I know this is from a children’s DVD and it’s just a silly song.
To me it helpfully points out how people sometimes mistakenly take pride in the very things they should be ashamed of – in wonderfully amusing and creative way.
I admit, I love Veggie Tales even though they are for kids and their agenda is to teach kids ‘what the Bible says’.
I love their stories and songs because to me they do such a great job of sharing some of the best messages that can be derived from the Bible with humor and creativity.
oh, we love veggie tales here! thanks to larry boy, my kids’ favorite superhero is a cucumber!! i love the way the simple lessons are seasoned with lots of adult level humor! for more veggie tale fun, don’t forget to check out ‘lord of the beans’… :)
eowyn and coco love the friday video! bens and i used to live on a ship, with people from 50 different countries. one day a brand new veggie tales video arrived in the ship’s mailbox, and everyone from the usa went straight to the main meeting room to watch it. the rest of us thought them (the u.s.a.-ians and veggie tales) rather odd! (sorry, veggie tales lovers!!)
there’s just this weird non-importable-ness to some strains of humour. I love u.s.a. humour of the ‘pulp fiction’ nature. but veggie tales just … doesn’t make me laugh. (with the exception of the cheeseburger song, which bens and i did a dance to on new years eve, 1999, in Cote d’ivoire, west africa, during a horrible military coup.)
My favorite is King George and the Ducky. It is the story of David and Bathsheba, but intead of seeing Bathsheba in the tub and wanting her, King George spies Jr. Asparagus in the tub with his rubber ducky in the tub and wants it. His minion shows King George an armoir full of rubber duckies, and King George say, “Oh, those are yesterday’s duckies!” It’s a hoot.
This is the memory aide we use at our house:
i before e
except after c
or when sounded like “ay”
as in neighbor or weigh -
except for the exceptions
(like weird and science)
thank you Eliza! Ha, Bens, I’m right, you’re wrong! (Right and wrong … very modern concepts, eh? OK, well, as a post-modern gray-embracer, maybe … hmmm … how does one apply post-modern concepts to SPELLING?)
I am very much looking forward to meeting you next week Eliza! Bens now won’t be there, as he’s flying off that day for work, but I shall, and he next time!
Helen, I adore british humour, especially monty python, but can’t bear veggie tales… intriguing that you think of veggie tales as british humour. hmmm. maybe i shall have to give vt another chance?
Meg, don’t feel you have to watch VT if they irritate you, just because I see them as British humor! It’s really ok not to like them – it’s not one of the ‘seven deadly sins’ ;-)
I find much of VT very Monty Pythonesque – for example, all the silliness, and the things that are irrelevant/don’t make sense. Like the Captain Crunch comments in this clip! The interruption of the water buffalo song on an early VT the complaint that it’s not appropriate is just like the sort of thing that happened in Monty Python. I totally love their Good Samaritan scene, with that song by the leader who passed by on the other side:
“I’m busy, busy, dreadfully busy; you’ve no idea what I have to do! Busy, busy, frightfully busy…much much too busy for YOU!(It’s true!)”
How many of us have been at church and have felt we got that type of response when we’ve tried to get some time or attention from a leader there? Hmmmm….
I love the Daniel suite too. If you give them another go please try that! The words are very clever; the music is fun; and the theme…people using political power to advance an evil agenda…and a king who is so foolish and egocentric that just a little flattery persuades him to implement their evil plans…ouch, it still is so relevant!
And although there are VT that I think are just a hoot, they often get heavy-handed, especially the longer the particular schtick is, IMO. Jonah was kind of miserable, I thought. So you might just need to sample a few more to find something that tickles your funny bone.
NCxian, yes, I agree about Jonah. It was a shame they made that – it was an unfortunate business decision. Poor Phil Vischer – I read a comment from him in retrospect along these lines: “I thought it was God who wanted us to do that but I guess it was just me”.
Comment by: Helen
1I know this is from a children’s DVD and it’s just a silly song.
To me it helpfully points out how people sometimes mistakenly take pride in the very things they should be ashamed of – in wonderfully amusing and creative way.
I admit, I love Veggie Tales even though they are for kids and their agenda is to teach kids ‘what the Bible says’.
I love their stories and songs because to me they do such a great job of sharing some of the best messages that can be derived from the Bible with humor and creativity.
Comment by: David H
2I’ve been to Boston in the fall. Oh, might have had headlice once, too.
Comment by: Paul
3Ah my fave kinds of pirates :)
Comment by: DonnaV
4Guess I haven’t watched Veggie Tales…going to have to though…that was funny!
Comment by: Benjamin Ady
5Sometimes Megan and I say to each other “You’re my cheeseburger” because of this veggie tales video.
Comment by: Rachel
6Thanks, Helen! I absolutely love that song and I haven’t heard it in years – that was a real treat!
Comment by: bianca
7oh, we love veggie tales here! thanks to larry boy, my kids’ favorite superhero is a cucumber!! i love the way the simple lessons are seasoned with lots of adult level humor! for more veggie tale fun, don’t forget to check out ‘lord of the beans’… :)
Comment by: Benjamin Ady
8eowyn and coco love the friday video! bens and i used to live on a ship, with people from 50 different countries. one day a brand new veggie tales video arrived in the ship’s mailbox, and everyone from the usa went straight to the main meeting room to watch it. the rest of us thought them (the u.s.a.-ians and veggie tales) rather odd! (sorry, veggie tales lovers!!)
there’s just this weird non-importable-ness to some strains of humour. I love u.s.a. humour of the ‘pulp fiction’ nature. but veggie tales just … doesn’t make me laugh. (with the exception of the cheeseburger song, which bens and i did a dance to on new years eve, 1999, in Cote d’ivoire, west africa, during a horrible military coup.)
Comment by: Benjamin Ady
9this is actually meg (above and here) i am sick and couldn’t be bothered changing it to meg. we are all sick, except for bens!
Comment by: Benjamin Ady
10is weird spelt weird or wierd?
wierd?!!
m
Comment by: NCxian
11My favorite is King George and the Ducky. It is the story of David and Bathsheba, but intead of seeing Bathsheba in the tub and wanting her, King George spies Jr. Asparagus in the tub with his rubber ducky in the tub and wants it. His minion shows King George an armoir full of rubber duckies, and King George say, “Oh, those are yesterday’s duckies!” It’s a hoot.
Comment by: Helen
12Meg I’m sorry most of you are sick.
I think of Veggie Tales as very British humor. Which I’ve noticed not everyone likes. Anyway, the cheeseburger song is great!
NCxian, I love King George and the Ducky too.
Bianca – I haven’t watched Lord of the Beans yet. I know the older ones but need to catch up on the new ones.
Comment by: Eliza
13This is the memory aide we use at our house:
i before e
except after c
or when sounded like “ay”
as in neighbor or weigh -
except for the exceptions
(like weird and science)
Ok, so it doesn’t rhyme there, at the end!
Comment by: meg
14thank you Eliza! Ha, Bens, I’m right, you’re wrong! (Right and wrong … very modern concepts, eh? OK, well, as a post-modern gray-embracer, maybe … hmmm … how does one apply post-modern concepts to SPELLING?)
I am very much looking forward to meeting you next week Eliza! Bens now won’t be there, as he’s flying off that day for work, but I shall, and he next time!
Helen, I adore british humour, especially monty python, but can’t bear veggie tales… intriguing that you think of veggie tales as british humour. hmmm. maybe i shall have to give vt another chance?
Comment by: Helen
15Meg, don’t feel you have to watch VT if they irritate you, just because I see them as British humor! It’s really ok not to like them – it’s not one of the ‘seven deadly sins’ ;-)
I find much of VT very Monty Pythonesque – for example, all the silliness, and the things that are irrelevant/don’t make sense. Like the Captain Crunch comments in this clip! The interruption of the water buffalo song on an early VT the complaint that it’s not appropriate is just like the sort of thing that happened in Monty Python. I totally love their Good Samaritan scene, with that song by the leader who passed by on the other side:
“I’m busy, busy, dreadfully busy; you’ve no idea what I have to do! Busy, busy, frightfully busy…much much too busy for YOU!(It’s true!)”
How many of us have been at church and have felt we got that type of response when we’ve tried to get some time or attention from a leader there? Hmmmm….
I love the Daniel suite too. If you give them another go please try that! The words are very clever; the music is fun; and the theme…people using political power to advance an evil agenda…and a king who is so foolish and egocentric that just a little flattery persuades him to implement their evil plans…ouch, it still is so relevant!
Comment by: NCxian
16Hmm, I don’t know, I think I am a modern speller. You should see how my 11 year old spells stuff when he’s on-line gaming! I need a translation!
Comment by: NCxian
17And although there are VT that I think are just a hoot, they often get heavy-handed, especially the longer the particular schtick is, IMO. Jonah was kind of miserable, I thought. So you might just need to sample a few more to find something that tickles your funny bone.
Comment by: Helen
18NCxian, yes, I agree about Jonah. It was a shame they made that – it was an unfortunate business decision. Poor Phil Vischer – I read a comment from him in retrospect along these lines: “I thought it was God who wanted us to do that but I guess it was just me”.