lazy pancreas (the re-postening)

So our local JDRF walk is this weekend. We didn't make a video this year, so instead I'm just gonna re-post the one we made last year. It was inspired by the SNL Digital Short Lazy Sunday, and it includes other pop culture touchstones such as Laser Cats, Hans and Franz, Liz Lemon, Christiane Amanpour, Oprah's inability to distinguish between type 1 and type 2, and the inspired rhyming of the words 'site' and 'sight' (credit to the kid for that couplet). We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did making it. :)



Here are the lyrics, in case you have trouble deciphering them.

Lazy Sunday, wake up in the late afternoon
My dad calls me up just to see how I'm doin'
Yo, let's rap about a funky fundraiser
And make a video like those cats shooting lasers
The cause is diabetes, with which she is afflicted
It's lame how the media chooses to depict it
There's more than one type of diabetes, Oprah
No more words really rhyme with Oprah, Oprah, Oprah

Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, half a dozen
How much should I bolus for a cupcake, cousin?
Gotta poke your finger just to get it to bleed
Too bad sometimes it's way more than you need
The EMLA cream looks like Toaster Strudel
I wanna eat it. True dat, double trudel!
It would be wack if my pump blew up
Hans and Franz want to pump you up!

Diabetes! What? Gonna find a cure!

Stop at the deli for some cheese and meats
Whipped cream and Jell-o are my carb-free treats
I can eat anything, but it should be nutritious
French Fries + Frosty = Crazy Delicious!
If my sugar's low, I gotta eat some vittles
Starburst, jelly beans, or some Skittles
I also like Twix and the Head of a Lemon
What if your head really was a lemon, lemon, lemon

If I keep it in control I can avoid a complication
One thing that works is this daily affirmation:
As long as I always change my site
I won't have to worry about losing my sight

On April 24th, we'll be walking for a cure
A rhyme for this line is Christiane Amanpour
If you dig this vid, we'd like your support
Type 1 diabetes, one day we'll thwart!

Diabetes! What? Gonna find a cure!