Bill Oakley recently said in a Talking Simpsons podcast that the songs that are expensive to use doesn’t really correlate with popularity, either. He said a George Michael song would be like $10,000 a second, but an ABBA song could be $500 a second.

The most I think I’ve ever cost one of my shows was 50k; that’s happened a couple of times, actually. Once, we didn’t have a music supervisor yet, and I was asked to put in some Christmas music. I did the only logical thing - I used the version of “Let it Snow” from Die Hard. Another time, we DID have a music…

I guess I’ve got to give you credit for that.

But if they weren’t using their birth names, one could say that they had to change them.

His stage name wasn’t Eddie Creative Commons...

He’ll be back in Pog form.