Post by goosen12 on Mar 13, 2022 2:12:45 GMT
For those unaware, there was a "Silly Songs with Larry" segment called Tornado Hunters that was originally supposed to be released with the 2012 VeggieTales episode "Robin Good and his Not-So-Merry Men". It involved the characters Larry the Cucumber, Jimmy Gourd, and Mr. Nezzer hunting for tornadoes. However, in the actual episode, the Silly Song Bubble Rap (which was originally made for the song compilation "If I Sang a Silly Song") was used instead. The only proof of it's existence is an error on the chapter selection of the "Robin Good" DVD, where a clip from the song was used instead of Bubble Rap. More info on this here.
According to a tweet by VeggieTales co-creator Phil Vischer, the reason for the replacement was because there was a massive tornado that hit the southern US at the time, and it would have been considered insensitive to some. There's already a [short] article of this on the LMW.
Recently, I was scrolling through eBay and stumbled across a lot of 4 VeggieTales DVDs, one of them being a screener DVD for "Robin Good":
www.ebay.com/itm/194903245889
I'm bringing this up for the following reasons:
1. I've discovered that several other VeggieTales screener DVDs include stuff that wasn't available on the final product (e.g., the screener for "Moe and the Big Exit" using the intro from 2004 as opposed to the 2007 intro on the actual DVD). After examining both the screener and retail DVDs for some of the episodes, the gap between the DVD burn dates are between one to two months.
2. The clip linked in the LMW article has effects and is fully rendered, meaning that the song was at the very least near completion when it was scrapped. Combining this with the fact that trailers for "Robin Good" didn't advertise Bubble Rap until after the video was released, it's likely that the replacement was a very last minute decision.
3. [This one I'm not sure if I'm looking too deep into or not] The burn date on the "Robin Good" DVD (December 7, 2011) was a mere 5 days before the burn date for "If I Sang a Silly Song" (December 12, 2011). If my first point is correct, in this case, that increases the chances of the song being on the screener. Granted, these chances are still incredibly slim, but I'm not giving up hope.
I'm not able to purchase the lot at the moment, unfortunately, so I'm hoping somebody else here is able to purchase it. Again, the chances of the song being on there are low, but I thought I'd just let everybody here know.
According to a tweet by VeggieTales co-creator Phil Vischer, the reason for the replacement was because there was a massive tornado that hit the southern US at the time, and it would have been considered insensitive to some. There's already a [short] article of this on the LMW.
Recently, I was scrolling through eBay and stumbled across a lot of 4 VeggieTales DVDs, one of them being a screener DVD for "Robin Good":
www.ebay.com/itm/194903245889
I'm bringing this up for the following reasons:
1. I've discovered that several other VeggieTales screener DVDs include stuff that wasn't available on the final product (e.g., the screener for "Moe and the Big Exit" using the intro from 2004 as opposed to the 2007 intro on the actual DVD). After examining both the screener and retail DVDs for some of the episodes, the gap between the DVD burn dates are between one to two months.
2. The clip linked in the LMW article has effects and is fully rendered, meaning that the song was at the very least near completion when it was scrapped. Combining this with the fact that trailers for "Robin Good" didn't advertise Bubble Rap until after the video was released, it's likely that the replacement was a very last minute decision.
3. [This one I'm not sure if I'm looking too deep into or not] The burn date on the "Robin Good" DVD (December 7, 2011) was a mere 5 days before the burn date for "If I Sang a Silly Song" (December 12, 2011). If my first point is correct, in this case, that increases the chances of the song being on the screener. Granted, these chances are still incredibly slim, but I'm not giving up hope.
I'm not able to purchase the lot at the moment, unfortunately, so I'm hoping somebody else here is able to purchase it. Again, the chances of the song being on there are low, but I thought I'd just let everybody here know.
