If there's a task that must be done, Don't turn your tail and run. Don't pout, Don't sob, Just do a half-assed job. If you cut every corner, It is really not so bad. Everybody does it. Even Mom and Dad. If nobody sees it, Then nobody gets mad.
Bart: It's the American way.
Shary Bobbins: The policeman on the beat Needs some time to rest his feet.
Chief Wiggum: Fighting crime is not my cup of tea.
Shary Bobbins: And the clerk who runs the store Can charge a little more For meat...
Apu: For meat...
Shary Bobbins: And milk...
Apu: And milk...
Shary Bobbins & Apu: From nineteen eighty-four.
Shary Bobbins: If you cut every corner, You'll have more time for play.
Shary Bobbins and the Simpsons: It's the American way!!