Mercer saw an episode of the Jetsons recently. It just so happened to be the one episode that most of us remember out of all the Jetsons cartoons. Daughter Judy wins a date with teen heartthrob Jet Screamer through a songwriting contest. But it's not that simple. Judy wrote a song to enter into the contest, but her father, George, didn't like this Jet Screamer one bit. He didn't want Judy to have anything to do with him, so in an act of sabotage, George replaces Judy's original song with a secret code that Elroy (Judy's brother) and his friend were using at the sandbox: Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (means "meet me tonight"). Surely, this couldn't win the contest!
Turns out Jet and his handlers loved the Eep Opp song and Judy wins the contest. It's all OK, though, because Judy actually helped Elroy and his friend write the code in the first place. Anyway, the date goes ahead with George tailing the two the whole time. Eventually, as logic would have it, George plays drums for Jet during the premiere of the new song and becomes enamored with Jet. Amazingly, George never plays drums in any episode again. Even more amazingly, in the future: everyone has stopped using mobile devices, big band music is coming back in a big way, slang from the 1960's seems to be really popular, and...robots.
Anyway, the point of all this is that Mercer is singing "Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah...that means 'I love you'" and "Come fly with me, up high with me..." and it's really cute.
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