Perhaps there's a difference between original recordings and snatches of songs performed by characters?
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 9:17 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been stymied by a question from my seven-year-old regarding closed > captioning. > > While watching The Simpsons episode "Simpson Tide", he noticed that in the > scene where they play The Village People singing "YMCA", the captioning did > not include the lyrics to the song. He asked me why that was, and I took a > stab at some sort of rights issue. But he then noticed that in the next > episode, "The Trouble With Trillions", Smithers sings a couple lines from > "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and those lines do appear. And I remember > seeing the lyrics from "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" at the end of > "Dumbbell Indemnity" > > Could anyone help explain this further? > > A slightly confused father. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BeUyrc4LPedCuVCgyXDjc42oK7oeuCthwHzaRx7j3EhDQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BeUyrc4LPedCuVCgyXDjc42oK7oeuCthwHzaRx7j3EhDQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4e15cNkb4oaPNNQ1ecFWhg9Dec9KwGQ84_cs90AKG8baA%40mail.gmail.com.
