H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore is a comic operetta by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.

Waylon Smithers was in a 1974 production of the operetta in 1974.

Bart asked Sideshow Bob as a "last request" to perform the entire operetta to stall Bob until the boat they were on got back to Springfield from Terror Lake.

Lyrics

Sideshow Bob:

Well, Bart, any last requests?

Bart:

Well, there is one, but...Nah.

Sideshow Bob:

No, go on.

Bart:

Well, you have such a beautiful voice.

Sideshow Bob:

Guilty as charged.

Bart:

Uh-huh. I was wondering if you sing the entire score of the H.M.S. Pinafore.

Sideshow Bob:

Very well, Bart. I shall send you to Heaven before I send you to Hell!

We Sail the Ocean Blue

And a two and a three and

We Sail the Ocean Blue,

And our saucy ship's a beauty.

We're sober men and true,

And attentive to our duty.

I'm Called Little Buttercup

I'm called Little Buttercup, poor Little Buttercup,

Though I could never tell why.

I am the Captain of the Pinafore

What, never?

No, never!

What, never?

Sideshow Bob and Bart:

Hardly ever!

He's hardly ever sick at sea!

He is an Englishman

Sideshow Bob:

For he himself has said it,

And it's clearly to his credit,

That he is an Englishman!

He remains an Englishman!

Behind the Laughter

A non-diegetic instrumental excerpt of "We Sail the Ocean Blue" is played in the episode "The Wreck of the Relationship" while Homer and Bart are aboard the Relation Ship.

The version of the operetta by Sideshow Bob and Bart from "Cape Feare" appears on the album Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons.

The scene where Bob sings "For he is an Englishman" is recreated in the "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" segment "Ei8ht". However, before he sings the final note, Bob gets wise and realizes Bart's gambit and ends up killing him and traumatizing Lisa. Later in the episode, an adult Lisa ends up killing Bob while a 1948 recording of "For he is an Englishman" performed by Isidore Godfrey from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company plays.