Basketball Jones featuring Tyrone Shoelaces by Cheech and Chong

Sung in falsetto by Cheech Marin, playing the title character Tyrone (as in tieyourown ) Shoelaces, it tells the story of Shoelaces love of basketball. It is a parody of the No. 16 Billboard Hot 100 song Love Jones by Brighter Side of Darkness. In the album version, the song is preceded by a mock interview with Jones basketball coach named Umgwana Kickbooti, in a parody of a Wide World of Sports interview conducted by a character named Red Blazer. The cartoon was created to promote the song s release in the United States. It is about a teenager named Tyrone Shoelaces and his love of basketball. The short was designed by animator Paul Gruwell who worked on many classic series including The Banana Splits, ScoobyDoo, GI Joe, The Transformers, The Simpsons, and the film Heavy Metal. In the animation, Shoelaces, who appears as a stereotypical African American, is shown from birth having a skill for dribbling (in which he is s