Simpsons VS Reality HMS Pinafore

a look at the Simpsons singing and real people singing HMS Pinafore
comedy with bonus

[@Hedning1390]

Bart is pretty cultured for his age to know the lyrics well enough to sing along.

[@gameprose4293]

I was able to do that when I was around 10 or 11. Simply because I was raised by my grandparents and my grandma was really into musicals. Nothing but musicals, Disney Films, and Christian Movies until I was 16.

[@asdasd-ty9se]

Tbf, if a crazy clown that was *really* into musicals was after me, I’d probably memorize a few just to delay him

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

LOL

[@Mourtzouphlos240]

DIdn't you see the episode?

[@Cramhead43]

precocious little scamp, aint he!

[@BlackPawn14]

Sideshow Bob's version of the "He is an english man" part is SO GOOD. The high A note at the end really puts a great closing point to the opera.

[@adalgisounoqualunque9033]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGPVaqdsocSYe5o In this case you will probably, like me, like this Australian version of HMS Pinafore with the high note at the end (they had ladies go high while the lads were covering the low), it's my favourite version.

[@NeoMindVoS]

​@@adalgisounoqualunque9033 Idk how for BlackPawn, but for me the entrance's quite overacted and too monotonous, though I'm no critic! Neither did i write nor read the notes. Loved that one note though! Thanks for sharing.

[@adalgisounoqualunque9033]

@@NeoMindVoS you're welcome. Yes, it's all about the high note in the end.

[@thegrimmretails3777]

That's Kelsey Fucking Grammer

[@deepspire]

It’s the BEST. All other versions sound dull at the end compared to this one with that high note.

[@electrobob992]

Not gonna lie, if they released a musical album featuring Bob and other Simpsons characters singing covers of songs like that one, It would be on so MANY wishlists. I'd buy it :D

[@TheMrcassina]

Back in the nineties they made an album called "the Simpsons sing the blues"

[@aarona.aaronson9621]

Don't forget about their greatest hits, "Simpsons Boogie" and "Simpsons Christmas Boogie"

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

heck ya!!

[@Mourtzouphlos240]

There were as series of albums featuring the Simpsons singing song both from the show and covers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_discography

[@IntyMichael]

It’s on the album: Go Simpsonic With The Simpsons.

[@the_dudeabides]

Ya know... If Sideshow actually recognized Bart's intellect they could have ruled the world together.

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

HA!

[@94oddy]

Sideshow Bob doesn’t want to rule the world though if I remember correctly

[@gravelmonarch]

@@94oddy he just wants to kill Bart for revenges sake

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

@@94oddyThen why did he run for mayor? Sounds like a first step to becoming president and taking over the world.

[@94oddy]

@@nuclearcatbaby1131 I didn’t know he did that

[@falconwind00]

That episode was just a way to trick Kelsey Grammar into performing the HMS Pinafore.

[@ricopimento]

Guilty...as charged,

[@dominikdickey1876]

Can you blame them? I mean, the result didn't exactly disappoint...

[@akbarrmd7714]

have you watched Fraiser?

[@jimmyhunter1810]

I love that the setup becomes more and more professional the longer the gag goes on.

[@ntnrocket1]

And Bart is reading a playbill with Bob's picture on the cover--hilarious.

[@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639]

Impressive how Bart is cultured enough to know the play would last exactly how long it would take them to get to Springfield! And just by glancing at a well-placed street sign! It's either extremely out of character for him or proof his bad attitude hides a very well-educated young mind.

[@OlivierGagnon]

They listened to the recording earlier in the episode

[@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639]

@@OlivierGagnon I wasn't aware. I don't watch the show. I'm not even sure why KZbin recommend this to me.

[@andrew-elijahschindler5454]

From what I remember Bart has strangely solid knowledge of stagecraft. When he gets hurt in the pool episode he writes a play.

[@dans.7002]

Bart always been smart. Let's not forget the episode where grandpa was telling Lisa about the Simpsons curse and showed Lisa Bart's test scores over the years going from A+ to F-. It's just that the school system failed at keeping him engaged.

[@anthonypreston8355]

He is adhd you would be surprised how very specific info you will learn or gleam ether from looking it up cause of boredom or just cause you see something and think it is about this much

[@williamfrank962]

Won’t lie the “I’ll send you to heaven before I send you to hell.” Is pretty good line.

[@joeydeltoro7268]

sideshow bob: (I shall send you to heaven before I send you to hell) love this line.

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

:)

[@icelineman]

Kelsey Grammer nailed it.

[@0biwan7]

especially that a4

[@Old-ded-memes]

I love how the set gets more detailed after each song

[@autophyte]

This is from the Golden Age of 'The Simpsons', when pop culture references were to things like G&S, and the characters would occasionally display extremely un-Simpson -like knowledge or insight, as Bart does here, showing he may have inherited some of Lisa's genes.

[@TillyOrifice]

It would have been pretty much impossible for him not to have done.

[@IESVSIESVS]

Liza es una maniática

[@charlessontag7187]

The F.B.I. Light Opera Society Sings the Complete Gilbert and Sullivan.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

And sadly, nowadays not a lot of people know about G&S, if the people accusing _Wish_ of "Yoda speak" are any indication. Like... why is "if anyone anything lacks" okay, but "felt this no I haven't" is basically the next Goebbels?

[@lawrencelewis2592]

I worked for a guy in London who told me that he had worked at a place where the new boss would only play G & S. He said how everyone quit in the first week.

[@williambowes4150]

Diabolical! To quote captian Piccard(and probobly h.r) "we don't have laws to fit your crime!"

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@williambowes4150 Nice!

[@arthurmorganssickness1888]

Aight im going to be the one to say it... what is G&S?

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@arthurmorganssickness1888 Gilbert & Sullivan.

[@MrCuddlyable]

@@lawrencelewis2592 To you people it's Sir William Schwenck Gilbert and Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO. God Save the Queen!!

[@rjuttemeijer]

I didn’t know this episode. I love it! I’m a big G&S fan and have performed several of their operas. Thanks for posting.

[@hotelmario510]

Cape Feare is probably the best Simpsons episode ever made. You're so lucky to be able to watch it for the first time.

[@MrCuddlyable]

I bet you can whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense "Pinafore"!

[@moalth6041]

This Simpson episode had an so obscure humor, but was absolutely genius then. When smart guys, who used to care for knowledge and criticised social unequality, were the heart of TV shows. In my opinion it's really scary who much humor has decreased during the last decades.

[@Kenfren]

Equality of intellect

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

I mean... if it helps, I'm referencing Gilbert & Sullivan in my upcoming _Adele_ comic, even mentioning _Patience,_ one that's completely ignored by pop culture. But yeah, it's scary that even people who criticise modern media for being crap don't know jack about G&S, given they criticise _Wish_ for its use of anastrophe, something that was perfectly accepted when G&S did it.

[@RemyJackson]

I remember there was an episode of Fraiser where Kelsey Grammar and David Hyde Pierce sang Tit Willow from The Mikado.

[@alexmartinez5859]

Unrelated, but have you heard Groucho Marx sing Tit Willow.

[@RemyJackson]

@@alexmartinez5859 I have not. I will have to look it up. I have heard Drew Forsyth sing it.

[@alexmartinez5859]

@@RemyJackson No. Gonna have to listen to that one.

[@RemyJackson]

@@alexmartinez5859 I'm a fan of Jon English, and it's from a production of the Mikado where he played Poo-Bah kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZu0oHuQm92XfdUsi=L2ektxwcheIEdclY

[@HydroSnips]

My favourite episode of all time, thanks to Bob :D

[@naughtynedflanders434]

Also, "A meticulous analysis of history " from Pinky and the Brain

[@marianocuevillas8601]

Jajajajaja. I reconised the tune but i couldnt remember from where. It was killing me!!!

[@Yakkymania]

DON’T FORGET THE FORMER GOVERNER OF ARKANSAS!

[@CallMeCrazyCallMePoor]

"I shall send you to heaven before I send you to hell!" This is some of my favorie writing ever.

[@youssefanastas1773]

people saying bart is cultured haven't seen the episode, they literally had the complete works of gilbert and sullivan sung by the FBI choir in the convertible they drove to their witness protection program house.

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

:D

[@PaulfromChicago]

Bart should have chosen the Ring Cycle. That would have gotten him all the way down the Mississippi from St. Louis. Otoh, is Wagner a fate worse than death?

[@lawrencelewis2592]

Kill the wabbit!

[@mimithemockingbird]

I'M DEAD!!!!!

[@StrangerForever85]

Nah, Wagner is better by far in my opinion. Though my grandmother notes I prefer the “darker German operas”, while she prefers the lighter Italian operas and… Whatever French opera can be called at times.

[@888fevertime]

@@StrangerForever85pompous?

[@StrangerForever85]

@@888fevertime , well, yes, but I meant tonally. Italy is where you find your more comedic operas (excluding La Boheme), Germany's where you get the more tragic ones (like Faust, I fucking love Faust), and then France is... Well, you have Carmen, which is a tragedy, but you also have... crud, I seriously wish I had other examples off the top of my head to pull from... Carmen only stands out because I saw it over the summer at Glimmerglass with my grandmother.

[@KitsuneAdorable]

If The Simpsons ever ends, I want an hour long musical episode starring Sideshow Bob. He's my favourite character in the entire series.

[@ALTnOtes]

As a G&S fan, this is brilliant!!

[@christophersanders3252]

For he is an English Man! He is hurrah for the English Man! And it is it is a glorious thing to be an E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-nglish man! Hurrah for the English man hurrah for the English Man!

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

nice!

[@andrewtodaro2874]

My family always listened to Gilbert and Sullivan in the car during long drives! I would recommend the 1999 movie Topsy-Turvy!

[@avaggdu1]

Drew Forsythe's version of Sir Joseph is so like Monty Burns it's hilarious.

[@ImmortalChaos]

Thank you for the comparison and video references.

[@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580]

I love how in The Simpsons episode, that the costumes and stage becomes more and more elaborate, my own gripe (as an Englishman myself) is that the Union Jack is so wrong! 🇬🇧🤣

[@reginabillotti]

3:06... really good staging. The people wearing shades of red or pink on stage, right, white uniforms in the middle, shades of blue on stage left, and the effect is accented by the lighting.

[@andrewferguson5653]

It's the Stratford Festival, Ontario production from 1981.

[@glendasmilesalot2959]

I swear anytime I am having a bad day I am going to pull this up to make me smile and feel good inside. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS!🤗🥰

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

my pleasure

[@PerthScienceClinic]

G&S is the music I listen to while marking assignments. I know the lyrics well enough that they don't distract me from my work :)

[@timward4301]

What, never?

[@PerthScienceClinic]

@@timward4301 well, hardly ever.

[@minoadlawan4583]

I like Sideshow Bob's poor little buttercup. It sounds sadder.

[@cathya7045]

Just realize I memorize this because of this episode lol xD

[@jepcorp]

Thank you Bart---I discovered Gilbert and Sullivan because of you.

[@TheGroundedAviator]

Amazing talent in all three!

[@Shadowkey392]

I wonder how many have fainted trying to sing this?

[@thecommonsenseconservative5576]

Something something something with the eggs on top

[@leberlin]

Laughed until I cried, this is what separates us from any other species, human beings sense of humour, how do people dream this up, brilliant and so funny.

[@jonathantitterton9455]

The bonus song to be pedantic is “I am the captain of the pinafore” not “I am the ruler of the queens navy”

[@xdashlydia]

It's parody lyrics from Family Guy (NOT Simpsons), and they're not very good. Contempt for the source material does not make a parody clever.

[@jonathantitterton9455]

@@xdashlydia Tbh Stewie’s “Little List” though jazzed up is not bad.

[@MeBeMat]

Rodney Dangerfield's looking good at the end.

[@devonbickett349]

huh for an evil socio-path he's got an impressive singing voice

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

:D

[@dancepiglover]

The two things are not mutually exclusive.

[@aaronrowell6943]

Captain can spit bars

[@joellennon6736]

Just rewatched a Keanu reeves movie permanent record from 1988 last week, & in the movie HMS pinafore is the school play that’s prohibited in tht film

[@oddish4352]

Not bad... I think that last Sir Joseph was rolling along at 140 bpm or so at the end, maybe faster. Doing that song at over 125 takes some doing.

[@schroedingersdog7965]

It would be interesting to hear him perform "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General" or "Largo al Factotum".

[@oddish4352]

@@schroedingersdog7965 Yeah. On a good day, I can still belt out "When I was a Lad", though I probably can't do it as fast as i could at my peak... but "Modern Major General" has always been beyond me.

[@abinashmishra329]

I still say Kelsey‘s rendition is the best.

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

:D true

[@Sojoboscribe]

Actually since Bob is so wedded to G&G now. I was a bit surprised that, in the Halloween episode where Bob resurrected Bart (so he could keep killing him), The didn't have Bob break into "My Name is John Wellington Wells" from The Sorcerer when he was setting up the resurrection apparatus.

[@IntyMichael]

Now do this were Data and Picard are singing from HMS Pinafore.

[@QPRTokyo]

Thank you.

[@basilioarrillaga4294]

¡Momento jodidamente épico!

[@FreddyPaine]

Even in Victorian England they must have known.

[@OmegaPrime1]

I want to know where you found that live version because I'd watch it.

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4vVeoKCma6LgdE

[@danielv6245]

I do enjoy the Animaniacs version as well! Lol

[@rejvaik00]

Is It Old school animaniacs and not the reboot?

[@KileighDerla]

@@rejvaik00it’s the original

[@brobabroski5083]

2x speed is nuts at the end

[@leandrotami]

I thought my English level was high enough but this makes me fell as if I'm still studying in first level.

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

:D

[@sturmovik1274]

Same for everyone. Native speakers don't understand more than half of it. That was a style of opera singing called "patter" that was popular for the decade or so when this was written. G & S even made fun of it in a song in one of their other operas: "This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter, which is rarely understood and when it is it doesn't matter!" Sung at that same speed.

[@bigwinkler]

That last part could be in Tech N9ne's Worldwide Choppers

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

He's a great singer suprisingly

[@sophiecooper1824]

You mean Sideshow Bob right ?

[@oscarf5433]

Someone please tell me the name of that song that the Captain sings at incredible speed I would line to hear it whole.

[@be1288]

When I was a lad - HMS Pinafore

[@peterwilliam4044]

4:08 a meticulous analysis of history

[@jasontachin]

RW:even if hes a killer i do enjoy hearing him sing 😁

[@revengeVersalles]

You must see the last tree House of terror,in the second history Lisa kills Bob while playing the English man song, Espectacular!

[@m.a.118]

in 2020+, I wonder how many people would actually get these references.

[@carlycrays2831]

You would be surprised. There are a lot of musical fans around

[@flyingdics1]

As I recall, most people didn't know it when this came out in the 90s. HMS Pinafore was 120 years old at that point, so there won't be much difference between then and now.

[@Myrusfusion]

What version of when I was a lad is that

[@patrickbb9470]

Have you guys seen Batman singing "oh little buttercup"?

[@anitanalley2417]

Who was the last singer? It looks like BBC circa 1970s

[@redmondthealien7840]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4vVeoKCma6LgdE

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4vVeoKCma6LgdE

[@williamjones7163]

I just never realized just how gay Gilbert and Sullivan is/was.

[@gracegeorge3278]

What episode was this in?! It’s so funny!

[@andywinslow9638]

I think Cape Feare. Not sure.

[@yoshiforpm]

Cape Feare.

[@gracegeorge3278]

@@yoshiforpm ok

[@FortuneZer0]

3:20 Then why is the lighting french?

[@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639]

As soon as they said "faster", I knew I wouldn't be able to understand them. lol Does the play come with scripts for the audience?

[@andrewzmorris]

Just do what I do and listen to it so many times you can simply remember all the words!

[@speedweed6747]

In serving ritz i made such a name that an articled clerk I soon became, I wore clean collars and a brand new suit for the pass examination at the institute. That pass examination did so well for me that now I am the ruler of the queen’s navy. Of legal knowledge i acquired such a grip that they took me in to the partnership, that junior partnership, I ween, was the only ship I ever had seen. But that kind of ship so suited me that now I am the ruler of the queen’s navy. I grew so rich that I was sent, by a pocket borough into parliament, I always voted in my party’s call, I never thought of thinking for myself at all. I thought so little they rewarded me by making me the ruler of the queen’s navy. Now landsman all, whoever you may be, if you want to rise to the top of the tree, your soul is indebted to an office stool, be careful to be guided by this golden rule. Stick close to your desk and never go to sea, and you all may be rulers of the queen’s navy.

[@yoshiforpm]

@@speedweed6747 serving writs.

[@lilymarinovic1644]

​@@yoshiforpm writs as in legal documents- the main joke of the song is that he worked his way up through a law firm and somehow did so well that he managed to rise to be in charge of the Navy without ever having actually seen let alone served on a ship.

[@rickyrodriguez3244]

🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊👋👋👋👋

[@williamfairchild7439]

3:27 This includes Family Guy as well

[@user-wi2ns5tf3y]

Hmm

[@emperorxander666]

Head cannon bob is stewies real dad

[@equusquaggaquagga536]

Who in the writers team saw Gilbert & Sullivan that weekend?

[@StevenTorrey]

@4:03 Whille it is a patter song, here it is sung far too fast.

[@jedd.0322]

I think animaniacs parodied this too

[@dustinatkinson5744]

Bonus is family guy not Simpsons

[@answerman9933]

When has a musical represented reality?

[@Howyaduing]

You forgot a British tar from Star Trek insurrection

[@Andy-ju8bb]

No "A British Tar"?

[@danielcuervo8510]

Family guy dont know how do it

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

true

[@colinwillis9096]

Still better thsn every single rap song.

[@kamensy]

Bloody krusty.

[@1papaya2papaya]

the guy at 4:03 is spitting bars

[@blitzowogaming5942]

Simpsons did it wayyyyyy better

[@theon__]

Why is ths thumpnail Family Guy ?

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

Family Guy... what is?

[@theon__]

@@3amfoghornjustforfun499 hm but why do you put it in the first place if you know it's wrong? No hat just curious

[@3amfoghornjustforfun499]

@@theon__ kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYfKh3VpptisibM

[@MillenniumFlcnStrshpEnterprise]

​@@3amfoghornjustforfun499 for cryin' out Glavin!

[@MissDavids]

Simpsons are funny or at least were back then while Family Guy is just cringe.

[@xdashlydia]

Family Guy's writers often present vulgarity as cleverness, actual culture as effete snobbery, and actual good manners as ass-kissing. That's always been annoying, but what with so many real-life jerks celebrating that attitude nowadays it's seriously creepy.

[@themysteriousunknownrevealed]

you ruined such a great video with family guy! lol

[@supersizesenpai]

Stop. The Family Guy version is quite a good parody. They don't always hit but this one was brilliantly done. it also helps that McFarland is a huge G&S fan.

[@xdashlydia]

@@supersizesenpai He's a fan?! This parody strongly suggests contempt for the source material.

[@supersizesenpai]

@@xdashlydia He's joking about something he enjoys, He's also stated during one of his appearance on a late night talk shows that he's a theater kid who grew up listening to G&S songs, among others. So unless I have no idea what contempt means, I'd say he's a fan.. Also have you listened to the types of music he parodies. Its usually classical, showtunes, jazz and musicals. Shit, pretty much every song Brian and Stewie do together is pretty much a parodies a well know musical.

[@brunhildevalkyrie]

gay

[@B_H_J]

My highschool did so much better lmao

[@paulsarnik8506]

How did the P o P get so associated with Kelsey?🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎✌🏻