Somewhere That's Green

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"Somewhere That's Green" is a song that was part of the musical score for the off-Broadway stage musical (and later, film adaptation) "Little Shop of Horrors." The song is performed by the musical's main female protagonist, Audrey Fulquard (portrayed in the 1986 movie version by Ellen Greene), after she realizes she has strong feelings for her co-worker, Seymour Krelborn (enacted by Rick Moranis). Audrey sings about marrying Seymour and finally settling down in the family life she had long desired.

The song was featured in the Family Guy episode "The Courtship of Stewie's Father," here performed by Herbert, the show's elderly pedophile character. Here, Herbert fills the role of Audrey. In his attempt to paint himself as a sympathetic character - a lonely old man who, realizing he is near the end of his life and has never had a meaningful relationship, finally is on the cusp of realizing this void through a relationship with Chris - Herbert sings glowingly about Chris, in the same manner as Audrey did about Seymour in the original.

A series of clips - with Herbert cast as Audrey and Chris as Seymour, and played out in similar fashion as in "Little Shop of Horrors" - accompany the song. The clips also feature two children who look just like Herbert.

[edit] Lyrics

He rakes and trims the grass,

He loves to mow and weed,

I cook like Betty Crocker,

And look like Donna Reed.

There's plastic on my furniture

To keep it neat and clean,

In the Pine-Sol scented air,

Somewhere that's green.

Between our frozen dinners

And our bedtime, 9:15,

We snuggle watching Lucy,

On our big, enormous 12-inch screen.

I'm his December bride,

Chris Griffin, he knows best.

The kids play Howdy-Doody,

As the sun sets in the west.

The picture out of "Better Homes

and Gardens Magazine,"

Someday I know,

We two will go,

Somewhere that's green.