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Inconsistency in rock afire explosion showtapes regarding looney bird?

so i was listening to the uncle klunk showtape last night (which. klunk is so much better in the jeff howell demo tape i absolutely love the bits in the demo tape & howell's voice for the character. in the demo, klunk is actually funny for once).

anyhow, during the uncle klunk showtape, there's the show segment leading up to dook preforming "my woman, my woman, my wife" where dook discusses that he plans to sing the song about his mother, leading to a bit of back & forth, & eventually billy bob asks looney bird about his mom, to which he says "i didn't have one" (the showtape recording: https://youtu.be/oXHhrRtIouA , the start of the segment which i'm referencing here is at 29:15, looney's line is a couple minutes in)

now due to me listening at around 2 am, my first thought looped back to what looney bird says in "i ain't gay" (yes i referencing that even though it. sure is a song that exists. it also is very funny to listen to after a showtape like the uncle klunk showtape due to the nature of the jokes featured in it )

why do i bring up "i ain't gay?" well, it's because of the joke later in the song performance in which billy bob tells looney bird to "go ask your dad" after a bit about looney not understanding the birds & the bees (i already have a bunch of side comments in this post but i just. can never get over what aaron fechter decided to put in that damn song) but anyhow, looney bird then states that his dad "flew the coop" this then leads to the idea: is looney bird an orphan?

but wait, i distinctly remember mention of looney bird's mother in a showtape, now when was that? this cues my search for the showtape i remember hearing looney's mother in. the tape i was remembering? homely for christmas! a showtape from 1987! 4 years after the uncle klunk showtape from july of 1983. during this holiday showtape the band tries to persuade looney bird to sing "ave maria," only convincing him when they say the his mother is in the audience. so looney does have a mother? i suppose? didn't know there were rock afire explosion retcons at play (& as for the showtape recording it's https://youtu.be/TPThwF4my-U & the segment starts at 5:00)

anyhow, thought this whole mini search was interesting! looney bird is one of my favorite rock afire characters so this was quite fun 


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