Everybody to the Limit (Live)

Live in West Rekjavik

Detailed Information

Album: Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits
Track: 20
Time: 7 minutes 56 seconds (whole track); 3 minutes 51 seconds (to the silence before Secret Song)
Artist(s): Strong Bad
Written by: Mike and Matt Chapman
Style: Funk
Origin: Extended, live version, originally from the toon Everybody to the Limit.

Lyrics

{Open to crowd noise. Vocoded synthesizer says "Everybody to the limit, yeah"}

Uh!
Uh!
Problematic!
Gettin' problematic!

{spoken}
Oh, my goodness
It's all gonna come to a head

{singing}
I said come on, fhqwhgads
I said come on, fhqwhgads
Everybody to the limit
Everybody to the limit
Everybody, come on, fhqwhgads

I said come on, fhqwhgads
I said come on, fhqwhgads
Everybody to the limit
Who's that? It's to the limit
Everybody, come on, fhqwhgads

{spoken}
Come on, fhqwhgads
I see you jockin' me
Tryin' to play like
You know me {someone in crowd shouts along}

No way, man
I'm not gonna play those games
Mind games
Board games

{singing}
I'm like come on, fhqwhgads
I say come on, fhqwhgads
Everybody to the limit
The Cheat is to the limit {crowd cheers more loudly}
Everybody, come on, fhqwhgads

I say come on, fhqwhgads
I say come on, fhqwhgads
We put the break it on down
Put the break it on down
We put the break it on down
Come on! One time!

Uh!

{spoken}
Pretty good job of breakin' it down there, guys

{vocoder: "Everybody to the limit, yeah"}

OK, I need y'alls help. We gotta make them hear us in East Rekjavik. On three, sing it along with me!

{vocoder: "Everybody to the limit, yeah"}

1-2-3!

{singing, with crowd and vocoder}
I said come on, fhqwhgads
I say come on, fhqwhgads
Come on, fhqwhgads
I say come on, fhqwhgads
Come on, fhqwhgads
I say come on, fhqwhgads
Come on, fhqwhgads
I say come on, fhqwhgads

{solo}
I say ooh, ah, fhqwhgads
I say ooh, ah, fhqwhgads
Who's that fh-hu-hu-hqwhgads?
You said who's a-that-a fhqwhgads?

Well I don't know who it is
But it probably is fhqwhgads
I asked my friend Joe
An' I asked my friend Jake
They said it was fhqwhgads

I said come on, fhqwhgads
I say come on, fhqwhgads
Everybody to the limit
It's me, I'm to the limit
Everybody to the limit!
The limma-limma-limit!

The limma-limma-limit!

{spoken}
I like that.

Limma, a-limma-limit

{spoken}
Man, fhqwhgads
You're making yourself look pathetic
Downright... horrendous
Makeup splashed all over your face
People's just gonna feel sorry for you
I mean, I do!

{vocoder: "So do I"}

{singing call/response with crowd}
Oooh, somebody say Trogdor! (Trogdor!)
Say burninate! (Burninate!)
The Cheat is overwhelmed! (The Cheat is overwhelmed!)
Once again, The Cheat is overwhelmed! (The Cheat is overwhelmed!)

{spoken}
Mm!
And I'm out

{crowd cheers}
{crowd can be heard chanting "Trogdor" until fade out}

Fun Facts

Trivia

• The line "we need to make them hear us in East Rekjavik" comes from the album's liner notes, which include a poster advertising Strong Bad performing in West Rekjavik.
  • "Rekjavik" is a misspelling of Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland.

Real World References

• The last sung line, "The Cheat is overwhelmed", is very similar to the last line in the Minutemen song "The Big Foist".

Fast Forward

• Puppet Strong Bad later performed this live with They Might Be Giants at an Atlanta concert, and in Limozeen Live! - 27 Mar 2008.
• Strong Bad describes The Cheat as being overwhelmed in Baddest of the Bands after sabotaging the Cool Tapes.

External Links

• "Everybody to the Limit (Live)" on Songwhip

• Listen to the original version of the song in "Everybody to the Limit"
• Listen to the original version of the song in "Everybody to the Limit" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "Everybody to the Limit"
• Download the mp3 of the original version (zipped for Windows)