This parody of Michael Jackson by Trey Parker on South Park is actually kind of touching in a mean sort of way. The Wishing Tree song from The Jeffersons episode seems to be a riff on Jackson’s single Childhood, however, but this version is not without its charm. I’ve taken it upon myself to learn this one on piano tonight. And I have.

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TMZ says Michael Jackson died! The King of Pop, man! He had a heart attack and died! He was 50! That’s messed up. You know what else is messed up? Farrah Fawcett also died today — of anal cancer — at 62. Wow. No one lives forever, huh?