As a rabid Futurama fan, I must include the ad-libbed opera from the series finale, AKA "I Want My Hands Back":
Quote:
Robot Devil: (singing) I want my hands back.
[He laughs menacingly and columns of flame explode behind him. Fry stands up.]
Fry: Never!
(singing)A deal's a deal,
Even with a dirty dealer.
Robot Devil: (singing) Very well,
Then I'll take what I want from Leela.
[The spotlight moves from the stage to Leela. Beelzebot extends his arms and pulls her from her seat onto the stage.]
Leela: Whoa!
Robot Devil: (singing) Leela has promised me her hand.
[The audience gasps.]
Leela: (singing) Fry, you do not understand.
[The music slows down and the spotlight narrows as Leela walks across the stage.]
I should have revealed I've been deafened by Bender,
The shame,
The shaaame,
But I feared you'd stop writing this musical splendour,
Deception's the curse of my whimsical gender,
He gave me mechanical ears,
Effective though just a bit garish,
In return without shedding a tear I agreed that I'd give him my hand...
Robot Devil: (singing) ...In marriage!
[Fry gasps.]
Leela: What?
Robot Devil: (singing) You'd give me your hand in marriage.
[He gets down on one knee. The audience watches. Farnsworth watches through some opera glasses, though are just as thick as his normal ones.]
Hermes: (singing) Is this really happening or just being staged?
Farnsworth: (singing) It can't be real -
Amy: (singing) Not if Leela is engaged!
Leela: (singing) That isn't what I meant,
That isn't what I signed.
[The Robot Devil takes the contract out of his chest cabinet.]
Robot Devil: (singing) You should have checked the wording in the fine... [He makes the contract larger.] Print!
Leela: (reading) I'll give you my hand...
Leela and Robot Devil: (singing) ...In marriage.
[In the audience Bender reads from a dictionary.]
Bender: (singing) The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention,
Now that is..."irony!"
[The Robot Devil pulls Preacherbot out of his seat and onto the stage.]
Robot Devil: (singing) I will marry her now and confine her to hell,
How droll,
How droll!
Where Styx is a river,
And not just a band,
Though they'll play our reception if all goes as planned,
Unless Fry you surrender my hands!
[Fry looks at the hands on his wrists. The spotlight narrows over him.]
Fry: (singing) Destiny has cheated me by forcing me to decide upon,
The woman that I idolise,
Or the hands of an automaton,
Without these hands I can't complete the opera that was captivating her,
But if I keep them,
And she marries him,
Then he probably won't want me dating her.
[The audience applauds and cheers. Nixon sits next to Morbo and wife.]
Nixon: Arooo!
[Zapp the linguist sits on a balcony with woman from off the street perhaps.]
Zapp: Bray-vo! Enn-core!
Farnsworth: (singing) I can't believe the devil is so unforgiving.
Zoidberg: (singing) I can't believe everyone is just ad-libbing!
[Leela stuggles to get out of Beelzebot's hold but he is holding her too tightly. Fry gazes at his hands.]
Preacherbot: (singing) By the power vested in me,
By the state of New New York -
Fry: No! [He pushes the Robot Devil away from Leela.] Stop! Take my hands!
(singing) You evil metal dork!
[He falls to his knees and cries. The Robot Devil cackles, pulls out his cleaver and chops his hands off Fry's wrists. Leela gasps. The lights dim.]
Comments: It's funny and emotional at the same time!Nobody's Home--Avril LavigneQuote:
I couldn't tell you why she felt that way,
She felt it everyday.
And I couldn't help her,
I just watched her make the same mistakes again.
What's wrong, what's wrong now?
Too many, too many problems.
Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.
Open your eyes and look outside, find a reasons why.
You've been rejected, and now you can't find what you left behind.
Be strong, be strong now.
Too many, too many problems.
Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.
Her feelings she hides.
Her dreams she can't find.
She's losing her mind.
She's fallen behind.
She can't find her place.
She's losing her faith.
She's fallen from grace.
She's all over the place.
Yeah,oh
She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.
She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh yeah
She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh yeah
Comments: It reminds me of Futurama, of course, and it's just a good song.Imaginary--EvanescenceQuote:
i linger in the doorway
of alarm clock screaming monsters calling my name
let me stay
where the wind will whisper to me
where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story
in my field of paper flowers
and candy clouds of lullaby
i lie inside myself for hours
and watch my purple sky fly over me
don't say i'm out of touch
with this rampant chaos - your reality
i know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
the nightmare i built my own world to escape
in my field of paper flowers
and candy clouds of lullaby
i lie inside myself for hours
and watch my purple sky fly over me
swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
oh how i long for the deep sleep dreaming
the goddess of imaginary light
Comments: It's a dreamlike song, and I like dreamlike...stuff. My Bloody Valentine--Good CharlotteQuote:
Oh, my love
Please don't cry
I'll wash my bloody hands and
We'll start a new life
I ripped out
His throat
And called you on the telephone
To take off
My disguise
Just in time to hear you cry when you...
You mourn the death of your bloody valentine
The night he died
You mourn the death of your bloody valentine
One last time
Singin'...
Oh, my love
Please don't cry
I'll wash my bloody hands and
We'll start a new life
I don't know much at all
I don't know wrong from right
All I know is that I love you tonight
There was
Police and
Flashing lights
The rain came down so hard that night and the
Headlines read
A lover died
No tell-tale heart was left to find when you...
You mourn the death of your bloody valentine
The night he died
You mourn the death of your bloody valentine
One last time
Singin'...
Oh, my love
Please don't cry
I'll wash my bloody hands and
We'll start a new life
I don't know much at all
I don't know wrong from right
All I know is that I love you tonight
Tonight
He dropped you off, I followed him home
Then I, I stood outside his bedroom window
Standing over him, he begged me not to do
What I knew I had to do cause I'm so in love with you
Oh, my love
Please don't cry
I'll wash my bloody hands and
We'll start a new life
I don't know much at all
I don't know wrong from right
All I know is that I love you tonight
Tonight
Comments: I should write a fanfic with this plot...Your Horoscope For Today--Weird Al YankovicQuote:
Aquarius
There's travel in your future when your tongue freezes to the back of a speeding bus
Fill that void in your pathetic life by playing Whack-A-Mole seventeen hours a day
Pisces
Try to avoid any Virgos or Leos with the Ebola virus
You are the true Lord of the Dance, no matter what those idiots at work say
Aries
The look on your face will be priceless when you find that forty pound watermelon in your colon
Trade toothbrushes with an albino dwarf, then give a hickey to Meryl Streep
Taurus
You will never find true happiness - what you gonna do, cry about it?
The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
That's your horoscope for today
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
That's your horoscope for today
Gemini
Your birthday party will be ruined once again by your explosive flatulence
Your love life will run into trouble when your fiance hurls a javelin through your chest
Cancer
The position of Jupiter says you should spend the rest of the week face down in the mud
Try not to shove a roll of duct tape up your nose while taking your driver's test
Leo
Now is not a good time to photocopy your butt and staple it to your boss's face, oh no
Eat a bucket of tuna-flavored pudding, then wash it down with a gallon of strawberry Quik
Virgo
All Virgos are extremely friendly and intelligent - except for you
Expect a big surprise today when you wind up with your head impaled on a stick
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
That's your horoscope for today
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
That's your horoscope for today
Now you may find it inconceivable or at the very least a bit unlikely that the relative position of the planets and the stars could have a special deep significance or meaning that exclusively applies to only you, but let me give you my assurance that these forcasts and predictions are all based on solid, scientific, documented evidence, so you would have to be some kind of moron not to reaize that every single one of the is absolutely true.
Where was I?
Libra
A big promotion is just around the corner for someone much more talented that you
Laughter is the very best medicine, remember that when your appendix bursts next week
Scorpio
Get ready for an unexpected trip when you fall screaming from an open window
Work a little harder on improving your low self-esteem, you stupid freak
Sagittarius
All your friends are laughing behind your back (kill them)
Take down all those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine you've got hanging in your den
Capricorn
The stars say that you're an exciting and wonderful person, but you know they're lying
If I were you, I'd lock my doors and windows and never never never never never leave my house again
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
That's your horoscope for today
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
That's your horoscope for today
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
That's your horoscope for today
That's your horoscope for today (yay yay yay yay yay)
That's your horoscope for today
Comments: Weird Al rocks! This is an original song by him, but it's still a parody...it spoofs those little horoscopes you see in the newspaper, and does so very, very well.