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Part II - The Stoncutters Themesong, a musical interlude
A little known fact about me is that anything and everything reminds me in some way of a scene from or an episode of The Simpsons. About once a day, I encounter something that I can relate to a Simpsonsism from my memory. I've heard before that one's communication skills are enhanced when one uses illustrations and allegory that relate to the subject being communicated. The Problem for me is two-fold:
a. On the credibility scale, referncing episodes of the Simpsons is not quite on the same level as using an entry from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. At least, not until people my age rule the universe... and then, I could get a doctorate for my useless Simpsons trivia.
b. When all of the contextual illustrations you ever use come from the same source, you begin to take on a strange, Comic Book Guy-like image with people. (see, I did it again!) Doing that is, in my mind, tantamount to always saying "That reminds me of a lyric from an N*Sync song." (shudder) is it cold in here?
What is my point, you ask? And what does this have to do with music? Well, nothing really. I just felt like writing about a quirk of mine...
But let me pull an Ostrich out of my hat...
One of the things I love the most about The Simpsons is the liberal use of musical satire. Music is everywhere in the Simpsons universe... they even did an entire episode where every line was sung. From the frist episode down to the end of last season, music is a part of almost every show.
And the music in the show is just another example of the monumental wit of the writers. Some examples and my favorites:
1) The StoneCutters theme song- Who controls the British Crown? Who Keeps the Metric System down? We do. We do. Who Prevented the Electric Car? Who made Steve Guttenberg, A Star? We did. We did.
2) Sideshow Bob Sings the entire score from HMS Pinafore as Bart Simpson's last request - it would take too long to explain, but it's classic Kelsey Grammar.
3) The Monorail Song- This entire episode is a 22 minute spoof of the Music Man. "You bet your life, my Hindu friend."
and so on and so on. My point is that the Simpsons uses one of my favorite mediums to produce comedy. and it works!
Not the best connection ever, but it works.
Now, for Part III...
Part II - The Stoncutters Themesong, a musical interlude
A little known fact about me is that anything and everything reminds me in some way of a scene from or an episode of The Simpsons. About once a day, I encounter something that I can relate to a Simpsonsism from my memory. I've heard before that one's communication skills are enhanced when one uses illustrations and allegory that relate to the subject being communicated. The Problem for me is two-fold:
a. On the credibility scale, referncing episodes of the Simpsons is not quite on the same level as using an entry from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. At least, not until people my age rule the universe... and then, I could get a doctorate for my useless Simpsons trivia.
b. When all of the contextual illustrations you ever use come from the same source, you begin to take on a strange, Comic Book Guy-like image with people. (see, I did it again!) Doing that is, in my mind, tantamount to always saying "That reminds me of a lyric from an N*Sync song." (shudder) is it cold in here?
What is my point, you ask? And what does this have to do with music? Well, nothing really. I just felt like writing about a quirk of mine...
But let me pull an Ostrich out of my hat...
One of the things I love the most about The Simpsons is the liberal use of musical satire. Music is everywhere in the Simpsons universe... they even did an entire episode where every line was sung. From the frist episode down to the end of last season, music is a part of almost every show.
And the music in the show is just another example of the monumental wit of the writers. Some examples and my favorites:
1) The StoneCutters theme song- Who controls the British Crown? Who Keeps the Metric System down? We do. We do. Who Prevented the Electric Car? Who made Steve Guttenberg, A Star? We did. We did.
2) Sideshow Bob Sings the entire score from HMS Pinafore as Bart Simpson's last request - it would take too long to explain, but it's classic Kelsey Grammar.
3) The Monorail Song- This entire episode is a 22 minute spoof of the Music Man. "You bet your life, my Hindu friend."
and so on and so on. My point is that the Simpsons uses one of my favorite mediums to produce comedy. and it works!
Not the best connection ever, but it works.
Now, for Part III...
