Derrick Stroup: A Joke About Pantsing

Derrick Stroup (0:03)

The Pants and Game was the craziest game. No rules, no teams, just a weird curiosity. And there was some hard lessons learned. We all didn't hit puberty at the same time. I remember we pulled down Tony Johnson's pants, and we went, hey, Tony, you can't play with us anymore.

I go, we're all still kids, Tony, you clearly have a family.

It was a wild game, man. And it was out of control. You'd be talking to your principal, your best friend would come up and go, how about this right here? And you know what the timing, that the popularity of wind pants and pantsing collided in the 90s. You couldn't find a leather belt in 96 Our pants either ripped off with snaps or slid to the ground. It was warfare in middle school. I was 10 years old, white knuckling my gym shorts. I was like, I'm not red. Let mine cook a little longer, man.

The weirdest thing about that game is they'd pull your pants down, point at you, and go, you're gay, and take off running. You remember how confusing that was? You were like, there's no way I'm gay. That happened very fast. I was so confused, it didn't make sense to me. I was like, is this what happened to Elton John? This is crazy. Somebody pulled his pants down, and he went, you messed up, man. I'm going to write Tiny Dancer. Yeah, make a career out of it. Watch Derrick Stroup Nostalgic, only on Netflix.