#haven't finished tbbp2 yet

[unfortunatetheorist]

What is the meaning behind the Volunteers Fighting Disease song? (BCT)

Tra-la-laaa, Fiddle-dee-deee, Hope you get well soo-

Oh, sorry. Just singing along to a... surprisingly jaunty theme song for hospital use.

We first hear this obscure melody in The Hostile Hospital: Part One, but the tune still haunts.

I've done an analysis of the structure of the song (under the cut, feel free to skip ahead), and found this interesting trinket:

We are Volunteers Fighting Disease

And we're cheerful all day long

If someone said that we were sad

That person would be wrong

= 30 syllables

We visit people who are sick

And try to make them smile

Even if their noses bleed

Or if they cough up bile

= 27 syllables

Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee Hope you get well soon

Ho ho ho, hee hee hee Have a heart-shaped balloon

= 24 syllables

We visit people who are ill

And try to make them laugh

Even when the doctor says

He must saw them in half

= 32 syllables

We sing and sing all night and day

And then we sing some more

We sing to boys with broken bones

And girls whose throats are sore

= 28 syllables

Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee Hope you get well soon

Ho ho ho, hee hee hee Have a heart-shaped balloon

= 24 syllables

We sing to men with measles

And to women with the flu

And if you breathe in deadly germs

We'll probably sing to you

= 28 syllables

Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee Hope you get well soon

Ho ho ho, hee hee hee Have a heart-shaped balloon

= 24 syllables

But what does this all mean? Well:

24+28+24+28+32+24+27+30 = 217 / 7 = 31

The red section is particularly important, when one remembers there are 7 days in a week and 31 days (mostly) in a month.

Also, there are only 7 months which have 31 days in them: January, March, May, July, August, October and December.

And from the Snicket Wiki:

In other words, this is Handler's way, even if it is accidental, of saying that

The Baudelaires' danger is like [the nature of] time - it cannot be stopped.

The Baudelaires are, in a very literal way, BORN with bad luck.

However, it could be a clue to the time frame; ASOUE doesn't take place in a leap year, or the red [calculation] text would not be true...

N.B. Not a Netflix theory, as Netflix have additional lyrics, not counted for here.

¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

#asoue #lemony snicket #vfd #a series of unfortunate events #snicketverse #theory #volunteers fighting disease #hidden message #very snickety #numerical #also a bit astrological #still working on the complete works of contradictory logic in asoue #haven't finished tbbp2 yet #abt halfway there #bon jovi reference intended