51 thoughts on “So, What Disney Tunes?”

  5. Blue Skies smiling at me. Nothing but blue skies do I see.

    “Whistle While You Work” and “Hei Ho” (the robots likely played those)

    “Some Day My Prince Will Come” (with a check for $500 million)

    and “Fidelity Fiduciary Bank” from Mary Poppins.

  8. This is easy. It’s an instrumental. The theme from a Haley Mills classic.

    “Pollyanna”.

    They were, after all, smiling even though there was no reason to and they were trying to make a bad situation seem better by looking at it AS being better.
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    OR
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    They could have tried “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. Because this whole thing is quite atrocious!

  9. “You got a friend in me” or alternately “A friend like me”, but that was probably Obama. I’d expect something less Disney from the robots, and maybe some missed words:

    Take your job and shove it
    You ain’t workin’ here no more

    Sung to the folks looking for green jobs in the new plant just before the sun went behind a cloud and both the robots and people lost their job.

  14. Listen the command considers us a bunch of losers but we’re going to do it right this time because we’re the best. We don’t we’ll be drummed out the core.

    So long, bad times
    We’re gonna shake it up and break it up
    We’re sharing light brighter than the sun
    Hello , good times
    We’re here to simulate, eliminate
    An’ congregate, illuminate

    (we are here to change the world)
    Gonna change the world, hee
    (we are here to change the world)
    Gonna change the world, ooo

  17. How about supercalifagilisticexpealidocious? It’s not really anything, but it does sound like it could be.

  24. It’s a small world after all.

    It is quite a coincidence that the half a billion in went to a company where the biggest investor is a big Obama contributor.

  26. “Always look on the bright side of life … … Always look on the bright side of death, just before you draw your terminal breathe. … “

  29. The second star to the right
    Shines in the night for you
    To tell you that the dreams you plan
    Really can come true
    The second star to the right
    Shines with a light that’s rare
    And if it’s Never Land you need
    It’s light will lead you there

  31. “I think it’s time that you and I arranged a heart to heart.
    King’s don’t need advice from little hornbills for a start
    If this is where the monarchy is headed, count me out!”

    lyrics from disney song “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King”

  33. Got to be something from 20,000 leagues under the sea…A submerged vessle, mascarading as an imaginary monster, run by a madman, who self destructs once the secret gets out.

  37. Folks–
    This isn’t as silly as it sounds. There’s a huge safety issue when you have autonomous robots moving around in a facility: you don’t want people getting run over.

    Originally, people designed robots to make beeping noises–like that annoying beep you hear when a commercial truck shifts into reverse. That really disrupts an environment. If, instead, you have each mobile robot play a different tune, people in the vicinity can tell a) that a robot is approaching, and b) which robot is approaching.

    Just because it was a waste of federal money doesn’t mean everybody and everything involved was evil.

  40. Nah.

    I’ll go with just because it was a waste of federal money means everybody and everything involved was evil.

    How about “A Pirate’s Life is a Wonderful Life”?

  42. adapted from Robin Hood:

    Every town
    has its ups and downs
    some towns ups
    outnumber the downs
    but not in Solyndra

    I’m inclined to believe
    if we weren’t so down
    we’d up and leave
    we’d up and fly if we had wings for flyin’
    can’t you see the tears we’re cryin’
    can’t there be some happiness for me?
    not in Solyndra

  45. So many to choose from…
    “The Bare Necessities” – The Jungle Book
    ”Circle Of [crony capitalism] Life” – The Lion King
    “A Whole New World” – Aladdin flying about on a solar panel
    “Friend Like Me [BHO]” – Aladdin
    “I’ve Got No Strings [on the money]” – Pinocchio
    “You’ve Got A Friend In Me [BHO]” – Toy Story
    “Be Our Guest” – Beauty And The Beast
    “I Just Can’t Wait To Be [WORLD] King” – The Lion King
    “A Spoonful Of [Socialist] Sugar” – Mary Poppins

  46. John Murdoch Says:
    “Folks–
    This isn’t as silly as it sounds. There’s a huge safety issue when you have autonomous robots moving around in a facility: you don’t want people getting run over. ”

    No one thought to ask why they needed autonomous robots roaming around the factory.

  47. There’s some good suggestions here, but I see only one possibility. It just needs more contemporary, 21st-Century lyrics.

    Who’s the guy who’s propping up this hollow company?
    M-I-C. K-E-Y. M-O-U-S-E!
    It’s so his well-connected friends can rake it in, you see.
    M-I-C. K-E-Y. M-O-U-S-E!

    Mickey Mouse! (Ivy League!)
    Mickey Mouse (Our Captain Queeg!)
    He skipped Economics and just got high, high, HIGH!

    The money gone, we’ll move along to green scams yet to be.
    M-I-C. K-E-Y. M-O-U-S-E!

    The guy who’s never worked in a productive industry?
    M-I-C. K-E-Y. M-O-U-S-E!
    Our green community’s as organized as it can be.
    M-I-C. K-E-Y. M-O-U-S-E!

    Mickey Mouse! (He’s so green!)
    Mickey Mouse (artic’late, clean!)
    His Dunning-Kruger quotient hits the sky, high, HIGH!

    Those unborn yet, are born with debt for things they’ll never see.
    M-I-C. K-E-Y. M-O-U-S-E!

  49. Wodun: “No one thought to ask why they needed autonomous robots roaming around the factory.”

    Wait, the bit about the sharks with frickin’ laser beams hasn’t come out yet.

    Rewrite! Says: (great name btw): “What started all of these Disney referenced comments?”
    See here:
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/solyndra-s-733-million-plant-had-whistling-robots-spa-showers.html

    http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Solyndra-Factory-Had-Disney-Singing-Robots-Spas-130777973.htm

    (If those are the same wire story, apologies for redundancy).

    I was hoping that this Solyndra promotional video would answer the question, but while several robots appear in the first half-minute, the robots are silent or make the usual autonomous-robot beeps. It sure shows how one of the wasteful uses of the money was making this expensive ad:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1GODzk0bgg&feature=player_embedded

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