"Friends For Dinner" is a song, sung by the kids in the film The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, as Chomper goes off to find food for his friends. Meanwhile, the rest of the kids, minus Littlefoot, still are unsure whether to trust him, since he is a Sharptooth. Even though he obviously meant to say having friends over for dinner.
In the TV episode, "The Brave Longneck Scheme", the song is performed just before they devise their plan to use Chomper (acting the part of a savage sharptooth) to trick Rhett, a young longneck who constantly brags about his adventures in fighting Sharpteeth.
While the lyrics themselves aren't exactly gory or graphic, they certainly draw up some potentially disturbing mental pictures. It is also notable for containing many references to modern foods.
Lyrics
The Mysterious Island
- Friends for dinner.
I'm gonna have
Friends for dinner.
I'm gonna get
A couple of those,
A couple of these,
Things from the bushes,
And things from the trees,
I think they're yucky,
But I know they'll please
My friends for dinner.
Together (Except Chomper who is gathering plants for his friends.)
- Friends for dinner.
- He just wants to have
Friends for dinner.
- He wants to have Threehorn soup.
- And Littlefoot stew.
Cera
- You won't think it's funny,
When he chews on you.
Littlefoot
- That's not a very nice thing to do
Together (Except Chomper who is gathering plants for his friends.)
- To have friends for dinner!
Littlefoot
- He can't eat vegetables,
Only meat.
Cera
- He'll munch and he'll crunch
Those little duck feet.
Petrie
- If he just eats Spike,
Wouldn't that be enough?
- He would spit out Cera,
'Cause she's too tough!
Cera
- Spoken:Hey!
Together (Except Chomper who is gathering plants for his friends.)
- Friends for dinner.
Don't wanna be
Friends for dinner.
Ducky
- We'd rather sink in the mud,
Petrie
- Fall out of the tree,
Cera
- Roll like a rock
Right into the sea.
Together (Except Chomper who is gathering food for his friends.)
- One thing we know
We don't wanna be
Is friends for dinner
Cera
- He'll gnaw your arm
And he'll nibble your leg
Littlefoot
- But we've known Chomper
Since he was an egg
Petrie
- He'll bite off your beak
Ducky
- That would hurt
Cera
- Petrie pot pie
Petrie
- And Ducky dessert
Together (Except Chomper who is gathering plants for his friends.)
- Friends for dinner
Don't wanna be
Friends for dinner
Cera
- Don't wanna be Spike a la mode
Petrie
- Or Liver of Duck
Chomper
- I wonder if this tastes good
Together (Even Chomper except he's on a different scene from his friends.)
- Yuck!
Cera
- You know you've run out of luck
Together (Except Chomper who is gathering plant for his friends.)
- When you're friends for dinner'
Chomper
- Friends for dinner
Littlefoot
- Just friends for dinner.
Together (Except Chomper who is coming back to his friends in the Stinky place.)
- Friends for dinner!
The Brave Longneck Scheme
Together
- Friends for dinner
Chomper
- Pretend to have
friends for dinner
Cera
- We'll say he wants
Threehorn Soup
Littlefoot
- And Littlefoot Stew
Petrie
- It might be funny
when he chew on you
Chomper
- That's not a very
nice thing to do
Together
- To have friends for dinner
Chomper
- Friends for dinner
Together
- Don't wanna be
friends for dinner
- Don't wanna be
Spike a la Mode
Ducky
- Or Liver of Duck
Chomper
- Ya think Rhett tastes good?
Others
- Yuck!
Together
- You know you've run out of luck
when you're friends for dinner
Cera
- Friends for dinner
Littlefoot
- Friends for dinner
Chomper
- My friends for dinner
External links
- Video clip of the The Mysterious Island version of the song at YouTube.com
