Run, Jerry, Run

"Run, Jerry, Run" is a song off the Every Ape and His Brother album Winter Horrorland. It is set to the tune of "Run Rudolph Run" by Chuck Berry. It may or may not be canon to The Gerosha Chronicles.

History
Every December, stores in Michigan overplay some of the same Christmas tunes ad nauseum. At the Grand Ledge Meijer store, this led to the receiving crew in the 2010s deeming December "torture month." To make the dreaded season more tolerable, a sympathetic Dozerfleet founder drafted new lyrics to several songs, creating enough parodies to fill an entire album - Winter Horrorland, which replaced cringe secular Christmas tunes with Krampusnacht parodies inspired in part by the 2015 Michael Doughtery film Krampus.

While initially drafted in early 2017, the song saw a revival in 2018. It wasn't finalized for release, however, until May of 2021.

Story
This story follows Jerry the Psycho Reindeer in his career as the main driver / pilot of the Tötensauto ("the Slay Sleigh"), and as Krampus' new chauffeur. The story first mentions a deviant boy who steals his father's money, and uses it on strippers and prostitutes. Jerry disposes of the boy and the hooker with a chainsaw. He next takes a bazooka to a young girl and her mother, for committing check fraud against a veterinarian's office.

In both instances, the punishments doled out for these offenses against Christmas seem disproportionate to the crimes. However, this song was written before the Horrorday Gang had better formalized their rules for targets, making it possible for them to resort to such gratuitous violence. In actual Earth-G7 continuity, the Horrorday Gang's violence against petty criminals is downplayed considerably.

Revisions
Originally, the 16-year-old boy was going to be listed as a 14-year-old boy. But that was changed when it was seen as depicting the prostitute as a phebophile. This extra added level of complexity to the perversion was unnecessary, as Jerry would have killed the boy for his crime even if he and the hooker were both of legal age. A compromise was reached, making him 16. Still legal in some districts; but still displaying obvious signs of having been corrupted by "educators" at school.

While in Gerosha canon, it would typically be Perchta going after cases like this, Jerry does so this time. This is largely due to the fact that Perchta wasn't canonized fully into Gerosha mythos until 2020, whereas Jerry had entered into canon some years beforehand.