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2 unusual facts about Running With Scissors


Jesse Falcon

Since 1998, Falcon has been a featured performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, which helped launch the careers of comedians like Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler and The Daily Show 's Rob Corddry. Falcon also performs with other comedy groups such as Mother, The Chipperton Family, Telethon, and Girl Crush 2040. He has also appeared in the comedic short film Running with Scissors.

Running with Scissors, Inc.

The game features many jokes at Senator Lieberman's expense and also features an entire class of enemy modelled upon Osama bin Laden.


Grapefruit diet

Weird Al Yankovic on Yankovic's 1999 album Running with Scissors parodies both the grapefruit diet and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies' song "Zoot Suit Riot" in his song "Grapefruit Diet".

Oy vey

Weird Al Yankovic's song "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" on his album Running with Scissors frequently uses the phrase.

Pretty Fly for a Rabbi

It is a parody of "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" by The Offspring, and it was released from the 1999 album Running with Scissors.


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