cap. Soundtrack The film score of The Natural was composed and conducted by Randy Newman. The score has often been compared to the style of Aaron Copland and sometimes Elmer Bernstein. Scott Montgomery, writing for Goldmine music magazine, referenced the influence, and David Ansen, reviewing the film for Newsweek, called the score "Coplandesque." The score also has certain Wagnerian features of orchestration and use of Leitmotif. Adnan Tezer of Monsters and Critics noted the theme is often played for film and television previews and in "baseball stadiums when introducing home teams and players." Levinson also described to Bob Costas in MLB Network's "Costas at the Movies" how he heard Newman develop the movie's iconic theme: "We were racing to try to get this movie out in time and we were in one room and then there was a wall and Randy's in the other room. One of the great thrilling moments is I heard him figuring out that theme...You could hear it through the wall as he was working out that theme and I'll never forget that." The soundtrack album was released May 11 on the Warner Bros. label, with the logo for Tri-Star Pictures also appearing on the label to commemorate this as their first production. In popular culture In Season 4, Episode 8 of Better Call Saul, Jimmy McGill refers to Kim Wexler's legal strategy as "watching Roy Hobbs smash out stadium light". In The Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat", the origin story of Homer's "Wonder Bat" parodies this movie. In another episode of The Simpsons titled "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder", the music, slow motion, and other elements of this film's ending sequence are used as a parody when Homer Simpson bowls his last strike for a "Perfect game". In the Season 4 Episode 6 of Archer titled "Once Bitten", Archer's venom-inspired dream sequence is a parody of this film with Archer in the role of Hobbs and substituting lacrosse for baseball. The original The Wonder Years series ended its six season run on ABC with a remixed version of the Randy Newman soundtrack, which was featured in the background of the final moments of the show's 1993 series finale. In season 6 , episode 1 of Bojack Horseman (2019) Bojack stops Jameson who's destroing her father's car with a bat. As we can see by Reading at the cartel where she picks up the bat, that