Stick Stickly is a bonus track on the album Dinosaurchestra. It is also on the track list for Live (Only Not). Stick Stickly was a popular Nickelodeon character from 1995-1998, when he hosted Nick in the Afternoon. Neil actually wrote him a letter several years after Nick in the Afternoon stopped airing, and the results are revealed in this song he wrote afterwards.
Lyrics[]
I remember
When I was just a boy,
Summer afternoons
Would fill me up with joy.
I'd sit right down,
Turn on the TV.
Every day
I'd giggle mischeviously.
I remember
Laughing like a buffoon
When I'd watch him
On Nick in the Afternoon.
He was my favorite thing
About Nick,
Yes that little
Popsicle, Stick Stickly!
(Ooh-ooh-ooh!)
- And he'd sing,
- “Write to me,
- Stick Stickly!
- P.O. Box 963
- New York City,
- New York State,
- 10108!
- 10108!”
It's been years now,
Since his show has aired.
We sent a letter, it got
Returned, and now we're scared.
Where'd he go?
What did they do with him
When they decided they were
Through with him?
Did they break him,
Or burn him down for heat?
Were his googley eyes
Thrown out in the street?
Or is he fine?
That's what I'm praying.
I recall he was always saying,
“Simmer down, simmer down, simmer down!”
- And he'd sing,
- “Write to me,
- Stick Stickly!
- P.O. Box 963
- New York City,
- New York State,
- 10108!
- 10108!
- 10108!
- 10108!”
Trivia[]
- “Mischeviously” isn’t a real word, but actually a very common misspelling and mispronunciation of “mischievously”. Although this was unintentional, the mispronunciation is still used in live performances because the correct pronunciation doesn’t fit the rhyming scheme.
- The video for this song depicts Stick Stickly as a stickman, when, in fact, he was a popsicle.
See Also[]
- Telekinesis, another song with a mispronounced word.