Lyrics should always be there - as far as I know, there’s no kind of rights issue that would prevent the lyrics from appearing in the captions if the song is played on the show.
That said, back when I worked as a captioner and was captioning shows for their first broadcast, we were sent tapes during the post-production process that often didn’t have the final sound mix… and I remember that one production company specifically told us not to caption any song lyrics, because they sometimes went down to the wire on getting music rights for their shows. Obviously, something like that shouldn’t be the case for “Simpsons” reruns (or anything in its second broadcast or beyond). I suspect it was just a weird oversight during the captioning process for that particular episode. > On Jun 15, 2021, at 6:17 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] > <mailto:[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/299E116F-45C4-488A-848E-73D358702A5E%40ellwanger.tv.
