A true story. The first time I held my son, he started fussing so I sang Zelda’s lullaby from Ocarina of Time. (The song has been featured in just about every other Zelda game since then, so you probably know the tune.) Upon hearing the song, he immediately settled down.
Back story: I had been playing OoT non-stop while my son was in the womb, and my wife had often been within earshot of the television, so I think he’d become familiar with the tune in utero.
And yes, I cried. It was a touching, nerdy experience all around.
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I used to sing Swee’Pea’s Lullabye from Robert Altman’s POPEYE to my little one.
Wow. That’s spectacularly obscure. And yet obviously effective.
My mother sand ‘You Are My Sunshine’ to me constantly as a baby, both before and after birth, so it’s a very, very powerful song for me.
I’ve never thought of ‘You Are My Sunshine’ as powerful, but now… I’m trying to imagine some powerful, operatic delivery and it almost works.
7 of 9 and the Doctor’s duet comes close.
That sounds problematically nerdy.
You know my mother also sang that to me as a baby and a bit into my childhood. It made Oh Brother Where Art Though odd to say the least to watch.
The tears in Colin’s eyes add to the comic; I hope to have those in my eyes someday looking on my first kid.
Just once I want to hear someone say “My mother always sang Shoot to Thrill to me as a child, and every time I hear that song, it brings tears to my eyes.” Just once, man.
Give it a couple of years.
I did have one friend who used to sing Alice Cooper’s “Steven” as a lullaby.
You do what works, man. Babies ain’t picky.
my mother sang “you are my sunshine” to me.my wife sang “i wanna rock and roll all night ” to my daughter.good times….
Kiss = baby-appropriate good times.
My dad would sing John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” for me. Of course, that song has a special connection to me, for reasons I won’t go into over the internet.
Momma always sand, “Welcome to the Jungle.”
Hey, no disputing that one! It’s a good song!
Dude, you are a riot. Is there ever going to be a riot in the comic? Or just civil unrest after a really hot intense hockey win/lost?
Hockey doesn’t exist in my version of Canada. Mostly because hockey sucks.
Uhm, I can accept that, iff your version has the first hockey game crashing through the ice on the lake and it being outlawed along with curling.
But what about the McKenzie Brothers? Because that’s a really big skunk in there.
McKenzie Brothers can live. That’s okay.
I wish curling was outlawed in THIS version of Canada. Especially mandatory curling *shudders*
There’s mandatory curling? What cruel version of Canada do you live in?
im guessing the french part
Is that the part where they only dip the cruellers in sugar, instead of covering them in icing?
Nope, the part that hates the French part, the texas of Canada (Alberta). That was public school, which as killed any enjoyment I had of bowling. I didn’t know there were different crueller regions, I rarely have the excuse to eat them.
Alberta! I … liked Alberta more than I thought I would when I visited.
Some of the best bonding moments have been playing LOZ with my daughter.
I only actually play video games with my kids. I don’t have time for video games beyond that. Of course, I’m a slave to what my kids want me to play. My son (for some reason) frequently demands that I play Ironsword on NES. It’s impossible, it’s always been impossible, and I’ll never, ever beat it. And yet he keeps on making me play.
The suffering of the father is the joy of the son.
Oddly enough, I actually put my nieces and nephews to sleep singing Zelda’s Lullaby and Epona’s Song (aka Lon Lon Ranch). The music works very well…
They’re soothing tunes, man. They work.
My sister brought his son to bed with “Avanti Popolo.” 🙂
If it works…
I think my mother knew better than to inflict her “singing” voice on my brother and me.
Now THAT is a considerate mother right there.
Gosh you guys are making me feel bad knowing the words to songs and all. All I could do was sing the ABC song.
You don’t need to know the lyrics! You can make up fake Japanese lyrics or something. Baby don’t care.
Since Colin didn’t use any lyrics, my first thought was the theme from “Doctor Who.” 😉
That would just give baby weird BBC-induced baby nightmares.
Hey! BBC has some awesome shows! Especially Doctor Who!
Doctor Who stopped being awesome after the fifth doctor. Of course, I haven’t really WATCHED Doctor Who since the fifth doctor, but I’m just going to assume it started to suck for there on in and save myself many tedious hours of catch-up watching.
Actually, Doctor Who started getting better around the 10th doctor (and so did his companions). We are at the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.
Spoken like a true whippersnapper!
Doctor Who stopped being awesome after the 4th Dr.
Then resumed being awesome with the 10th.
You didn’t miss much in the interim but you would do well
To catch up from that point on. Really.
Im personally biased towards the lovely Tom Baker though.
Good times and memories.
At this point, the sheer weight of unwatched Doctor Who is daunting and, in my opinion, too hefty for me to partake of. I think I can just chalk it up to another pop culture concept that I will remain totally clued out on.
She’s a little too young to play video games with yet…maybe another month…
They’re never too young to start.
To be honest, I think that Child Protective Services will appreciate your using the official game controller instead.
Brilliant! I don’t have minions of my own yet…yet.. But growing up with 4 sisters i have a great deal of nieces! I use to whistle/hum Tetris, S.M. Brothers 1, Zelda’s lull-buy, and TMNT to them. . *nerf nerf nerf* My sisters are none gamers so they never question it. I hope to have child of my own one day, but my wife said I’m too immature to be a parent. She didn’t Say I would be a bad Father, just a bad influence… ah won’t she be surprised this Christmas *nerf nerf nerf*
Bad influences are the best type of influence.
True story. After reading panel 3 once, I went back and read it again to confirm when I thought the tune was Zelda’s Lullaby. I laughed out loud when panel 4 confirmed it again.
Bravo on your excellent vocalization in text format.
I really tried on that. I did. I hoped the tune was vaguely suggested by his weird sounds, but I never imagined someone could actually name the song from that. Kudos to you!
I wonder what Miranda will do for employment when she grows up.
As a baby I heard a lot of Jimmy Somerville records. And ‘Red Dwarf’ on tape.
Lilly was born on Sunday! Woo hoo! When she’s 20, I’ll be 40. Scary stuff.
‘Red Dwarf’ on tape? That’ll mess any baby up. But yeah, if it makes you feel any better, when she’s 20, I’ll be pushing 55.
The version Collin that Link plays on the Ocarina, rather than the version played in the background. Before I lost my ocarina, I could play the latter. Well, technically the former too, because all the former does is cut a couple of notes out of the latter for ease of play for the buttons in the game.
Yes, I actually bought an Ocarina years ago just so I could play the Zelda songs on it. I am a nerd. 🙂
NEEERRRRRRRDDDD!!!!!!!!!
You know what the worst part is? I found my ocarina yesterday, and, due to it being made out of clay, shattered in my most recent move. And a replacement will cost me 50 dollars American. Which is not what it cost me to get it originally. Figure THAT out…
It’s amazing that Link’s ocarinas survived all that abuse.
I got my oldest conditioned to fall asleep to the royal castle theme from Legend of Dragoon! Then when I was pregnant with my second I heard that Taiwanese women whistle a little tune whenever there baby is peeing and if done properly can make a baby pee on command! Well I’m a gambler, so I pee staled my daughter for two months and whistled the ” victory tune” from final fantasy. you know “Do Do Do Doo Do Doo Do Do Doo!”. It worked T_T and was the single greatest parental cheat code to ever come from life. Got her potty trained at 18 months! Until I forgot about it and played final fantasy 9 and she peed on my couch.
Still good for Colin! Its never to early to get your kids attached to the things you like. Babies take very little effort brain wise for at least a year because in the beginning its all manual labor and test of endurance. Which makes me wonder how Daphne will bond with the little squirt considering her you know social apathy?
FF victory pee song = hilarious. Man, I should use that in this comic. As for Daphne, she’ll bond the way she’s bonded with everyone else: sneeringly, from a distance, and yet with genuine affection.
ooooooooooooo, Sibling rivalry over Taylor/Tylor
Unlikely.
Aww scowling affectionately at her sister 🙂
And I am waiting for that glorious moment where either Colin, Daphne or Phoebe must handle diaper duty! So glorious!
I’m only going to do ONE poop joke. I promise. Because poop jokes have a habit of taking over comics sometimes, and I’m really not wanting to court that.
Yeah, that’d be a sh–y thing to do. [drum riff]
My son wailed uncontrollably upon arrival which is normal of course but once he heard me speak, he immediately quieted up. A familiar voice to him…
I guess reading and talking to him in my wife’s stomach wasn’t as silly as I had first thought.
That’s what I call a great dad!
But what if he sounded just like R. Lee Ermey?
Reading talking and singing to the baby in utero are all good things to do.
Good parenting there dad 🙂
I sas fortunate enough to get some of that myself.
I so understand you… I cried four time… for each one
It’s hard not to, I’d say. And I’m not a crier.
I cried when I held my kid, too. I sang Turn the Page and Sweet Child of Mine to him as lullabies.
Who knew that Axl Rose was so baby-friendly?
How about having Colin sing the English folksong Early One Morning as a lullaby.
I’m thinking of being a father myself someday and if my children are boys I would like to have them circumicsed for better health like I was.
I just noticed: Miranda has Puck’s ears.
Poor girl.
Is it really that tragic?
well, fantasy nerds like me would like it, but kids at school…..not so much
i go to sleep listening to the masters drumbeat on a 10 hour repeating cycle its rather soothing
cant wait to try it out on my kids if i ever have any MWHAHAHAHAHAHA
I’m sure they’ll thank you for it.
That works.
NOte to self, nerd out when future wife gets pregnant, don’t become too nerdy, etc. etc.
But hey, I know Collin will agree with me on this: Better that song that something else!
Heck, in a Very Merry Harold and Kumar Christmas, Kumar pretty much baby whisper’d Roldy’s awkward friend’s (who was a dad) kid from a scary weed trip. Using Wu Tang Clan lyrics.
Oh, there are worse options, certainly. Many, many worse options.
Yes, a whole Justin Beiber album.
Or music thas so much noise that the lyrics are just.. “What the f-?”
Or something like that.
Ugh. Just … ugh.
If and when Miranda goes to college will she attend the same college her parents attended?
Probably.
hold on a sec! didn’t Puck sell her daughter to the grow boob company in page 64? then that means that Pucks child is in danger! Or are you not spring-boarding off that comic?
I don’t think the deal is legally binding. If I come up with a funny joke, I might springboard off that. But as it stands right now, the funny just ain’t flowing with that.
I have a feeling that Gecko didn’t even think of that when he wrote Puck pregnant. There was a decade between when Puck originally ended back in 2001 and when it started up again in 2011.
I don’t know zelda, but I’m English and the ‘tune’ fitted the doctor who theme tune perfectly in my head, not the right nerd-dom but made me smile non the less.
The Doctor Who theme is slightly different: “OooooWEEEEEooooooo DOOO doo dee DOOOOO. BANH WANH WAAAAANH …. WANH … WANH NEEEAANH.” See? Totally different.
We’ve played a lot of Rock Band, all through the life of my 6-year-old. (Tangentially, he is getting to be a fantastic drummer.) A few months ago he had a hard night and requested a lullaby.
“Do you want the lullaby I used to sing you when you were a baby?” asked my wife.
“No. I want ‘Eye of the Tiger’, Mama.”
So she sang him to sleep with “Eye of the Tiger”.
That’s awesome. And a great song, too.
Congratulations, Gecko. This comic made me shed a tear. 🙂
Every once in a while, you need an ‘awww’ moment. Not too often, though. Too many ‘awww’ moments makes you turn into an 80’s sitcom.
I had to look up my own Ocarina of Time video cuz you’re link no longer has a legal video on it.
I haven’t played any Zelda since Link to the Past.
This doesn’t sound anything like Zelda music.
Is this the right one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ShzyggtsCs
I’m old school;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkH2zETKqws
Nah, here’s a cover of Zelda’s lullaby on piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM4qxRLoU84
Really one of the most beautiful, simple songs ever written, I’d say. And I love the classic Zelda fanfare too. All Koji Kondo is good Koji Kondo.
Hmm. That whole game seems kind of chill.
And, yes. Kondo is awesome. 🙂
Bleh. Singers.
When I was very young, I just had a cassette of Carmina Burana (yes, that Carl Orff thing). I went to sleep every night listening to people singing in Latin.
So far as my daughter goes… well, we were playing Final Fantasy VII a lot while I was over there. She got to listen to Sephiroth’s One Winged Angel theme quite a bit… so… yeah. More ominous Latin.
I’m sure she’ll do me proud and become a Final Boss some day, even if I’m not around to see it.
Well, its not like you can sing Mozart to them.
Ok, you *could*. Not recommended, tho.
Mozart wasn’t the best lyricist.