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Interpretations:Extra Savoir-Faire

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This song is clearly a racist slam against elves. They might hate elves!

It's about a man dreaming about someone (an alternate version of him?) who's all classy and cool and better and taller than everyone and loved by the ladies.

This is Flans 'crooning' like one of his idols, Old Blue Eyes, Frank "The Chairman of the Board" Sinatra. One of Sinatra's techniques was to sing slightly late "off the beat", giving his renditions a swanky, "boozy" insouciance. Flansburgh has incorporated this trick to fun effect in this song. --Nehushtan 21:29, 25 Mar 2006 (CST)

Savoir-Faire means knowing what to do. So saying "what's a man like me supposed to do with all this extra savoir-faire" is ironic and funny.

  • Actually, the whole song is ironic. It also apparently means knowing the graceful thing to say or do. One can't exactly say that insulting people and acting like you're so superior to them is graceful. It's a very funny song, really. ~Anna Ng (from school)


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