Frontier Psychiatrist (Song)

This article is about the song. For the official music video, see Frontier Psychiatrist (Music Video).

## Frontier Psychiatrist (Song)

### Genre

Plunderphonics, Turntablism, Instrumental Hip-Hop

### Producer

Darren Seltmann, Robbie Chater

"**Frontier Psychiatrist**" is the second single from The Avalanches debut album Since I Left You. The song features plenty of vocal samples, many of which are from the Wayne & Shuster sketch of the same name.

The song and its music video became an internet meme sometime around the mid-2000s, and remains one of the Avalanches most famous songs to this day.

The B-side, With My Baby was planned to be on the original album, but was scrapped from the tracklist.

## Lyrics

[Intro]

Is Dexter ill? Is Dexter ill? Is Dexter ill? Is Dexter ill today?

No, Mr. Kirk, Dexter's in school.

I'm afraid he's not, Ms. Fishpaw. Dexter's truancy problem is way out of hand. The Baltimore County School Board have decided to expel Dexter from the entire public school system.

Oh, Mr. Kirk, I'm as upset as you to learn of Dexter's truancy, but surely expulsion is not the answer!

I'm afraid expulsion is the only answer, it is the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is criminally insane (sane, sane, sane)

[Hook]

That boy needs therapy (Psychosomatic)

That boy needs therapy (Purely psychosomatic)

That boy needs therapy (Lie down on the couch, what does that mean?)

You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!

What does that mean? (That boy needs therapy)

I'm gonna kill you (That boy needs therapy)

Rannygazoo, let's have a tune

Now when I count three

That- that- that- that- that boy- boy needs therapy

He was- he was white as a sheet

And he also made false teeth

[Verse 1]

Avalanches above, business continues below

Did I ever tell you the story about cowboys, and m-midgets, and the Indians and fron-frontier psychiatrist?

I- I felt strangely hypnotised

I was in another world, a world of twenty- twenty thousand girls

And milk, and rectangles, to an optometrist!

The man with the golden eyeball

And tighten your buttocks, pour juice on your chin

I promise my girlfriend I'd- the violin, violin, violin

[Refrain]

Frontier psychiatrist

Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier psychiatrist

Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier psychiatrist

Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier psychiatrist

Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier psychiatrist

[Hook]

That boy needs therapy (Psychosomatic)

That boy needs therapy (Purely psychosomatic)

That boy needs therapy (Lie down on the couch, what does that mean?)

You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!

What does that mean? (That boy needs therapy)

I'm gonna kill you (That boy needs therapy)

Rannygazoo, let's have a tune

Now when I count three

That- that- that- that- that boy- boy needs therapy

He was- he was white as a sheet

And he also made false teeth

[Refrain]

Frontier psychiatrist

[Verse 2]

Can you- can you think of anything else that talks oth- other than a person?

A- a- a bird? (Yeah!)

Sometimes a parrot talks

Hello, hello, hello, hello

Hello, hello, hello, hello

Yes, some birds are funny when they talk. Can you think of anything else?

Um, a record? (record, record, record?)

## Frontier Psychiatrist

### Genre

Plunderphonics, Turntablism, Instrumental Hip-Hop

### CD Release (Australian)

1. Frontier Psychiatrist
2. With My Baby
3. Frontier Psychiatrist (Mario Caldato's 85% Mix)
4. Frontier Psychiatrist (85% Instrumental)

### CD Release (United Kingdom)

1. Frontier Psychiatrist (Radio Edit)
2. Slow Walking
3. Yamaha Superstar

#### CD single 2 (United Kingdom)

1. Frontier Psychiatrist
2. Frontier Psychiatrist (Mario Caldato's 85% Mix)
3. Frontier Psychiatrist (85% Instrumental)

### 12-inch single (United Kingdom)

1. Frontier Psychiatrist
2. Frontier Psychiatrist (Mario Caldato's 85% Mix)
3. Frontier Psychiatrist (85% Instrumental)