This is the transcript for A Lifetime Supply of Joy.
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A Letter From a Kid[]
(Everyone's setting up for the show as Larry bursts through the door.)
Larry: Bob! Bob! It's the best news ever!
Bob: Not now, Larry. We've got a show to plan.
Larry: Yeah, but this is absolutely the greatest thing that's ever happened to me!
Bob: Better than the time the soft-serve ice cream machine kept spitting out ice cream, and the only place to put it was in your mouth?
Larry: Better!
Bob: Better than the time the pet store lost power and asked if 49 puppies could sleep over at your house?
Larry: Better! That was real good, though. Puppy sleepovers are super fuzzy!
Bob: Okay, I give up. What happened?
Larry: I won, Bob! I won! I won! I won! I won! I won! Well, I almost won. I'm one of two finalists!
Archibald: Won what? Finalist in what?
Larry: What's my favorite cookie, Bob?
Bob: I have no idea.
Petunia: I'm gonna say chocolate chip?
Archibald: My favorite cookies are oatmeal raisin, without the raisins. Just the oatmeal.
Mr. Lunt: Choco-Fudge-Nuggets! It's a nugget of fudge wrapped in chocolate, with chocolate sprinkles.
Larry: Nope. Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whoppers!
Mr. Lunt: Eh?
Archibald: Mr. who's what?
Larry: (to the tune of Camptown Races) Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whoppers!
Put a dozen in your hopper!
Bite 'em, chew 'em with your choppers!
Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whoppers!
Archibald: Move over, Mozart...
Bob: So, what did you win?
Larry: A lifetime supply of Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whoppers, in their "Cookies For Life" contest!
Petunia: You've won the contest?
Larry: As good as! They just announced the two finalists, and I'm half of them!
Petunia: Congratulations, Larry!
Mr. Lunt: Who's the other finalist?
Larry: Dunno, but too bad for them, 'cause I'm gonna win! And a lifetime supply of cookies is gonna make me so, so happy!
(Junior bursts through the door.)
Junior: Hey, everybody! They just announced the results of the Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whopper "Cookies For Life" contest, and I'm a finalist!
Larry: Wait, you're the other finalist?!
Junior: Other? You mean you're a finalist?!
Bob: Oh boy...
Larry: I'm the finalist that's gonna win!
Junior: No, I'M the finalist that's gonna win!
Larry: But I won't be happy unless I have a lifetime supply of Doodle-Whoppers!
Junior: Then I guess you just won't be happy, because the Doodle-Whoppers are mine!
Archibald: We are on the horns of a moral dilemma.
Bob: Guys, endless cookies can't be the only way to be happy.
Larry: But it's what I want!
Junior: Getting what you want makes you happy, and I want cookies!
Bob: Petunia?
Petunia: Yes?
Bob: You're the president of the VeggieTales fan club. Are you aware of any letters we've received that deal with this particular situation?
Petunia: Let's see. Oh wait, this one might be just right! "Dear Bob and Larry..."
Bob: Oh, good start! Very promising!
Petunia: "My friend Alejandro got a new bike. It's really nice. I asked for a bike for Christmas, but I didn't get one. Now I feel grumpy inside. How can I be happy if I don't get what I want? Your friend, Thomas."
Larry: You can't, that's how! No bike, no cookies, no happy.
Bob: There's gotta be a better answer than that. Who's got an idea?
Mr. Lunt: Umm...
Archibald: Well, we could...
Mr. Nezzer: 30 seconds to curtain, everybody! Hope you got something good, Bob.
Bob: Okay, places everybody. Let's put on a great show!
(Everyone hops towards the stage.)
The VeggieTales Show Theme Song[]
(Cut to Bruce Onion, the conductor, starting the theme song. As it begins to play, the theater's curtains are drawn to show the cast.
Larry: Get your sister,
Bob: Get your brother,
Jimmy: Call your uncle
Pa Grape: And your mother
All: If you're missing any other of the people that you know.
We’re going to start the show!
It’s the VeggieTales Show!
Bob and Larry: Live on stage!
All: It’s the VeggieTales Show!
Junior: For ev’ry age!
All: It’s the VeggieTales Show!
Mr. Lunt: I’m in a cage!
All: It’s the Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, Veggie, VeggieTales...!
(The show’s logo is lowered from the rafters and breaks from its ropes, crashing onto the stage Bob and Larry look at each other nervously.)
All: It’s the VeggieTales Show!
(The backstage of the theater is then cut to.)
Bob: Nice job, everyone!
Junior: Not as nice as the lifetime supply of Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whoppers that I'M gonna win!
Larry: Humph!
Bob: Ohhh...if we can't be happy, how are we supposed to teach Thomas?
Petunia: Bob, I've got an idea!
Bob: Yes, please!
Petunia: I think we're focusing on the wrong word.
Bob: You mean, happy?
Petunia: Right! We need to talk about a different word.
Archibald: I'm fond of persnickety.
Bob: What word do we need to be talking about?
Petunia: Put me on stage!
Bob: Uh...okay? Do you need anything?
Petunia: Yes! I need three kids and a classroom set.
- Bob: Coming right up!
Happy[]
(We then cut to the theater as the curtain rises to reveal a classroom setting, with Junior, Laura, and Callie Flower sitting in seats, and Petunia up at the blackboard.)
Petunia: Good morning, class!
All: Good morning, Miss Petunia!
Petunia: Tell me, kids, what do you want?
Junior: What do we want?!
Laura: What do we want?
Callie: What do we want?!
All: We wanna be happy, happy.
We wanna be happy, happy.
We wanna be happy, so happy,
cause we got everything we want!
Petunia: And what makes you happy?
Junior: Cookies make me happy.
Laura: Getting a new bike makes me happy.
Callie: I collect action figures based on the popular early-reader book series, "Tim of Mars", and I would like the entire limited edition "Book Two" sets of collectibles in original packaging. That would make me happy.
Petunia: Then you'd be happy?
All: Then we'd be happy, happy.
Then we'd be happy, happy.
Then we'd be happy, so happy,
cause we have everything we want!
Petunia: What if I told you there was something better than happy?
Junior and Laura: Better than happy?!
Callie: Mega happy?
Petunia: Deep happy! Something called, "Joy"!
Junior: Joy?
Laura: Joy?
Callie: What's that?
Petunia: It's happy that lasts! (to Junior) Say you eat a cookie...
Junior: Yum!
Petunia: And now or later, what do you want?
Junior: Another cookie!
Petunia: Why?
Junior: Because it doesn't last. I always need more!
Petunia: (to Laura) Say you get a new bike...
Laura: Hooray!
Petunia: A few years later, what do you want?
Laura: Another bike. The first one might be old or dirty or broken. I need a new one!
Petunia: (to Callie) And say you get the whole "Book 2" set of action figures. What happens next?
Callie: Well..there's "Book 3"...
Laura: But what is joy? How is it different?
Petunia: A toy is a happy that comes to an end,
but joy is a happy that comes from a friend.
A hug from a buddy, your mom or your dad.
Joy is the happiest happy you've had!
Junior: I don't think I get it.
Petunia: Have you ever been on a roller coaster?
Junior: Yeah! Roller coasters are fun!
Callie: They sure are!
Petunia: Have you ever gone on a roller coaster by yourself?
Laura: I did once. It wasn't as fun.
Petunia: Roller coasters are fun, but a roller coaster with your best friend or your family, that's joy!
Laura: So, joy is about relationships?
Petunia: With your friends, your family, even God!
Callie: Wait, being friends with God can give us joy?
Petunia: Relationships, they are the key to our joy!
More than a cookie, a bike, or a toy.
Just like a hug from your buddy can do,
God is a friend who can give you joy too!
God is a friend who can give you joy too! So tell me, students, what do you want?
All: We want joy, joy, joy!
We want joy, joy, joy!
Even more than a cookie, or a bike, or a toy,
what we really really want is joy!
What we really really want is joy!
(The audience applauds as the curtain closes.)
Bob: Joy is even better than happy. Joy is deep happy.
Larry: That's crazy! If happy is a cookie, then deep happy is...a whole bunch of cookies! A lifetime supply, which is exactly what I'll have after I win the Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whopper "Cookies For Life" contest!
Laura: But Miss Petunia said joy is better than happy, and it comes from your friends, and your family, and from God!
Junior: Why not have both?
Callie: Both what?
Junior: Friends and family AND cookies!
Larry: Yeah, why should it be just one? I want everything I want! Friends, family, and a lifetime supply of Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whoppers. Then I'll be happy.
Bob: You really need everything you want to be happy?
Junior: How could I have joy if there's something I really really want that I don't have?
Larry: Yeah, Bob, how?
Petunia: Well, I tried.
Bob: Anyone else have an idea?
Archibald: Glad you asked! I believe I have just the thing.
Bob: It isn't about British history, is it?
Archibald: Oh, heavens no!
Bob: Good.
Archibald: It's much older than that!
Bob: Wait what?
Archibald: Here here, everyone! The script is up on cue cards, and your costumes are on the rack. I need two leads. Ah, yes! (shoves Bob off-screen) You two.
Larry: What, me?
Junior: And me?
Larry: But he is my cookie enemy!
Junior: They're not your cookies, I'm gonna win 'em!
Larry: Grrrrr!
Archibald: Yes, yes, lovely. Now costumes on, and get out there!
(Everyone rushes through Archibald, sending him spinning.)
Archibald: We're going to learn something about real joy!
Paul and Silas: Act 1[]
(Archibald hops onstage as a spotlight beams on him.)
Archibald: Once upon a time, many years ago, about 1,960 give or take, there were two friends.
(The curtain opens to reveal a Roman marketplace with multiple townspeople, and Larry and Junior dressed up as disciples.)
Larry: They call me Paul.
Junior: They call me Silas.
Archibald: Very nice, thank you. Paul and Silas were travelling from town to town, telling people the good news about Jesus.
Junior: Hello, would you like to hear the good news about Jesus?
Larry: Does anyone wanna hear the good news about Jesus?
Archibald: Sometimes, people were just too busy to listen, but not everyone. There was a poor peasant girl.
Laura: Me!
(Laura darts through Archibald, sending him falling onto the floor.)
Archibald: Ahhh.....
Laura: I'd like to hear the good news! Is it good news for me, a poor peasant girl?
Larry: It's good news for everyone! Walk with us, and we'll tell you the good news.
Mr. Lunt: Hey, she can't go with you! She works for me!
Laura: I wanna hear the good news!
Larry: We didn't mean any trouble, sir.
Mr. Lunt: That's exactly what you meant! You two came here to make trouble, because you're troublemakers!
Townspeople: Gasp!
Madame Blueberry: Did you say troublemakers?
Junior: No, we're not troublemakers! We have good news!
Mr. Lunt: Do you know what we do with troublemakers around here?
Larry: Give them cookies?
Mr. Lunt: No! We put 'em in jail!
(A cage with purple and orange lights falls on Junior and Larry. We then fade to a prison setting, with Junior and Larry still in the cage, Jimmy and Jerry in another cage, and Pa Grape as the jailer.)
Archibald: And that's exactly what they did. Paul and Silas found themselves locked in jail, accused of trouble-making.
Pa Grape: Oh, you guys went and did it, ya made trouble, and now you're stuck here with me in jail.
Junior: Who are you?
Pa Grape: I'm the jailer. I tend the jail.
Jimmy: He's the jailer, in charge of your new home away from home.
Jerry: Home away from home.
Larry: How long have you guys been in here?
Jimmy: I dunno. A year? 10 years? It all blurs together in a miserable place like this.
Jerry: I want my mommy.
Junior: How long have you been the jailer?
Pa Grape: I dunno. A year? 10 years? It all blurs together in a miserable place like this.
Archibald: It was a gloomy place, filled with gloomy people, but Paul and Silas weren't gloomy. They remembered the good news!
Larry: Hey, Silas, remember the good news?
Junior: That we can be friends with God, and he'll be with us always, no matter what?
Larry: Right! Even in jail. I mean, I'd sure like to get out of jail, but even if we don't, God is with us.
Archibald: So later that night, in this terribly gloomy place, Paul and Silas prayed.
Larry: Dear God, please get us out of jail. It's kinda icky in here. But even if you don't, we're still glad you're with us, and we're okay.
Junior: Amen!
Archibald: And then they did something very unusual. They sang
Larry: I'm in jail!
Junior: Me too!
Larry: I wish I wasn't in jail!
Junior: Me too!
Larry: But since I'm in jail, I'm happy God is with me too!
Junior: Me too!
Jimmy: Most guys in jail will sing the blues.
Junior: But we're just singin' about the good news.
Larry: And though we'd love to be set free..
Junior: I'm happy knowing God is in here with me!
Pa Grape: They're singin' in jail!
Larry and Junior: It's true!
Pa Grape: Why are they singing in jail?
Larry and Junior: Do you wanna know what you would need to do
to know that God is friends with you,
and then my friend, it will be true,
you'll be singing in jail!
Jimmy: We'll be singin' in jail!
Pa Grape: We'll be singing in....
(A lighting flash interrupts their singing.)
Archibald: And suddenly, in the middle of the singing, there was an earthquake!
(All the veggies shake around in their cages.)
All: Wooaahh!!
Pa Grape: Earthquake! Hang on!
Archibald: The jail was rocked, and the doors of the cells flew wide open!
Junior: The doors are open!
Jimmy: We can get outta here!
Jerry: Escape!
Larry: God answered our prayer, He got us out of jail.
Junior: Now we can go back to telling people the good news! It's just what we wanted!
Pa Grape: Stop!
All: Huh?
Pa Grape: Get back in your cells!
Jimmy: C'mon, man, we're already out!
Larry: I'm sorry, Mr. Jailer, but we prayed that God would let us out of jail, and, well, he did.
Pa Grape: Oh, who am I trying to kid? I can't stop ya. It's just that, boy am I gonna be in trouble.
Junior: What do you mean? It's not your fault.
Pa Grape: It's my job. I got one job; "don't let anybody leave". That's pretty much it.
Jimmy: So if we leave, you'll lose your job?
Jerry: Unemployed?
Pa Grape: I wish. The Romans aren't so nice about these things. If I lose my prisoners, I don't just lose my job, I lose my life.
All: Oh...
Archibald: Paul and Silas didn't know what to do.
Larry: I don't know what to do.
Archibald: If they left, they'd be free to tell people about Jesus again.
Junior: That'd be good!
Archibald: But the poor jailer would lose his life.
Junior: That'd be bad.
Archibald: They could have what they wanted, freedom! But should they take it?
Pa Grape: I understand if you wanna leave. I'd wanna leave too if I were you.
Archibald: What will Paul and Silas do?
Larry: I don't know! I don't have the next page of the script! What do they do?!
Archibald: We'll find out right after this break!
(The curtain closes as the audience applauds. The veggies then hop backstage.)
Larry: What do they do?! What do they do?!
Archibald: Don't you love a good cliffhanger?
Junior: Do they get what they want? Do they go free? They can't be happy in jail!
Bob: I'm impressed, Archibald! You've got everyone on the edge of their seats.
Mr. Nezzer: Very dramatic! I like it!
Bob: Oh, thanks Mr. Nezzer!
Mr. Nezzer: But uh, shouldn't someone be out there doin' something?
Bob: Uh, Larry, can you give us a Silly Song?
Larry: I'm too agitated to be silly, Bob.
Junior: Maybe he can give us an agitated song!
Larry: That's not a thing!
Bob: Uh, it is now! Archie, give me an intro.
Archibald: On it!
The Agitated Song[]
(Archibald hops onstage.)
Archibald: And now it's time for "Agitated Songs with Larry", the part of the show where Larry comes out and sings an Agitated Song.
(Cut to Khalil playing a fast piece on the piano as Larry hops onstage.)
Larry: I'm very, very upset, and I'm not having fun!
So if you will excuse me, my little song is done!
(Larry hops backstage, as very few claps are heard.)
Bob: See, I knew you could do it!
Larry: Boy, that made me even more agitated!
Archibald: Just in time to resume our story! Back onstage, everyone!
Paul and Silas: Act 2[]
(Archibald hops back onstage as the curtain opens to reveal where we left off.)
Archibald: *ahem* What would they do? There they were, Paul and Silas, freed from jail by an earthquake. Freedom is what they wanted. They could go back to telling people the good news about Jesus! But what they could do for them would be very bad for the jailer.
Pa Grape: (sighs) Who am I kiddin'? If I were them, I wouldn't care about me. I'm not important. Of course they'll leave. (sighs)
(Larry and Junior go back in their cell and close the door.)
Pa Grape: What was that?
Junior: We're still here!
Pa Grape: Why?
Junior: We don't want you to get in trouble.
Larry: Besides, we can have joy anywhere, because God is always with us.
Pa Grape: Yeah, I noticed from the singin'.
(The other cell door is closed, as we pan to reveal Jimmy and Jerry are back in their cell as well.)
Pa Grape: Why are you guys still here?
Jimmy: If God could make them that happy, that they'd be singin' in jail, well, we wanna be friends with God too!
Jerry: Yeah, friends!
Pa Grape: You gotta tell me, what do I have to do to be friends with God?
Junior: You wanna hear the good news?
Pa Grape: I wanna hear the good news, but not here. Would you come to my house for dinner? You can tell my whole family!
Jimmy: Can we come too?
Jerry: Dinner!
Pa Grape: Ha, ha, ha! Sure, you're all invited to my house! I just have to get you back in your cells before morning. This is the happiest I've been in a long, long time!
(The cell doors open as everybody hops off.)
Junior: Y'know what might be even better than seeing God help us?
Larry: What's that?
Junior: Seeing God help other people too!
Larry: I think you're right.
Archibald: And that's the story of Paul and Silas and the Philippian jailer. Joy doesn't come from getting what you want. It comes from knowing God is with you, and from seeing Him making a difference in other peoples' lives too!
(The audience applauds as Archibald takes a bow and everybody hops backstage. Mr. Lunt hops in holding a pocket-sized radio.)
Mr. Lunt: Hey, you're just in time! They're about to announce the winner of the "Cookies For Life" contest!
Radio Announcer: And the moment we've all been waiting for! The winner of the Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whoppers "Cookies For Life" contest is........Mr. Larry the Cucumber!
Larry: I won! I won! I won! I won! I won!
Junior: It's okay. I don't need cookies to be happy.
(Larry sees that Junior is sad, and realizes he needs to do the right thing.)
Larry: Y'know, I don't need cookies to be happy either. I'm gonna share my cookies with you, Junior. In fact, I'm gonna share my cookies with everyone!
All: Yay!
Bob: Hey, I'm really proud of you guys! We learned a lot today.
Petunia: I think we need to get out there and wrap it up for Thomas!
Bob: Oh, right! Thomas! Let's go!
(Everyone hops towards the stage.)
What We Have Learned[]
(The curtain opens to reveal all the veggies standing in front of a detailed purple and yellow background, with a giant sign with light-bulbs saying "JOY" above them.)
Bob: Well, Thomas, everyone wants to be happy.
Larry: But I learned today there's something better than happy; Joy! And we get joy when we remember God is with us.
Bob: Joy isn't about what we have, it's about being loved by God, and seeing the difference He makes for other people too.
Larry: Good time for a verse!
Bob: Oh, right...
Jean-Claude: (O.S.) Do not fear, Tomato!
Larry: *gasp* It's our angel friend!
Bob: It's not an angel, it's Jean-Claude.
(Jean-Claude lowers onto the stage in his angel costume.)
Jean-Claude: I have a gift for you, from Heaven!
(Jean-Claude tosses a cookie towards Bob.)
Larry: Thank you, angel!
(The cookie lands on Bob, and he sees it's....not a fortune cookie, but rather a peanut-shaped cookie similar to a Nutter Butter.)
Bob: What?
Larry: It's a Mr. Butter's Doodle-Whopper! My favorite! Aw, thank you angel!
Bob: It was supposed to be a fortune cookie with a verse in it.
(Larry snatches the Doodle-Whopper and gobbles it down. A fortune cookie lands on Bob, then he opens it.)
Larry: Another cookie!!!!
Bob: "Romans 15:13. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, as you trust in Him."
Larry: Well, we're out of time! Remember kids, God made you special..
Bob: And He loves you very much, and he wants you to have joy!
All: Goodbye!
(The audience applauds, as the curtains close and we cut to black.)
(End of transcript)