Furry Old Lobster — Jonathan Coulton & Travis McElroy, Final Red Team Concert on JoCo Cruise 2019
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 2019-05-10

Jonathan Coulton is stealing his capo back from Jim Boggia, who stole it from him earlier. It’s a capo caper. C is for Capo Murder. A is for Acoustic. B is for Bassoon. This next song is Travis McElroy’s fault. This seems to be his favourite song of Jonathan’s. He has asked him every year to do it, and every year he says he’ll try, and doesn’t do it, but he’s going to do it this year. Travis gets up on stage and holds a small doll’s head in a creepy way. This is a song about lobsters, but not the lobsters you’re thinking of. It’s a long story, but John Hodgman wrote a book of fake facts called "Areas of My Expertise" (the audiobook of which has a fair bit of Coulton on it: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/areas-my-expertise-almanac-complete-world-knowledge/id1418845538?mt=11&at=1001lM7h) and one was this idea that there was another animal called a lobster originally, which was like a furry otter thing, and the lobsters that we have now were invasive species that came and destroyed all of the old, furry kind of lobster. It makes a lot of sense when you read it in the book. So he wrote a song bemoaning the decline in population of the original, furry lobster. It’s called Furry Old Lobster. Travis McElroy performs and impassioned lipsynch from the side of the stage.

The full show will be at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0jS2272ESEVF1hxDKz0sPIC