I asked Al why not animate a template background of the students and band room without Lisa in it so that she could be animated separately and then composite her into the background? That way, if we wanted to have Lisa play a different instrument, the crew over at Film Roman would only have to animate Lisa and her instrument and drop her in over the background. It was quite time and labor intensive to re-create that scene. Apparently, the scene was animated with all the elements in a single shot – Lisa, the other students, the band room, etc. Everyone really enjoyed it, but Al said we probably wouldn’t be doing that again because is was quite expensive to animate. Al thought that was a clever idea and had Lisa animated playing a trumpet. During music spotting a few seasons back, Alf suggested to Al Jean that Lisa could play a different instrument in the Main Title now and then. Another nice performance for our show where a guest star gets to play a part and not just do a quick, one-line “walk-on”.įor our first Main Title sequence of season 25, Lisa gets to play a different instrument in the band room: a harp. Kristen Wiig guest starred in “HOMƎRLAND” doing her very funny take on the Carrie character from “Homeland”. Until FOX can figure out a way to pay all the musicians and composers and publishers involved with the music from our show, don’t hold your breath for individual downloads from iTunes or the like. Alas, as I have explained in other posts and comment replies on this blog, the only cues from the show that are currently commercially available are the ones that were released on our three CDs “Songs in the Key of Springfield”, “Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons”, and “Testify”. I’ve already received a few inquiries about where to find and download Alf’s cues from this episode. If you’d like to listen to the originals, here they are: In addition to Alf’s original theme, he also arranged and recorded music by two legendary jazz artists: we covered Thelonious Monk’s “Straight, No Chaser” and “Terminal 7” by Tomasz Stanko. Alf is right at home writing and arranging jazz music – it really is his forté – and the musicians are always happy to sink their teeth into some great jazz charts. The first cue of the episode is my edited version of the actual “Homeland” theme by Sean Callery, but for the rest of the episode Alf crafted his own take on Sean’s theme and that motif is woven throughout the rest of the episode. Written by Stephanie Gillis, it’s a parody of the popular, Emmy Award-winning Showtime series “Homeland”. We kicked off the new season with episode RABF20 “HOMƎRLAND”. Of course, those of us fortunate enough to work on the music for the show enjoy having summer off – and I certainly did enjoy time spent travelling with my family this summer – but it’s nice to get back to work and a familiar routine and hearing some fabulous music performed by some of the greatest musicians in the world. Smith's family” or “I spent my weekend with the Smiths”.Simpsons fans were treated to the start of our 25th season this past Sunday, Septembut we folks in the music dept. So, in sentence Q2 in your first message, you can say “I spent my weekend with Mr. (Notice it’s not correct to say “the Smith s family” – with “family”, the surname should be in the singular).

(It’s not correct to say “It was the Smith’s party” because the party was by the whole family, not just one person, and also the definite article isn’t used with surnames in the singular).Īnother option is to use the word ‘family’, and say It was the Smith family’s party. “The Smith family” = “The Smiths”, and to make it possessive, we add an apostrophe after ‘s’ (not before it, because it already ends in ‘s’). In that question, it says The party was organised by the Smith family.

You can add an ‘s’ to a surname, to mean ‘all the people in that family’.

Yes, you can say This book is my brother's :) 'Smiths' is less common, but it does exist.įor Q2, both options again are grammatically correct, but the question is: how many neighbours own this car? The answers mean the car belongs to (a) one neighbour, or (b) more than one neighbour. If it is 'Mr Smith s', option b is correct. 'Smith' is a very common surname. So, for your Q1, the important question is: what is the man's name? If it is 'Mr Smith', option a is correct. the car's wheels (= the wheels of the car).Tim's books (= the books that belong to Tim).my sister's books (= the books that belong to my sister, i.e.Otherwise, put the apostrophe before 's'. the bus' wheels (= the wheels of the bus).James' books (= the books that belong to James).my sisters' books (= the books that belong to my sisters, i.e.This includes most plural nouns, and some singular nouns too. Put the apostrophe after 's' if the noun already ends in 's'.

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