Herc! Herc!

Speaking of schoolyard songs, in second grade, a boy named Balty taught me a spoof song that he sang to the tune of the theme song to the animated show from the 1960's or 1970's about Hercules.

Hercules, you're a real big phony,
Hercules, eating cheese and baloney,
Fighting for his life, with a rubber knife
With the strength of ten (?)
'Fraid of army men
That's the pride of Hercules!

I don't quite remember how it goes unfortunately. The real theme song had the line "With the strength of ten ordinary men."

Amusingly, years later in an animation class at UCLA, our professor, Dan McLaughlin held the Hercules cartoon up as one of the worst of examples of cheap animation. For instance, it's challenging to animate the act of walking, so in Hercules, all the characters would always walk behind bushes or low walls.(You can also see this shortcut technique used sometimes in the Peanuts specials; Think of Charlie Brown and Linus walking across a bridge) Also, the animators would animate a movement and simply repeat the movement, using the same cells, over and over to fill time. It truly was a terrible cartoon. Of course I watched it in repeats every day before school in 6th grade.