Talk:The Bad Touch

Talker at the beginning

Who is the guy in the beginning that says: "Haha! Well now, we call this the act of mating..." I know it sounds like a well known TV/Radio "Sex Therapist" but was wondering if there is any positive references to who it is. Billy Nair 00:06, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

It also kind of sounds like Kevin Spacey — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.191.220.54 (talk) 05:19, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I thought it sounded a lot like Tom Lehrer, but I've never found anything confirming who it is anywhere. 2604:3D09:167F:FDA0:C8DA:621B:6CD5:C22A (talk) 00:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

It's from an audio called "Where Did You Come From (20th Century Fox TFM 3107) - Art Linkletter". It's available on Youtube (they clipped 3 different parts) Anissmansouri (talk) 22:30, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Music based on?

Where was it documented that the music is based on In The Night? I've heard that song before and the similarities are vague at best. If anything, dance music fans should know it as "Disco Hit", an obscure 80's dance track from Europe by Blockhouse. Little info exists about who they were. To hear a snippet of it, go to Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music and find it under "Italo Disco". Interface76 18:37, 21 June 2007 (UTC)Interface76

No, I'm pretty sure it's "In the Night." I can hear it really clearly.--76.246.176.32 (talk) 22:14, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

References

I don't seem, to remember Sisqo being mentioned in the song... although, there is a reference to Gene Siskel, who's last name sounds like Sisqo. Removed for the time being. User:Rick 50000 5 September, 2006. 19:45. (UTC)

Correct. DWaterson 21:10, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

It is definitely Siskel, not Sisqo: "yes I'm Siskel, yes I'm Ebert, and you're getting two thumbs up". Nietzsche 2 (talk) 15:49, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

I dont really see the point in the references bit? It's just like what objects or people does mention? It's a bit obsessive. Like "daylight saving time?" I suppose if people hear it and dont know what it means its relevent, but... It's just so pointless. Any song could have a references, saying what everything in the song means. It doesn't seem very proper, thats all.--Ace Face 12:05, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't remember the full extent of What Wikipedia Is Not, but for people who honestly have no clue what half of the references are (e.g. due to not being on top of American culture, i.e. most of the people who are not from USA) the references section is well needed. Whether that's appropriate for Wikipedia to have or not, I'm not sure. I don't think a references section is the same as a trivia section, as long as it deals with solid, obvious references and not "if"s and "maybe"s 83.249.236.210 18:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Sample

Should it be mentioned that there is a sampling of Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls?" pud--2.18.98 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.86.18.192 (talk) 22:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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Didn't this reach number 1?

I thought this came number 1 in the UK? c_falco 16:35 (GMT), 24th March 2008

Release date

"It was released in May 1999 as the lead single from their album Hooray for Boobies. It was released a year later, in the US and UK." - when was it released? May 1999 or May 2000? A year after the album? Or what? 87.112.54.212 (talk) 18:33, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

The song is not from Europe

"The song is not a euro-disco it is a disco tune but Bloodhound Gang is from American not Europe". So please just put disco or dance-pop or maybe dance. LucaElliot2 (talk) 11:56, 17 June 2014 (UTC) LucaElliot2

Lyricism section

The edit Special:Diff/847031514 (by User:Andrzejbanas) and summary "removed trivial unsourced or poorly sourced observations about the son", removed the following content, which at the time had formed the majority of the article contents:

“ The main chorus and anthem of the song is the stanza "You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals; So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel", referring to the nature documentaries shown on the Discovery television channel in the 1990s.

The lyrics are composed almost entirely of double entendre, which include a number of references to late-1990s or topical North American popular culture. In the first verse these are: lack of precipitation leading to drought in the United States and specifically the state of Texas; risqué lyrics from musician Prince; Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert from television film-review programme At the Movies giving "two thumbs up"; restaurant-chain Waffle House and their hash browns foodstuffs; the delivery speed of courier firm FedEx; the stock-price of The Coca-Cola Company; and daylight saving time change during the Northern-hemisphere spring-time and its relation to nocturnal penile tumescence.

The second verse continues alluding to: the lost Egyptian Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa and early Egyptian hieroglyphs; the southern Pacific Ocean; US-National Weather Service weather alerts distributed as a small craft advisory to marine vessels; oceanic high-tides; the boardgame Battleship; automated coffeemaker manufacturer Mr. Coffee; juvenile exploration through playing doctor; television programme-in-programme Tool Time, from sitcom Home Improvement; country music singer Lyle Lovett; and science-fiction series The X-Files.

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Working through the Genius citation (also removed) appears to support all of the statements in this section. Andrzejbanas, could you give an idea of what additional citations might be useful? —Sladen (talk) 12:49, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Hello, its not that the source was not stated appropriately, perhaps my edit summary was poor. Its more so that the Rap Genius and Genius sources are all from user-submitted theories and interpretations and not published sources. Its basically the equivilant of citing another Wiki online, which is something we do not do on wikipedia. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:37, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Possible additional citations

• Larkin, Colin (2006). Vol. 1. p. 687. ISBN 9780195313734. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Yancey, Philip (2009). Zondervan. ISBN 9780310565963. a popular song by Bloodhound Gang urges, … The Discovery television channel portrags close-up detail of sex in the animal kingdom every night in prime time." {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Zeiss Stange, Mary; Oyster, Carol K.; Sloan, Jane E. (eds.). Vol. 1. p. 985. ISBN 978-1-4129-7685-5. Bloodhound Gang's hit single The Bad Touch, which reached worldwide popularity in 2000. The band members shoot four women in short black dresses wearing sheer black stockings with tranquilizerss and thenlock them in a cage; they later force the woman (and other people) to dance and perform sexually suggestive movements. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Beckman, Frida (2013). "Becoming-Animal and the Posthuman Orgasm". Edinburgh University Press. p. 137‒138. ISBN 9780748645930. in the Bloodhound Gang song about having sex 'doggy-style'. Doing it 'like they do it on the Discovery channel' might cause you to come 'quicker than FedEx' … vision of animality … captures the web of sexual, economic and cultural structures with which sexuality and the orgasm are made molar {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Hann, Michael (2008). "The Discovery Channel Song". Aurum. p. 132. ISBN 9781845133979. paying tribute to "love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket' with the memorable couplet … {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Otton, Garry (2001). Ganymede. p. 13. ISBN 9780954113100. radio stations banned "The Bloodhound Gang" for doing it like they do on the Discovery Channel {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
• "Good luck for Bad Touch". Billboard (magazine). Vol. 113, no. 13. 31 March 2001. p. 78. ISSN 0006-2510. Canadian Broadcast Standards Council … song's lyrical content … song "does not pass from the inappropriate to the unacceptable. It is suggestive but not graphically explicit."
• Santorum, Rick (2006). Dembski, William A. (ed.). InterVarsity. p. 245. ISBN 9780830828364. The Bloodhoung Gang gives the bathetic version of the myth a more concise and memorable formulation; we "ain't nothin' but mammals," so we should behave like the rest of the animals shown on the Discovery Channel. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Loritts, Bryan C. (2005). WaterBrook. p. 87. ISBN 9781578567904. Bloodhound Gang song "The Bad Touch." Speaking of sex, they sing, "Let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. Gettin' horny now." {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Kenneally, Tim (June 2000). "Ask the Exports: Do the Bloodhound Gang really belong on The Discovery Channel". Spin (magazine). Vol. 16, no. 6. p. 52. ISSN 0886-3032. Dr. Katharine Milton, a primatologist at the University of California at Berkeley

Not a single reference to the "Discovery Channel" song

You know Wikipedia is failing when the song that's known as "The Discovery Channel song" doesn't even have the words anywhere in the article. --Bobak (talk) 02:23, 25 December 2019 (UTC)