![]() The Seekers' "Georgie Girl" becomes a heartbreaking soundtrack for a decision we all have to make at some point for in our lives: Go on a blimp ride sponsored by a beer company or sell the tickets for your daughter's Little Miss Springfield entrance fee? -Ian CohenĪpu's musical moments generally find humor in deflating his typical all-work, no-play attitude- popping and locking to "Freakazoid" mangling "Dream Police" while shirtless and washing a muscle car. By Season 10 of "The Simpsons" it was hard to tell they were trying to keep the joke going. One of three fictional "Simpsons" spin-offs introduced near the end of Season 8, this is non-stop solid music and laughs, playing off of the unintentionally terrible jokes and songs of most TV shows with intentionally bad dialogue and high concepts. "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour" But rather than attempt physical retribution, Puente composed a "slanderous mambo," which ultimately helped him beat the rap and possibly inspired the Free Gucci Mane and Free Shawty Redd mixtape campaigns we see to this day. But Springfield Elementary literally struck oil and funded a jazz program with the Latin legend- both later taken away by Mr. Ian CohenĪ time when a public school could be flush with disposable cash is about as anachronistic as Tito Puente being a suspect for attempted murder. Hey, if we're gonna get pro-military songs about how noble it is to blow shit up, better the Party Posse than 3 Doors Down. Smash, mastermind behind the Party Posse's liminal, subliminal, and "superliminal" hawkish boy-band hits. Ian CohenĪt least in my mind, Justin Timberlake's career renaissance didn't begin with a collaboration with Pharrell, Timbaland, or even Ashton Kutcher, but with Lt. It's a rather fitting prediction that nearly two decades in the future, the disasters in the Caribbean would be overshadowed by "Pants on the Ground". ![]() Once the boy-in-the-well accident was confirmed a fraud, the song was displaced at the #1 spot by "I Do Believe We're Naked" by Funky See Funky Do. "We're Sending Our Love Down the Well" mocked the latter, with its celebrity-stocked (well, at least Sting-featuring) message for little Timmy O'Toole, a prank started by Bart Simpson. "We're Sending Our Love Down the Well"Īmidst the Haiti relief efforts, making light of a charity chorus is a bit uncouth, but man, it can be difficult to know the difference between altruism and self-interest at some of these events. It's almost enough to inspire your wakefulness at 3 a.m. Plow." Earworms play an enormous role on "The Simpsons", and perhaps none is more insidious than this tribute to public-access television avderts. Burns caring about vanity, fashion, singing, or pretty well anything other than money might be a stretch, but then again, Cruella de Vil and he might have made a fitting couple. In this episode, Burns seemed like a good-hearted soul for once, taking in dozens of puppies only to eventually reveal his true intentions- killing them for their fur- in song. ![]() P.S., you have a lot of explaining to do for Crash.and please not Avatar this year. Since this first appeared in 1995, the electric car is up and Steve Guttenberg is down. Still, the fact that Buffett can pump a loser bar band for cash even in 2030 is proof enough that Matt Groening respects his conglomerate. Despite what Bart claims during his stage banter preceding his "slyly" derivative "Daquiritaville", Jimmy Buffett covers are very much alive anywhere in Dixie where cheap alcohol is served to kids with questionable fake IDs. Judging from the Ivy League in-jokes made by the Simpsons' writing team over the past two decades, I'm imagining very few went to schools in the South. Not that you can't replay these in your head by now.) (Note: As any fan of the show could tell you, the people behind "The Simpsons" are freaking all-stars at keeping their stuff off of YouTube, so the clips here are cobbled together to say the least. And, no, "Do the Bartman" didn't come close. ![]() As the show celebrates its 20th anniversary this month, we took a look at our favorites. But while the cameos have often generated the most interest, there's no shortage of homages, original musical numbers, and inside jokes- under the baton of the amazing Alf Clausen- that have proven to be the highlights of the greatest sitcom (animated or not) in television history. ![]() So have U2, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Sonic Youth, the White Stripes, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Ramones, Tito Puente, and of course, Peter Frampton, Cypress Hill, Kid Rock, Phish, and Britney Spears. Every living Beatle has been on the show. Led Zeppelin aside, you are not a musical legend if you've not been on the Simpsons. ![]()
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