I sat through a couple of the Paw Patrol movies when my guys were younger. It helps if you can find a way to appreciate them for what they are.

          Or sleep. I slept through the Mario movie and I think that made it way better.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      41·
      13 days ago

      Do you play Minecraft?

      I have yet to watch it but i assume there is very little to connect with if you don’t?

      Depending on how old your kids are and if you are not already playing, playing on a local server together is great family time and can provide situations for real bonding aswell as real world educational discussions.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        13 days ago

        It has very little to connect with even if you do play minecraft. If you watch youtubers play minecraft, on the other hand, it’s probably perfect.

        It’s basically a gen Alpha (maybe Z at a stretch) cringe comedy movie more than a minecraft movie. That’s mostly just the setting.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      12 days ago

      I don’t wanna sound old here…

      I got bad news for you, that’s basically all we’re doing right now.