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Songs in the Key of Springfield

Certain Songs #2224: The Simpsons – “Stop The Planet of the Apes. I Want to Get Off!”

November 10, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: Songs in the Key of Springfield
Year: 1996

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Hi, I’m Jim Connelly. You may remember me from such Certain Songs posts as “#1224: Mystery Science Theatre – “Love Song From Mystery Science 3000” or “#1723: R.E.M. – “It’s The End of The World (and I Feel Fine)”

In a fantastic Vulture oral history of this episode — Episode 19 of Season 7: “A Fish Called Selma” — we find out that the writers had decided to do a Troy McClure showcase, pairing him up with one Marge’s sisters, Selma.

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Certain Songs #2222: The Simpsons – “The Monorail Song”

November 8, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: Songs in the Key of Springfield
Year: 1993

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The first time a character on an episode of The Simpsons broke into song is lost to the mists of history (i.e., I’m too lazy to look it up and figure it out because I want to create the illusion that The Simpsons has always existed and will always exist, which to anyone younger than 30 is actually true), but musical comedy has always been in its DNA, and so I’m going to focus on three songs, all from the golden age of the mid-1990s, when The Simpsons was perhaps the greatest piece of comedy this country — or any country — has ever produced, and all collected on 1997’s Songs in the Key of Springfield.

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