VeggieTales Review

The countertop is done up like a living room, with Larry watching a television soap-opera that he has a stuffed character from– Barbara Manatee.  The action goes from Larry singing to his stuffed animal to the characters on the soap-opera singing.

Larry is singing his love to Barbara as he gets involved with what’s going on between Barbara and Phil.  The first stanza has Barbara asking Phil to take her to ball– since she’s gotten all ready for it– but Phil says that he’s off to a foreign country and can’t take her because she doesn’t speak French.

Larry sings the chorus saying that he will take her to the ball and dancing a tango.  The second stanza  has Barbara telling Phil that she’s learned French, but we find out that Phil can’t dance!

In the middle of the chorus, as Larry is dancing, Bob interrupts asking Larry what he’s doing.  He suggests that Larry read a book, instead of watching so much television– amusing for a children’s television show!

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The Dance of the Cucumber was the brainchild of Mike Nawrocki and his wife– as his wife is fluent in Spanish.  Either they watched something or experienced first hand the comic gag that’s at play in this silly song where the one who is speaking in a foreign language says things that embarrass the translator.  This song is on the Rack, Shack and Benny show.

Larry first talks about how he can dance, and then mocks Bob saying that he can’t dance.  Bob stops him, but Larry pretends like he doesn’t speak English.  At that moment, Junior and his dad show up, and want a picture with Larry.  This is like some kind of Disney World attraction or something, as they have Junior’s mom being chased by “the dwarves”, though they never really explain what’s going on.

The second stanza mocks Bob’s singing, and it’s at this point that Bob begins to chase after Larry who finally breaks into singing in English,

Bob is really angry,
I hope he doesn’t get me,
it’s so hard run with a sombrero on my head.

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Archibald took over the show Lyle the Kindly Viking to try to inject style and classiness into VeggieTales– therefore he forbid Larry to do a silly song, he had to do a classy song.  Archibald thereby takes over the duties as narrator and main singer along with Larry in this silly song.

This song begins with a feather floating down and landing on Larry’s hat– which he promptly blows off.  It also features the Big Idea crew at the time as backup vocalists.

We met Larry waiting for the bus with a high hat and a chocolate bunny.  Who should show up but Art Bigotti in his first appearance that didn’t have him on flat wear.  Larry begs him to stay away from his snack and hat which he has placed on the bench beside him since the smiling sun has gotten hot.

Next, Mr. Nezzar shows up wearing the same outfit he did in Rack, Shack and Benny and eyes the chocolate with interest.  He is followed by the girl from Esther: The Girl who Would be Queen that lost while singing about her dogs (and she eventually ends up singing a duet with Larry called the SUV Song).  She is still dressed in that outfit.

Finally, a huge gourd shows up with a shirt that reads “Gourd’s Gym.”  He sits on Larry’s hat and chocolate until Bob shows up driving the bus and all the Veggies pile on board (except for Larry) and the bus leaves.

Larry confesses his plight to a scallion that’s pushing a broom his way.  When Larry asks the scallion his name, the scallion responds by saying “I’ve been around since show one and they still haven’t given me a name!”  And it ends with Larry asking “Now what do you think of that?”

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Here’s another Silly Song that I’ve only seen on The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown, though I am on the lookout for it.  This song features Larry in a yodeling, but not singing role.  He plays the part of a doctor that claims that he can help animals just by yodeling.  Fortunately for Larry, it’s really Pa Grape (who plays the part of his nurse) that knows medicine and gives to the various customers a treatment that cures the animals.

What kinds of animals?  A pregnant kitty, a penguin and then a bear with his paw caught in a trap.  Up until the bear, things were happy, but when Pa Grape asks for a raise in between patient visits and does not get one, he lets Larry fall on his face while being chased by said bear.

The musical portion is presented by a quartet made up of the three scallions and Phil Winklestien– the celery from Where’s God When I’m S-Scared.  In true a cappella, quartet fashion they narrate the story.  This is truly a great silly song– I mean, where else do you get good harmony and a yodeling cucumber?

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