Groucho Marx – "I'm Against It" (1932)

Whatever it is

I’m against it!

The last 2 or 3 lines featured the Ramones’ 1978 record, “I’m Against It.” 

What are the Ramones against?  Politics, Jesus freaks, water bugs, the Viet Cong, Burger King . . . pretty much anything.

I have to think the Ramones got the idea for “I’m Against It” from a song with the identical title that opened the 1932 Marx Brothers’ comedy, Horse Feathers. 

Groucho Marx in Horse Feathers

Horse Feathers was the fourth of the 13 Marx Brothers movies to be released, and it’s one of their best.  

The movie’s most famous moment is when Groucho – who portrayed the president of the fictional Huxley College, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff – tells Harpo that he can’t burn the candle at both ends.  But Harpo proves him wrong.

Click here to watch that scene.

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“I’m Against It” includes the following lines:

I don’t know what they have to say

It makes no difference anyway

Whatever it is, I’m against it

Your proposition may be good

But let’s have one thing understood:

Whatever it is, I'm against it

The Ramones would certainly approve.

Click here to watch the scene from Horse Feathers featuring “I’m Against It.”

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