Robocoprock!

April 25, 2005 2:44 PM

A couple years ago, they did SILENCE! the musical version of Silence of the lambs, now they're working on "RoboCop The Musical" with this track uploaded as a preview entitled "Murphy, It's You" performed by RoboCop and Anne Lewis.
posted by mathowie (24 comments total)

I have been waiting for this since 1987.
posted by cmicali at 2:53 PM on April 25, 2005

See also NASCAR ballet.
posted by fatllama at 2:53 PM on April 25, 2005

From "SILENCE!", Track 6: "Put the Fucking Lotion in the Basket" - Buffalo Bill and Catherine

Brilliant.
posted by anthill at 2:57 PM on April 25, 2005

This is great. Thanks! In fact, I'm editing the sound on my VHS copy of ROBOCOP to have this as the closing credits music as we speak.
posted by Peter H at 3:04 PM on April 25, 2005

I can't see how you would dance "The Robot" to that tune, much less the entire musical.
posted by Stan Chin at 3:10 PM on April 25, 2005

"Can you fly Bobby?"
posted by euphorb at 3:11 PM on April 25, 2005

This is either the best thing ever or a sign of the End Times. I get a "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off" vibe from The Simpsons. Is it wrong that I can't stop coming up with my own lyrics for other songs from the show?

When I drive down the street
I can hear them holler:
I'd buy that
for a dollar!
posted by Servo5678 at 3:22 PM on April 25, 2005

"Please drop your weapon, you have mere seconds to comply,
for justice is my logic, force is my UI"

posted by sourwookie at 3:28 PM on April 25, 2005

"Because I shot you in the head
You've come to make me dead
But let me shout these simple tones:
I work for... Dick Jones!"
posted by Servo5678 at 3:30 PM on April 25, 2005

At last, a musical that me and my pet rabbit can attend with pride.

He's even trying to bribe me into getting tickets!

posted by robocop is bleeding at 3:43 PM on April 25, 2005

ps - I'm looking forward to "The Melting Guy Shuffle."
posted by robocop is bleeding at 3:46 PM on April 25, 2005

the fact that track is so close to the sound of a "real" (i.e. in earnest) musical should tell producers of these shlockfests that the end is nigh.
but then, if "Phantom" didn't do it in, nothing will, I guess...:)
posted by Al_Truist at 4:03 PM on April 25, 2005

"dead or alive, you'll sing a duet with me!"
posted by Al_Truist at 4:03 PM on April 25, 2005

Clarence: "I had to kill Bob Morton!"
Hired Goons : "Kill Bob Morton?"
C: "Kill Bob Morton! - He made a mistake!"
Goons: "What'll ya do?"
C: "Erase that mistake!"
All, in chorus: "Now it's time to erase that mistake!"

This is so very, very good.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:16 PM on April 25, 2005

Dammit. I made a mistake. Dick Jones said that, not CB. Unlike Bob Morton, however, I'd actually like my mistake to be erased...
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:29 PM on April 25, 2005

How can they make a friggin' musical out of the movie that so profoundly disturbed me at the age of fourteen? I think my childhood ended during the part where they shoot his hand off.

Who goes to see this crap, anyway?
posted by snout at 8:21 PM on April 25, 2005

I listen to my copy of Silence! regularly. If they had a live version on ice I would go every night. I'm so glad Jon & Al are at it again.
posted by about_time at 8:36 PM on April 25, 2005

If I ever had to pick a film that summed up the direction people thought the world was moving in the 80s, I would choose Robocop. And now it's a musical!
posted by drezdn at 8:53 PM on April 25, 2005

Dick Jones: You can't touch me, remember directive four!
OCP Board (points at Dick): He can just get up and walk out the door!
Dick Jones: Look at you Robo, you're old and you're tired!
Robo: Must... obey.. directive...ffo
The Old Man: Dick Jones! YOU'RE FIRED!
posted by PenDevil at 1:18 AM on April 26, 2005

"They blew your arm off and they shot you in the head!"

Grim scene becomes funny when set to music.
posted by fadeout at 3:32 AM on April 26, 2005

Can somebody stop this musical thing? Please please please please please. It was funny when it was Elephant!, the musical version of The Elephant Man in The Tall Guy from 1989. It was funny when South Park the Movie ripped off Les Mis. But now it's been done. Stop it. Please stop it. It keeps happening because it's easy.
posted by Summer at 4:10 AM on April 26, 2005

It keeps happening because it's easy.

.....Orrrr, alternatively, because it's funny. Just a guess.
posted by 235w103 at 1:44 PM on April 26, 2005

Richard Wagner is soooooo pissed he died before he could score this.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 8:43 PM on April 26, 2005

Orrrr, alternatively, because it's funny. Just a guess.

No joke is funny the 50,000th time.
posted by Summer at 4:29 AM on April 27, 2005