Stupid Kid

"Stupid Kid"
The cover of the first version of the single.
Single by Alkaline Trio
from the album From Here to Infirmary
Released	2001
Format	CD
Recorded	2000 at Pachyderm Studio, Cannon Falls, Minnesota
Genre	Punk rock, pop punk
Length	2:23
Label	Vagrant
Writer(s)	Matt Skiba, Dan Andriano, Mike Felumlee
Producer(s)	Matt Allison, Alkaline Trio
Alkaline Trio singles chronology
Alkaline Trio / Blue Meanies (2000) "Stupid Kid" (2001) "Private Eye" (2001)
Alternative cover The cover of the second version of the single.

"Stupid Kid" is a song by the Chicago-based punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released as the first single from the group's 2001 album From Here to Infirmary. Two different versions of the single were released in the United Kingdom, where it became the band's first charting song by reaching #53 on the UK Singles Chart

The song's music video was directed by Matthew Barry and Maureen Egan. It depicts the band performing the song outside of a middle school. Inside the school, a boy becomes infatuated with his female teacher and makes attempts to impress her. When the teacher writes "you scare me" in the boy's yearbook, he is humiliated in front of the class and the other children laugh at him. He stands outside the classroom window and removes his tuque, revealing a pair of devil-like horns as the teacher is consumed by smoke.