What is "shenanigans"

see shenanigan.

n. 1 Mischievous play, especially by children. 2 Deceitful trick(s); trickery, games.

Shenanigans is the third compilation album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released on July 2, 2002 through Reprise Records. The album contains b-sides, rarities, covers, and a previously unreleased track, "Ha Ha You're Dead". "Espionage", the spy-themed instrumental, was featured on the soundtrack for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Shenanigans peaked at number 27 on the Billboard 200 chart upon its release and has sold 280,000 units as of September 2010. Even though the original cover does not feature a title, several retailers fixed confusion over it by designing a sticker which was plastered on the front. In a September 2009 interview by Fuse on Demand, when asked who designed the cover for the group's eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown (2009), Billie Joe Armstrong said that Chris Bilheimer designed it as well as the last four album covers. In 2002, Green Day embarked on the Pop Disaster Tour in support of the album; however, no songs from the album were played during any of the performances. This album was supposed to contain a #10 track called "D.U.I (Driving Under the Influence)". "D.U.I" was written by Tré Cool. However, it was removed in later releases of the album. "D.U.I." can be seen in the booklet for the album, but has been sprayed out with black spray paint making it impossible to look at any information about the song.

Shenanigans was issued on vinyl for the first time in the United States on September 15, 2009

Shenanigan or shenanigans may refer to:

• Shenanigans (game show), a 1964–65 children's television game show
• Shenanigans (EP), a 1995 EP by the American punk rock band Squirtgun
• Shenanigans (album), a 2002 compilation album by Green Day
• Shenanigans (horse), an American thoroughbred mare
• " Shamrocks & Shenanigans", a song and a greatest hits album by the hip hop trio House of Pain
• Shenanigan Kids, a 1920 animated series by Bray Productions

Shenanigans was a children's television game show produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions that aired on ABC Saturday mornings from September 26, 1964 to March 20, 1965, and again from September 25 to December 18, 1965. The series began as local programming in New York City and later aired nationally on ABC. The show was similar to Video Village Junior, another program produced by Heatter-Quigley, which featured children as contestants moving about a life-sized game board.

Stubby Kaye, dubbed "the Mayor of Shenanigans", hosted the program, and Kenny Williams, known as "Kenny the Cop", was the announcer. Williams portrayed a similar role on Video Village.

Shenanigans (March 17, 1963 – 21 May 1977) was an American thoroughbred mare born in Kentucky. She was sired by Native Dancer and out of the Locust Hill foundation mare Bold Irish. Owner Stuart Janney recalled, "Shenanigans was meant to be a good mare, she had speed and she was second to Miss Spin in the Maryland Futurity, but she developed a little calcium in a knee. She raced a little bit at three, but we decided she wasn't going to be able to win a stakes, so we stopped with her." The Janneys considered sending her to Bold Ruler for her first season, but she was sent to Knightly Manner instead and failed to conceive. The next breeding was with Neartic. This resulted in the gray Icecapade, who was a successful stakes racer and sire. In 1970, Shenanigans foaled another gray (this time by Bold Ruler), a filly named Laughter who like her mother excelled in the breeding shed when she beget horses like Private Terms but was at best mediocre on the track. In 1971, Shenanigans was bred to a son of Bold Ruler, Bold Lad, which resulted in a colt, On To Glory, who was a winner but not a stakes performer. He did, however, produce a couple of graded stakes winners while at stud.

In 1972, Shenanigans foaled her most famous progeny: a brown filly by Reviewer named Ruffian. This tall, almost jet black filly destroyed track and stakes records for two seasons before she broke down in a match race against Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure. Many claim that Ruffian’s tragic end was a product of her breeding. Her sire broke down four times: three times while racing and the last time in a paddock accident where he re-broke a fracture he had sustained a few weeks earlier in another barn accident. After Ruffian, Shenanigans had two more foals: a stakes winner and sire in 1974 called Buckfinder, by Buckpasser, and one more winner in 1977 named Near East, by Damascus.

On May 21, 1977, Shenanigans befell a fate similar to her daughter’s when she awoke from anesthesia after intestinal surgery and (like Ruffian) began to thrash wildly, breaking two of her legs. Shenanigans could not endure another surgery and had to be put down.

Shenanigans is the debut extended play by the American punk rock band Squirtgun. It was released on June 9, 1995 through Lookout! Records. Shenanigans features slightly different versions of the songs "Social" and "Frederick's Frost", which later appeared on the group's debut studio album, Squirtgun. The version of "Social" on Shenanigans was used in the opening credits of the Kevin Smith film Mallrats in 1995.