# Improper music at improper times. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642 "2005-07-01T04:27:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/61 "2005-07-06T14:13:55Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > I don’t know if I remember that one, but I did love the Homer-goes-to-the-insane-asylum episode. Marge calls the asylum and gets put on hold, then starts crying to the hold music - Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”. 😉 This could easily be one of those Simpsons episodes that exists solely in my memory. Speaking of memory: “ **Memories** ” at an Alzheimer’s support group. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/62 "2005-07-06T20:15:48Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Another wedding song…Weird Al’s “Good Enough for Now” > > “I suppose I’m relatively lucky > That’s why my love for you is fairly strong > And I swear…I’m never gonna leave you, darlin’ > At least ‘til somethin’ better comes along” I’m getting married next year, and thanks to you, I’m now giving this song very serious consideration. Not that it rings true, but I think it would be hilarious. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/63 "2005-07-06T21:02:39Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I’m getting married next year, and thanks to you, I’m now giving this song very serious consideration. Not that it rings true, but I think it would be hilarious. 😃 Hey, I better get an invite. Or at least a videotape of the honeymoon. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/64 "2005-07-06T21:11:06Z")
At my wedding reception, the harpist who was supposed to provide standard background music played “ **Suicide is Painless** ”. Made me laugh out loud, and garnered her a hefty tip. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/65 "2005-07-07T00:39:33Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Hey, I better get an invite. > > Or at least a videotape of the honeymoon. Which person’s room should the camera go in? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/66 "2005-07-07T00:53:30Z")
Well, if it’s the honeymoon, I’d suggest placing the camera in the bride’s hotel room. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/67 "2005-07-07T01:25:42Z")
At a wedding: Jimmy Soul’s _If You Wanna Be Happy_ _If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life Never make a pretty woman your wife So from my personal point of view Get an ugly girl to marry you_ ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/68 "2005-07-07T05:56:30Z")
I was a bridesmaid at a wedding where the newlywed’s dance was, I kid you not, “Freebird.” But this one is a combined inappropriate/most embarrassing moment in my life: Picture this, a 40-something woman, happily partnered for 12 years develops friendship with 22 YO. Friendship turns to mutual crush, crush gets a bit touchy-feely one tipsy night, one week later both of them are at a coffee shop trying to sort out this whole mess. What comes on? Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May.” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/69 "2005-07-07T11:57:58Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Well, if it’s the honeymoon, I’d suggest placing the camera in the bride’s hotel room. …or an invitation to the wedding…hmm…let me think about it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/70 "2005-07-07T16:45:37Z")
I once had a little lap harp with me on a ferry and player the theme tune to Titanic for a laugh. Some people thought this was romantic. Others thought about it a bit longer… ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/71 "2005-07-07T18:26:20Z")
> [@SiXSwordS](#): > > This could easily be one of those Simpsons episodes that exists solely in my memory. Episode [7F24](http://www.doheth.co.uk/episodeguide/7f24.shtml) “Stark Raving Dad”, the one with Michael Jackson. And “Baby Come Back” was in [8F14](http://www.doheth.co.uk/episodeguide/8f14.shtml) “Homer Alone”. Another funny one from the Simpsons is [8F07](http://www.doheth.co.uk/episodeguide/8f07.shtml) “Saturdays of Thunder”. While Homer’s on hold with the Fatherhood Institute, the hold music is “Cat’s in the Cradle”. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/72 "2005-07-07T18:58:59Z")
> [@The Gaspode](#): > > At a wedding, obviously: _I knew the bride when she used to rock’n’roll_ Actually, I’ve been asked to play that a number of times in the past and many of those times it came from the bride and groom’s preferred song list. When I read the op my first thought was Pat Benetar’s “Hell is for Children” playing in the waiting room of the children’s hospital. I’m gonna wash my mouth with soap for even _thinking_ about that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642.md?page=3)