Living with a Hernia
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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Living with a Hernia
| Cover = Living-with-a-hernia-front.jpg
| Artist = [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]
| from Album = [[Polka Party! (album)|Polka Party!]]
| Released = [[October 21]] [[1986]]
| B-side = "Don't Wear Those Shoes"
| Format = 7", 12"
| Recorded = [[August 4]] [[1986]]
| Genre = Comedy
| Length = 3:16
| Label = [[Scotti Brothers Records|Scotti Brothers]]
| [ Writer = ]
| Producer = "Weird Al" Yankovic
| Chart position = none
| Last single = "[[Dare to be Stupid (song)|Dare to Be Stupid]]"<br />(1986)
| This single = "Living with a Hernia"<br />(1986)
| Next single = "[[Christmas at Ground Zero]]"<br />(1986)
| Misc = {{Extra tracklisting |
| Album = [[Polka Party!]]
| Type = studio
| Tracks =
# "[[Living with a Hernia]]"
# "Dog Eat Dog"
# "[[Addicted to Spuds]]"
# "One of Those Days"
# "[[Polka Medleys#Polka Party!|Polka Party!]]"
# "[[Here's Johnny (song)|Here's Johnny]]"
# "Don't Wear Those Shoes"
# "[[Toothless People]]"
# "Good Enough For Now"
# "[[Christmas at Ground Zero]]"
}}}}
"'''Living with a Hernia'''" is a song by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]. It is a parody of "[[Living in America (song)|Living in America]]" by [[James Brown]]. The song mostly describes the terrible "aggravation" and "back pain" that a hernia causes. The narrator himself claims to be suffering from a hernia, and that he's "Got to have an operation". Interestingly enough, this is not Yankovic's first 'Rocky Theme' parody. He has also performed a parody of [[Eye of the Tiger]], the theme from [[Rocky III]], called [["Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D|"Theme From Rocky XIII (The Rye Or The Kaiser)"]] in 1984.
==Track listing==
The following tracks are on the single:
# "Living with a Hernia" – 3:16
# "Don't Wear Those Shoes" – 3:35
The promo single only contains "Living with a Hernia".
==Single Cover==
The single cover shows a man throwing a ball and getting a hernia in the process. The man throwing the ball, as well as the grid in the background are references to famous [[England|English]] [[photographer]] [[Eadweard Muybridge]]'s famous sequencing photographs. Muybridge was the first person to successfully capture fast motion on film, using his device named the [[Zoopraxiscope]].
== Music video ==
The [[music video]] is a parody of James Brown's performance in [[Rocky IV]], and was filmed on the same stage as the original. Several parodies and [[pastiches]] were purposely included in the video.
*When Yankovic is at the doctor's office, he is sitting next to a woman with a vise on her head, a man in an all-body cast, and a man who has been decapitated.
*Many spoofs of James Brown's dancing appear in the video: At one point he performs the [[split]]s and screams in pain. He often bends over, due to back pain. In one scene Al is shuffling left, but then starts sliding unnaturally, he then suddenly yells "Wait a minute!". Also, in the classroom, he twists one foot 360 degrees.
*A montage, during the mid-section of the song, shows Yankovic doing ordinary things (Playing [[basketball]], going shopping, walking in the park, and [[bowling]]), however, due to the fact that his hernia is causing so much pain, he performs all of them extremely slowly. The entire montage is filmed in a fast motion style.
*Yankovic lists several common types of [[hernia]] (instead of U.S. cities). They include: incomplete, [[Epigastric hernia|epigastric]], [[Sliding hernia|bladder]], strangulated, [[Lumbar disc hernia|lumbar hernia]], Richter's hernia, obstructed, [[Inguinal hernia|inguinal]], and direct.
*When Yankovic lists the last five common types of hernia, the viewers are shown a board with the title "Top 10 Hernias of the Week". This title is incorrect, as he only lists nine types of hernia.
*At the end of the video, Yankovic exclaims "I feel bad!" (a pun on James Brown's famous line, "I feel good!") He then becomes rigid, and falls down.
==See also==
*[[List of singles by "Weird Al" Yankovic]]
*[[List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic]]
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