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| Celery Night Fever | |
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| Music by |
Red Nienkirchen, Ali Dee Theodore, Steven Thomas, and John McCurry |
| Distributed by |
Anderson Merchandisers |
| Released |
August 5, 2014 |
| Runtime |
52 minutes |
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Celery Night Fever is the forty-ninth episode of VeggieTales.
This feature is the parody of the 1977 American dance drama film, Saturday Night Fever.
Plot
Opening Countertop
The countertop opens with Bob and Larry as usual, but then gets interrupted when Jimmy and Jerry barge in. Jimmy and Jerry are upset that Larry ate their pie meant for three of them to share. This reminds Bob of a letter from Jason in Bangor, Maine. Jason‘s brother rode Jason's bike without his consent and it got a flat tire. Jason is mad at his brother and doesn’t know what to do. So, Bob tells Larry, Jimmy and Jerry, and Jason a story about friendship and forgiveness.
Act 1
Mr. McMurray brings a film starring the Groovy Brother from 38 years ago and the class thanks him for that. Petunia announces the next grandparent is Laura's grandfather named Lenny Wilson and forces him to tell them about, but he doesn't want to talk about the band anymore and has to move on by doing magic acts for the kids because that's a long time ago that they were retired and broke up. Bruce Onion arrives to school as Steve's grandfather and explains that he's a tycoon that plans to wipe out buildings, businesses, and roads. While Bruce already buys Celery Park, he plans to build something like a mall or motel and the children were not impressed about it and insist that they want to keep this park. While Petunia gives the kids the assignment of doing a report on what Bruce should do with the park and asks them to choose their partner, Laura tells Junior that were working together on saving the park, but he's distracted with drawing pictures to her annoyance.
Later that afternoon while Laura is setting up for tomorrow, Junior made the story of saving the park from Bruce Onion and shows to his friend. Junior said maybe they can use it for our class project, but Laura doesn't want to do that because she want to do something important to save Celery Park from getting knocked down and tells him that tomorrow morning they're having an appointment to speak with Mr. McMurray and that he'll tell them the secret to Celery Park success and once Mr. Onion knows that, he'll be sure to keep this park. Annoyed with Junior's distractions and forgetfulness, Laura orders him bring his camera by tomorrow at 8:00am and tells him not to be drawing all night. That night, Junior is still drawing pictures, causing him not to sleep well.
In the morning, Laura wakes up to get ready for saving the park while singing about how she likes checkmarks, Junior wakes up to turn off his alarm and wants to sleep more which it's not 8:00am yet. When Laura is ready and checks everythings, she walks to the park and gives Junior a message on her phone. Junior wakes up once again and starts to get ready to meet Laura at the park, as he didn't want to be late or she'll be mad at him if he do.
Laura arrives at Celery Park to meet Mr. McMurray and checks everything while waiting for Junior, but she's worried that he already promised her and it's almost 8:00am. When Junior arrives at the park, he told her that he's gonna be here and Laura orders him to set his camera over here to get started. Junior realizes that he accidentally left his camera behind in his house, Laura checks up on him to see if he has camera and screams that his camera is missing. Laura is now really mad and furiously berates him for breaking her promise to bring his camera and ruining her plans, Junior wants to go back get his camera, but Laura said she hasn't got time and asks Mr. McMurray to stay here so he'll get his camera back. Unfortunately, the airport van arrives, and Mr. McMurray says that he loves to help out with them, but they're here to take him to the airport and wishes them good luck to them with their new video. With Laura's plans ruined, Junior said that he is sorry and she decides to make another check box to no longer be friends with him, Junior begs her not to check her box, but she checks the box anyway, and angrily leaves, leaving Junior heartbroken over their broken friendship and guilty for ruining her plans.
Silly Song
Act 2
Closing Countertop
Characters
- Larry the Cucumber (Lenny Wilson)
- Bob the Tomato (Dennis)
- Laura Carrot
- Archibald Asparagus (Big Daddy Al)
- Khalil (Stix)
- Junior Asparagus
- Bruce Onion
- Dirk Evert
- Turnips
- Jimmy Gourd (Stage Manager)
- Jerry Gourd (Countertop Only)
- Petunia Rhubarb
- Grandpa George (Mr. McMurray)
- Oscar (Ice Cream Vendor)
- The Scallions
- Scooter (Cameo)
- Miss Achmetha (cameo in Silly Song)
- Curtis McMurray
- Stevie Onion
- Madame Blueberry (Cameo)
- Lisa Asparagus (Cameo)
- Ermie Asparagus (Cameo)
- The Scallions (Cameo)
- The French Peas (Cameo)
- Mr. Lunt (Cameo)
Songs
- VeggieTales Theme Song
- Together
- Checkmarks
- Silly Songs with Larry: Perfect Puppy
- Feel the Beat
- How It Used to Be
- Tear It Down
- Together Reprise/Finale
- What Have We Learned
Fun Facts
Moral
- Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, so we need to forgive them and make up for it.
- Don't unforgive others when someone apologizes.
Trivia
- This marks the first episode to feature Laura's current design and blue outfit.
- This is also the third overall episode in which Laura's hair was not tied in pigtails, she wore a head band and blue skirt, which were previously used for her character Vanna Banana in Princess and the Popstar and in the Silly Song Best Friends Forever.
- This is one of the few VeggieTales episodes not to have music composed by Kurt Heinecke.
- That being said, it is also the only main episode to not have Kurt involved at all.
- Guessing that the events the Groovy Brothers broke up happened in 1975, and it was 38 years ago at the time, then the episode takes place at least in 2013, which is about a year before it was released.
- Lanny was originally going to have a brown wig.
- This episode is dedicated to Eric Garner.
- This was released exactly 11 years after The Ballad of Little Joe.
- This is the last episode for several things:
- The last episode where Lisa Vischer voices Junior, as well as the last episode where Cydney Trent voices Petunia; they were succeeded in both roles by Tress MacNeille starting in Noah's Ark until The Best Christmas Gift, when Vischer returned to the role of Junior and Kira Buckland succeeded MacNeille as Petunia.
- The last time when Tim Hodge voices Khalil, as confirmed in a tweet he made.
- The last appearance of Grandpa George Piano Scallion Little Nate and Old Woman on the Beach to date.
- The last episode to have someone else singing the What Have We Learned Song.
- The last episode to feature Jimmy and Jerry on the countertop.
- The last episode where Junior wears his signature hat until Little Things Matter.
- The last episode of the original series to feature Junior with clothing.
- Miss Achmetha's last appearance until A Lifetime Supply of Joy.
- The last episode to feature the voices of Tim Hodge, Brian K. Roberts, Lisa Vischer, Cydney Trent, Gigi Abraham, Michael K. Nawrocki, Elijah Wall, Juliette Wall, etc.
- The last Big Idea Production where Laura and Petunia have seperate voice actors.
- The last episode to be released on Netflix.
- The last episode where Cameron Chittock worked on.
- The last Big Idea Production where Annie wears her outfit from Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie.
- This episode marks the return of Laura's freckles, and this is the first time Laura is seen with her freckles since Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed. This is also the first time Laura wears glasses.
Remarks
- Despite Phil Vischer's wishes not to use magic on the show, Lenny did perform some in the episode.
- Junior's yawn is the same yawn sound used back in Where's God When I'm S-Scared?.
- This is one of the few episodes the Silly Song appears in one-third of the run.
- The drawing Junior drew of Laura, in the beginning, was in her previous design.
- The DVD cover states it's around 45 minutes. But the entire episode runtime is 52. However, if you remove the runtime from the opening, Silly Song, and credits altogether, it's actually 45 minutes.
- The DVD cover has lesson in said "forgiveness" which it supposed to be said the power of forgiveness.
Inside References
- In several ways, this episode is similar to Jonah:
- Junior and Laura get into a conflict, and make amends at the end (though here Junior is the one being open-minded and Laura is the one being mean unlike in the movie) .
- Bob gets into a conflict with someone and also make amends at the end.
- Archibald and Khalil, who were the stars of the movie, star in this as well.
- Archibald says "What are you doing here?" to his old friends.
- Archibald's star-shaped monocle he wore as Twippo in the movie is shown when he dressed as a groovy brother.
- Archibald and Khalil leaving Laura and Larry behind after getting fed up by Bob not being with them is similar to what happened in the movie at the end of the story of Jonah where Khaili left Archibald (playing Jonah) behind when he obsessed about Nineveh not getting destroyed. Archibald also says Khalil's line from the movie when it happened, "I am out of here!" when this happened here.
- Laura's quote, "Junior would not like it here, he doesn't like classical music." is very similar to her quote from the movie, "I get to meet Twippo." because both have her say it with awe.
- Both of these introduce new designs for Laura.
- This is the second time when Bob and Larry had an email since Larry-Boy! and the Fib from Outer Space!.
- This episode has a few nods to 'Twas the Night Before Easter
- The way that Bob told Larry and the kid with the question about the story he has and the way he said Roll Film in the same tone.
- Laura was taping an interview like Lanny did with Marlee and Prescot.
- Jimmy and Miss Actmetha have the same outfits.
- Lanny and Dennis say that it's been 38 years since the Groovy Brothers broke up.
- Junior said that he'll spray Bruce with anti-gravity spray is similar to what he did with Gourdon in Bully Trouble.
- One of the photos in Laura's scrapbook is Mr. Sly from Dr. Jiggle and Mr. Sly.
- The Bumblyburg Science Museum from The League of Incredible Vegetables and The Spring Valley Mall from Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas appear in the montage of Laura being upset about Junior being late to meet her.
- The way that Lanny sang Together onstage along while he's close to tears is similar to how Princess did while singing That's not Everything.
- The way that Lanny treated his old friend is similar to what happened in Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler.
- Jimmy and Jerry made a reference to the LarryBoy theme song when they said "Out of sight" and "Dynomite."
- Almost all of the songs that Lanny performed in his solo career is an entire catalogue of Veggie songs (mostly Silly Songs). This included:
- Love My Lips
- The Song of the Cebú
- His Cheeseburger
- Pizza Angel
- Sneeze if You Need To!
- The Hopperena
- Donuts for Benny
- Goodnight Junior
- Schoolhouse Polka
- Astonishing Wigs!
- Bubble Rap
- Lost Puppies
- The Yodeling Veterinarian of the Alps
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
- Do the Moo Shoo
- My Day
- Love Your Neighbor
- I'm So Blue
- Busy, Busy
- Belly Button
- Endangered Love
Real-World References
- The episode's title is a spoof on the 1977 dance drama film Saturday Night Fever.
- The entire story plot is similar to the 2011 Muppets Movie, in which the main character tries to reunite an old band back together so they can save a historic landmark from being torn up by a rich tycoon.
- The second record album in the credits is based on the Beatles' Abbey Road.
- The song "Together" is a parody of the two songs "Wannabe" by Spice Girls and "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees.
Fast Forward
- Laura's outfit in this would be used in The VeggieTales Show.
- The newspaper from Perfect Puppy would make several appearances in The VeggieTales Show.
- The Bible verse at the end would be mentioned twice in The VeggieTales Show.
- Bruce Onion would later be a silent cameo in The VeggieTales Show
- Laura would later call Petunia "Miss Petunia" in A Lifetime Supply of Joy.
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