Neeka Red

I am trying to write this post and you have no idea how many variations there are on the Imagination Movers theme song out in the digital world. In order for you to appreciate how right I am you need to hear the song. The most annoying part is that every other youtube intro says the hat is orange which A) makes this whole post totally un-funny and B) is not the theme song on the Disney Channel. Click on the title of the post to hear the song - it's not the best version but you'll get it.

Mack is completely obsessed with the Imagination Movers. If you aren't familiar with them, it's four guys in a band wearing mover jumpsuits. (We own said mover jumpsuit of course!) And we have downloaded many Movers songs onto our iPod. Mack knows the words to a number of the songs by heart. And his favorite might be their theme song - which you will hear by clicking the title of the post. I keep reflecting on your need to LISTEN to the song because this is the root of the problem.

Mack, and DD for that matter, sing whatever lyrics they please as long as it sounds generally the same as the words actually being sung. (Granted I do this too - I had no idea that Elton John wasn't saying "rollin' like father under the covers" although I did wonder what the dad was doing under the covers but that's another post...) So I hear Mack singing, "Dave's over there under Neeka Red hat." And I told him that i thought the word was "underneath" as in Dave is UNDERNEATH the red hat.

"No Mom - yissen, Dave's ova dare unda neeka red hat. See, it's neeka." "Mack, 'neeka' is not a word." And then I gathered that arguing with a three-year-old was worthless. So we have the disagreement when DH comes home. DH listens to Mack, listens to the song, pretends to look it up online and voila - he says, "it says here, neeka red: a shade of red." Ugh - he screwed me. Mack looks up shaking his head, "see Mom?!"

So now everyone sings "Dave's over there under neeka red hat" and it makes me nuts. It's underneath people - doesn't that just make sense? Why won't anyone believe me? If my name was Google everyone would just nod and admit I was right!