A long time ago, before VT, Archibald Asparagus lived in Pugslyville
with his parents, Alfred and Angela, and his younger sister, Abigail.
Archie loved his family very much.
His father was somewhat of a goof and always did little magic tricks
with his monocle. Archie was also pretty lighthearted and couldn’t
wait until he was old enough to trade in his glasses for his own monocle.
Archie’s parents both worked at Pugslyville U, his father teaching Nuclear
Medicine and his mother Biochemistry. Archie and Abigail, like any
other pair of siblings, argued a lot, but always came out laughing at each
other.
One day, Angela brought home a new asparagus and introduced her as Mrs. Pear’s adopted daughter.
Mrs Pear was a widow, having been married before to a peach. The peach had been a widower and when he died, Mrs. Pear had him buried next to his first wife. Needless to say, two peach trees grew and a new peach came from them. Mrs. Pear had adopted the boy for a while but felt he needed to be raised by his own kind, so she sent him to some relatives in Florida.
Mrs. Pear had enjoyed raising the peach so much, she decided to adopt another child. She succeeded in adopting a girl asparagus. The child had been deserted by her teenage mother and was also given a terrible name. Mrs. Pear took her in and started calling her Lovey, because now she would be loved. Lovey grew up and never met another asparagus until she met Mrs. Pear’s friend, Mrs. Angela Asparagus.
Lovey grew to adore the Asparagus family and became Abigail’s best friend.
She knew Abigail had a brother, but never got to know him. He would
just nod and go off to his room and read. Archie was terribly shy
around girls and felt embarrassed around Lovey.
Needless to say, Lovey would become a major part of his life.
Alfred and Abigail were very adventurous and one day they set off for an expedition to Africa. They traveled to a wild bamboo country to meet the local veggie tribes and study the local wildlife. The couple set off in their canoe and were never seen again. The last report anyone had from them was that they we setting off down a hippo infested river in a canoe--some said it was wooden, some said it was aluminum.
You can imagine how devistating this was, not only to Archibald and Abigail, but to the entire Pugslyville U. A reward fund was made for anyone who could track down the missing professors. For the first couple of years, there were many false leads, which made everything even more trying on the asparagus’. Abigail decided to drown her sorrows by going to a Boston boarding school. Archibald had been enrolled in Pugslyville for a year and continued in his parent’s memory.
One important factor is this. Alfred and Angela had been devout Christians and had raised both of their children in the church. Abigail had been baptized at an early age, but Archie had no intrest in religion. It didn’t make sense to him. And in this time of trouble, Christ was the farthest thing from his mind.
But Christ didn’t forget him. During one gloomy Friday night, Archibald climbed the bell tower of Gourd Hall. He looked down and thought about jumping, but something made him change his mind. He climbed down, went into the basement and sat in his father’s office. Here, Archibald found his dad’s journals. A few were just ordinary diaries about everyday life, but one in particular caught Archie’s attention. It was a prayer journal. Archie read the pages slowly and saw how much his father loved his famly, friends and most of all God. At the bottom of each page was this phrase:
And Dearest Lord, keep an eye on my son Archibald. I love him so much but he still doesn’t know you and it breaks my heart to think of eternity without him. Let him realize you love him too. Amen.
Archibald didn’t understand this at all. He had locked the door and stayed in that office for several days. He may have stayed there except that Lovey found him. She had been just as upset and became even more so when she learned that Alfred and Angela’s son had vanished. Fortunately, she knew where and how to look. Few at Pugslyville knew about the tunnels that went around and under the buildings. Lovey knew of a potato who knew his way around these tunnels and also that one led to a secret door in Alfred Asparagus’ office, which was probably where Archibald would be.
For once, Archibald wasn’t shy to see Lovey. He was too confused and distressed to noticed he had been in a locked underground room for three days. Lovey conferted him and explained what the prayer journals meant. She too, was a Christian, and showed Archibald how much his father and his Heavenly Father loved him. She prayed with him, got him out of the basement, took him to dinner, and had him meet Pastor Squash.
Archibald continued going to Pugslyville U (he changed majors so much that it took him seven years to graduate). During his fourth year, he met Bob the Tomato, a new freshman. The next year, Bob got a new roommate, Larry the Cucumber. Archibald did experiments with a new machine that would supposedly enable vegetables to transport to computers in the human world. With this, Bob managed to meet Phil and Mike, a pair of humans who wanted to use them in a cartoon series. You know much of the rest.
Larry was usually asked for a silly song for each video and Josh and the Big Wall was no different. As Larry thought, he picked up a letter he got from Africa. You see, Bob and Larry had friends who traveled around promoting VeggieTales and asking kids to send them mail. This little boy was a cucumber named Abubu. He had just seen Where’s God when I’m S-Scared? He loved it so much he wrote Larry a letter and gave him this story.
Dear Larry
I saw your show about being scared. You did a good job of being
Daniel. I liked your story so much, I want to tell you a story
about my country.
A long time ago, two bushy haired people came to my country.
I don’t know what they were. I’d never seen people like that before.
They came toward my village in a canoe, but didn’t see the hippo.
The boat crashed and we had to pull them out. They did not knew who
they were or how they got there. They had a box with a picture of
an animal on it, but it was not a zebu. I have three zebus.
A sick zebu, a sad zebu and a mute zebu.. Anyway, the bushy haired
people still live with us but cannot remember where they came from.
That’s my story. Thank you for reading it Mr. Larry.
Abubu Cucumber
Of course Larry knew nothing of the dissappearence of Archibald’s parents and decided that this story would be great for a silly song. He wanted to use a slide projector in it, but didn’t know how to draw bushy haired people. He looked up zebu and found a picture and thought the spanish word “cebu” would sound sillier. Thus, Larry made the Song of the Cebu. Unfortunately, there was a mix up at Photo Hut and the slide show couldn’t be finished. Also, Archibald became extremly distressed with the similarities the song had with his parent’s disappearence, which is why he became so angry that it wasn’t finished. It was as if the whole thing was starting over and the questions popped up. “Was the canoe wood or aluminum?” had a lot of significance since a wooden canoe would have crashed easier than an aluminum one and no wreckage was found.
Of course we all know about how Larry was fired, replaced, and then redeemed, but there was some trouble in between. Lovey found Archibald once again in his father’s office. He was truly sorry he had taken his anger out on Larry, and was perfectly willing to show Larry the petition he received. Silly Song’s 2 was filmed impromptu, and Silly Songs being reinstated was a complete surprise to Larry. He just happened to have Yodeling Vetrinarian of the Alps with him. It had been filmed at Bob’s bachelor party just for fun. Bob was now on his honeymoon which is why he doesn’t appear in the rest of the video.
Anyhow, after filming, Archibald and Lovey were about to leave. But then Lovey whispered something to Archibald and they turned back to Larry and Jimmy. To the surprise of the gourd and the cucumber, Archibald invited them to come over to the church to witness a very special occasion. He and Lovey were about to be married! This was a great surprise to Jimmy and Larry. Archibald and Lovey had been engaged for a very long time, but kept breaking it off, getting together, and putting it off. But now, Lovey had finished her medical degree and told Archibald that they could get married as soon as he and Larry made up. They had planned to elope and just have a quiet little wedding in the church with Pastor Squash, but Lovey realized that they would need at least two witnesses. Larry and Jimmy couldn't keep the news to themselves and soon the wedding turned into a full blow affair when the entire town showed up, including Bob and his wife who just got back from Moose Lake.
Don’t think the story ends there. Archibald did tell Larry the story of his parents vanishing on a trip to study zebus in Africa. Larry didn’t show him the letter right then, but later showed it to his wife. Bob and his wife agreed to take a trip to Africa to meet Abubu, which is a very long story, but in the end, Archibald is reunited with his parents and is a lot less serious.