Oh, Streetcar! (HD)

Oh, Streetcar! is a strangely upbeat musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Taken from the Season 4 Episode "A Streetcar Named Marge".
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[@BloodyBraces]

Ironic that despite the incredibly misplaced upbeat tone of the play Homer was the only one to truly understand how depressing the story was

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Soccer Club Suck Cock

[@Foxy02016]

Read it in Drama class and like… my god

[@avenged7peep958]

Yeah I'm studying it in English literature and damn that is depressing

[@Foxy02016]

@@avenged7peep958 did it in drama last year and English this year, it’s so funny how Homer, who has quite a bit in common with Stanley, is the only one to understand the issues with Stanley (and thus… the issues with himself?)

[@SodaPolycarbonate]

Homer's not dumb, he just shows signs of unsupported ADHD, he's probably one of the most emotionally intelligent characters in the entire show

[@agenttheater5]

I can never tell if the ending song is a deliberate misreading of the play and instead what people expect from a musical (night, chipper, cheerful), or if it's supposed to show how Blanche's mind has snapped and that this is the fantasy world that she now lives in in her confused broken mind because it's nicer than the real one.

[@pattoman5568]

It is the Simpson's at its peak, the perfect mix of absurdity and pathos.

[@mememan9061]

a combination of both

[@alyssapinon9670]

@@pattoman5568 well said

[@yevrah66]

It's a joke you moron. Why would 'the simpsons' be trying to convey Blanche's madness, when we havent even been shown the rest of the play. Its obviously an intentional joke

[@agenttheater5]

@@yevrah66 well we just saw her flying around the stage and Lisa said "I think it's supposed to symbolise her descent into madness". And yes, I mostly figure it's a joke, I just wondered. An idea came to me, and I asked about it, hardly grounds to call me a moron, thank you.

[@penumbra84]

Weirdly enough, my older brother full-on thought A Streetcar Named Desire was a musical well into his 40s because of this episode.

[@ghaznavid]

Me too. But I'm not American, so I have no reason to know any better.

[@Foxy02016]

@@ghaznavid don’t blame you, but if you can handle it mentally, it gets dark, I would recommend reading it

[@sarysa]

I probably would have if my mother didn't set me straight after I asked her about it.

[@Grey_witch88]

@@ghaznavidI’m American and I didn’t realize it wasn’t an actual musical until adulthood 😂

[@TheErikM]

I'm an American and I still haven't fully come to terms with it either. Honestly I think all live theater is musical. I know their not, but I like to think it anyway.

[@byallmeansmoveataglacialpa2557]

This is seriously one of the greatest episodes ever

[@ninjavigilante5311]

New Orleans were pissed off no joke

[@byallmeansmoveataglacialpa2557]

@@ninjavigilante5311 then they shouldn't be so putrid brackish maggotty or foul

[@BLUDDYknucklez]

I loved the Apu part

[@byallmeansmoveataglacialpa2557]

@@BLUDDYknucklez will this bewitching flooooozy seduce this humble neeeeeewsie? ohhh what's a paper boy.......to........doooooooooo 🎶🎵

[@wchopkins6653]

Priceless

[@perro692]

Apu fucking killed it

[@jarrodbarkley9061]

Yes! 😂

[@mathiastube4716]

Saying a profanity word?!

[@shawnganske8731]

Darn right he did!

[@tombstoneharrystudios584]

According to Ed Norton, Marlon Brando LOVED this parody!

[@twinpeaksfan929]

Did Ralph Kramden also enjoy it?

[@majidwahid7793]

Apu took the paper boy role and made it his own. A great performance enjoyed by all.

[@bawoman]

Apu totally stole the show lol

[@daughteroftiaran]

Majid Wahid He embiggened that role with his cromulent performance!

[@pattoman5568]

Except poor Otto

[@zeroinifnite5730]

and then he got cancelled

[@formzino]

And it turns out it was all racist! Except no one noticed for 25 years

[@andwithtthat]

In the very next episode, Bart’s chalkboard reads something along the lines of “I will not disparage New Orleans.” 🤣

[@LateStudiosandmore]

yeah i think that bit in the episode was not taken well by ppl in new orleans when it first came out (and i for one don’t blame them, it is kinda insensitive)

[@somerandomguy2073]

@@LateStudiosandmore Oh, please. I have no sympathy at all for people that can't laugh at themselves. It isn't overly malicious, it's The Simpsons lightly taking the piss. That whole thing was blown way out of proportion.

[@davidnissim589]

Because the city of New Orleans actually threatened to sue the producers

[@grahambroome5660]

Meanwhile, Australians (who can take a joke) still wave the boot flag at major sporting events

[@Johnsmith99663]

@@grahambroome5660 Do they really? Lmao that’s awesome

[@milla0722]

I love how the cops were there for Wiggum’s performance

[@IngaFrid]

And Sanjay was there for Apu. 😊

[@Foxy02016]

Cops, firefighters, EMS, they’re all usually a tight knit community and will support each other, it’s part of the reason some people join EMS and stuff

[@tylernewton7217]

Nice work boys!

[@masterfarr8265]

Patty and Selma also showed up to support Marge.

[@zanemurcha9742]

Am I the only one who finds the fact that the Director replaced Otto on opening night just because he wasn't working out even though he was just a back round character who sings the chorus hilarious?

[@randomperson22856]

Must have overpowered everyone else and didn't sound good.

[@matthewbartlett3442]

“Drag.”

[@FATHER3k]

Maggie's attentiveness kills me everytime. Wee hands clasped on her lap 😭😂

[@Human20X6]

This might be my favorite Simpsons bit. And I just noticed they use the whole front half of the rotating stage just for the establishing football stadium set piece. 😂

[@tejaswoman]

Especially loved the way it creaks as it turns around. That's such a small-town community theater vibe.

[@ellienixon3437]

Props to Otto for sticking around to watch the show after being kicked out

[@homer8029]

"Can't you hear me yella, you're putting me through hella, stella STELLA !!!!!!!"

[@ProPowerMan]

"Here's a tip from Blanche you won't regret: A stranger is just a friend you haven't met!" lol :DDD

[@hagnekore]

i genuinely think that there isnt one of those big broadway musical adaptation solely because of this episode

[@randomperson22856]

Damn it

[@gstone8255]

Ned Actually has a real good singing.

[@timburr4453]

that absurd little pose he does at "tonight" 0:06...those little touches is what makes classic Simpsons the best

[@thatfrenchguy9140]

I love Ned's part. I'd love to hear the full version.

[@mathiastube4716]

Me too.

[@Foxy02016]

Tbh it’s such a good misread of the original script’s mood it’s great

[@tombstoneharrystudios584]

Love Flanders, but whenever he sings I think of Derek Smalls from Spinal Tap 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@shawnganske8731]

He'll yeah, I feel apu nailed his part too.

[@cg0825]

Plays the most evil character in the story too

[@gstone8255]

Who ever wrote this is a genius 😂👏

[@HybridPhoenix08]

I like Apu’s version of Homer’s “Woo-hoo!” After he kisses marge 😂

[@michaelshipman7025]

Now here's a tip from Blanche you won't reGRAAAAAAT

[@BLUDDYknucklez]

Lol

[@IStandForTJandTAW]

A strangers just a friend you haven’t met!

[@kingstonstallings3938]

I love wondering how the audience can even understand her gravelly hoarseness from all the way out in the seats lol...

[@lau_bowery]

i'd love to see a full version of the simpsons musicals

[@alyssapinon9670]

Same! The special effects are top tier

[@Orel-]

It will literally be beautiful

[@CA-ee1et]

Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius!

[@funnybluehairman7509]

Apu deserved an Oscar for that performance

[@randomperson22856]

Shout out to the directors sister for showing up even though her daycare is in chaotic shape.

[@Detroit-gx5nd]

I love how the camera switches to Bart and Lisa during New Orleans 1:06 😂Its the little things

[@demi-femme4821]

And Maggie is sucking on her pacifier in time with the music.

[@timfortune9]

In my High School theatre, every year each Senior got to say something every night in the group huddle before going on stage. When it was my turn in my senior year... "Perhaps we are all a little mad we who don the cap and bells and tread beneath the presidium arch..." I then pointed to the lead actress and said "Except you, you're not working out. I'll be playing your part." (I'm a guy)

[@charlesflannery4610]

The irony of Ned Flanders playing Stanley, Stella's abusive husband. But someone should make a musical version of Streetcar... In the movie Stanley is played by a very young Marlon Brando (think 20 yrs before he was in the first Godfather movie).

[@56packmanable]

Ned was the only one buff enough to play Stanley. There is a telling scene earlier during rehearsals of the Stanley/Blanche rape scene.

[@gaystrangeraly7528]

The subtle expressions in the animation make this such a brilliant directed piece of The Simpsons.

[@Mijzelffan]

0:51 a literal streetcar named Desire lmao, can't believe this is the first time I'm noticing this

[@NorthOfEarth]

2:27 To this day, this is the most beautiful musical note I've ever heard.

[@lilyofthevalley2048]

Someone needs to turn this into a real musical. I would absolutely pay to see this.

[@cow_tools_]

Imagine being from New Orleans and watching this for the first time.

[@BLUDDYknucklez]

They all look and sound so cute lol

[@mcs-bl6sg]

Honestly, Apu had the best singing voice out of that whole cast.

[@lupodelupis3672]

Flying mad Marge is always hilarious😆😆

[@DarkStarGSK22]

STELLLAAA!!! lol oh Ned 😅

[@mathiastube4716]

Yes!

[@Lexilove2016]

Remember when Julie kavner... had a voice?

[@nickyurick8313]

I’m currently stage managing a production of Streetcar and have watched this about a dozen times in the past month. One of The Simpsons’ absolute best parodies! 😂

[@mrwaxwave]

How it’s marge’s singing voice kind of not that bad but also awful

[@tombstoneharrystudios584]

Normally it’s quite hard for an accomplished singer to fake being bad...Harry Shearer and Dan Castellaneta can sing...but apparently Julie Kavner has said she can’t sing so it’s not a stretch 😂

[@agenttheater5]

it sounds sad, so we want to keep listening

[@BloodyBraces]

The Marge voice really takes a toll on Julie's throat, just listen to how she sounds in modern episodes

[@MeatyController]

Her audition! "LAAA-" "Thank you for NOTHING!" 😂

[@gstone8255]

When i saw Into The Woods years later the final Number reminded me of this ending for some reason 😅

[@roxxasthedemonslayer6935]

'I Will not Defame New Orleans'

[@lupodelupis3672]

I rememer that New Orleanians weren't amused by the song...to put it mildly😁

[@janeallgood9833]

New Orleans did not respond well to this episode's first airing LOL.

[@matmcd]

1:05 Herman acting as if he still had 2 arms 😂

[@etr1985]

2:45 STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@charlottekurai3909]

I love that episode, I saw it in Latin American dub, it was amazing. On my top 5 episodes

[@randomperson22856]

Its on the creator's top 5 too lol

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

This gets funnier as you get older and see more and more stage musicals! 🤣

[@rosie6]

Watching this for my a level exam tomorrow, now this is quality revision material, education and entertainment 😂

[@Guey42]

I just noticed Ned takes his shirt off to give Marge the flowers

[@cg0825]

Having Flanders play Stanley is the perfect irony

[@calebmayol2769]

Let me know Do I still got time to grow? Things ain't always set in stone That be known let me know Seems like street lights, glowing Happen to be just like moments passing in front of me So I hopped in the cab and I paid my fare See, I know my destination I'm just not there All these street lights, glowing Happen to be just like moments passing in front of me So I hopped in the cab and I paid my fare See, I know my destination I'm just not there In these streets In these streets I'm just not there in these streets I'm just not there Life just ain't fair Seems like street lights, glowing Happen to be just like moments passing in front of me So I hopped in the cab and I paid my fare See, I know my destination I'm just not there All these street lights, glowing Happen to be just like moments passing in front of me So I hopped in the cab and I paid my fare See, I know my destination I'm just not there In these streets In these streets I'm just not there in these streets I'm just not there Life just ain't fair

[@mr_nobody_000]

apu steals the show

[@mathieuleader8601]

I like how Maggie's sucks on her pacifier are in time to the music

[@JakeWatford]

Poor Otto

[@theimpossiblekiddropdeadfr6257]

@ 4:15 tho

[@ThumpingThromnambular]

After watching the movie, this scene is insanely funny.

[@hannahbaker6567]

1:06 always cracks me up when they focus on him cause he has no arm on that side 🤣

[@Mickey19286]

3:02 whooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@itspoidaman4957]

you know imagine if the people that wrote this actually put on a broadway musical of these classics with simpsons characters. It's a crazy thought maybe but like cmon, huge money milking machine that never got realized

[@matthewbartlett3442]

the way they wave their hands in the opening number is so funny to me

[@BlackCatFilmProductions]

I wonder if anyone ever made A Streetcar Named Desire a musical?

[@bawoman]

they made it into an opera

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

It isn't much of a stretch considering what they've done. Carrie and Sweeney Todd, both based on books. Little Shop of Horrors, based on a sci-fi low budget film. I feel like Streetcar could reach the potential of Next To Normal. Blanche DuBois and Diana Goodman aren't all that different.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

It's actually surprising nobody did make a musical out of Streetcar Named Desire! 😄

[@katnipp4029]

This episode is very nostalgic for me. The songs have always reminded me of the songs from Rankin’ Bass for some reason

[@leonturner2598]

3:53 - cheering and ending

[@bryceanwhimsey]

Thus is demonstrated why The Simpsons is one of the best TV shows ever.

[@mybuddyob]

I came here for this 0:42. 😁

[@Sunset4Semaphores]

#shitsville

[@topogigio2879]

There really should have been a bowling scene. Chorus girls dressed as pins doing Busby Berkeley style choreography.

[@XtTapelatakettle]

After all these years I just noticed Herman doing that arm pose with his missing arm. 1:04

[@Saintnick90]

This should be a real musical.

[@charlie891]

i feel like the marge madness bit at the end was a rip on carrie the musical's finale

[@sinmtz8395]

2:44 Stelllllaaaaaaaa!!!!!!👀🤣🔥

[@DeadbeatDuder]

2:45

[@ChrisManley1994]

Ned fucking KILLED it!

[@Bigfrank88]

How about some credit for Jasper keeping up with a much younger cast.

[@Nightweaver1]

New Simpsons would never do this.

[@carterhurt1910]

New Simpsons writers probably don't even know who Tennessee Williams is.

[@Nightweaver1]

@@carterhurt1910 Probably not. I would wager the current writers of the show are young enough to be the children of the original writers from years ago.

[@jembowes3245]

Cool she can fly!

[@RyanTheDark]

Fortunately the Simpsons ended with season 8.

[@xrayvisi0ns]

Streetcar !!!!!

[@rosie6]

I would give a lot to see simpsons musicals lmao this is gold!

[@greeneggsandpam]

Simpsons didn’t have to go hard but they did

[@robertfrank2181]

1992 Tramvaj do stanice Marge A streetcar Named MARGE

[@John-wg1jh]

Genius.

[@rodrigoadolfoperezvega1539]

0:19 the sister left the kids alone D:

[@matmcd]

She is not a sister

[@adrianam7834]

Okay but "Will this bewitching doozy set loose this humble newsie" is the most brilliant lyricism I've ever heard as a theater kid

[@shamelesshussy]

*floozy, *seduce

[@PrimeSuperboy]

I also thought they were saying "you audience! putred, rotten, stinking audience!"

[@misterartist1603]

Klasky Csupo everyone :)

[@bensakschek615]

0:19

[@Dim4323]

Apologise to any new Orleans for this muscial number

[@Shamonwhitehurst252]

Nope

[@stormsurge2103]

I WILL DEFAME NEW ORLEANS, I WILL DEFAME NEW ORLEANS, I WILL DEFAME NEW ORLEANS. . .

[@llarmstrong783]

Drag! Lol

[@theimpossiblekiddropdeadfr6257]

🤣 @ 4:15

[@jarrodbarkley9061]

Aren't they pronouncing New Orleans wrong? 😂

[@worrier]

Sometimes when singing I think they pronounce certain words a bit off to to get things to flow a little nicer with the rhythm or rhyme. Although I'm not a singer so I could be totally wrong! 😅

[@ML0694]

@@worrier it's true

[@GhostandHorseAnimation]

Bit late, but yes and no? The or-lee-ans way of saying it is more reminiscent of the og French way

[@Swotboy2000]

Did the writers intentionally only choose characters with terrible singing voices?

[@topogigio2879]

I like this, but Marge is miscast.

[@tejaswoman]

Disagree completely. She does a perfect job of conveying Blanche's desperation and sense of being lost.

[@seanmaher3518]

This is the worst musical I’ve ever seen 🤣

[@thephonelad992]

that's the point you idiot

[@seanmaher3518]

@@thephonelad992 whoa, someone grumpy

[@thephonelad992]

@@seanmaher3518 That someone is YOU my guy. The joke is that it's a horrible musical. how are you this thick-skulled??

[@DRACULA_RW36]

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