#still working on the complete works of contradictory logic in asoue

[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

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[unfortunatetheorist]

Quote Debunk 10 - A Series of Unfortunate Debunks:

The Complete Works of Contradictory Logic in ASOUE: Volume I

Part 1 - The Bad Beginning: S1 E1

For Debunk 10, I'm going big: I shall list each and every statement that can confuse or distract viewers the first time around, but on closer inspection, actually make no sense.

12:42 - BAUDELAIRE MANSION DESTROYED (headline)

"But I thought it would cheer them up, the Gloomy Guses!" ¬ Eleanora Poe.

14:17 - "Our home is your home" (Arthur Poe); "But don't touch anything" (Eleanora Poe)

15:39 - "I remember how I was when I was your age" (Mr Poe); "We're all different ages" (Baudelaires)

15:49 - "And he's employed as an actor, so you know his excitement is genuine." ¬ Arthur Poe

26:43 - "I told them to cry using their inside voices" ¬ Olaf

27:51 - "I open my home to them and all they do is complain; the bathroom is filthy, the rat is noisy, the bed is cramped!"

Why are you opening a disgusting, rat-infested home to 3 orphans, Olaf?!

From the same scene, this piece:

"The plural of 'bed' is 'bed'." ¬ Olaf

29:02 - *Puts finger in mouth*; "The lamb was too salty"

30:43 - "Your secret tower room?"; "WRONG! My secret tower room."

33:28 - Pasta Puttanesca; "I wonder what that means in Italian" ¬ K.B.

NO, YOU DO NOT KLAUS! NO, YOU DO NOT!

34:00 - Something I picked up when reviewing the episode for this post: the trolley reads "THIS TROLLEY DOES NOT TURN ON RED LIGHTS"... why? A bit nonsensical if you ask me, but maybe Handler had his reasons...

35:58 - "N! For the knowledge, 'cause I'm very, very smart!" ¬ O.

So smart, you can't spell knowledge. Amazing.

37:25 - "...Like 2 pieces of a bread in the middle of a sandwich." ¬O.

Followed by Sunny's obvious correction.

As of 40:10 - From Olaf's monologue: "...for the purpose of plotting theater..."

Yeah. He told us from the start and we missed it.

40:41 - "There is no 'I' in acting..."

Except for the one right in the middle, of course.

40:58 - "There is only what the French call a certain... 'escargot'. "

What have snails got to do with acting?!

A noteworthy point: Only the villains give this counter-acting logic; maybe my hypothesis will still stand by TE...

¬ Th3r3534ch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

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