Dare to Be Stupid

The Transformers: The Movie insert song
The future's up to you, so watcha gonna do?!
"Dare to Be Stupid"
Performed by:	"Weird Al" Yankovic
Genre:	Comedy Rock
Written by:	"Weird Al" Yankovic
Produced by:	Rick Derringer

"Dare to Be Stupid" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, originally released on his 1985 album of the same name and featured on the 1986 album The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

It was used as the music for the "Junkions attack" and "Junkions become friends" scenes in the movie; the song's rampant pop-culture referencing certainly fits with the pop-culture-talking Junkions.

Single releases

7" single

1. "The Touch"
2. "Dare to Be Stupid"

Release date: August, 1986
Labels: Scotti Bros. Records (US/Canada), Epic Records (UK)
Prod. codes: 7464-06207-7 (US), ZS4-06207 (Canada), A-7318 (UK)

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12" picture disc

1. "The Touch"
2. "Dare to Be Stupid"
3. "The Transformers (Theme)"

Release date:
Labels: Scotti Bros. Records (Germany), Epic Records (UK)
Prod. codes: Int127.311 (Germany), WA-7318 (UK)

Album releases

• 1986 — The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Scotti Bros. Records)
• 2007 — The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 20th Anniversary Edition (Legacy Recordings)

Full Version Lyrics

Put down that chainsaw and listen to me

It's time for us to join in the fight

It's time to let your babies grow up to be cowboys

It's time to let the bedbugs bite

You'd better put all your eggs in one basket

You'd better count your chickens before they hatch

You'd better sell some wine before it's time

You'd better find yourself an itch to scratch

You'd better squeeze all the Charmin you can

When Mr. Wimpole's not around

Stick your head in the microwave and get yourself a tan

Talk with your mouth full

Bite the hand that feeds you

Bite off more than you can chew

What can you do? (Dare to be stupid)

Take some wooden nickels

Look for Mr. Goodbar

Get your mojo working now

I'll show you how

You can dare to be stupid

You can turn the other cheek

You can just give up the ship

You can eat a bunch of sushi then forget to leave a tip

(Dare to be stupid)

Come on and dare to be stupid

It's so easy to do (Dare to be stupid)

We're all waiting for you

Let's go!

It's time to make a mountain out of a molehill

So can I have a volunteer?

There's no more time for crying over spilled milk

Now it's time for crying in your beer

Settle down, raise a family, join the PTA

Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet

Then party 'till you're broke, and they drag you away

It's okay. You can dare to be stupid

It's like spitting on a fish

It's like barking up a tree

It's like I said, you gotta buy one if you wanna get one free

(Dare to be stupid)

(Yes) Why don't you dare to be stupid

It's so easy, so easy to do (Dare to be stupid)

We're all waiting for you (Dare to be stupid)

Burn your candle at both ends

Look a gift horse in the mouth

Mashed potatoes can be your friends

You can be a coffee achiever

You can sit around the house and watch 'Leave it to Beaver'

The future's up to you, so whatcha gonna do?

(Dare to be stupid, dare to be stupid)

What did I say? (Dare to be stupid)

Tell me, what'd I say? (Dare to be stupid)

It's all right. (Dare to be stupid)

We can be stupid all night! (Dare to be stupid)

Come on, join the crowd (Dare to be stupid)

Shout it out loud (Dare to be stupid)

I can't hear you (Dare to be stupid)

OK, I can hear you now (Dare to be stupid) Let's go!

Dare to be stupid! (Dare to be stupid)

Dare to be stupid! (Dare to be stupid)

Dare to be stupid! (Dare to be stupid)

Dare to be stupid! (Dare to be stupid)

Notes

They are gibbering, singing almost a wild kind of junk-rock, war-cry song which, like their language, is constructed of bits and pieces of the museum junk of our culture - a humorous aggressive song which makes a surreal kind of sense.Description of the Junkions' entrance from the original movie script.

• This song is a "style parody" of the music of new wave band Devo.
• Reportedly, it was included in the movie soundtrack because Scotti Bros. Records decided to promote acts on their label heavily, and Al (always popular with the kids) was one of the biggest. As Al himself tells it, he just got a phone call one day and said "Okay", and that was basically the last he heard about it, save the royalty checks.
• Chords from "Dare to Be Stupid" were adapted by Vince DiCola into the movie's score cue "Unusual Allies" (used for the scene in which Hot Rod uses the Universal greeting on the Junkions), which was eventually released on the BotCon exclusive albums 'Til All Are One and Lighting Their Darkest Hour.
• In the Transformers Animated episode "Garbage In, Garbage Out", Ratchet howls at a rebellious Wreck-Gar (voiced by Al): "You wouldn't dare do something that stupid!", to which the junk-bot replies "I am Wreck-Gar! I dare to be stupid!" Series writer Marty Isenberg, at the premiere of the episode at BotCon 2008, noted with a smile that he just "had to" add in the reference.