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Numbersdome: A Fight To the Bitter West End!

Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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Hey Ya'll! I'd usually have a big introduction but I've overbooked myself lately and I just want to get straight to the meat.

Simply put, we are voting on our favourite musical numbers in one-on-one matches that everyone nominated. If you didn't submit some numbers, don't worry, you can still take part. Seriously, the more the better!

Here are our first match ups.

Here's the bracket.

Prelims!
Match 1

Our first match is outlaw themed! First, @Exposition Owl 's Blues Brothers pick "Think" by Aretha Franklin. That movie has some great numbers but I think this one is my favourite, a powerful number from Franklin showing her power, dynamism and her linguistic dexterity in certain parts. Against it is @WildcatJF 's pick of "Not in Nottingham" by Roger Miller from Robin Hood. Disney made an interesting choice because while the setting is the same, the tone feels heavily in the mode of the sort of Southern united states outlaw mold that I actually associate with the end of the 70s rather than the beginning; Smokey and the Bandit and the Dukes of Hazzard. This is actually one of the film's more sorrowful songs, though, showing the need for Robin.


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Match 2
Next is my pick of "Finale: The Magic Store" from The Muppet Movie. Frustratingly, no one has the scene in one video so I'm going with just the music but I really like this one. I always felt like the middle part that bridges the Magic Store with the Rainbow Connection reprise is a bit cheesy but both songs need to go together, in my opinion. Against it is @RT-55J 's pick of the classic musical number "Modern-Major General" from the Pirates of Penzance, a comedy song that in itself has been parodied a number of times. George Rose is portraying the General in this case, a Tony award winning actor who would pass on 5 years after this role.
Finale: The Magic Store
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Modern-Major General
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Issun

Issun

Chumpy
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Johnny Unusual said:
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The Robin Hood song is good, but it's hard to go against Aretha so early. I really need to watch The Blues Brothers someday. For the other match, it's hard to vote against one of the definitive musical numbers, but The Muppet Movie is one of those films with n absolutely perfect ending, so...
 
Daikaiju

Daikaiju

Rated Ages 6+
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Issun said:
The Robin Hood song is good, but it's hard to go against Aretha so early. I really need to watch The Blues Brothers someday. For the other match, it's hard to vote against one of the definitive musical numbers, but The Muppet Movie is one of those films with n absolutely perfect ending, so...
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Same.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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The Queen of Soul outwits Alan-a-Dale and the Muppets narrowly (by a single implied vote, as @Daikaiju said, unbolded, "same" to a vote. If I misinterpreted I can knock it back down to a tie) defeat Gilbert and Sullivan with a magic trick.

Match 3

First, @Violentvixen gets educational (though considering how long ago the song was released, this is definitely not up-to-date) with "Yakko's World" from Animaniacs, one of the several Animaniacs songs that severely tested the linguistic dexterity of the cast (see also Wakko's America) but I can't imagine one more challenging than Yakko's World. Against it is @Kirin 's pick of "Can You Picture That?" from the Muppet Movie (AGAIN!). It's the song sung by the Electric Mayhem while they disguise Fozzie's Uncle's Studebaker. It's also a song that where the chorus might have a bit of a familiar rhythm.


Yakko's World - Animaniacs

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Can You Picture That? - The Muppet Movie

Match 4
Next it's sketch comedy face off. First @Issun has "Listening" from I Think You Should Leave and I both remember the scene but I don't remember the context. Something about Shirt Brothers? I'll need to rewatch it. Against it is my pick of "Do-Re-Mi" from The Kids in the Hall (a cover from the Sound of Music), featuring the whole cast in a scene that is silly but there's no real obvious "joke" to it beyond the fun the cast is having hamming it up. Kevin McDonald screaming "TEA!" is forever seared into my brain, by the way.

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Issun

Issun

Chumpy
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This one is kind of a self-indulgent nom, as I know it's not going to do very well, especially bereft of the context of the rest of the sketch. The ITYSL sketch I probably should have nominated for this would be The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me, but for some reason that one didn't occur to me until the dome started, and that one's gotten a lot of exposure already anyways. This is an interesting pairing, though, because you can definitely see the link on the genealogy tree from Kids in the Hall to I Think You Should Leave here.

Anyways, Can You Picture No Rules?
 
Exposition Owl

Exposition Owl

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Can You Picture the Kids in the Hall? I have a pretty fuzzy mental image of them, myself.

By the way, is it just me, or does the music in between the verses of Yakko’s World also get used for the Joker’s theme in B:TAS?
 
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Issun

Issun

Chumpy
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I'm actually picturing Xi Jinping watching that Animaniacs video now and making some phone calls to Warner execs.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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The Electric Mayhem picture a victory while The Kids in the Hall crush some heads.

Match 5​

@Violentvixen takes “Everybody to the Limit” with Strong Bad and some good old-fashioned Cheat-Mation. Man, remember when Strong Bad was the best thing on the Internet? If anything, the Powerd by the Cheat bits are a perfect send up of Internet animation just 5 years prior to when this was released. Against it is “Status Report” from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ musical episode, as chosen by @Daikaiju . I haven’t really watched Strange New Worlds but people seem to really like this episode.


The next match up comes from what seems to have been from a Golden Age of stage musicals; First was Razzle Dazzle, @Exposition Owl 's choice from Chicago. In this one, Billy Flynn lets criminal Roxie know that during her trial, her best chance is to wow the crowd like an entertainer. Against it is Stars, @Violentvixen 's choice from Les Misérables. The song is of the villain Javert, a detective who is more concerned with punishing criminals than helping people and is completely obsessed with his own idea of justice, as he realizes he is close to being able to capture fugitive Jean Valjean.

 
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