H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore

Play Information

Genre:	Comic opera
Writer:	Gilbert and Sullivan
Country of origin:	England
First appearance:	"Cape Feare"

H.M.S. Pinafore is a comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.

History[edit]

Bart asked Sideshow Bob as a "last request" to perform the entire operetta to stall him before they got to Springfield on a boat.^[1]

When Homer found the free trampoline ad in the Springfield Shopper, one of the other items being given away was a Gilbert and Sullivan manuscript, the original draft of H.M.S. Pinafore.^[2]

Non-canon[edit]

The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened or existed.

Sideshow Bob performed in H.M.S. Pinafore in prison. He had a poster for it on his cell wall.^[3]

Behind the Laughter[edit]

The songs that Sideshow Bob sings are: "We Sail the Ocean Blue", "I'm Called Little Buttercup", "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore" and "He Is an Englishman".

Appearances[edit]

Episode – "Cape Feare"
Episode – "Bart's Inner Child" (manuscript, mentioned)
Comic story – Sideshow Bob's Prison Time Amusement Page (poster)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

H.M.S. Pinafore at Wikipedia

[1] "Cape Feare"

[2] "Bart's Inner Child"

[3] Sideshow Bob's Prison Time Amusement Page

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