Tumblr poll!

Assuming you sang “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg” to the tune of “Jingle Bells” as a kid, did the Joker

a) get away

or

b) take ballet?

Please state what region of the country you are from in addition to your answer.

Notes

  1. scribeling reblogged this from scribeling
  2. ekurian reblogged this from slashingatghosts and added:
    The Batmobile lost a wheel, and the Joker got away~ Stoke on Trent, UK
  3. anthropocentricbagofdicks reblogged this from slashingatghosts and added:
    Got away, Southern California. Looks like there’s a discrepancy here.
  4. slashingatghosts reblogged this from sardonicscrewdriver and added:
    Got away, Maryland
  5. deergravity reblogged this from shiftyshrike and added:
    Definitely took ballet in Central New York.
  6. thepsiioniic reblogged this from chililaughingalonewithdoughnuts and added:
    He often gets away in Central Texas again, but every now and then he takes ballet.
  7. chilloutdickwad reblogged this from ktdbsn and added:
    On The Simpsons he gets away. Solved.
  8. ktdbsn reblogged this from literatenonsense
  9. imnotsurewhattowritehere reblogged this from literatenonsense and added:
    In VA, he gets away
  10. literatenonsense reblogged this from tattooeddicks and added:
    In England he gets away, I have NEVER EVER heard of any other fate for him in a Christmas rhyme.
  11. poopbitches reblogged this from tattooeddicks and added:
    I grew up in California, and the Joker got away.
  12. tattooeddicks reblogged this from chililaughingalonewithdoughnuts and added:
    he took ballet in central tx when i was in 5th grade, but he got away in earlier grades
  13. chililaughingalonewithdoughnuts reblogged this from kenya-narukami and added:
    In Central Texas, he gets away. I’ve never heard of him taking ballet at all.
  14. kenya-narukami reblogged this from merriamwebsterdictionary and added:
    In Western Missouri, he typically gets away.
  15. merriamwebsterdictionary reblogged this from electricswing and added:
    he took ballet in Western North Carolina
  16. electricswing reblogged this from kiwitank and added:
    I’m pretty sure it was Joker took ballet down here in the Chicago suburbs
  17. the-naevius-show reblogged this from tluthal and added:
    It was always “Joker got away” for me, and I lived in Alabama, close to Birmingham.
  18. crich88 reblogged this from nehirose and added:
    Took ballet, fo sho. North Carolina/Virginia. I never heard “got away” until I moved Up North (SE Michigan/NW Ohio).
  19. justlittleoldannie reblogged this from drcthulwho and added:
    “Got away” 90s to early 2000s and California Bay Area
  20. drcthulwho reblogged this from wonsab and added:
    “Got away” in 90s/early 00s San Francisco
  21. vandynamite reblogged this from sardonicscrewdriver and added:
    Got away, originally from Southern California (when I sang it.) From Arizona now.
  22. thespian reblogged this from sardonicscrewdriver and added:
    I have only ever heard “took [or did] ballet” in both South Carolina and Arizona.
  23. melissamceagle reblogged this from missmayinga and added:
    Ran away, Arizona i’ve literally never heard of the ballet version
  24. missmayinga reblogged this from bramblepatch and added:
    Did ballet is the main version I heard, Philadelphia.
  25. lalalovemeloveyou reblogged this from imperfectandchaotic and added:
    took ballet but I can’t remember if I learned the song while living in AL or while visiting family in NJ
  26. reallyssa reblogged this from bramblepatch and added:
    Took ballet. Tampa Bay Area, Florida by the time I was singing this.
  27. mel2626 reblogged this from cerulean-cinquedea
  28. cerulean-cinquedea reblogged this from bramblepatch and added:
    The joker got away, from VA and NJ
  29. bramblepatch reblogged this from kaossparrow and added:
    We sang it both ways in eastern Oregon.
  30. kaossparrow reblogged this from boppinrobin and added:
    To be clearer and get more responses: The Joker got away, and I’m from Seattle. Joker got away. Midwest and Southeast...
  31. tluthal reblogged this from astrakiseki and added:
    Huh, the version I learned was “did ballet”. Southwest Indiana.
  32. boppinrobin reblogged this from ishmaeldreaming and added:
    southern California. Upon reflection, this doesn’t really make that much sense.
  33. thegentlefall reblogged this from hopetorun and added:
    Took ballet (at the time I was living in Winnipeg, Manitoba)
  34. hopetorun reblogged this from ishmaeldreaming and added:
    Got away! (North Carolina, southeast US)
  35. ishmaeldreaming reblogged this from illustratedjai and added:
    We didn’t sing about the Joker at all? We had “Batmobile/Lost a wheel/On the motorway.” South East UK.
  36. swirlspice reblogged this from ladonnapietra and added:
    In Michigan, the Joker got away.
  37. bluemagikk reblogged this from rudeandgingersansa and added:
    Got away, Also NOVA
  38. cameoappearance reblogged this from jdniemand and added:
    “Played ballet”. I recall thinking at the time that this lyric was kind of grammatically dubious (though I didn’t...
  39. thegirlwiththefoxmask reblogged this from soultired and added:
    Got away, Kentucky
  40. fuckyesfreedom reblogged this from somethingcrowbars and added:
    Everyone knows that He did neither, but the Commissioner broke his leg. This works well because it actually rhymes with...
  41. counting-to-one-hundred reblogged this from janeysmooches and added:
    For me it was ‘Batmobile lost it’s wheel and crashed in Winnipeg” Winnipeg
  42. binarycanibal reblogged this from janeysmooches and added:
    got away - dc
  43. beveledaubergine reblogged this from jdniemand and added:
    Got Away. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
  44. janeysmooches reblogged this from jdniemand and added:
    Took ballet. Manitoba.
  45. somethingcrowbars reblogged this from jdniemand and added:
    I mostly sang “The batmobile lost its wheels on the motorway”. East Sussex, United Kingdom.