Adults/Kids

"Adults/Kids"

Song Information Singers: Harry Shearer Dan Castellaneta Hank Azaria Julie Kavner Marcia Wallace Pamela Hayden Nancy Cartwright Yeardley Smith Characters: Timothy Lovejoy, Jr. Homer Simpson Clancy Wiggum Krusty Marge Simpson Edna Krabappel Rod Flanders Todd Flanders Moe Szyslak Nelson Muntz Lisa Simpson Ralph Wiggum Milhouse Van Houten Abraham Simpson Jasper Length: 1:18 Appearance(s): "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"

"Adults/Kids" is a song sung by a group of kids and a group of adults when the town was having a big argument over what kids can do.

Lyrics

Chief Wiggum:

Alright, you kids, get down now. We promise we won't kill ya.

Homer:

Speak for yourself. Bart, get down here! I'm gonna spank you back to the Stone Age!

Bart:

You can't make us come down!

Nelson:

You adults are always giving us orders!

Seymour Skinner:

Yeah, and you kids are always disobeying them!

Milhouse:

Adults treat kids like children!

Kirk Van Houten:

Kids treat adults like cash machines!

Kids:

Adults!

Adults:

Kids!

Kids:

Adults!

Adults:

Kids!

Kids:

Adults!

Reverend Lovejoy:

Kids! You've had your fun, now, we've had our fill!

Homer:

Yeah! You're only here cause Marge forgot her pill!

(Marge murmurs)

Chief Wiggum:

Kids! You're all just scandalizing,

Vandalizing punks!

Krusty:

Channel hoppin',

Ritalin-poppin'

Monkeys!

(But please don't quit the fan club.)

Marge:

Kids! I can nag and nag 'till my hair turns blue!

Edna Krabappel:

Kids! You've bummed my smokes and don't say thank you!

Rod and Todd Flanders:

Why can't you be like we are?

(everyone throws tomatoes at them)

Adults:

Oh, what a bunch of brats!

Moe:

We oughta drown you just like cats!

Bart:

Adults, you run our lives like you're Colonel Clink!

Nelson:

Adults! You strut around like your farts don't stink!

Lisa:

Adults, you're such a drooling, snoring,

Boozing, boring bunch!

Surley meannie,

Three-martini

Lunchers!

Ralph:

I just ate a thumb tack.

Milhouse:

Adults, they're always telling us to—

(Grampa grabs Milhouse)

Grampa:

SHUT YOUR TRAPS!!!

Jasper:

Eh, we're fed up with all you whippersnaps!

(a group of seniors show up)

Seniors:

We're trying to get some sleep here,

It's almost six fifteen.

What's the matter with—

Adults:

Don't you treat us like—

Kids:

Can't you just lay off—

Seniors:

We're sick of all of you—

All:

Kiiiiids tooooday!

Grampa:

We're gonna teach all you rugrats a lesson!

Homer:

Oh, yeah? Pfft! What can you old people do to us?

Krusty:

Yeah, you old fogey!

Moe:

Buzz off, you old—

(All the kids and adults agree.)

Behind the Laughter

It is a parody of the song "Kids" from the Broadway musical Bye, Bye, Birdie!, but unlike the other show-tune parodies The Simpsons have done, this song actually uses the original melody of the song.

Appearances

• Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"