Jack Black, Kenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim smashed together a reggae track with a parody of the My Chemical Romance song “Welcome to the Black Parade” on “Saturday Night Live” to joke about how goth kids act on vacation.
Dressed in exaggerated goth attire, complete with bold eyeliner and a black wig, Black sang, “When I was a young boy / My parents took me down to Jamaica / For my high school spring break / They said, ‘Come to the pool’ but / I stayed in the room with my graphic novels / So I could masturbate.”
The song started with the reggae beat alone, with Thompson and Nwodim playing Jamaicans and singing, “When there is war and struggle and pain / How do we fill our souls with joy again? / We look and we laugh at / Goth kid on vacation.”
Michael Longfellow played the song’s titular goth kid, sticking out from his happy family in photos, wearing combat boots on the beach, getting his long coat stuck in a hammock, painting his nails black and screaming after getting hit in the head with a beach ball.
“He no wear bathing suit, he wear big black jeans / He wear no sandal, he got combat boots on the beach,” Thompson sang after the chorus. Nwodim continued, “He no want no jet ski / He no swim with no dolphin / He want sit in the hotel lobby look at photos of his big-boned girlfriend.”
In an interlude after Black’s verse, Longfellow begged his parents, played by Heidi Gardner and James Austin Johnson, to take him back home. “Dexter, maybe you should just go to the beach and write your poetry. Would that make you happy?” Garner asked, exasperated. “Happiness is a disease,” Longfellow retorted.
Black, Thompson and Nwodim made fun of Longfellow as his clothes made him leave dark sweat stains all over a lounge chair. As Thompson and Nwodim sang the chorus again, repeating “Goth kid on vacation,” Black sang, “My shirt is staying on / I’ll do the zipline once / Please just take me home.” As the song ended, Longfellow held a large beach cocktail with an umbrella in the glass and said, “One love.”