| "Jizz in My Pants" | ||||
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| Single by The Lonely Island | ||||
| from the album Incredibad | ||||
| Released | December 6, 2008 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Genre | Comedy hip hop Electro |
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| Length | 2:31 | |||
| Label | Universal Republic Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, M. Forno | |||
| Producer | Prime | |||
| Certification | Gold (ARIA), (CRIA) | |||
| The Lonely Island singles chronology | ||||
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"Jizz in My Pants" (known in the edited version as J*** in My Pants) is an SNL Digital Short which aired on Saturday Night Live on December 6, 2008 and YouTube on the same day. It serves as the music video for the first single from The Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad.[1] The video stars The Lonely Island members Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and, briefly, Akiva Schaffer, and also features guest appearances by Molly Sims, Justin Timberlake and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. "Jizz in my Pants" has been viewed over 79 million times on YouTube, as of March 2010, outviewing OK Go's popular treadmill music video, "Here It Goes Again", in less than half of a year.
The video's availability on YouTube is due to its being published by The Lonely Island (and later Universal Republic in an edited version) instead of Saturday Night Live. SNL had previously posted its own videos on YouTube, but removed its channel when Hulu.com was created.[2]
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The video opens with Samberg in a night club and he sings about hitting on Molly Sims. They head to her apartment, but as they share a kiss in the hallway outside her door he ejaculates, or "jizzes," prematurely. He refuses to apologize, saying it would be "absurd" and blames Sims for overstimulating him. Taccone is then shown in a grocery store conversing with a check-out girl, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, but jizzes in his pants as well when she asks "cash or credit?" When he calls for a cleanup, the janitor is Justin Timberlake (wearing glasses), who shakes his head in disgust. Taccone announces that he is going to pay by check.
Samberg then exits a movie theater (from what he recalled was a horror film) when the discovery of a missed cellphone call from a girl causes him to prematurely ejaculate. In another scene, Taccone is seen driving a Mercedes Benz while listening to the radio, when a song begins to play that reminds him of a girl, causing him to "jizz in his pants" yet again. Samberg and Taccone then sing about how easily they "jizz in [their] pants" from stimuli such as an alarm clock, opening a window, the twist ending of The Sixth Sense, and simply eating a grape. They explain that whenever they are adjacent to women, they ejaculate prematurely, which, they say, necessitates the constant wearing of condoms. Akiva Schaffer can be seen in the background at various times as the disc jockey.[3]
A number of commentators enjoyed "Jizz in My Pants". Jennifer Maerz of SF Weekly felt the video was "funny in a totally moronic way," describing it as "pure electro-trash" with "douchebag clothes, attitudes, and beats".[4] Mickey O'Connor of TV Guide liked the song's "clever lyrics" which "brilliantly satirize the pompous chill of '90s synth rock.'"[5] The New York Observer writer Christopher Rosen described the video as "awesomely catchy", in contrast to the rest of the SNL episode, which he felt was not very good.[6]
"Jizz in My Pants'" reception was not all positive, however. Jerry Portwood of New York Press compared the video unfavorably to the work of "Weird Al" Yankovic. The video did not satisfy him "beyond a few chuckles." Portwood preferred Yankovic's ability to parody current events and pop culture, dissecting "what was actually manipulative and mind-numbing about popular music and the market as a whole". He wrote that Samberg, in contrast, sticks to "safe and, ultimately, ineffective parody."[7]
The track sold 76,000 downloads in its first two weeks of availability.[8] The song has gone Gold in Australia with sales in excess of 35,000.
The video was published first on YouTube along with most of Lonely Island's works. As of March 16, 2010, Jizz In My Pants has been watched over 79 million times, making it the 14th most viewed video on Youtube (it recently made its way to the front page of the most watched YouTube videos of all time) and Lonely Island's most popular video ever.
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart | 10 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 52 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 35 |
| UK Singles Chart | 183 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 72 |
| Country | Certification | Sales |
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| Australia | Gold[9] | 35,000+ |
Jizz in My Pants is a parody song by The Lonely Island from their album, Incredibad. A video of the song is on YouTube and has many views and is very popular.
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