"...And now I can't get out of here. I'm gonna be stuck in here forever, and people are gonna set plates on my head, and I'm never gonna get to go to the circus or run through the fresh cut grass or feel the ocean breeze in my hair as I pilot my nimble schooner, Felix, off the coast of our family home in Kennebunkport!!!! (deep breath) Oh Auntie Em! There's no place like home! There's no place like home! Click..click...click." ~Larry, lamenting having fallen into the sink and not being able to get out.
"Ten days after I turned eight I got my lips stuck in a gate. My friends all laughed... and I just stood there until the fire department came and broke the lock with a crowbar and I had to spend the next six weeks in lip rehab with this kid named Oscar who got stung by a bee right on the lip and we couldn't even talk to each other until the fifth week 'cuz both of our lips were so swollen and when he did start speaking he just spoke Polish and I only knew like three words in Polish except now I know four because Oscar taught me the word for lip--'Usta!'" ~Larry, in the Silly Song, "Love My Lips"
"...And I've never licked a spark plug and I've never sniffed a stinkbug and I've never painted daisies on a big red rubber ball. And I've never bathed in yogurt and I don't look good in leggings... and I've never been to Boston in the fall!" ~Larry in the Silly Song, "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything"
"I am that hero!" ~Larry-Boy
"I'm a bumble bee--a Bennyboo--I'm Benny!" ~Larry, trying to pronounce the name, "Abednego"
"Get a picture of me next to the cucumber in authentic Argentinian garb!" ~Junior
"...I think he's gotten a little big for his britches. And that's sayin' somethin', 'cause his britches were pretty big to begin with!" ~George, referring to Mr. Nezzer (Nebby K.)
"They didn't mention this in VeggieBeat Magazine." ~Larry, after falling into the sink 'cause VeggieBeat Magazine said that putting an oven mitt on his head would make him cool
"Nobody bakes my buddies!" ~Laura
"Jane, stop this crazy thing!" ~Jean Claude Pea, in a subtle reference to 'The Jetsons'
"Oh, I am feeling woozie!" ~Cristoffe Pea
"I've got a real hankerin' for fried chicken!" ~Jerry Gourd
"I've got slushy in my ear!" ~Jimmy Gourd
"...Like butter on a...bald monkey?" ~Bob, translating for Larry during the Spanish ballad, 'The Dance of the Cucumber'
"Hello, Children! It was nice to meet you, now go away!" ~The French Peas of Jericho to the Children of Israel
Conversational Quotes:
"How are we clapping?" "I have no idea." ~Tom and Pa Grape
"He's honking!" "It's part of the plan!" ~Laura and Percy, referring to Larry's apparent lack of control of the Larry-mobile
"...I think you look like Cap'n Crunch!" "Huh? No I don't!" "Do too!" "Do not!" "Do too!" "That's it! You're walking the plank!" "Sez who?" "Says the Captain, that's who!" "Oh yeah! Aye-aye, Cap'n Crunch!" ~Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape, arguing about Pa's similarity to a certain breakfast cereal celebrity
More quotes to come!
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