No Probalo (Homestar Runner cover in the style of Steely Dan)

From Songs In The Key of Decemberween Volume 1: https://palacefamilysteakhouse.bandca... This is a song from Homestar Runner done in the style of the Vince Guaraldi Trio's soundtrack to the A Charlie Brown Christmas television special. Except that this one is definitely more an homage to Steely Dan's "Rikki Don't Lose That Number". I transposed this song to E major so it would be in the same key as "Rikki". And although I changed the bass line ever so slightly for reasons that I now cannot remember, it is still very recognizable as the opening bass line to "Rikki". Steely Dan famously got that bass line intro from Horace Silver's "Song For My Father" (which is in F major) but I generally think of that bass figure as a standard bossa nova figure. I'm probably wrong about the bossa nova part, but the fact that it evokes bossa nova for me made it something I could somehow justify as vaguely Vince Guaraldi-like. Guaraldi was big into bossa nova. He recorded several albums with with Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete and performed with him for years. Guaraldi's first big hit album was music from and inspired by a Brazilian film. Guaraldi was as associated with Brazilian music as an Italian-American lifelong San Franciscan could be. Just like on "Rikki", I added that wind-chime-type flourish on the intro as well as the snare rim click. But once the melody kicks in, I try (and do not succeed) to make it more Guaraldi by harmonizing the melody in an almost-horn-fifths Guaraldi style. For the bridge, I harmonized things with a succession of Steely Dan-like chords and end with the pre-chorus piano lick from "Rikki". I left room in the arrangement for a short coda vamp solo but ended up just playing one rather conventional lick (in thirds again) before inserting the "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" ending. The wind chimes return just like on "Rikki" (although more noticeably here) and I play the vocal harmonies as a piano melody. When I posted this to Twitter, I wrote: "Some Guaraldi components are in this, but I think they get a little lost to...uh...another...uh..subtle influence...." The Strong Bad Twitter account responded with a tweet starting with "Steel yourself, Dan" and posting a video using an edited version of this as a theme for a Senor Cardgage sitcom. That was very rewarding for me. You can see it at   / 1601634632545447937  . You should totally "Like" and "Subscribe"!