- "And now it's time for Silly Songs with Larry; the part of the show where Larry comes out & sings a silly song."
- — Silly Song Announcer
The Announcer is an unseen character from VeggieTales, used for Silly Songs.
Physical Appearance
The Announcer has never had a physical form. While this character is unseen, he shares a similar voice to Archibald and Scallion 1. Larry even mentioned to Archie that he always thought he was the announcer.
His voice was distantly different in his first appearance, then a bit higher in his later appearances. As the series progressed, he switched voices with Scallion 1.
Identity
Since Phil Vischer voiced him, some fans speculate that he may have been Archibald as the voice is similar to his, only more softly (also because his robot counterpart, from the Veggie Carnival computer game, played the part for The Hairbrush Song). However, this was debunked in The Biscuit of Zazzamarandabo as Archibald confesses to Larry that he thought he was the announcer. Ironically, he became the announcer for some of the silly songs in The VeggieTales Show.
Some would even say Scallion 1 may be the voice, as the Announcer in the later songs sounded more close to the former. This, too, was also debunked as Phil had confirmed on Twitter that the Announcer is just the announcer, not a vegetable.
However, in the credits of most episodes, the Announcer is being treated as a separate character. He had never physically appeared in-person.
Episode appearances
The Announcer appeared in nearly every Silly Song.
Voice Actors
English
- Phil Vischer (1993-2015)
International
- Nasser Shahin (Arabic, Arascope)
- Hany Fakhry (Arabic, SAT-7 Kids, most episodes)
- Fadi Atef (Arabic, SAT-7 Kids, Duke and the Great Pie War and Princess and the Popstar)
- Reda Fawzy (Arabic, SAT-7 Kids, Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue)
- Ehab Sobhy (Arabic, SAT-7 Kids, Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Gicing, It's a Meaningful Life, The Little Drummer Boy, and The Penniless Princess)
- Pietro Mário (Brazilian Portuguese, Audio News, VHS)
- Geisa Vidal (Brazilian Portuguese, Audio News, VHS, Where's God When I'm S-Scared?)
- Danton Bohrer (Brazilian Portuguese, Audio News, DVD)
- Marco Ribeiro (Brazilian Portuguese, Audio News, DVD, Lyle the Kindly Viking)
- Ricardo Vooght (Brazilian Portuguese, Herbert Richers)
- Carlos Roberto (Brazilian Portuguese, Herbert Richers, Are You My Neighbor?-The Song of the Cebú)
- Márcio Chaves (Brazilian Portuguese, Herbert Richers, Duke and the Great Pie War-Gideon: Tuba Warrior)
- Wing-Sing Poon (Cantonese)
- Isabel Campelo (European Portuguese)
- Henrique Feist (European Portuguese, Where's God When I'm S-Scared?)
- Sónia Neves (European Portuguese, Are You My Neighbor?)
- Antti Pääkkönen (Finnish)
- Mark Bremer (German)
- Monty Arnold (German, Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler)
- Σπύρος Μπιμπίλας/Spýros Bimpílas (Greek)
- Attila Vári (Hungarian)
- Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese)
- Javier Rodríguez (Latin Spanish, VHS)
- Juan Carlos Terán (Latin Spanish, Ecuador)
- Eduardo Wasveiler (Latin Spanish, Miami)
- Gonzalo Rodríguez (Latin Spanish, Endangered Love)
- Orlando Noguera (Latin Spanish, Duke and the Great Pie War)
- Manolo Coego (Latin Spanish, Gideon: Tuba Warrior)
- Øyvind B. Lyse (Norwegian, earlier episodes, Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler, and Moe and the Big Exit)
- Stein Stølen Bjerkaker (Norwegian, Where's God When I'm S-Scared?, Very Silly Songs!, and later episodes)
- Preben Olram (Norwegian, Princess and the Popstar)
- Keyvan Sadeghi Yeganeh (Persian, Glory Entertainment, Lyle the Kindly Viking)
- Mohammad Reza Solati (Persian, Glory Entertainment, Lord of the Beans)
- Amin Ghazi (Persian, Qualima, Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella)
- Nina Peče (Slovenian)
Trivia
- In the European Portuguese, Indonesian, and Slovenian dubs, the Announcer is female.
- This also applies to the first Brazilian Portuguese dub, but only in Where's God When I'm S-Scared?. Are You My Neighbor?, on the other hand, reverts the Announcer's gender back to male.