VeggieTales Review

Mike Narwocki went on vacation and returned with this song’s concept.  What is a cebu?  It’s in the cow family.  This silly song shows up on Josh and the Big Wall.

In any case, this catchy song starts out with a beat augmented by Larry switching slides in a slide projector that is displaying images on a bed sheet for Junior, Jimmy and Jerry to view.

Larry is showing amusing pictures from his vacation while telling a story about a boy and his three cebus: the sad cebu, the sick cebu, the mute cebu.  As they are paddling a boat into town, they are headed for a hippo in the water that only the mute cebu sees.  We never find out what happens though.

First Archibald interrupts to say that he’s skeptical about this whole presentation.  Then Larry runs out of slides!  Finally, the audience starts leaving singing that there should have been another verse or two and asking for their money back.

It’s a catchy tune and you’ll find yourself singing it at the strangest times, but you hope that someday you find out what happened to the boat full of cebu’s and the boy!

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This excuse for a silly song is first sung on The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown.  When the Astonishing Contraption of Silliness need repairs (via Pa Grape using his wooden mallet on it!), he asks Larry and Mr. Lunt to come up with a silly song– after all, it’s what they do right?

So what do they use?  A Chinese take-out menu!  Ok, so it is silly– as they go around taking turns saying things like “kung-pow chicken” etc.  Just don’t expect to learn anything about Larry’s lack of hair or his high silk hat!

It ends with them breaking a fortune cookie that reads “Beware of Grape with Wooden Mallet” and Pa Grape saying that it was cute, but it wouldn’t make the countdown– har har!

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The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything’s first of many appearances was in a Silly Song that I have yet to purchase DVD for! This silly song is the first time that we get introduced to Larry, Pa Grape and Mr. Lunt as pirates.  In this first appearance of the pirates, Pa Grape actually has a skull and cross bones on his hat.  Since Big Idea had a lot of negative feedback over that, it changed to a smiley face in The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown and a game of Tic-Tac-Toe in Jonah and from there on out.

This gang started out as a gag and a tag line: “and I’ve never been to Boston in the Fall.”  Mike Nawrocki said that he and some college friends talked about never being to Boston in the fall as some kind of link to the Red Sox or something of that nature, so they just came up with piratey or pseudo-piratey things for these pirates to say they had not done– since they don’t do anything.

This grew into the pirates taking over The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown and then they were cast as the B story of Jonah.  This allowed Phil Vischer– the voice of Pa Grape and Mr. Lunt– and Mike Nawrocki– the voice of Larry– to be able to have a lot of ad lib sessions!  If you want a laugh, watch Jonah with the commentary track set to Larry and Mr. Lunt– it’s a trip!

The pirates were also fortunate enough to record a CD with them singing all sorts of pirately songs and including all types of gags, including things about going bowling.

In any case, the pirates are continuing in their piratey ways in the upcoming Gideon: Tuba Warrior DVD and the next feature length motion picture from DVD. 

These pirates that don’t do anything certainly have done a lot and will continue to do a lot for Big Idea as long as there’s not too much work involved.

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