Top Eleven Simpsons Musical Numbers

No show on television over the last twenty years has provided more memorable musical moments than The Simpsons. Alas, that includes American Idol. I think. Actually, I've never seen an episode of American Idol, but I have heard music from artists who won, so I can only assume that the music of those who didn't win was even worse, which leads me to conclude that American Idol has not featured anywhere near as many classic musical moments as The Simpsons.

From Mr. Burns prancing around in a vest made of gorilla chest hair to the family cavorting under the sea as Homer dreams of escaping frustrations by living among the crustaceans, the burning question that all lovers of Simpsons and musicals must be asking is this: Why has no one had the idea of making a Broadway musical out of the music of the Simpsons?

There's a lot to choose from and it wasn't easy and it pained me to leave some numbers of this list, but I hereby offer up one man's opinion of the top eleven musical numbers from the Simpsons so far.

11) "Cape Feare Medley"
Public Enemy #1 Robert Underdunk "Sideshow Bob" Terwilliger, newly decorated with tattoos ala Robert DeNiro as Max Cady is once again bent on extracting a cold slice of revenge on the ten year old who ruined his life by exposing him as the man who framed Krusty the Klown for robbery. Voiced by incomparable Kelsey Grammar, Sideshow Bob kidnaps Bart as he enacts a rake-perfect parody of Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. Just before he is about to carry out his revenge plot full murderousness, Bob asks Bart if he has any last requests. Bart replies that Bob has such a lovely singing voice-guilty as charged-that he'd like to hear the full score of the HMS Pinafore. In a brilliantly conceived musical homage/parody, both Bob and Bart proceed to waste enough time singing snippets of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta that Sideshow Bob is foiled again and arrested by Springfield's bad cops, bad cops. Featured in the episode titled Cape Feare.