Busy, Busy, Dreadfully Busy
I don’t know if any of the godless heathens who read this blog are familiar with Veggie Tales or not, but they are animated vegetables that teach kids about values and whatnot. Christian-lite values. I met them back in 1995 when I was working in a Christian bookstore and you should’ve heard the people bitch about how they were too mainstream and not Christian enough. Their premiere video had a song in it called “God is Bigger than the Boogeyman,” which was deemed demonic by some of the customers. “I don’t want my kid listening to songs about demons!” *sigh* Those were fun times. I have lots of stories about how those customers chipped away at my soul and turned me into the cynic that I am today. Of course, those same customers would blame my current soul condition on the fact that I let Satan get hold of me by doing yoga. (That is most definitely *not* an exagerration. Those are real words spoken by a real customer.) Anyway, in the Veggie Tales show about the Good Samaritan, the veggies keep passing the guy that needs help and they’re all singing this song, “Busy, busy, dreadfully busy! You’ve no idea all I have to do. Busy, busy shockingly busy. Much, much too busy for you.” It has been years since I’ve heard that song in real life, but it is one of those stick-in-your-head-until-you-want-to-stab-yourself-in-the-eye songs. I still get it stuck in my head whenever I have a ton of crap to do, like today. We have dentist appointments, a hair cut, grocery shopping, house cleaning, and all manner of preparation for when my mom and my brother and his family come to stay with us this weekend for Easter. Our Easter celebration is all about food, booze and euchre. Who wouldn’t be excited about that? But before the fun, the busyness.
So this song is stuck in my head. I tried to find it on Youtube, but I could only find it with some moron lip-synching it. I don’t like to give morons any blog-time, but I’m linking to it anyway. Turn your monitor off and get infected by the melody, please. I don’t want to be alone in my suffering. And keep in mind that the vegetable who is singing it is Archibald Asparagus. He wears a monocle. You’re welcome.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Ok, I added you to my morning tabs when Dawn linked to you a couple weeks ago . . . but if you try to get the Cheeseburger song stuck in my head, I’m outta here!
(kidding!)
March 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am
My boys still love Veggie Tales! And we aren’t even Christian, officially, so, there ya go. Good quality entertainment. They especially loved Lyle, the Kindly Viking.
Alright, here I go… (click)
March 20th, 2008 at 10:16 am
My personal favorite Veggie Tales tune is “Everybody’s Got a Water Buffalo”, and my husband’s is the SUV song. My favorite “busy” song is: “Busybusybusy” from the Sandra Boynton CD “Philadelphia Chickens” Listen to it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B0001ADB6Y
Now you have a new busy song to sing.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Weirdly, at our last family movie party at our SYNAGOGUE they showed the little kids the Veggie Tales about Jonah and the whale. Sure, it’s old testament but see, the thing is with the Jews is they don’t do old/new testament; they do Torah and not Torah so it felt a little crazy to me.
The big kids watched High School Musical, natch.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I love it. I want to learn it so i can teach it to my boys.
Tracy
March 20th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I LOOKED, I LOOKED, and now I’m scarred…I should have listnened because now in addition to having the song in my head I have ithat diot etched on my retina!
Girl…that Satan/Yoga song would have made me spilled my coffee through my nose had I been drinking any (but see…I smart-I don’t drink coffee here anymore!). Now I have the song competing with the image of Satan eagerly moving abut trying to get into bodies at Yoga studios…the perv.
Eos (Angela)
March 20th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
it’s no worse than this song, which has been stuck in my head ALL WEEK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdRG_s3Tu5s
(sent her by nikki - hi!)
March 20th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
meant to say “statement” and not “song” after Satan/Yoga…see what happens when I put my coffee down!
March 20th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I love Veggie Tales and all their songs! Especially the theme song which I personally sing aloud when the show is not even on (shhhhhhhh, this is my little secret, don’t tell anyone). Happy getting ready for relatives on the way!
March 20th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Jen, Don Gato was one of my absolute favorite songs in elementary school choir class. I still remember every word! Thanks for that link. ETA: I’m sending the link to one of my elementary school friends for her birthday. It was her favorite, too.
Meira, I can’t promise anything about the Cheeseburger song. I do love cheeseburgers.
Angela, LOL!
Mechelle, I am telling everybody you know.
Erin, the Water Buffalo song made me fall in love with Larry.
Alissa, you are the reason some hard-core fundamentalists get mad at Veggie Tales. “It’s watered down! Anybody can watch it and not get offended!” The very fact that non-Christians can watch it and not get offended means it’s not Christian enough. I used to feel so bad for the creators because they were always in the trade magazines going, “But, but, don’t we want *everybody* to learn values like helping people and loving people?”
Everybody else, thanks for commenting. It’s so much fun to get comments. I have to go play with Dawn now. I’m lucky that way.
March 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
la la la…I’m not listening. No, no, no! I will not get another earworm. I am still humming some stupid song from the kids’ Potter puppet pals You Tube consumption.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I am 38 and childless and LOVE VEGGIETALES (thanks to 3 rambunctious little nephews!).
I forget the name of it, but I love the SAY-BOO (phoenetic spelling of cow in french(?)) Hey, I’m American, I don’t need to know any other languages!
and JEEZ Abby, EVERYONE knows that Yoga is the Satan’s path to your soul. I mean, my Mom did Yoga back in the 70’s when EVERYTHING was WAY MORE Satanic than now and look at her… she volunteers at blood drives, reads bible verses in church, is a eucharistic minister.. that Yoga did horrible things.
Them veggietales… stories of kindness and personal responsibilty and community.. how evil!
March 30th, 2008 at 1:20 am
It’s on TV now too. didja know? Saturday mornings on nbc. they have a new theme song and everything. the boys deleted esther from the DVR. I think the baby girl may channel satan when she figures it out…