When the show moved to MTV, Green released it as a single, encouraging visitors to download the song (an mp3) for free from his website, burn it onto CDs and distribute it to friends.
[1] This song's nonsensical, comedic lyrics and video deal with various objects upon which the narrator's buttocks are placed, such as a step, a taxi, a railing, a table, cheese pizzas, bubblegum, a dog, a cat, a telephone, an old man, a boat (inaccurately described as a battleship), and the letters SWEDISH in front of the Swedish Medical Center, from which the name of the song is derived.
[1] The song came about when Green recorded a comedy sketch on a cruise ship as he wandered the decks bothering people.
[3][1] The song's promotional music video was a great success on Total Request Live.
The next week's episodes had already been taped on-location, and the producers of the show were completely unaware of the song at the time.