Stevie Wonder - Jungle Fever

The Great Jungle Fever Conundrum

I’m not sure when this phenomenon took place in my brain. I know the movie, which incidentally I have never seen, came out in 1991. Oddly enough, googling the song will turn up more Carlton Banks references than movie or song references.

Here is the mystery: using the right syntax and timing, you can turn any occurrence in the known universe that you wish to tell anyone about into the chorus of the song Jungle Fever. I have been singing this to myself for years. At least once a day something will happen in my universe and it turns into Jungle Fever. I finally let this musically fortuitous happenstance known to a few friends and I have been torturing them ever since with its usage. I am impervious to it's annoyance and steadfastness. Most are not. It's a total mindfuck. Like one of those "cannot be unseen" memes.

For example:

I am using blogger.
I am using blogger.
I am using blogger.
It. Is. Great.

See? Try it for yourself.

I know you can do it.
I know you can do it.
I know you can do it.
Try. It. Now.


I don’t know why this works or why once it happens even once in your brain, it sticks forever. It just does.
Cat’s out of the bag, fever’s out of the jungle, welcome to hell.