Nine Bowls Of Soup 2 (Podcast Episode)

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Host: The Puppet Johns
Date published: June 6th, 2008
Show length: 5:40

Description

"They Might Be Giants video podcast of songs about letters, numbers and everything else."

Segments

• Starting time [0:00] Puppet Johns

(Flansburgh as a space man, Linnell as a robot):

Flansburgh: It's Friday, June 6th.
Linnell: [Via vocoder] And that means it's time for...
Flansburgh: They Might Be Giants Friday Night Video Podcast!
Linnell: For kids.
Flansburgh: For families.
Both: For you!
Linnell: This next song is called "Nine Bowls of Soup." I consider it my favorite.

• [0:23] - Here Come The 123s
• [0:30] - Nine Bowls Of Soup
• [2:41] - Puppet Johns:

Flansburgh: Hi, everybody. This is Spaceman John here to tell you that June is "Spaceman and Robot Month" here at They Might Be Giants Video Podcast. And here to sing the next song is Robot John!
Linnell: [Sings Robot Parade] In a future time, children will work together to build a giant cyborg. That's me! Robot parade.
Flansburgh: Yo!
Linnell: Robot parade.
Flansburgh: Yo yo!
Linnell: Robots obey what the children say. Robot parade.
Flansburgh: Yo!
Linnell: Robot parade.
Flansburgh: Robot!
Linnell: Robots obey what the children say. Go Spaceman!
Flansburgh: [Mouth beeps]
Linnell: There's electric cars.
Flansburgh: Cars!
Linnell: There's electric trains.
Flansburgh: Trains!
Linnell: Here comes a robot with electric brains. Robot parade.
Flansburgh: Whoa.
Linnell: Robot parade.
Flansburgh: Robot
Linnell: Robots obey what the children say. Robot parade.
Flansburgh: Robot.
Linnell: Robot parade.
Flansburgh: Robot.
Linnell: Wave the flag that the robots made. Go Spaceman, again!
Flansburgh: [Mouth beeps]
Linnell: I'm a robot!
Flansburgh: [Mouth beeps]
Linnell: He's a spaceman! Give me an "R," Spaceman!
Flansburgh: "R!"
Linnell: Give me another "R."
Flansburgh: "R."
Linnell: Give me six more "R's."
Flansburgh: "R R R R R R."
Linnell: What's that spell?
Flansburgh: Rrrrrrrr!
Linnell: Whooo!

• [4:35] - Puppet Johns (sing Now We Have To Go):

Flansburgh: Now we have to go.
Linnell: Here we go.
Flansburgh: Watch us go.
Linnell: What if I don't want to go.
Flansburgh: But you do.
Linnell: Maybe so.
Both: but we're comin' back next week.
Linnell: I can't wait until next week.
Flansburgh: Now it's time for us to say...
Both: So long.
[Both beep and bop]
Linnell: I am a robot. I am a robot. A robot. A robot. A robot. And he's a spaceman. A spaceman.
Flansburgh: I'm a...
Both: Spaceman.
[Beeping continues]
Flansburgh: Space. [x11]
[Scraping noises]
Linnell: [Plainly] Malfunction.