Writer:	Steve O'Donnell
Director:	Mark Ervin
Star:	Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier),  Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others),  Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson),  Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others),  Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others),  Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others)
Recurring Role:	Phil Hartman (Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure and Additional Voices),  Tress MacNeille (Agnes Skinner, Brandine Del Roy, Dolph and others),  Maggie Roswell (Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover, and others),  Pamela Hayden (Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others)
Guest Star:	George Harrison (Himself)

This episode was nominated for the 1998 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction. (edit) Blackboard Joke: Unknown.
Couch Gag: Homer is on a treadmill that goes out of control. He yells "Marge, stop this crazy thing" (A parody of George Jetson yelling "Jane, stop this crazy thing!") (edit) Is a clip show from several episodes including "Bart After Dark", "Marge vs. The Monorail" and various others. (edit)

Homer: Singing is the lowest form of entertainment.
Marge: Homer, you sing all the time.
Homer: No I don't, I hate to rhyme. (edit) Homer: Agh! They're singing! They're singing, Marge! Why aren't they killing each other?
Bart: Yeah, their guns are right there.
Homer: Wait, wait, wait: here comes Lee Marvin. Thank God. He's always drunk and violent. (edit) Clint & Man: Gonna paint our wagon,
Gonna paint it good,
We ain't braggin',
We're gonna coat the wood.

All: They're gonna paint their wagon,
Gonna paint it good,
They ain't braggin',
They're gonna coat the wood.

(pause)

Lee: I'm gonna paint this wagon,
I'm gonna paint it fine,
I'm going to use oil-based paint,
Because this wood is pine.
Women: Ponderosa Pine! (edit) Lisa: You like musicals don't you dad?
Homer: No, I don't, I think they're bad.
They're fake and phony and totally wrong.
Bart: Wake up dad, you're singing a song.
Homer: I wouldn't, I couldn't, I hate that stuff.
Marge: Now Homer, listen, I've had enough.
In our family videos we have clearly seen,
you're a singing, dancing, entertainment machine.

Bart: Mom was right, your singing's a sin.
You're as les misérable as Lee Marvin.
Marge: Sure your dad's singing could make your hair curl,
but you too Bart have sung and danced like a girl.
Bart: Eep.

Lisa: That was pretty bad Bart,
but it could have been worse,
you could have been carrying a sequined verse.
Bart: I hate to dance, and prance and sing.
That's really more of a Milhouse thing.
Marge: I think you move like a young Baryshnikov.
Snake: Nobody move, or I'll blow your heads off.
All: Oooooohh.
Snake: Oooooh.

Marge: It's a desperate criminal on the run from the law,
please spare my children.
Homer: And their damp-trousered pa.
Snake: A singing family,
it's worse than I feared,
for hostage purposes,
you're just too weird. Bye!
Homer: See? All this singing scared him away,
if we just talked like normal he'd probably stay.
Lisa: Many people in this town sing like we do.
There's Mr. Burns, there's Krusty, and even Apu.

Lisa: Because he was singing,
we overheard his plan,
and could save those dogs from that mean old man.
Bart: It still wasn't worth,
Burns' song and dance.
Snake: I'm back so resume,
wetting your pants.
Homer: Okay.

Snake: Because of you all I've got a tune in my head,
and the only way to stop it is to make you all dead.
Say your prayers, and then it's kablamo.
Uh-oh, I'll be back when I get some ammo. Bye!
Homer: Even the criminals are beginning to croon.
Marge: Homey, this whole town runs on a tune.
Our churches, our clubs, our government too.
Bart: Springfield swings like a pendulum do.
Lisa: We can't even get any local laws passed,
without everyone singing...like a big broadway cast.

Homer: All right Marge,
you've convinced me,
there are more terrible things
than musical comedies where everyone sings.
Lisa: There is something worse.
Bart: And it really does blow.
All: When a long running series does a cheesy clip show!
Snake: I'm back to commit felonious assault,
because your infernal singing,
just would not halt. (edit)

By eerie coincidence, the first shots by Snake are heard over Phil Hartman's name in the credits. (edit) The end to "Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart" can be seen on this episode, even in syndication, but not on the end of it in "Homer and Apu", the episode the clip was taken from. (edit)

Homer: They put us on the Waiting To Exhale waiting list, but they said don't hold your breath.

Waiting To Exhale is a 1995 romantic comedy starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett. Whitney also sings on the soundtrack. (edit) The sung conversation between Snake and the Simpsons between clips is very similar to several songs in the Broadway musical Les Miserables. This is one of many broadway parodies in The Simpsons ("My Fair Laddie," for one). (edit) There actually is a movie starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin called Paint Your Wagon (1969), and it is a musical. However, it does not feature the songs used in this episode, and it is not about painting wagons. (edit) Bart: Springfield swings like a pendulum do!

"England swings like a pendulum do" is a line from the song "England Swings" by Roger Miller. (edit)