You've probably heard that this is a very dirty song, but it's dirty in a very silly way. Very few jokes survive translation, but especially sp when the specific words and tone are the joke.
To demonstrate, just take the title. "Pimmel" is one of many words for "penis"—one of the more friendly ones, and it also connotes pissing rather than sex. If a "Schwanz" is a "dick", a "Pimmel" is a "wiener" or a "todger". "Pimmelmann" means "Penisman", with the same superhero association as in English, but it also makes it sound a lot more childish, because kiddie names for penis are mostly things like "Pipimann". But it's not like calling a song "Wiener Man" (like that kiddie campfire song that Joel & the Bots loved to sing on MST3K), because a "Pimmel" isn't a sausage or a man's first name or whatever that can also be used as slang for penis, it just means penis.
So now, maybe you can appreciate why it's funny, but I'll bet you didn't laugh once while learning, or afterward.
You've probably heard that this is a very dirty song, but it's dirty in a very silly way. Very few jokes survive translation, but especially sp when the specific words and tone are the joke.
To demonstrate, just take the title. "Pimmel" is one of many words for "penis"—one of the more friendly ones, and it also connotes pissing rather than sex. If a "Schwanz" is a "dick", a "Pimmel" is a "wiener" or a "todger". "Pimmelmann" means "Penisman", with the same superhero association as in English, but it also makes it sound a lot more childish, because kiddie names for penis are mostly things like "Pipimann". But it's not like calling a song "Wiener Man" (like that kiddie campfire song that Joel & the Bots loved to sing on MST3K), because a "Pimmel" isn't a sausage or a man's first name or whatever that can also be used as slang for penis, it just means penis.
So now, maybe you can appreciate why it's funny, but I'll bet you didn't laugh once while learning, or afterward.