Southlandification and his brood perform a high-Wayne's-World orthodox Bohemian Rhapsody ceremony every day on the way to school:

It has become a morning habit to sing Bohemian Rhapsody on the way to school in the morning. Depending on traffic, we can usually start the song as we pull out of the driveway, and pull into the school just as the song ends.

Bohemian Rhapsody On The Way To School (Thanks, Mojo Texas!)

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10xor01

Ok Dad, we’ll sing again it means that much to you, but please, for the love of God, don’t post this online and turn our entire family into an Internet meme.

Most excellent!
enterthestory

Way to indoctrinate the next generation of psycho school killers!

“Mama,
just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,
now he’s dead”
…
If i’m not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on, carry on,as if nothing really matters”

I notice there is a missing space on the back seat. How many kids did you say you have? I mean originally? Hmmm? Which seat will be empty next year? “I sometimes wish I’d never been born” – easy for a four year old to say…

Just kidding. Very sweet.
http://www.facebook.com/heather.cristofaro Heather Cristofaro

Next song request: It’s the End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine)
Rickenbacker4001

My daughter would sing along to Metallica’s Seek and Destroy when I was taking her to pre school. Watching her still sing it as she was walking into class was pure joy.
SEARCH EM! SWEEK END DESTWOY !
guillaume_remy

Wayne’s World !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzUU7SRRsGo
namnezia

Well, aren’t they too cool for school…
allybeag

Yeah, it’s great and all that, but … if you’re close enough to your school to drive there in 3 minutes, you could walk there in about 20. Why are they using a car? (Yeah, I know there are loads of possible good reasons, but still…)
- Jennifer Nieland
  
  Probably just on the way to work, or maybe the route isn’t safe enough for the kids. Plus, the full song is much longer than 3 minutes…
- chgoliz
  
  That’s exactly what I was thinking. The full song is over 5 minutes, but still.
  
  The problem is, most places that families in the US move to “for the children” are set up so that it is impossible to walk to family destinations such as school, the local park, or local cafe/bakery. Cul-de-sacs, privacy fences, highways, no sidewalks or pedestrian walkways….even if you live 2 blocks from school as the crow flies, you might have to travel a mile or two out of your way to get there, and will probably have cross at least one major road where the traffic is doing 40-50 mph.
ChicagoD

I love little man in the back bringing it strong.
- fungstyle
  
  right?! his hand motions and facial expressions throughout the whole thing are perfect.
kongorilla

Yeah, something like this goes on in my car too. I sing along to the radio, and my son screams, “DAAA-AAD, STOP! YOU”RE EMBARRASSING ME!!!” while trying to slouch below window level.
- chgoliz
  
  *fist bump* to a kindred parent of teenagers.
http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

Am I the only one who saw a car commercial just like this on TV a couple of days ago?
Daniel Ewing

cute kids, and clearly very patient with their attention seeking father. Had to turn the sound off though, ears started to implode.
jackrabbitslim

All you guys posting about how lame the dad is clearly don’t have awesome school-age kids. My six year-old and I routinely finish the last several blocks of our morning school drive with a hearty sing-along of the Dropkick Murphys’ version of “The Irish Rover”.
Her favorite bit is, “there was Slugger O’Toole who drunk as a rule…”
My kid is more punk-rock than your kid.
Ian McEwen

Here is an open letter to ths guy…the coolest dad in the world:
http://therockandrolllibrarian.blogspot.ca/2012/04/open-letter-to-coolest-dad-in-world.html?spref=fb
fergus1948

10 years time…

…extreme embarrassment and resentment…

‘He better not show that frigging YouTube clip to my new boyfriend!”
http://twitter.com/matcatastrophe mat catastrophe

My boys and I prefer to go 10-8. We head east over the bridge….
http://profiles.google.com/carboncow robert feller

It’s awesome to see they are not even a “musical” family but dad still tries…because nobody can sing here!
serpent

Apparently, they have an older brother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqymcJRSbxI

Car-full of kids sing Bohemian Rhapsody on the school-run

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