Soundtrack
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This article is about the musical appearance on Futurama. It is split up in two sections; Performed Songs and Playback.
Performed Songs
Performed Songs are songs performed by the characters on the show, both original and non-original songs. Listed by song title.
- "Bender's Great" - Original Performance
- Performed by Bender in Bendin' in the Wind.
- Lyrics:
- Bender: Froggy went a-courtin' and he did ride, uh-huh, uh-huh
- Well, Froggy went a-courtin' and he did ride,
- Blah, blah, blah, something, Bender is great!
- Froggy went a-courtin' and Bender is great, uh-huh--
- "Corn Song" - Original Performance
- Performed by Bender in Bendin' in the Wind.
- Lyrics:
- Bender: Fry cracked corn,
- And I don't care,
- Leela cracked corn,
- I still don't care,
- Bender cracked corn,
- And he is great!
- Take that, you stupid corn!
- "Daisy Bell" - Harry Dacre
- Performed by Bender in Love and Rocket.
- A reference to 2001.
- "Danny Boy" - Frederick Weatherly
- Performed by Dr. Zoidberg in A Pharaoh to Remember.
- "Don't Mess With Earth" - Original Performance
- Performed by Head of the ACLU in A Taste of Freedom.
- Lyrics:
- You can eat my dog,
- You can eat my truck,
- But you eat my flag and you're out of luck!
- She's 'awaven proud around the world,
- From Dallas to Ft. Worth,
- Let me say it again...
- Don't mess with Earth!
- ...Don't-mess-with-Earth.
- Kill Zoidberg!
- "Don't Worry, Bee Happy" - Original Performance (to the tune of Don't Worry, Be Happy)
- Performed by Amy, Bender, Farnsworth, Hermes, Dr. Zoidberg and Bee in The Sting.
- Lyrics:
- Amy: In every life, we have some trouble.
- Bender: But when you worry you make it double.
- Bender/Amy: [singing] Don't worry! Bee happy! [Bender imitating bongoes]
- Professor: The landlords say your rent is late.
- Hermes: You may have to litigate.
- Professor/Hermes/Bender: Don't worry! [Bender opens his chest and releases a bee, which stings the Professor in the head]
- Bee: Bee...
- Professor: Happy! [The Professor swells up and explodes. Zoidberg appears on a stage, his name displayed behind him in neon lights]
- Zoidberg: Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style, ladies vomit when I smile. But does Zoidberg worry? Feh, you wish! [The bee stings him]
- Bee: Bee...
- Zoidberg: Happy! [He explodes. Hermes skates into view, carrying Amy]
- Hermes: Don't worry now, Amy! [The bee stings Hermes, who explodes. Amy skates up to the camera]
- Amy: Okay, I'm happy! [She is stung and explodes, revealing Bender standing on the table]
- Bender: Take us home, Bender! Don't worry! [The bee stings him]
- Bee: Bee...
- Bender: Happy! [Bender explodes into a firework display. When the smoke clears, everyone is sitting around as if nothing had happened]
- Leela: [short pause] Uh, were you just singing?
- Bender: No, I was telling you not to worry. I'm not allowed to sing. Court order.
- "Bureaucrat Song" - Original Performance
- Performed by Hermes, LaBarbara, Dr. Zoidberg, Farnsworth, Leela, Bender, Morgan Proctor in How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back.
- Lyrics:
- Hermes: When I was four there was a hurricane in Kingston Town
- with a foot and a half of water
- Everyone was alright, but I cried all night
- It blew my alphabet blocks out of order
- And they say this boy’s born to be a bureaucrat
- Born to be all obsessive and snotty
- I made my friends and relations file long applications
- To get into my tenth birthday party.
- LaBarbara: But something changed when my man turned pro.
- Hermes: I was sorting but I wasn't smilin'
- LaBarbara: He forgot that it's not about badges and ranks
- Hermes: It's supposed to be about the filin'!
- People,
- We didn't choose to be bureaucrats
- No, that's what our mighty Ja made us
- We treat people like swine and make them stand in line
- Even if nobody paid us
- They say the world looks down on the bureaucrats
- They say we're anal, compulsive and weird
- But when push comes to shove you gotta do what you love
- Even if it's not a good idea
- Zoidberg!
- Zoidberg: They said I probably shouldn't be a surgeon
- Farnsworth: They poopooed my electric frankfurter
- Leela: They said I probably shouldn't fly with just one eye
- Bender: I am Bender please insert girder
- Hermes: Everybody sing Jamaica!
- All: Jamaica!
- Hermes: Just the bureaucrats - Jamaica!
- Bureaucrats: Jamaica!
- Hermes: The grade nineteens!
- Morgan Proctor: ...Jamaica.
- Hermes: Sing me home,
- When push comes to shove you gotta do what you love
- Even if it's not a good idea!
- "Elves' Xmas Song" - Original Performance
- Performed by Bender, Leela, Fry, Neptunian Elves, Robot Santa in A Tale of Two Santas.
- Lyrics:
- Neptunian Elves: We are free and barely sober
- With so many toys to build
- The machines are kind of tricky
- Probably someone will be killed
- But we gladly work for nothing
- Fry: Which is good because we don't intend to pay
- Neptunian Elves: The elves are back to work today
- Hooray!
- We have just a couple hours
- To make several billion gifts
- And the labor isn't easy
- Leela: Then you'll all work triple shifts
- You can make the job go quicker
- If you turn up the controls to super speed
- Neptunian Elves: It's back to work on Xmas eve
- Hooray.
- Leela: And though your cold and sore and ugly
- Your pride will mask the pain
- Fry: Let my happy smile warm your hearts
- Neptunian Elf: There's a toy lodged in my brain
- Neptunian Elves: We are getting awfully tired
- And we can't work any faster
- And we're very, very sorry
- Bender: Why you selfish little bastards!
- Do you want the kids to think
- That santas just a crummy empty handed jerk?!
- Then shut your yaps and back to work!
- Neptunian Elves: Now it's very nearly Xmas
- And we done the best we could
- Fry: These toy soldiers are poorly painted
- Leela: And they're made from inferior wood
- Bender: I should give you all a beating
- But i really have to fly
- Robot Santa: If I weren't stuck here frozen
- I'd harpoon you in the eye
- Neptunian Elves: Now it's back into our tenements
- To drown ourselves in rye
- Leela: You did the best you could I guess
- And some of these gorillas are OK
- Neptunian Elves: HOORAY! (we're adequate!)
- All: The elves have rescued Xmas day
- Hooray!
- "The Fourth Day of Xmas" - Original Performance (To the tune of Twelve Days of Christmas)
- Performed by Bender, Tinny Tim, 2 robots in Xmas Story.
- Lyrics:
- Bender: On the fourth day of Xmas I stole from that lady
- Robot 1: Four familiy photos
- Tinny Tim: Three jars of pennies
- Robot 2: Two former husbands
- Bender: And a slipper on a shoe-tree.
- "I'll Shoot Her With My Railgun" - Original Performance (to the tune of She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain)
- Performed by Bender in The Series Has Landed
- Lyrics:
- Bender: Well I'll shoot her with my railgun when she comes.
- Yes, I'll shoot her with my railgun when she comes.
- Yes, I'll shoot her with my railgun, oh I'll shoot her with my railgun,
- Yes, I'll shoot her with my railgun when she comes, when she comes.
- I'll be blasting all the humans in the world,
- I'll be blasting all the humans in the world,
- I'll be blasting all the humans, I'll be blasting all the humans,
- I'll be blasting all the humans in the world, in the world.
- "Funkytown" - Lipps Inc.
- Performed by Morbo in Amazon Women in the Mood.
- "Grunka Lunka Songs" - Original Performance
- Performed by Grunka Lunkas in Fry and the Slurm Factory.
- Lyrics:
- Grunka Lunka dunkety doo
- We've got a friendly warning for you
- Grunka Lunka dunkety dasis
- The secret of Slurm's on a need-to-know basis
- Asking questions in school is a great way to learn
- If you try that stuff here you might get your legs broke
- We once found a guy face down in the Slurm
- It could easily happen again to you folk
- So keep your head down and keep your mouth shut
- Grunka Lunka Lunka dunkety dut!...
- ...Grunka Lunka dunkety dingredient
- You should not ask about the secret ingredient!...
- ...Grunka Lunka dunkety darmedguards...
- "Lola" - The Kinks
- Performed by Zapp Brannigan in Amazon Women in the Mood.
- In Zapp's performance, the character of the original song (Lola) is exchanged with Leela.
- "The New Justice Team part 1"
- Performed by ? in Less than Hero
- Lyrics:
- Go, go, go New Justice Team
- Go team, go team, team team team
- Whose that newest Justice Team
- The New Justice Team
- Captain Yesterday is fast
- Also he is from the past
- Not just fast but from the past
- Captain Yesterday!
- Super King has all the powers of a King
- Plus all the power of Superman,
- Also he's a robot
- Ain't it cool? Super King you rule!
- Cloberella beats you up
- Cloberella beats you up
- Who does she beat up? You!
- Cloberella!
- Citizens, never fear
- Crazy do-good freaks are here
- Until they run out of steam...
- Miracle cream, miracle cream
- Gives the power to the team
- Its effects wear off for sure
- So they just slop on some more
- The New Justice Team!
- "The New Justice Team part 2"
- Performed by ? in Less than Hero
- Lyrics:
- Go, go, go New Justice Team
- Fighting justice is their quest
- Super King, Cloberella
- And all the rest
- Here's to you new Justice Team
- Do the things that make a team
- Help each other do some things
- Winners don't use drugs!
- The New Justice Team!
- "My Broken Friend" - Original Performance
- Performed by Bender, Beck in Bendin' in the Wind.
- Lyrics:
- Bender: People say my broken friend is useless.
- But I say his mind is free.
- There's lots of things my mangled robot friend could be.
- Beck: Kick it!
- Bender: Well he could make a good hat rack,
- Beck: He only has to stand there.
- Bender: Or a cheap doorstop,
- Beck: He doesn't need to move.
- Bender: Or a great big giant thermos with a twist off top,
- Beck: That would be good for soup.
- Bender: He could be a storage closet for outdated pants.
- Beck: I like 'em tight.
- Bender: My broken friend could do it all,
- Beck & Bender: Just give him a chance!
- Bender: That robot has a tragic secret
- That I'd like to share.
- Beck: For real?
- Bender: My broken friend is closer to me than an ass to a chair.
- Beck: Mmmm.
- Bender: That robot's name I never told you...
- Beck: What's that?
- Bender: ... you could not foresee.
- Beck: C'mon, give it up.
- Bender: I sing it loud and sing it proud,
- Beck & Bender: His name is you and me!
- Bender: Don't melt me down into a crowbar,
- Beck: It suffers alone,
- Bender: Just 'cause I can't move my arms and legs. [He starts moving his arms and legs]
- Beck: Hey!
- Bender: Or toss me into a trash can,
- Beck: Bender, what are you doin'?
- Bender: Just 'cause I can't cook you ham and eggs.
- Beck: What are you doin'?
- Bender: Don't crush me into an anchor,
- Beck: Yo, what's the dilly-o?
- Bender: Just 'cause I can't jump and dance and sing
- I'm telling you, my broken friend...
- Put your hands in the air like you just don't care!
- I'm telling you my broken friend
- Can do most anything!
- Yeah!
- "Pharaoh's Funeral Song" - Original Performance
- Performed by Elton John look alike in A Pharaoh to Remember.
- Lyrics:
- Pharaoh my god-king
- you are cold and deceased,
- Are you still half insane?...
- ...Ph-Ph-Ph-Pharoh and his pets...
- ...but the years went by and Pharaoh died,
- Suzy went and joined him in the afterlife...
- "Popplers Song" - Original Performance (to the tune of The Sailor's Hornpipe)
- Performed by Fry, Bender in The Problem with Popplers
- Lyrics:
- Pop a Poppler in your mouth,
- When you come to Fishy Joe's,
- What they're made of is a mystery,
- Where they come from, no one knows.
- You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em,
- You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em,
- And if you promise not to sue us,
- You can shove one up your nose.
- "Robot Hell" - Original Performance
- Performed by Bender, Robt Devil, Beastie Boys, Fry, Leela in Hell is Other Robots.
- Lyrics:
- Robot Devil: Cigars are evil you won't miss 'em we'll find ways to simulate that smell
- What a sorry fella rapped up in smoke like a pandella,
- Here on Level One of Robot Hell!
- Robot Devil: Gamblings wrong and so is cheating so is forging foney I.O.U's
- Lets let lady luck decide what type of torture's justified
- I'm pit boss here on Level Two!
- Ooh deep fried robot!
- Bender: Just tell me why!
- Robot Devil Just read this 55 page warrant.
- Bender: There must be robots worse than I
- Robot Devil: We checked around, there really aren't.
- Bender: Then please let me explain my crimes were mearly boyish pranks
- Robot Devil: You stole from boy scouts, nuns and banks!
- Bender: Oh don't blame me blame my up-bringing.
- Robot Devil: Please stop sinning while I'm singing.
- Robot Devil: Selling bootleg tapes is wrong, musicians need that income to survive.
- Beastie Boys: Hey Bender, gonna make some noise
- With your hard drive scratched by the Beastie Boys
- Thats what ya, what ya, what ya get on Level Five!
- Fry: I don't feel well.
- Leela: Its up to us to rescue him.
- Fry: Maybe he likes it here in Hell.
- Leela: Its us who tempted him to sin.
- Fry: Maybe he's back at the motel.
- Leela: Come on Fry now don't be scared
- I'm sure at least one of us will be spared
- So just sit back and enjoy the ride.
- Fry: My ass has blisters from the slide!
- Robot Devil: Fencing Diamonds, Fixing cockfights
- Publishing indescent magazines
- You'll pay for every crime
- Knee deep in electric slime
- You'll suffer till the end of time
- Enduring tortures most of which rhyme
- Trapped forever here in Robot Hell
- "Santa Claus is Gunning you Down" - Original Performance (To the tune of Santa Claus is Coming to Town)
- Performed by the Planet Express crew in Xmas Story.
- Lyrics:
- Amy: He knows when you are sleeping,
- Professor Farnsworth: He knows when you're on the can,
- Leela: He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.
- Zoidberg: Oh,
- Hermes: You'd better not breathe, you'd better not move,
- Bender: you're better off Dead, I'm telling you, dude.
- Fry: Santa Claus is gunning you down!
- "Single Female Lawyer Tune" - Original Performance
- Performed by Bender in When Aliens Attack.
- This is the theme Bender sang for the hastily-constructed season finale made to appease the Omicronians who had invaded Earth. It is not known if the real show had a sung theme, or if it was anything like this one.
- Lyrics:
- Single Female Lawyer,
- Fighting for her client,
- Wearing sexy miniskirts,
- And being self-reliant.
- Single Female Lawyer,
- Having lots of sex—
- "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - Bonnie Tyler
- Performed by Kif Kroker in Amazon Women in the Mood.
- "TV Party Tonight" - Original Performance (To the tune of TV Party Tonight by Black Flag)
- Performed by Bender, Professor Farnsworth, Fry, Leela, Zoidberg, Hermes, Cubert, Dwight, Tinny Tim in Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television.
- Lyrics:
- Bender: TV party tonight!
- Professor Farnsworth: Eh Wha?
- Bender: TV party tonight!
- Professor Farnsworth: Oh!
- Fry: We've got nothing better to do
- Leela: Than watch TV and have a couple of brews
- Zoidberg: Don't want to talk about anything else
- Fry: We don't wanna know!
- Professor Farnsworth: We're dedicated, yes
- Hermes: To our favorite shows!
- Cubert: All My Circuits!
- Dwight: Everybody Loves Hypno-Toad!
- Tinny Tim: Scary Door!
- Leela: Blernesday Night Blernsball!
- Bender: Futurama!
- "Wagon Song" - Original Performance
- Performed by Bender in Where the Buggalo Roam.
- Lyrics:
- We've got a right to pick a little fight with rustlers,
- Somebody wants to pick a fight with us,
- He'd better bite my ass.
- "Whaler Song" - Original Performance
- Performed by Whalers on the Moon in The Series Has Landed.
- Lyrics:
- We're whalers on the moon,
- We carry a harpoon,
- For they ain't no whales
- So we tell tall tales
- And sing our whaling tune.
Playback
Playback is songs/musical tunes not performed by the characters on the show. This also includes classical and instrumental parts. But to limit on background music, only where it has a reference and/or an importance. Listed by title.
- "Also sprach Zarathustra" - Richard Strauss
- In Godfellas, The Sting
- A reference to 2001.
- "An der schönen blauen Donau" - Johann Strauss II
- In Godfellas
- A reference to 2001.
- "Conga" - Gloria Estefan/Miami Sound Machine
- In Anthology of Interest II
- "MMMBop" - Hanson
- In Anthology of Interest I
- "Oh, Pretty Woman" - Roy Orbison
- In The Cyber House Rules
- "She's a Lady" - Tom Jones
- In Bend Her
- "TV Party Tonight" - Black Flag
- In Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television
- "We'll Meet Again" - Vera Lynn
- In A Big Piece of Garbage
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