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== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
 
* Recently, [[Never Gonna Give You Up]] has been programmed onto one the Zendrum keys, allowing Jonathan to [[Wikipedia:Rickroll|Rickroll]] the audience during "Mr. Fancy Pants", as well as being remixed like "Never gonna give you- PANTS".
 
* Recently, [[Never Gonna Give You Up]] has been programmed onto one the Zendrum keys, allowing Jonathan to [[Wikipedia:Rickroll|Rickroll]] the audience during "Mr. Fancy Pants", as well as being remixed like "Never gonna give you- PANTS".
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* It is possible that Mr. Fancy Pants is a hobo. In [[John Hodgman]]'s ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'', there exists a "Mr. Wilson Fancypants" in the list of 700 hobo names.<ref>Page 112, hobo 21</ref>
  
 
== Availability ==
 
== Availability ==

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Mr. Fancy Pants
ReleaseThing a Week Four
Length1:20
Release date08/11/2006
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"Mr. Fancy Pants" is a song on Jonathan Coulton's seventh album, Thing a Week Four.

History

"Mr. Fancy Pants" was released as the forty-fifth Thing a Week on August 11th, 2006. Jonathan has explained in many concerts that it was one of the pieces of music that rattled around in his head, made no sense whatsoever and didn't want to write, but wouldn't get out of his head until he did.

Live performance

Initially, "Mr. Fancy Pants" was rarely performed live, since Jonathan had felt that a short piece of music with no defined ending and little sense would confuse the listener. This changed at the September 14th, 2007 show in San Francisco when Jonathan started using his newly purchased Zendrum, and he began remixing the song as a mid-song solo, coming up with such classics as "gonna be- the best in- everybody's- PANTS". "Mr. Fancy Pants" and the Zendrum solo gradually became more and more common, has now become a concert staple, and he has said that he enjoys playing it immensely.

Trivia

  • Recently, Never Gonna Give You Up has been programmed onto one the Zendrum keys, allowing Jonathan to Rickroll the audience during "Mr. Fancy Pants", as well as being remixed like "Never gonna give you- PANTS".
  • It is possible that Mr. Fancy Pants is a hobo. In John Hodgman's The Areas of My Expertise, there exists a "Mr. Wilson Fancypants" in the list of 700 hobo names.[1]

Availability

Downloads

"Mr. Fancy Pants" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an individual track or as part of Thing a Week IV. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.

Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store.

CD

"Thing a Week IV" is available for purchase as a CD here.

Other versions

A karaoke version of "Mr. Fancy Pants" is available on the Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store.

Themes

Pants. Duh.

Thing-a-Week Four
1. SkyMall · 2. Seahorse · 3. Creepy Doll · 4. Under the Pines · 5. Big Bad World One · 6. Mr. Fancy Pants · 7. You Ruined Everything · 8. I'm Your Moon · 9. The Big Boom · 10. Make You Cry · 11. Pull the String · 12. Summer's Over · 13. We Will Rock You · 14. We Are the Champions
  1. Page 112, hobo 21