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Very Silly Songs! is the 7th episode of VeggieTales (1993-2015)/VeggieTales Reboot (2016-present)

Very Silly Songs 1997 DVD and VHS

February 4, 1997

Plot[]

Characters[]

Major[]

Appearing in Archival Footage[]

I Can Be Your Friend[]

The Dance of the Cucumber[]

  • Mike Asparagus
  • Lisa Asparagus
  • The Dwarves

The Forgiveness Song[]

The Water Buffalo Song[]

God is Bigger[]

  • Phil Winklestein
  • Closet Monsters

Oh No![]

Stand Up![]

The Hairbrush Song[]

  • The Peach

Songs[]

  1. VeggieTales Theme Song
  2. I Can Be Your Friend (from "The Gourds Must Be Crazy" story in "Are You My Neighbor?")
  3. Silly Songs with Larry: Dance of the Cucumber (from "Rack, Shack and Benny")
  4. The Forgiveness Song (from the "Larry's Lagoon" story in "God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!")
  5. Silly Songs with Larry: The Water Buffalo Song (from "Where's God When I'm S-Scared?")
  6. God is Bigger (from the "Tales From the Crisper" story in "Where's God When I'm S-Scared?")
  7. Silly Songs with Larry: Love My Lips (from "Dave and the Giant Pickle")
  8. Oh, No! (from the "Daniel and the Lion's Den" story in "Where's God When I'm S-Scared?")
  9. Stand Up! (from: "Rack, Shack and Benny")
  10. Silly Songs with Larry: Hairbrush Song (from: "Are You My Neighbor?")
  11. The (New and Improved) Bunny Song (from "Rack, Shack and Benny")
  12. Silly Songs with Larry: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

Trivia[]

  • This is the first episode for several things:
    • The first sing-along video.
    • The first episode to not introduce any new characters, not counting the first appearance of The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything.
    • The first episode to not have Annie, Mom Carrot, Baby Lou or Buzz-Saw Louie since their debut appearances.
    • The first episode where Mr. Lunt appears without Mr. Nezzer (not counting the song Stand Up!).
    • The first episode to use the 1997 Big Idea logo. The animated version would be used in the following video.
    • The first episode that uses a still version of the Lyrick Studios logo on VHS in 1999.
    • The first episode where Jimmy appears without Jerry, and it is also the first time Jimmy Gourd appears on the countertop.
    • The first onscreen appearance of Philippe Pea.
    • The first episode where Larry's voice starts to become more high pitched.
    • The first episode whose 2004 DVD release does not include a Family Fun Activity due to having a music lesson with Kurt Heinecke.
    • The first time when Jean Claude is referred to by name.
    • The first episode where Junior technically does not appear, not counting the clips of the songs he sang.
    • The first episode to not be directed by Phil Vischer.
  • This is the last episode where Pa Grape has a triangular nose.
  • This is one of the few episodes without a central moral theme. The others are The End of Silliness?, The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown, and The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment!.
  • The original 1997 release has a teaser trailer for the next episode.
  • The 1999 Word Entertainment VHS has a rare variant of the "Big Idea presents" opening bumper which has the 1997 Big Idea logo with the "PRESENTS" word in Times New Roman font.
  • The Dance of the Cucumber, The Forgiveness Song and The Water Buffalo Song came in the same order on Sing-Alongs: Dance of the Cucumber.
  • This episode was first released on DVD in 2004 as part of The Complete Silly Song Collection. It was given a separate DVD release under the VeggieTales Classics line in 2006.
  • The original release uses the 1994 version of the theme song, while the 1999 re-release uses the 1998 theme. The DVD, instead of using the 1998 theme song that was featured in the 1999 VHS reprints, oddly uses the 1994 theme song while using the audio of the 2004 version. The theme song featured in An Easter Carol/Very Silly Songs! Double Feature is also the 1994 one with the 2004 audio, while the Big Idea logo at the end is the 2002 one.
  • In the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything section of the credits, the crew's names are given pirate nicknames.
  • This won a GMA Dove Award for the 1998 Long Form Music Video of the Year.
  • Before this video, Big Idea made CDs and audio cassettes of the album VeggieTunes, which features music from the first three episodes.
  • When this episode was about to be re-released in 1999, the cover was vastly different and had some differences.
    • The asparagus singers were kept in from the 1997 cover.
    • The episode title was originally planned to be kept the same as the original.
    • Both Bob and Larry were on the cover looking happy. The final cover replaced Bob with the Peach and has Larry looking slightly upset.
    • The prototype cover originally had a purple Star Box background pattern and had a red banner at the top with "Deliciously silly!" as the critic review. The final version had "The Veggies Kids Actually Like!" as the critic review and the banner was purple and there was a very light blue ducky pattern.
    • The final cover is based off The Hairbrush Song, while the prototype cover used a unique style.
  • Of the first nine episodes from 1993-1997, this is the only one that didn't have a foreign dub during the 1990s. Additionally, this episode is also absent in almost every foreign dub except the secular ones (more on that below in the Remarks section), while the later two Silly Song specials made it into some foreign dubs (at least the ones that used the 2000s foreign cut, such as Zelenjavčki).

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Remarks[]

  • When Larry was jumping on the trampoline and yells to Bob for help on getting him off the trampoline, Bob would have to move the trampoline and catch Larry before he falls to the ground. However, more characters would have to gather together with him to catch Larry after they move the trampoline over, because in real life, if Bob were to catch Larry himself, Larry's fast kinetic gravity force would hit Bob and they could possibly die or get crushed.
  • When water flies up in the air with Larry at the top after he wrenches the fixture, Bob would have to turn off the water to the kitchen as Jimmy does not know how, and more characters would have to gather together to catch Larry before he falls into the kitchen sink. However, the paths on either edge of the sink are too narrow and it is possible that Larry could easily fall into the sink like he did in Rack, Shack and Benny (episode).
  • The quality of the songs from Where's God When I'm S-Scared? is lower than the rest of the video.
    • However, the Lagoon Song from God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?! was in high quality, except some pieces of the footage were spliced in from said episode due to some of the uncompressed footage having been likely deleted after said episode was finished in production.
  • Though not technically considered a goof, Larry leaves the screen in one shot without his tooth.
  • When the video was re-released on DVD in 2004, the audio was re-mastered in higher quality, which meant that all the songs except for "The Water Buffalo Song" had quality alterations to the music and also with additional instruments but still had the same rhythm.
  • In the DVD-ROM section, it shows pictures from Good Morning George and Big Things Too!, but those songs are not on the video, because they were not added in until later in Silly Sing Along 2: The End of Silliness?.
  • On the DVD, the script for The Story of Flibber-o-loo was included as a placeholder for the Very Silly Songs! script. It is unknown what happened to the original script for Very Silly Songs!.
    • From reading the subtitle "NEED VERY SILLY SONGS SCRIPT, THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER: a retelling of the parable of the Good Samaritan", it is possible that the original script for Very Silly Songs! was lost or misplaced.
  • Though not technically considered a goof, Qwerty is two times larger in size than in other episodes.
  • International versions of this episode only appear in secular dubs/voiceovers and exclusively use the alternate cut, which in this case has a few differences from the American version.
    • The VeggieTales theme is placed before the workout countertop segment (as usual like with all other episodes in the secular cut, and it uses the 2001-2003 theme song).
    • A title card for the episode is added between the VeggieTales theme and the opening segment.
    • In the opening segment, after Bob says "Actually, this is the very first VeggieTales sing-along tape," the rest of the segment where Bob explains they are going to put the lyrics on the bottom of the screen and the peas typing on Qwerty's keyboard was cut, due to the songs being textless in this version.
    • The title cards before each song have a different look compared to the original.
    • The songs as seen in this episode use a textless version.
    • Dance of the Cucumber and Lagoon Song were omitted to fit the running time the secular cut requires.
      • The two songs were bizarrely still kept listed in the credits.

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Goofs[]

  • While Larry is jumping on the trampoline and hitting his head on the cupboards, his line when he's calling for Bob is off lip-sync.
  • Before the shot focusing on Bob, Larry is up in the air hitting the ceiling, but on the shot focusing on Bob, Larry has instantly landed back down facing upward.
  • The type bar flies off Qwerty's screen in one line.
  • When Bob tells the peas to stop typing ("Guys... Hey, hey, hey Peas! Peas!"), a question mark appears on Christophe Pea's mouth. Additionally, there is also a strange black bongo-like object lying in the right corner beside Qwerty on the same shot.
    • On a similar note, in the international releases of the episode, when the camera cuts to a long shot of the countertop before Larry says "I hope you're ready to sweat!," a question mark appears on Larry's mouth for a split-second before he starts talking.
  • As Larry hops over to the sink, his belt clips through his body.
  • Before Larry turns the water faucet, his tooth clips through.
  • For the most part of the video, Larry's tooth is invisible when his mouth is closed, with a few exceptions where that problem is fixed during the Home Improvement Video segment and the last shot during the Success Video segment.
  • Due to it being rendered in high quality for this video, a goof makes it into Lagoon Song in which Palmy vanishes for a single frame before returning in the next.
  • There are a number of typos and grammatical errors which appear within the lyrics throughout the video.
    • In the theme song in the 1999-2002 versions, “aisle” is misspelled as “isle” which refers to an island, not a walkway as “aisle” does.
    • During The Water Buffalo Song, "yours" and "hers" are spelled as "your's" and "her's," which would be alright, except the apostrophe is usually used to abbreviate "is," so the end result of both of these is "your is" and "her is," neither of which are grammatically correct in the context they are applied in.
    • During God is Bigger, although "boogie" is spelled correctly twice, it is spelled as "boogy" for the rest of the song, which was acknowledged by Mike and Kurt during the commentary.
    • On recent releases starting in 2004, the "Liiiiiiips!" lyric for Love My Lips is missing for around a second before popping up on-screen for a split-second near the end of that segment.
  • In the credits listing the "Lagoon Song" and "Love My Lips," Kurt Heinecke's last name is misspelled. The last letter in his last name has an "i" instead of an "e", spelling it "Heinecki." People actually wrote letters to Big Idea about it.
  • On some Sony Wonder DVD releases, the disc does not have the episode's title on it.
  • The audio commentary on the DVD release is slightly desynced by two seconds.

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Real-World References[]

  • Gourd's Gym is a take on Gold's Gym (which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas).
  • "Jane, stop this crazy thing!" is a quote from "The Jetsons."
  • The second segment is a spoof of "Tool Time" from the sitcom "Home Improvement."
  • Cap'n Crunch is a breakfast cereal brand owned by Quaker Oats since 1963.

Transcript[]

Very Silly Songs!/Transcript

Follow-up episode:[]

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