Silly Songs with Larry

TheWaterBuffaloSongTitleCard — The title card for "The Water Buffalo Song"

Silly Songs with Larry (or simply Silly Songs) is a segment in VeggieTales when it's in the middle of a break, although it might be in one third of the show depending.

The songs are mostly done by Larry, though Mr. Lunt, Archibald, Bob, the French Peas, Oscar, Junior, Laura and Jimmy have done their own Silly Songs as well.

Format

Sometimes a Silly Song is introduced with a static picture of Larry. Then, an unseen narrator comes on and says the following: "And now it's time for Silly Songs with Larry, the part of the show where Larry comes out and sings a silly song." However, this format is used loosely; sometimes it is renamed, adapted to the context of the episode, or given up altogether.

The Silly Song, when present, always appears in the middle of an episode, usually at a cliffhanger moment or between two separate segments. The segment either takes place on the familiar countertop which opens and closes some of the episodes, or is presented in another setting off the countertop. On some videos, the background scenery often appeared as a stage set, behind which electrical outlets and ceramic tile can be seen.

On a few occasions, the song is stopped and replaced before it can even begin. When this occurs, the brief images that are shown of the original song are intentionally more outlandish than usual, leaving the audience to wonder what that specific silly song might have been. Examples of this occurring were in the four following episodes:

Madame Blueberry
Lyle the Kindly Viking
Moe and the Big Exit
Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella (scrapped)

The segment usually ends with the same unseen narrator coming back on and saying that: "This has been Silly Songs with Larry. Tune in next time to hear Larry sing.." Then, Larry or another character usually does something, then the segment ends.

History

Phil Vischer wrote in his book, Me, Myself, and Bob that when he originally created the Silly Songs segment of the first episode, he never intended it to be a recurring segment, as episodes afterward would feature other funny segments, with another silly song only used spontaneously. After complaints, however, about the lack of the segment in the second episode, he suggested to Mike Nawrocki that he should write more Silly Songs for future episodes. Since the third episode, the segment has returned and has helped Kurt Heinecke grow to be a music composer and producer.

Songs

Other Languages

Këngë koti me Lerin (Albanian)
اغنية سخيفة من تيخة (Arabic)
阿力唱傻瓜歌的環節 (Cantonese)
Šašave pjesme s Leonu (Croatian)
Larin hullunkurinen laulu (Finnish)
Les Chansons loufoques de Larry (French) (as the original series was never dubbed in French, this translation comes from the French subtitles to Oh, Santa! from the DVD release of The Best Christmas Gift)
Silly Songs mit Larry (German)
- Lustiger Lieder mit Larry (German) (Gated Community)
Ανόητα Τραγούδια με τον Λάρι (Greek) (The Water Buffalo Song)
- Χαζά Τραγούδια με τον Λάρι (Greek) (Love My Lips)
??? (Hebrew) (because Pistachio - The Little Boy That Woodn't was the only episode dubbed in Hebrew, this is for Obscure Broadway Show Tunes with Larry)
Csacska dalok Larryvel (Hungarian)
Lagu Lucu Bersama Larry (Indonesian)
ラリーと歌おうのコーナー (Japanese)
- ラリーと歌おうクリスマス (Japanese) (Oh, Santa!)
??? (Korean)
皮皮的呆呆歌 (Mandarin) (Taiwan) (1st dub)
- 賴皮歌 (Mandarin) (Taiwan) (2nd dub)
Dumme sanger med Snurken (Norwegian)
آهنگ های مسخره با لری (Persian)
Canções Bobas com Larry (Portuguese) (Brazil) (1st dub)
- Canções Divertidas com Larry (Portuguese) (Brazil) (2nd and 3rd dubs)
A Canção Tonta de Luís Pepino (Portuguese) (Portugal)
Глупые песни с Ларри (Russian)
Lovrove trapaste pesmice (Slovenian)
Una Canción Tonta con Larry (Spanish) (Latin America) (1st dub)
- Las Canciones Tontas con Larry (Spanish) (Latin America) (2nd dub)
Những bài hát ngu ngốc với Larry (Vietnamese)

Trivia

Most Larry-Boy episodes (with the exception of The League of Incredible Vegetables) exclude Silly Song segments.
In the secular international releases, the Silly Song segments were played at the end of the episodes instead of in the middle.
The Korean dub of the show often excludes the Silly Song segments.
Two silly songs, "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" and "The Yodeling Veterinarian of the Alps," were exclusive to compilation videos and have never appeared in a regular episode.
- "Bubble Rap" doesn't count as one of the two silly songs that were never featured in regular episodes, as it already made its way into Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men (or perhaps used as a placeholder for an unidentified Silly Song about tornado-hunting, likely due to controversies with it) after having originally debuted in If I Sang A Silly Song....
After "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything," the music stand had been omitted (or replaced with a different object) from Silly Song title cards in further Silly Songs starting with "The Song of the Cebú" onward.
After "His Cheeseburger," Larry wasn't in his singing pose which was used in further Silly Songs starting with "The Yodeling Veterinarian of the Alps."
After "Larry's High Silk Hat," the original Silly Song title card wouldn't be used in later Silly Songs (with the exception of "A Mess Down in Egypt," but that was the Silly Song that was used for the one that Larry was going to sing but Archibald replaced with Mr. Lunt's "His Cheeseburger"; it was replaced this time with the Boyz in the Sink singing the aforementioned song) and would instead use cards with various random backgrounds.
The German dub (except for Gated Community) is the only one that keeps "Silly Songs" in English.

Silly Songs with Larry

Contents

Format

History

Songs

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The VeggieTales Show

Other Languages

Trivia

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