Tornado Hunters (found Silly Song segment of VeggieTales direct-to-video series; 2011): Difference between revisions

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Status: Found

Date found: 19 Oct 2024

Found by: The Ultimate Unofficial VeggieTales Channel!

Silly Songs with Larry is a segment in the hit children's series, VeggieTales. All the songs are incredibly easy to find, however, one remained lost for over a decade. This Silly Song was called Tornado Hunters, and it starred Larry the Cucumber, Jimmy Gourd and Mr. Nezzer, who are on the hunt for tornadoes.

Background

The origins of the song date back to an incident when series creators Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki were attending Bible college in the mid 1980s. Despite tornado warnings in the area requiring everyone to take shelter, Phil and Mike ran out into the storm throwing toilet paper rolls into the air to locate the tornadoes and catch them with garbage bags. Dubbing themselves "tornado hunters", they wrote a short theme song that they would sing while hunting.^[1]

Tornado hunters are we, are we!
Tornado hunters are we!
We catch tornadoes in our bags and throw them into trees.
To trees, to trees!
We throw them into trees.
We catch tornadoes in our bags and throw them into trees.

A slightly modified and extended version of the song they sung was eventually made into a Silly Song over 25 years later, and was to appear in the 2011 episode "Princess and the Popstar" to fit with the Midwestern theme of the episode. However, around the time the episode was being finalized, a massive tornado outbreak affected the Midwestern U.S.^[2] Despite being fully rendered, the song was scrapped at the last minute out of respect for the victims.^[3]^[4] It was replaced with the song Astonishing Wigs.

Not long after, they planned to include it in the 2012 episode "Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men", though it was scrapped yet again. What took its place was the song Bubble Rap, which previously debuted in the song compilation "If I Sang a Silly Song...".

Availability

For the longest time, the only proof of this Silly Song's existence was in an error on the DVD of "Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men", where it was accidentally shown in the chapter selection instead of Bubble Rap.

On January 7, 2024, a color script, strongly resembling the setting shown in the existing footage, was discovered on Marc Camelbeke's website, suggesting it was likely created for the Silly Song.^[5]

On March 11, 2024, Phil Vischer revealed a portion of the lyrics in an interview.

On October 19, 2024, The Ultimate Unofficial VeggieTales Channel! uploaded the full song to YouTube, which was sent to him from an anonymous source.

Gallery

Videos

Full song.

Interview with Phil Vischer, where he sings a section of the song (1:00:49).

Concept Art

Color script for the Silly Song.

External Links

References

↑ Phil Vischer's autobiography, Me, Myself, and Bob. Retrieved 13 Mar. '24
↑ Tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011 Retrieved 19 Oct. '24
↑ Interview with Kurt Heinecke. Retrieved 13 Mar. '24
↑ Phil Vischer's tweet on the song. Retrieved 13 Mar. '24
↑ Marc Camelbeke's color scripts. Retrieved 07 Jan. '24

[1] Phil Vischer's autobiography, Me, Myself, and Bob. Retrieved 13 Mar. '24

[2] Tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011 Retrieved 19 Oct. '24

[3] Interview with Kurt Heinecke. Retrieved 13 Mar. '24

[4] Phil Vischer's tweet on the song. Retrieved 13 Mar. '24

[5] Marc Camelbeke's color scripts. Retrieved 07 Jan. '24

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+'''''Silly Songs with Larry''''' is a segment in the hit children's series, ''VeggieTales''. All the songs are incredibly easy to find, however, one remained lost for over a decade. This Silly Song was called '''''Tornado Hunters''''', and it starred Larry the Cucumber, Jimmy Gourd and Mr. Nezzer, who are on the hunt for tornadoes.
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