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Classic Album Review: The Jerky Boys | “Stop Starin’ At Me!”

The phone pranksters might give you a a chuckle or two. Then again, probably not.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


If your favourite bits of The Simpsons are Bart’s prank calls to Moe the bartender — “Hey, people, I wanna Seymour Butts!” — you might get a chuckle or two out of this latest disc from real-life phone pranksters The Jerky Boys.

Then again, you might not; unlike Bart’s short, snappy lines, these pranks are long-winded, mean-spirited, racist — and most unforgivable of all, just plain unfunny (“I want to get my ducks cleaned,” har-de-har-har). Time to hang it up, boys.