His parents and sick friend each tied for LAST place (4%), while his leather jacket of all things gets the plurality (18%)? That dude's got some REALLY screwed up priorities...
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!! I've been searching for vids from Square One for years. This one and Weird Al's "Patterns" in particular, and they're both FINALLY on here. I loved this show as a kid, and it's been at least 15 years since I've seen this one. Watching it now, it's like Meatloaf meets Springsteen and I love it even more haha. You'll never see another show like this.
BAW HAH! I'm gonna memorize this song and sing it to my wife on our first anniversary in front of everybody. She'll kick my ass but good, but I'll go out on a high note!! 18% for his LEATHER JACKET! Classic!
This is a moving commentary on the meaning of love in a post-capitalist society. Intangible entities can now be understood quantitatively, and incorporated into the self-image. As a realized self, the singer is capable of understanding precisely his emotional limits. No longer is the romanticist notion of a conquering love tenable-- material and immaterial forces shape his notion of self rather than the idols of imagination.
Music is the only way we can understand this complex intersection of emotional needs with the immutable forces of supply and demand. 8% still seems low for a girlfriend tho. His bike got 8.
My wife is perfectly fine with the fact that Springsteen, bacon and the New York Giants are all ahead of her. I do like her better than my leather jacket, though. The sleeves are a little too long.
Oh man it used to crack me up when he said the New York Football Giants and the football player came out of the locker! There is nothing to compare to great kids shows like this now!
4% for Sick Friend, 8% for Hurt Friend, 6% for Springsteen Tapes, 8% for Car, 12% for USA, 5% for Guitar, 9% for Science Tutor, 10% for NY Giants, 4% for Mom & Dad, 8% for Bike, 18% for Leather Jacket, and the rest (8%) for girlfriend. Seems pretty insincere to me.
Well, that 8% is still a pretty strong part! It's what I tell the kids, all those percents rise like the tide and run together into one harmonious whole; it's like an ice cream sundae. Okay, I bought into the song!
18 leather jacket 12 USA 10 NY Giants 9 sci tutor 8 pal head hit her 8 bike 8 GIRLFRIEND 8 car 6 Girl who says 6 percent all for me was NOT counted 6 Bruce Springsteen 5 guitar 4 mom and dad 4 friend in bed
@LocoYoFla I always thought that was the underlying subtext of the song. He's trying to get her to end the relationship herself, by giving her backhanded compliments.
The guy might have dressed 50's but the girl was pure 80's from the top of her frizzy perm to her lace anklets with plastic hi heels straight out of ZZ-top's Legs video. Notice too the big plastic hoop earrings.
Except for the fact that he pulls out his Springsteen tape, loves the Giants and is playing the same guitar that's on the cover of "Born to Run." It's definitely pulling from Mr. Loaf, The Boss and Mellencamp.
It just hit me; is that one Ron Burgundy joke ("Sixty percent of the time, it works every time") sort of ripped off from this? "Eight hundredths of the time, you're the only girl I'm dreamin' of! Yea, yea-yeah, yea, yeah!" 😁
As a kid it always annoyed me that the singer's pal who fell and hit her head sings along to the girlfriend's line that there should be 57% of his love left over "all for me," but rewatching it now, it's established that the pal also got 8% of his love, so it actually makes sense that they'd lay claim to the same amount!
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9% for the science tutor and only 8% for her? He and the science tutor must have some chemistry going.
Those folks did a great job. I've had this and a few other Square One songs stuck in my head for the past... almost 20 years? Rock on, math geeks!
Ghost of a chance is great too. :)
Replying to you in 2024. This is still stuck in my head to this day. As with Mathematics of Love
@@phoenixcierebiej9763 it's so good, nine days before 2025 :)
His parents and sick friend each tied for LAST place (4%), while his leather jacket of all things gets the plurality (18%)? That dude's got some REALLY screwed up priorities...
To be fair, it was the 80's. 🤷🏾♂️
He’s your average high school student.
Tell me you've never owned a leather jacket without telling me you've never owned a leather jacket...
I worked at Square One in the late 80s. It's an homage to Meat Loaf.
I thought it was!
It must have been a wonderful experience for you.
Obviously lol
you mean..Jim Steinman as sung through meat loaf 😂🤣
I didn't get that as a kid. Like Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad. Brilliant. 💕
I think this is the most honest relationship in the entire universe. The 10% for the New York Football Giants makes me laugh.
"Eight-hundreds of the time you're the only girl I'm dreaming of." Best line. lol
Just point oh eight, but girl, you're great
There is such a thing as being TOO honest!
*hundredths
It's nice that he cares more for his jacket than for her. She must feel so special!
oh man, I used to watch Square One when I was just like 3 or 4. thanks for bringing back some good memories!
Beats watching Sesame Street, which was also from the same creators. Too bad SOTV doesn't have the same longevity Sesame Street already has.
She's a smart one to grab that jacket... as long as she keeps it on she's got 20% instead of the usual rate.
No that gets her 26%. 8% for her plus 18% for the jacket.
We're all here for the math, sort of, yet @@brucewayne4585 is somehow the first one to catch that! 🤗
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!! I've been searching for vids from Square One for years. This one and Weird Al's "Patterns" in particular, and they're both FINALLY on here. I loved this show as a kid, and it's been at least 15 years since I've seen this one. Watching it now, it's like Meatloaf meets Springsteen and I love it even more haha. You'll never see another show like this.
BAW HAH! I'm gonna memorize this song and sing it to my wife on our first anniversary in front of everybody. She'll kick my ass but good, but I'll go out on a high note!! 18% for his LEATHER JACKET! Classic!
he loves his leather jacket more than anything. hilarious
love that song it's on a list of favorite songs right behind the Mathematics of Love,Angel Dance and Count on it!!
Anyone remember "I'm just an Average American"? I can't find it!
This is a moving commentary on the meaning of love in a post-capitalist society. Intangible entities can now be understood quantitatively, and incorporated into the self-image. As a realized self, the singer is capable of understanding precisely his emotional limits. No longer is the romanticist notion of a conquering love tenable-- material and immaterial forces shape his notion of self rather than the idols of imagination.
+johnbeck78 wow. yeah.
Music is the only way we can understand this complex intersection of emotional needs with the immutable forces of supply and demand.
8% still seems low for a girlfriend tho. His bike got 8.
I personally see it more as as touching on the mathematical concept of 'equilibrium.' Or, to fit the topic of this sketch, 'life balance.'
o no deconstruction yeep yeep yeep
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@@schmoyoho And his JACKET got 18% His frigging JACKET!!
I have been humming this for 20 years, damn has it been that long.
Thank you, Internet. I woke up this morning, wishing I could watch this clip again.
The album is called "100% of my songs"... I guess it was his only album.
My wife is perfectly fine with the fact that Springsteen, bacon and the New York Giants are all ahead of her. I do like her better than my leather jacket, though. The sleeves are a little too long.
Sung by "Juan Cougar", a Hispanic-American John Mellencamp. LOVE IT 😀😁😃😄😅
The SOTV version of both John Mellencamp and Footloose, LOVE IT 😁😃😄
Just point-oh-eight, but girl you're great, you're the only one that makes me whole.
But, if you add it up, that only comes to 43! FORTY THREE!
That locker must be a Tardis
Oh man it used to crack me up when he said the New York Football Giants and the football player came out of the locker! There is nothing to compare to great kids shows like this now!
Its a combination of Meat loaf, John Mellancamp and Bruce Springsteen.
Square One does Meatloaf
Springsteen, though (the piano, and that saxophone sounds like Clarence Clemons)
I think it's Springsteen
Yikes. This hits different when you realize how cold blooded it is. Modern relationships.😥
JFc I loved this skit especially. And yes, MEATLOAF. maybe that was why lol
still a classic! 2022
Yeah, or only 1 hour, 55 minutes, 12 seconds per day!
10% for a football team and only 8% for your girl? I say dump him!
And 18% for a frigging JACKET?!
4% for Sick Friend, 8% for Hurt Friend, 6% for Springsteen Tapes, 8% for Car, 12% for USA, 5% for Guitar, 9% for Science Tutor, 10% for NY Giants, 4% for Mom & Dad, 8% for Bike, 18% for Leather Jacket, and the rest (8%) for girlfriend. Seems pretty insincere to me.
The LEATHER JACKET got the most!! Over his PARENTS! Nice son.
His parents and sick friend tied for LAST place, while his leather jacket of all things gets the plurality?
It’s a sweet ass jacket
This song is bloody brilliant!
Mathematically speaking, she should dump him!
He loves his jacket, the New York Giants, and his Springsteen tapes more than her.
Actually the USA and his tutor loves more than her not Springsteen tapes.
This feels like a polyamory primer now.
I nominated it for a polyamory ballad but all I got was funny looks. 🤗
Have to?!?! I used to rush home from school to see this.
I wish my teachers were cool enough to show Square One.
I know...it sounds like a cross between Bat Out Of Hell and Paradise By The Dashboard Lights
Sweet, you uploaded ones I haven't seen in nearly 20 years.
But when you add it up, that only comes to 43!!!!
XD
ahh memories of this show
FOR - TY - THREE !!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I did. I was an intern/gopher. My office was next door to the people who wrote the music.
Well, that 8% is still a pretty strong part!
It's what I tell the kids, all those percents rise like the tide and run together into one harmonious whole; it's like an ice cream sundae.
Okay, I bought into the song!
I did the math. She needs to break up w him.
18 leather jacket
12 USA
10 NY Giants
9 sci tutor
8 pal head hit her
8 bike
8 GIRLFRIEND
8 car
6 Girl who says 6 percent all for me was NOT counted
6 Bruce Springsteen
5 guitar
4 mom and dad
4 friend in bed
Can I ask why only 4% for his mom and dad? Seems like a jerk
yes this show was the bomb. I still remember that "times every number you can find, it all comes back to nine"
I don't know - it does sound like "Thunder Road" by Springsteen , but the artist's name is Juan Cougar.
@LocoYoFla I always thought that was the underlying subtext of the song. He's trying to get her to end the relationship herself, by giving her backhanded compliments.
It exists. It wasn't a fever dream. It exists!!!!
love this .
LOL CDs were in existence when this came out, but most people were still using cassettes!
OH, this maybe is why I liked the New York Giants growing up!
The jerk! lol This show helped me on my long journey to becoming a nerd!
The school beeds to run a new background check on Ms. Snodgrass.
The guy might have dressed 50's but the girl was pure 80's from the top of her frizzy perm to her lace anklets with plastic hi heels straight out of ZZ-top's Legs video. Notice too the big plastic hoop earrings.
Mathematics of Love. I just put it up.
That's why he says "If You Don't Like It You Can Take a Hike".
lol
and his parents, his friends, and America in general.
@MenloMarseilles
You mean 26? He loves the jacket 18% and her 8%.
This show made math fun.
Thank you!!!
Does anyone know where I can get the piano sheet music for this?
No, it's a parody of John Cougar Mellencamp.
@culturaleyes It's called Ghost of a Chance, it's on youtube.
does anyone remember the skit with the pizza delivery boy that goes to a haunted house? I've been looking for that.
culturaleyes did you ever find it?
Ghost of a Chance
I love this!
Typical teenager... only 4% of his love for his parents. Tsk tsk tsk...
I wonder if Bill Nye The Science Guy got the idea from the Square One songs.
Except for the fact that he pulls out his Springsteen tape, loves the Giants and is playing the same guitar that's on the cover of "Born to Run."
It's definitely pulling from Mr. Loaf, The Boss and Mellencamp.
@dubs19842009
Insincere? Mebbe, but one of the most honest songs as well; our dude does spell out what he means, and pretty thoroughly at that.
It just hit me; is that one Ron Burgundy joke ("Sixty percent of the time, it works every time") sort of ripped off from this? "Eight hundredths of the time, you're the only girl I'm dreamin' of! Yea, yea-yeah, yea, yeah!" 😁
there was a video where larry cedar was in like a roman thing. care to load that?
Mathematics of love. It's uploaded
Actually if she's matching the car she's doing pretty good, depending on the guy.
That could've been serviced in today's "Mike and Juliet" show, as they were discussing relationships.
The description says John Cougar......but this is obviously a Springsteen sendup, right?
I promise you he'll be single more than 92% of the time.
Seen on episode #134 among others.
Who else wanted to smack the guy for loving his leather jacket more than the girl?
Heck, he even loves his tutor, Mrs. Snodgrass more than the girl.
"If you don't like it you can a hike."
even before he hinted at it in the song, I'm thinking Springsteen
As a kid it always annoyed me that the singer's pal who fell and hit her head sings along to the girlfriend's line that there should be 57% of his love left over "all for me," but rewatching it now, it's established that the pal also got 8% of his love, so it actually makes sense that they'd lay claim to the same amount!
Am I the only one who thinks Meat Loaf needs to sing this?
This dude sounds like meatloaf. Or is that really him?
See top comment. Claims to be an inside source and that it's an homage. Probably would have mentioned it it was really ML. 😎
What episode did this come from?
Meatloaf should've made an appearance and played this song himself.
How can she be mad? He gave her 100% of the 8% he didn't already have committed. Maybe if she came along sooner...
Maybe because most of that went to a JACKET!
Seems like a fusion of Springsteen, Mellencamp and Meat Loaf to me.
Yes yes
yeah, J-E-T-S, JETS JETS JETS!!!!!!
Only just noticed that the football player is getting together with the cheerleader in the background
UA-cam: impossible to stump.
He keeps a cute cheerleader in his locker? Hmmm.
Poly anthem
Seriously? if so, that's awesome!
You did?
totally... btwn this and ghostbusters cartoon, I was done for.
I vould SLAP my boyfriends so hard if he ever sang ANYTHING like that to me!!
So she only gets his love 2/25's of the time.
Am I the only one who had a serious crush on Cris? lol.
Classic
Luisa Leschin was a cutie!
She's now behind the scenes, working as a writer and producer on George Lopez's show.
When I will get my date?
That's hilarious!
@NotEvenScience And even more for the New York Giants... BOOOOOO!!!!!