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Donahue's show lasted a little longer than I expected it would. I never had more fun deliberately trying to miss a show.

I told this story before on a few other threads, but when I was a lad of about nine, I looked forward to watching afternoon cartoons such as He-Man and Transformers as well as GI Joe and Thundercats after school. Silverhawks was another of my favorites. One day my then teenage cousin(this was circa 1986) caught my brother and I watching one of those shows and she said, "You aren't wathcing that s**t while I'm here, let's watch something educational." So you I sat through an hour of watching this white haired, four-eyed doofus give this atheist dad a sympathetic ear and praise him for encouraging his kids to sit still during the Pledge of Allegience. The guest who had the opposing view was called a bigot by the host and worst by the audience. From that time on, I knew that I will never, ever watch Phil Donahue.

We're going to a bad party
It's the worst party that's ever been
We're going to a bad party
And I hope those jerks will let us in
Shut your mouth, get in the car
Cause Ricky Casso wants to drive

We're going to a bad party
It's the kind where everyone's dull
We're going to a bad party
Gonna scare the bejesus out of them all
When we get there we'll say we love Satan
Ricky always thinks that's funny

We're going to a bad party
It's the worst party that's ever been

God I really hate these jokers
Think they're smart, they think they're witty
Someone oughtta pass a law
Or at least form a committee
I'm gonna shoot the stereo
If they don't start playing my kind of music

We're going to a bad party
And I can hardly wait
We're going to a bad party
I need a place to defecate
Maybe we'll take the host hostage
Ooh what a clever play on words

We're going to a bad party
It's the worst party that's ever been

God I really hate this music
I can't stand Gene Loves Jezebel
If there is a God in heaven
I'm sure that band will burn in hell
I'm gonna shoot somebody
If they don't stop talking about "East Enders"

We're going to a bad party
And who knows what damage we'll do
We're going to a bad party
Gonna wind up on "Phil Donahue"

---Bad Party by "The Dead Milkmen" 1988

I knew he was mentioned somewhere in a song.