Season Five is widely seen as one of the best seasons of the show and this episode is well remembered by classic Simpsons fans. Neil Arsenty, creator of On This Day in Simpsons History on Twitter: “Homer’s Barbershop Quartet” was a great way to start the fifth season of The Simpsons. Clockwise from the top, bass Jim Campbell, baritone Dan Jordan, lead Shelby Grimm and tenor Mike Economou. I still remember back in 1992 or maybe 1993 when Jeff Martin came up to us in the park and asked “Would you guys like to be on a TV show?” We all thought he was joking, but then he followed up and the four of us were all so excited because The Simpsons was huge at the time.Ĭourtesy of Jim Campbell. Jim Campbell, bass singer of The Dapper Dans : I started with The Dapper Dans back in 1992, so this is actually my 30th year with them. They’re co-credited with writing the song because, even though I wrote the music and lyrics, they did the barbershop arrangement and figured out the harmonies and all of that. So, when we were doing this episode and needed honest-to-goodness barbershop singers, I said “Let’s get The Dapper Dans.” We got in touch with them and they were happy to do it. There’s a barbershop quartet that goes up and down Main Street USA called The Dapper Dans. Also, it was appropriate for barbershop, which is always pretty square and sincere.īack then, my wife and I and our daughter had annual passes to Disneyland and we were going there constantly in those days. I was really happy with it because it seemed really catchy and singable. From there, I just thought of some words that rhymed with it and fiddled with the song until it seemed done. Someone mentioned those “Baby on Board” signs and we realized that that could be a song. Some of those things became jokes in the episode, like ALF and Al Capone’s vault. The song “Baby on Board” came about because we were setting the episode in the mid-1980s and we were trying to think of things that were popular in that era. But, instead of changing it, we just made that a joke in the episode, having Skinner say, “We need a name that’s witty at first, but that seems less funny each time you hear it.” As for the name of the band, we were throwing around a lot of names and someone suggested “The Be Sharps.” It was funny, but as we were using it more, it got less and less funny. Homer had to be there, of course, and Skinner was a natural bass. Universal Orlando Resort has two attractions (one that is still open and one that permanently closed in 2021): The Simpsons Ride and A Day in the Park with Barney.Martin: When choosing the line-up for the Be Sharps, I kind of just went with what felt right.Phil Hartman, who voiced Troy McClure, died in 1998, the same year that Barney's Great Adventure was released.In "Treehouse of Horror XXVI", Maggie turns Homerzilla into Barney.In "The Book Job", a Barney doll can be seen with Milhouse Van Houten at Dino Land.In the episode "The Joy of Sect", Barney brainwashes the toddlers in song, to follow the cult leader: " We love him, he loves we.In the episode "Rosebud", Barney appears as a purple stegosaurus dinosaur, teaching math (by repeatedly chanting: "Two plus two is four!"), before being interrupted by Mr.Interestingly, Barney Gumble shares the same name as the purple dinosaur. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
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