Oh No, JoCo's Sick! (The Musical) at the Thursday Red Team show on JoCo Cruise 2020
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 2020-04-19

Zoë Keating was unable to join us this year, as she had a fever just before the cruise. (John Hodgman also couldn’t make it, because he was in COVID-19-stricken Italy just before the cruise.) So they had a hole (which this video probes the depths of) in the performance schedule, and on the Lyft ride from the airport to the hotel the night before the cruise, Aimee Mann turned to Jonathan Coulton and said, “Well, you know what we’re going to do. We’re going to write a musical.” Over the course of that ride, Aimee hectored Jonathan into it, because despite the ridiculousness of that idea, Aimee Mann always has good ideas. So by Friday night, they’d written this musical about JoCo Cruise. So, thank you, Aimee for having annoyingly difficult good ideas.

Broadway theatres had just closed for the next month, so this was the closest we were going to get to Broadway. The musical is called, “Oh, No, JoCo’s Sick!”, and it stars Aimee Mann as herself, Molly Lewis as herself, John Roderick as himself, John Roderick as Jonathan Coulton, Paul Sabourin as himself, Paul Sabourin as John Roderick, Aimee Mann as a Skype call, Storm DiCostanzo as John Hodgman, Jean Grae as the Aimee-Man, master of sadness, Aimee Mann as Jean Grae, and Jonathan Coulton as a clone of himself.

It features the song Bleep Blorp (which sounds like an Ernie Wade song to me), a song about a sad giraffe which I am going to say is called Everything Leaves, and one which I’ll call It’s All About Me. Lyrics as transcribed by Joey Marianer: 

Bleep Blorp
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Long ago in days of yore
It all began in a hardware store
When a guy made a robot from tin and some pieces of twine

It's not a cyborg, it's not a droid
It's some kind of parable
Go ask Freud
And it lives in our hearts and our psyches, but mostly online

It's bleep blorp
Just a robot who's nerdy and rusty and clunky
It's bleep blorp
Just a robot who somehow is crossed with a monkey

Everyone loves bleep blorp
The robot is named bleep blorp
'Cause he says bleep blorp


Everything Leaves
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My name is Ron
I'm a sad giraffe
My neck's too long
And hurts to laugh
I'll never reconcile my head and heart
Because my neck keeps them so far apart
'Cause when a guy sits in the trees
He's got a view, but all he sees
Is everything leaves


It’s All About Me
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JoCoCruise is friendship 
And fun and games and more
And robots mixed with monkeys
With sadness at its core
It's a spirit that you carry in your heart
But don't forget the most important part

It's all about me
Because without me
It wouldn't be the same
Despite what you bring
I'm the main thing
It's all there in the name

J-O-C-O Cruise
That spells JoCoCruise
Don't forget it
You won't regret it
If you see how much they spend on booze

It's all about me
Because without me
It's just a stupid boat
We're having fun but
I say what's what
We're not taking a vote

J-O-C-O Cruise
That spells JoCoCruise
Yes, I own it
You'd have known it
If you read the FAQs

I'm the mostest, largest,
Most in-charge-est
Goddamn fish in the sea
It's not about you,
It's all about me!

This whole show is in https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0i-40IzGComxqbqjptHSWmm