Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?

"Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?"
Single by Bloodhound Gang
from the album One Fierce Beer Coaster
Released	December 7, 1997
Format	CD, 12"
Recorded	1996
Genre	Alternative hip hop
Length	3:22
Label	Jimmy Franks Recording Company Republic Records Geffen Records (1998 re-release)
Writer(s)	Jimmy Pop, Mike Sharpe, Harry Middlebrooks
Producer	Jimmy Pop
Bloodhound Gang singles chronology
"I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks" 1996 "Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?" 1997 "Your Only Friends Are Make Believe"

For a different song well known for this lyric, see Charlie Brown (song)

"Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?" is the fifth single off the Bloodhound Gang's 1996 (re-released in 1998) album One Fierce Beer Coaster.

Composition and lyrics

Built around a re-recorded sample of "Spooky", a song by Classics IV, and a guitar riff from Depeche Mode's song, "Never Let Me Down Again", "Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?" is mainly about how Jimmy Pop was constantly picked on in high school and has since developed extreme katagelophobia, an intense fear of being ridiculed.

Music video

The music video starts out with Jimmy Pop in a psychiatrist's office. The doctor (whose name is Scott P. Nussenvy, a tongue-in-cheek reference to penis envy) proceeds to take Jimmy over to the couch and hypnotize him, in which Jimmy goes back over his horrible experience in high school and we see why he is the paranoid katagelophobic he is today. There are many tongue-in-cheek references to sex and drug use over the course of the video (they attend Wannagett High School, the homecoming queen is named Ivana Getchuharde, and the school's team is the Wannagett Beavers). The video shows Jimmy Pop's desperate attempts at trying to gain a little popularity, that fail miserably. He spends the whole of the video being picked on mainly by the other members of the band, until the bridge of the song where it is assumed that Jimmy has caused some sort of harm to, or possibly even killed the people who picked on him. After the bridge, we see the other four members of the band come into the psychiatrist's office, put Jimmy Pop in a straitjacket, put him in a wheelchair and throw him down the stairs. Jimmy has the last laugh: as the video freeze-frames the screen reads, "Jimmy's former classmates all suffered from hemorrhoids. Luckily for them, Jimmy went on to become a successful proctologist."

Track listing

1. "Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me (LP Version)" - 3:21
2. "Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me (Hemlock Mix)" - 3:20
3. "Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me (Greek Salad Mix)" - 5:19