"You're Only Second Rate" is a song featured in the film, The Return of Jafar sung by Jafar, who boasts about how superior he is in comparison with Genie, and as he does so he battles Genie in a duel of magic, in which he defeats him, leaving Genie, along with Abu, to be taken prisoner by Jafar.
Lyrics[]
I must admit
Your parlor tricks
Are amusing
I bet you've got a bunny
Under your hat
Now here's your chance
To get the best of me
Hope your hand is hot
C'mon clown
Let's see what you've got
You can try to slam me
With your harder stuff
But your double whammy
Isn't up to snuff
I'll set the record straight
You're simply out of date
You're only second rate
You think your cat's a meanie
But your tiger's tame
You've got a lot to learn
About the genie game
So for your education
I reiterate
You're only second rate
Men cower
At the power
In my pinky
My thumb is number one
On every list
But if you're not convinced
That I'm invincible
Put me to the test
I'd love to lay this rivalry to rest
Go ahead and zap me
With a big surprise
Slap me in a trap
Cut me down to size
I'll make a great escape
It's just a piece of cake
You're only second rate
You know your hocus-pocus
Isn't tough enough
And your mumbo-jumbo
Doesn't measure up
Let me pontificate
Upon your sorry state
You're only second rate
Zaba-caba-dabra
Granny's gonna grab ya!
Alakazam-da-mus
And this thing's bigger than the both of us
So spare me your tremendous stare
You look horrendous in your underwear
And I can hardly wait
To discombobulate
I'll send your back end packing
In a shipping crate
You'll make a better living
With a spinning plate
You're only second rate!
Trivia[]
A snippet of the song is heard instrumentally in Aladdin and the King of Thieves, during the song "There's A Party Here In Agrabah" when the Genie appears with a mask of Jafar, saying the line "Without Jafar and all of his malice".
There are many cultural references in this song:
When Jafar says "You've got a lot to learn about the Genie Games", a whiteboard reads "2+2=5". This is from 1984, a novel written by George Orwell. In Part One, Chapter Seven, the protagonist wonders if the state will declare 2+2=5 true, as he also ponders on whether everyone believing it makes it true.
At one point, Genie and Abu run into a grandmother in a rocking chair, facing away. When "she" turns around, "she" reveals "herself" to be Jafar. This is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock'sPsycho where the protagonist is in a similar situation but the grandmother is a mere skeleton.
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Episodes
Season One:Getting the Bugs Out • Mudder's Day • Fowl Weather • The Prophet Motive • Much Abu About Something • My Fair Aladdin • To Cure a Thief • Never Say Nefir • Raiders of the Lost Shark
Season Two: "Air Feather Friends" • "Bad Mood Rising" • "Do the Rat Thing" • "The Vapor Chase" • "Garden of Evil" • "Some Enchanted Genie" • "Web of Fear" • "Plunder the Sea" • "Strike Up the Sand" • "Sneeze the Day" • "I Never Mechanism I Didn't Like" • "Forget Me Lots" • "Scare Necessities" • "SandSwitch" • "Lost and Founded" • "Moonlight Madness" • "The Flawed Couple" • "Rain of Terror" • "Dune Quixote" • "That Stinking Feeling" • "The Day the Bird Stood Still" • "Of Ice and Men" • "Opposites Detract" • "Caught by the Tale" • "Elemental, My Dear Jasmine" • "Beast or Famine" • "Smolder and Wiser" • "The Game" • "Poor Iago" • "The Spice is Right" • "The Animal Kingdom" • "Power to the Parrot" • "The Sands of Fate" • "Hero with a Thousand Feathers" • "The Citadel" • "Snowman is an Island" • "The Secret of Dagger Rock" • "In the Heat of the Fright" • "Witch Way Did She Go?" • "The Seven Faces of Genie" • "The Wind Jackals of Mozenrath" • "A Clockwork Hero" • "Mission: Imp Possible" • "Stinker Belle" • "Sea No Evil" • "Shadow of a Doubt" • "Smells Like Trouble" • "The Way We War" • "Night of the Living Mud" • "Egg-stra Protection" • "A Sultan Worth His Salt" • "Heads, You Lose" • "The Love Bug" • "When Chaos Comes Calling" • "Genie Hunt" • "Armored and Dangerous" • "The Lost Ones" • "Eye of the Beholder" • "Shark Treatment" • "Black Sand" • "Love at First Sprite" • "Vocal Hero" • "The Lost City of the Sun" • "As the Netherworld Turns" • "Seems Like Old Crimes" • "From Hippsodeth, with Love" • "Destiny on Fire" • "The Return of Malcho" Season Three: "The Hunted" • "Riders Redux" • "The Book of Khartoum" • "While the City Snoozes" • "Two to Tangle" • "The Ethereal" • "The Shadow Knows" • "The Great Rift"
Golden Scarab Beetle • Jafar's Snake Staff • Genie's Lamp • Jafar's Lamp • Eden's Bottle • Mozenrath's Gauntlet • Crystal of Ix • Blue Rose of Forgetfulness • Tree of Renewal • Emerald of Khufu • Cassim's Dagger • The Oracle's Scythe • Hand of Midas
The Return of Jafar:I'm Looking Out for Me • Nothing in the World (Quite Like a Friend) • Forget About Love • You're Only Second Rate King of Thieves:There's a Party Here in Agrabah • Out of Thin Air • Welcome to the Forty Thieves • Father and Son • Are You In or Out Enchanted Tales:More Than a Peacock Princess • I've Got My Eyes on You Deleted:Humiliate the Boy • Proud of Your Boy • Why Me? • You Count on Me • Call Me a Princess • Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim • High Adventure • My Finest Hour • To Be Free • Desert Moon Broadway:A Million Miles Away • These Palace Walls • Somebody's Got Your Back • Diamond in the Rough Remake:Speechless
