Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

The song describes using the word as a miraculous way to talk oneself out of difficult situations, and even as a way to change one's life.

In 1965 the song was the subject of an unsuccessful lawsuit by two song writers against the makers of the Disney film. They alleged that it was a copyright infringement of a 1951 song of theirs - Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus. They lost their case because the songs were not similar enough, and the title word was sworn to be in verbal use, and not distinct to this earlier song.

According to Robert Sherman, co-writer of the song, the word was mostly created out of double-talk. Mary Poppins star Julie Andrews says it was her husband at the time, Tony Walton, who devised the backwards version of the word that is heard near the end of the song (although, strictly speaking, only syllables are reversed, rather than the actual letter order.)

The headline "Super Caley go Ballistic, Celtic are Atrocious" was used by a Scottish newspaper in 2000 following a famous Football upset. [1]

Psychobilly band Elvis Hitler named their 1992 album Supersadomasochisticexpialidocious.

TV series The Simpsons had an episode called SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialiDOHcious, which is a parody of the Mary Poppins movie. It also occasionally refers to supercalifragilistics as a field of science.

The song's melody is also frequently used with altered lyrics, for the purposes of political satire, by the Capitol Steps. Recent examples include: "SuperCaliforniaRecallFreakShowWasAtrocious" (2003) and "SuperJealousFragileMissWithSexualNeurosis" (1998). "Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin" (2004) by Amatuer Transplants also uses the tune.

"if you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious" - lyrics of song

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