# Best and Worst Song from the Simpsons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225 "2002-11-27T22:35:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/21 "2002-11-28T15:57:06Z")
What about the parody of REM’s It’s the end of the world…? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/22 "2002-11-28T19:12:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ludovic \* > \*\*What was the song they were singing in the simpsons home, when Apu popped up and sang “And for no real reason here’s apuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu”??? That has to be the best _line_ in a simpsons song. \*\* A wonderful parody of the theme from _All in the Family_. I’m not sure what my favorite would be. There are so many good songs. ---
**Author:** ![Chocobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chocobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chocobo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/23 "2002-11-28T23:00:56Z")
Best song - See my Vest, followed closely by We Do and Señor Burns. “Words won’t long, but an insulting song, Burns will always carry with him…so I’ll settle my score, on the salsa floor, with this vengeful latin rhythm.” Worst song - We put the Spring in Springfield. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/24 "2002-11-29T00:13:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Man Who \* > **"Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, > Smells like a steak and seats 35? > Canyonero!"** _Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, sixty-five tons of American pride! Canyonero! Canyonero!_ God, I love that song. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/25 "2002-11-29T00:37:22Z")
_Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down It’s the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown Canyonero! Canyonero! Hey Hey!_ Hee-hee, I start singing that every time I see an Expedition/Suburban. \*Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero! Canyonero! \* I want one. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/26 "2002-11-29T00:39:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gundy \* > **The little Homer songs are like tiny pearls for me.** > [snippity snip] When I was in highschool when someone turned 18 once one of his friends stood up in assembely and sung Homer’s beer song. He got a standing ovation. “When I was 17 I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID MY name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was 17…” ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/27 "2002-11-29T04:12:57Z")
Another best song vote for _See My Vest_. \*“See my loafers, former gophers it was that, or skin my shofars” (sp?) \* ROTF! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/28 "2002-11-29T04:26:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Moe \* > \*\*Another best song vote for _See My Vest_. > > \*“See my loafers, former gophers > it was that, or skin my shofars” (sp?) \*\*\* I think that last word should be “chauffeurs”. There’s not much flesh on a ram’s horn, after all. Turns out my hunch was correct: [http://www.geocities.com/simpsons\_guide/simpsons\_vest.html](http://www.geocities.com/simpsons_guide/simpsons_vest.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/29 "2002-11-29T04:51:35Z")
_She blinds everybody with her super-high beam. She a squirrel-squishin’, deer-smackin’ drivin’ machine! Canyonero! Canyonero!_ Hee-hee-hee!!! I agree, this is the best one. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/30 "2002-11-29T05:32:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sternvogel \* > \*\*I think that last word should be “chauffeurs”. There’s not much flesh on a ram’s horn, after all. > > Turns out my hunch was correct: > > [http://www.geocities.com/simpsons\_guide/simpsons\_vest.html](http://www.geocities.com/simpsons_guide/simpsons_vest.html) \*\* I had such a blank on the spelling of that word… OR was I simply implementing the progressive, new ideas laid out in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145616) thread? ---
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/31 "2002-11-29T10:45:47Z")
I love “See My Vest”, the Canyonero song, and all the songs in “Stop the planet of the apes, I want to get off”. Occasionally me and my mates will launch into a rousing chorus of “Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius” for no readily apparent reason. Songs I hate? The “Kids/Adults” song, and the song they sing throughout the course of “All Singing, All Dancing” (the musical flashback episode). ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/32 "2002-11-29T16:59:01Z")
I’d agree with “The Stonecutters Theme”…I love the Steve Guttenberg line! Worst: That “My horse must lose” peice of crap when Bart is a jokcey on “Furious D”. Drollman! Over 200 posts with a spelling mistake! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/33 "2002-11-30T00:40:46Z")
Monorail was a good one. “Were you sent here by the Devil?” “No good sir, I’m on the level!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/34 "2002-12-01T17:20:57Z")
I love the burlesque house song… “It’s the extra arms on Shiva!” I almost did a classic spit-take with that one. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/35 "2002-12-01T20:53:29Z")
My favorite is The Stonecutter’s Song- something about robbing blindfish of sight and supressing the metric system and electric car strikes a funny chord in me. Also good was ‘New Orleans’ sung in the musical ‘A streecar named desire’. First time I heard it I didn’t think much of it, then I saw it in reruns and actually realized how funny the lyrics are. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225/36 "2002-12-02T20:18:26Z")
My favorite song is “Baby on Board” by the B Sharps. Nothing funny about it really, I just think it’s cute and well done! Worst: DEFINITELY the Jockey’s song from the Furious D episode. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-song-from-the-simpsons/139225.md?page=1)