Mirkin returned to the role of showrunner to produce the episodes " The Joy of Sect " and " All Singing, All Dancing " for season nine.

He pitched the plot for " The Joy of Sect ", because he was attracted to the notion of parodies of cults, calling them " comical, interesting and twisted.

The balloon is a reference to Rover, a floating white ball in The Prisoner that was created to keep inhabitants in the " Village ", which was also featured in the season 9 episode The Joy of Sect.

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Club featured " The Joy of Sect " in lists of important episodes of The Simpsons.

The episode's title " The Joy of Sect " was pitched by Richdale.

However, it also notes that " The Joy of Sect " is a commentary on organized religion in general, quoting Bart as saying, " Church, cult, cult, church.

of Homer, the authors cite " escaping from a cult commune in ' The Joy of Sect '" as evidence of " Aristotle's virtuous personality traits in Marge.

examines " The Joy of Sect " from a psychological point of view.

In its original broadcast, " The Joy of Sect " finished 27th in ratings for the week of February 2-8, 1998, with a Nielsen rating of 9. 6, equivalent to approximately 9. 4 million viewing households.

In a 2006 article in USA Today, " The Joy of Sect " was highlighted among the six best episodes of The Simpsons season 9, along with " Trash of the Titans ," " The Last Temptation of Krust ," " The Cartridge Family ," " Dumbbell Indemnity ," and " Das Bus.

" The Mirror gave the episode positive mention in its review of the Season 9 DVD release, and wrote " The Joy of Sect is hilarious with only Marge keeping her head.

" However, the book also noted that " The Joy of Sect " is " another one where the central joke isn't strong enough to last the whole episode.

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" They wrote that the best part of the episode is " the Scottish stuff ," and " the idea that, once again, Burns is actually worried about his public image, as he was in ' The Joy of Sect '.

" In a 2006 article in USA Today, " The Trash of the Titans " was highlighted among the six best episodes of The Simpsons season 9, along with others including " The Joy of Sect ," " The Last Temptation of Krust ," " The Cartridge Family ," " Dumbbell Indemnity ," and " Das Bus ".

In a 2006 article in USA Today, " Das Bus " was highlighted among the six best episodes of The Simpsons season 9, along with others including " Trash of the Titans ," " The Last Temptation of Krust ," " The Cartridge Family ," " Dumbbell Indemnity ," and " The Joy of Sect ".

In a review of the ninth season of The Simpsons, Isaac Mitchell-Frey of the Herald Sun described the episode as " brilliant ", and highlighted it along with episodes " Bart Carny " and " The Joy of Sect ".

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In a 2006 article in USA Today, " Dumbbell Indemnity " was highlighted among the six best episodes of The Simpsons season 9, along with others including " Trash of the Titans ," " The Last Temptation of Krust ," " The Cartridge Family ," " The Joy of Sect ," and " Das Bus ".

The Movementarians are a brainwashing cult, which for a brief time ensnared many of Springfield's citizens in the episode " The Joy of Sect ", making them sign over their savings and houses and then work picking lima beans.

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More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

They were taken from the " Ode to Joy ", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer.

The title of Schiller's poem < em lang =" de ">" An die Freude "</ em > is literally translated as " To Joy ", but is normally called the " Ode to Joy ".

* " Jeremiah was a bullfrog ", in " Joy to the World " ( Hoyt Axton song )

* " On James Tiptree, Alice Sheldon and bake sales ", by Karen Joy Fowler

It was supposed to be a bigger birthday party for Roeingh, later " Dr Motte ", and the motto Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen ( in English — Peace, Joy, Pancakes ) stood for disarmament ( peace ), music ( joy ) and a fair food production / distribution ( pancakes ).

Beethoven's " Ode to Joy ", a song in support of universal brotherhood, is a song of this kind.

Wodehouse's Joy in the Morning, William Golding's Rites of Passage, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Surrealist author Gellu Naum's Zenobia and in Robert E. Howard's Conan series, Edward Gorey's " Fletcher and Zenobia ", and Zenobia / Zeena in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.

Puns are occasionally used to connect ideas, such as " the Magnificrab, Indeed " with Bach's Magnificat in D ; " SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing " with Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ; and " Typographical Number Theory ", or " TNT ", which inevitably reacts explosively when it attempts to make statements about itself.

In 1967, The Seekers recorded " Emerald City ", with lyrics about a visit there, set to the melody of Beethoven's " Ode to Joy ".

And also in the Bay Area, the " Mother of Jug Band Music ", Maria Muldaur, has formed a new jug band called The " Garden of Joy Jug Band ", which include members of the Crow Quill Night Owls and the Gallus Brothers.

The song's meter allows it to be sung to a number of popular tunes including: " Amazing Grace "; " Greensleeves "; " The House of the Rising Sun "; " The Rising of the Moon / Wearing of the Green "; Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " ( in his Ninth Symphony, fourth movement ); " Oh My Darling, Clementine "; " Semper Paratus "; " The Marine Corps Hymn "; " The Yellow Rose of Texas "; " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "; " Ghost Riders in the Sky "; " Acres of Clams ", and the theme song from the TV show Gilligan's Island.

*" Chihuahua ", a song by The Sugarcubes from the 1992 album Stick Around For Joy

* " Walkabout ", a song on the album Stick Around for Joy by The Sugarcubes

That year, Eisfeld conducted the Orchestra's memorial concert for the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln, but in a peculiar turn of events which were criticized in the New York press, the Philharmonic omitted the last movement, " Ode to Joy ", as being inappropriate for the occasion.

The band continued this transformation with an unexpected cover of the Joy Division song " Love Will Tear Us Apart ", which was released in 1988 on Product Inc. in a confusing array of 7-and 12-inch formats.

During the concert, which also included veteran gospel singers Barry McGuire, The Archers, The Happy Goodman Family, The Speer Family, James Blackwood, James Cleveland, Doug Oldham, Mighty Clouds of Joy, and Shirley Caesar, Norman sang his " The Great American Novel ", " a Dylanesque protest song ", which he admitted " wasn't received with much enthusiasm ".

On September 1, 1910, the choir sang the song, " Let the Mountains shout for Joy ", as their first ever recording.

" Her choices were: Symphony No. 41 ( Mozart ), " Casta Diva " from Norma ( Bellini ), " Ode to Joy " ( Beethoven ), Die Walküre ( Wagner ), Liebestod ( Wagner ), " L ' amour est un oiseau rebelle " from Carmen ( Bizet ), " A Whiter Shade Of Pale " ( Procol Harum ) and " Polonaise ", Op.