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00:30Stand by for Laura Carrot, everybody.
00:32And enter Laura.
00:35Stand by for drink.
00:36And cue drink.
00:38Ready on straw, cue straw.
00:40Lights up on Bob as he approaches.
00:42And cue Bob.
00:45Okay, Laura.
00:46It looks like you're really eager to start training as my assistant stage manager.
00:50You know it.
00:51I can stand by and cue stuff all day.
00:53It'll be your job to carry out my cue sheet for the night.
00:57Cue sheet.
00:58Aw, this looks like homework.
01:01That's what makes the whole show run on schedule and gets everyone where they're supposed to be.
01:05Two minutes to curtain, Bob.
01:07I hope everyone's on schedule and where they're supposed to be.
01:11Uh, not yet.
01:13This is why I need an assistant.
01:15Someone who can follow all these directions.
01:17Unless I have a better idea, right?
01:20Just stay in the prompt corner.
01:22Where is that?
01:23Right here.
01:25You haven't studied the theatrical terms yet, have you?
01:28Sure, I know all that stuff.
01:30Then you can tell me which lanterns on the LHS perch are open white?
01:35Not right now.
01:37Just follow my directions.
01:40As long as they make sense.
01:42Sometimes they won't.
01:43Not to you.
01:44Looks like one of our viewers is having the same trouble.
01:46This one is from Anton.
01:49He writes,
01:49Dear Bob and Larry,
01:51I don't understand why my parents make me follow so many silly rules.
01:54Why the early bedtime?
01:56Why can't I eat dessert first?
01:58Why can't I take my game system to school?
02:00Hmm, good questions.
02:02Why should I have to follow their rules if they don't make sense to me?
02:06Your friend, Anton.
02:08I think we can find some answers for Anton today.
02:11Thirty seconds to curtain, Bob.
02:13Right now.
02:14Laura, cue the theme song.
02:17Cue the theme song!
02:19On the headset.
02:27Get your sister, get your brother, call your uncle, and your mother.
02:30If you're missing any other of the people that you know, we're going to start the show.
02:38It's the VeggieTales Show, live on stage.
02:42It's the VeggieTales Show, for every age.
02:45It's the VeggieTales Show, I'm in the cage.
02:48It's the VeggieTales Show.
02:55It's the VeggieTales Show.
02:58Great theme song, guys.
02:59Places for the next number.
03:01Stand by curtains, stand by lights, stand by acrobats.
03:04All set?
03:05Curtain up!
03:06What?
03:10Ah...
03:11Are we supposed to sing?
03:14Sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep.
03:16Close curtains!
03:19We don't even have a set yet.
03:22Did you look at the cue sheet?
03:24Did you wait for my signal?
03:25I was going by my gut.
03:29You're too young to have a gut.
03:32I love your enthusiasm, but I still have the authority, okay?
03:37Now, let's see if the acrobats are ready.
03:39Ready?
03:40My acrobats were born ready!
03:44Hmm?
03:45Huh?
03:45Sorry, what?
03:48If this next act is half as good as their introduction, you're in for a treat.
03:56So give a big cheer for the fantastic gymnastics of the acrobatic fanatics, the spectacles of spandex, Archibald, and his
04:08flying circus.
04:09Does anyone want to play for a treat?
04:13Ha-ha-ha!
04:16Ha-ha-ha!
04:17Ha-ha-ha!
04:20Ha-ha-ha!
04:21Ha-ha-ha-ha!
04:22Ha-ha-ha!
04:24Ha-ha!
04:25Ha-ha!
04:25Ha-ha-ha!
04:27Ha-ha-ha!
04:35Hoo!
04:37Yass!
04:40No, the spotlight is on us!
04:44Oh, we're freestyling now, huh?
04:47Get ready for the Cali dance!
04:55If she gets to dance, I'm doing my secret move!
05:00Not the secret move!
05:21Oh, I guess we're not as good as we thought.
05:25I don't know what went wrong.
05:27You don't? Really? You can't possibly guess?
05:31Tell the crew to get ready for Madame Blueberry and Paw Grapes' musical number.
05:36Okay, but they never do what I say.
05:39My point exactly.
05:41Just study the cue sheet and wait for me to come back.
05:45I know what I'm doing.
05:47I just need to go with what makes sense to me.
05:50Madame Blueberry, Paw Grapes to the stage!
05:56My love, you are like the morning dew
06:00Cling to a falling cover
06:04My love, though, has only three leaves
06:10Let's head spots three and six!
06:12My love, you are like
06:14Forty-second street
06:18Glistening from an evening shower
06:22Uh-oh, we need some new scenery to go with those lights.
06:26Backdrop mine!
06:28My love, you are like new cowboy boots
06:33All shiny and
06:35You smell just like heaven
06:37But my boots just smell
06:39And I kept from a cow
06:44Oh, boy, I don't know.
06:46Something else behind them.
06:48Backdrop two!
06:49No, seven!
06:50That's what?
06:51Oh, wow!
06:52This is different!
06:53Oh, disco!
06:56You got it?
06:57Well, wait, what happened?
06:59I like this!
07:02Oh, yeah!
07:03Oh, hey!
07:05Help!
07:06I'll take that!
07:07You're not using it anyway.
07:09Bring down the curtain!
07:11You had to do things your way.
07:14You left me to do a job.
07:16So I did it the way I thought it should be done.
07:18The way that made sense to me.
07:20That's not the job.
07:22Not the way I asked you to do it.
07:27Well, what a great introduction to the topic of obedience.
07:32But what happens when God gives us instructions?
07:35Maybe even instructions that we don't understand.
07:37Can we trust him enough to follow them?
07:40One man in the Bible had to figure that out for himself.
07:44His name was Naaman.
07:48Hey, man.
07:50My name is Naaman.
07:52I wake up in a mansion every day, man.
07:55I'm the captain of the guard for the king of Aram.
07:59And my wife and cooks and servants, they all love who I am.
08:03As I march the roads of Syria, I am everyone superior.
08:06Even horses know my name.
08:08The name is Naaman.
08:10Naaman.
08:11Naaman.
08:13Hey, man.
08:14We work for Naaman.
08:16When I lost my homie, gave a place to stay, man.
08:20Now I serve his lovely wife with a grateful, happy heart.
08:24When we get parts to Daria, who brings the slushy cart.
08:27She makes sure I look my finest as commander.
08:30To his highness, dressed and dressed to look my best.
08:33Our bastard Naaman.
08:34Naaman.
08:36Naaman.
08:38Hey, man.
08:40What can I say, man?
08:42I've got the summer home in Cairo and the Caymans.
08:47I have a life of perfect ease.
08:50My chin held high, do as I please.
08:53Why, today, I ordered cupcakes just for celebrating me.
08:59Let's get some of those little paper hats, too.
09:02You got it, boss.
09:02There's an order to our landing.
09:05In my home they understand.
09:06A mansion clean and thick and thin.
09:09The house of Naaman.
09:10He is a captain of the guard.
09:12We put a statue in the yard.
09:14We polish all his chariot cars.
09:16Says he tastes well.
09:17I've got five stars.
09:19I keep a tiger as a pet.
09:21I live my life with no regrets.
09:24Hey, man.
09:25It's Naaman.
09:28Did those cupcakes show up yet?
09:30As a matter of fact, they just arrived.
09:34Right on time to celebrate Wednesday.
09:37I don't need a reason.
09:39I just love cupcakes.
09:41Uh, sir, these cupcakes don't smell quite right.
09:45Maybe they got left out in the sun?
09:47Oh, cupcakes could never hurt you.
09:50They're too delicious.
09:52I don't want you to get sick.
09:55What sickness could I possibly get from a cupcake?
10:00What's my first line again?
10:02Sorry, sir.
10:03You have leprosy.
10:05You have leopard seeds.
10:07No, not leopard seeds.
10:10Leprosy.
10:10It's a disease that...
10:12You, Larry!
10:13Remember, it's leprosy.
10:16Well, I'm sorry, sir.
10:18You have leopard seeds.
10:22Is that a real thing?
10:24Yep.
10:24Seeds have sprouted all over your body.
10:26Making you sprouted.
10:27Like a leopard.
10:29Pray, man.
10:30Let's pray for Naaman.
10:32He's got leopard seeds.
10:33It only takes one day, man.
10:36Did you recently eat watermelon and swallow the seeds?
10:39No.
10:40Have you swallowed any purple chewing gum?
10:43What?
10:44No.
10:46You haven't come into contact with any weird cupcakes, have you?
10:49I never...
10:50Wait.
10:51Yes.
10:52Oh.
10:52Well, I think we're done here.
10:55Aren't you going to give me a shot or a pill?
10:58At least tell me to rest and drink plenty of fluids.
11:02Okay.
11:02You should rest and drink plenty of fluids.
11:04That will cure me?
11:06Oh, no.
11:07There's no cure.
11:08You should also not go near anyone.
11:10You're very contagious.
11:12No.
11:12This can't be true.
11:14I'm powerful and rich and powerful.
11:19There must be something I can do.
11:21You could roast s'mores by the fire, drink hot chocolate, and read your favorite scroll
11:26to your snuggly teddy bear.
11:28Who told you about teddy tins?
11:31Ahem.
11:32Will that cure me?
11:34No, but it'll make you feel better about hearing this terrible news.
11:38You are no help.
11:41I'm ruined.
11:43Sir, we couldn't help but overhear.
11:46You've always been so kind to us, sir.
11:48We want to help.
11:49One of our people, a prophet named Elisha, is known throughout Israel.
11:54I know he can heal you.
11:55The doctor said there is no cure.
11:58Maybe not, but God gave Elisha the power to raise a boy from the dead.
12:03Dead?
12:04That's even worse than sick.
12:06He must have been an important child.
12:08A prince, maybe?
12:09I don't think so.
12:10As a matter of fact, he...
12:12I know what to do.
12:13I'll have my king write a letter to his king.
12:16This prophet will see how powerful and important I am.
12:23Then he'll heal me.
12:26I don't think power is important to him.
12:28If you just go to him when you...
12:29It's already done.
12:30Let's go.
12:32Hey, man.
12:33It's far away, man.
12:35Just to see this guy, it took a night and day, man.
12:39This better be worth it.
12:42Wake up, kids.
12:43We're here.
12:44Whoa, that was fast.
12:46The magic of theatrical transitions.
12:49Let's hurry it up.
12:50The chariot is double parked.
12:52Announce my arrival.
12:53Take these ridiculously heavy bags of silver and gold to show him how wealthy I am.
12:59I don't think you need...
13:00Even the prophet needs to make a prophet.
13:03Maybe he can heal my back pain.
13:09Oh, great, Elisha.
13:12I'm sure it is an honor to meet me.
13:15Oh, that is very funny.
13:17I am not Elisha.
13:19You, sir, are like a stand-up comedian with that.
13:22No.
13:23My master has sent me down with a message.
13:27Go wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River.
13:30Then you will be cured of your leopard seeds.
13:36Seven times?
13:37What kind of cure is that?
13:39That makes no sense.
13:41That is the message.
13:43But I brought half a ton of gold and silver all the way from Arum.
13:48That is not necessary.
13:49Simply go wash.
13:52I expected him to wave his hand over the leopard seeds and bam!
13:57No need.
13:58Just wash.
13:59A little spectacle?
14:01Is that so hard?
14:02He could have at least come out to greet me.
14:05Seven times in the river, all healed.
14:08Would you like me to write it down, sir?
14:09No.
14:10Because this is silly.
14:12It makes no sense for me to bathe in the Jordan River.
14:16I've got a perfectly good tub at home.
14:20No way, man.
14:22My name is Naaman.
14:24I'm not bathing in the river that is gray, man.
14:27There's so many Arum rivers that are lovely for the skin.
14:31The Jordan washes Israelites.
14:33You don't know where they've been.
14:34No offense.
14:36It's true.
14:37I am from Israel.
14:38Have you even been to the Jordan River, master?
14:41Well, no.
14:43Then you should know the Lord my God has done mighty things there.
14:47He parted those waters just like the Red Sea.
14:50A stone altar from the twelve tribes is placed there from when we crossed it to reach the promised land.
14:57Naaman, what can I say, man?
15:00Follow God's commands and you will be okay, man.
15:03I know it's a peculiar task, but seven times is all he asks
15:07to see the sickness go away from Naaman.
15:13Okay, fine. We're here.
15:16Huh. You're right, Daria. It's nicer than I thought.
15:24Come in. The water is great.
15:28I don't know. It's no far par.
15:31Have you been to the far par river?
15:33During beach season, ooh.
15:35You know, I just head home and dip seven times in my own river.
15:39But the far par is too far far.
15:42Elisha was clear it should be in this river.
15:46Oh, all right.
15:52There. That should do it.
15:55That was only once.
15:57Why seven times? Why this river?
16:00It doesn't make sense to me.
16:02This is my body and my sickness.
16:05I'll decide how this silly treatment goes.
16:09Okay, Master.
16:12What did you have in mind?
16:24Huh. Nothing.
16:32Ugh. Nothing.
16:40Yuck. Nothing.
16:53You sure there's river water in there?
16:56Naaman, sir. Why won't you just do-
16:59Oh, forget it. I knew this silly treatment wouldn't work.
17:03But you've never really done it.
17:05Is Elisha trying to make a fool of me?
17:08I'm going to give him a piece of my mind.
17:14Oh, now he comes to the door.
17:17What kind of a fool do you think I am?
17:20A prideful one. A stubborn one.
17:22One who takes the long road to get somewhere.
17:25Okay, okay. You don't have to have so many answers.
17:30You ask. God knows best.
17:33Why can't you just follow his directions?
17:36But bathing seven times in one particular river? I don't get it.
17:43He's not asking you to get it. He's asking you to trust him and obey, no matter what.
17:49Daria has told you the miracles our people have seen, right?
17:53Yeah. Red Sea, out of Egypt, on and on.
17:58With all your pride, even you answer to someone. Your king.
18:02If you make God your king, is this any different?
18:07I guess not.
18:09God is bigger than us and sometimes his ways are more than we can understand.
18:14But we trust him.
18:16I hardly know this God. Why should I trust him?
18:20Because he loves us and only wants the best for us.
18:24He's the one in charge of everything and so he sees what's best when we can't.
18:29If you believe that, you can obey whatever he says.
18:33Okay. I really want to obey God for real this time.
18:37These leopard seeds itch like crazy.
18:40Take me to the river.
18:44Whoa. I'm feeling better.
18:50Whoa! Look at him go!
18:53I'm like a popcorn popper!
18:58It worked! Seven times! No spots!
19:02I'm finally healed!
19:06Do you have leopard seeds?
19:09Ask your doctor about obedience.
19:12Side effects may include healing, peace of mind, and trusting someone greater than yourself.
19:16Got any other prescriptions, doc?
19:18How about a celebration at your place?
19:24Naaman, learn to obey, man.
19:27All the crazy colored spots have gone away, man.
19:31A cheer to my best servant. She is faithful and observant.
19:34Daria, it's clear you showed your boss the way.
19:38Disobedience is needless. Now my master's skin is seedless.
19:41Naaman finally found his way today.
19:47This whole show proved it. I'm not ready to be your assistant.
19:51There's always another show. Do you trust me?
19:55Well, of course I do. You've been doing this longer than anybody.
19:59And I know you care about the show. And me.
20:02So you can trust my directions?
20:06Just like Naaman finally trusted God? Yes.
20:09Then let's try this again. Stand by on lights, stand by on curtain, and cue the cupcakes.
20:17Whatever you say, sir.
20:19I got these from a great little shop outside the town.
20:23Uh, we're gonna pass on those.
20:28Hey man, it's better to obey man.
20:31Just like our main man.
20:36The name is Man Man Man.
20:40Close curtain, strike the set, and cue the box.
20:47So Anton, your parrots love you, and they know best.
20:52Even if their rules don't make sense to you, it makes sense to obey.
20:57You know, there's a good verse in the Bible about this.
21:01Like this one? It is raining beautiful fortunes from heaven.
21:06I get the cookie.
21:08Luke 11, 28 says,
21:10Those who hear the teaching of God and obey it, they are the ones who are truly blessed.
21:17Peas be with you.
21:18Did he say peas?
21:19The important thing is that just like our parents, we can trust God and follow his directions too.
21:27No matter what.
21:29Until next time, remember, God made you special.
21:32And he loves you very much.
21:35Goodbye!
21:36Goodbye!
21:37Goodbye!