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Istanbul (Not Constantinople): How one song led me to They Might Be Giants

How a Tiny Toons episode turned me into a lifelong fan of They Might Be Giants

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Chase Roper
Jun 30, 2024
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I can’t hear this song without thinking of this one episode of Tiny Toons Adventures in 1991.

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) was the song that introduced me to They Might Be Giants back in ‘91. Sitting on the brownish carpet of my bedroom in a single-wide trailer on a five-acre plot of mostly forested land in the Pacific Northwest, I was home from school.…

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