VeggieTales

VeggieTales
Created by	Phil Vischer Mike Nawrocki
Voices of	Phil Vischer Mike Nawrocki Tim Hodge Lisa Vischer
Theme music composer	Kurt Heinecke
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	(list of episodes)
Production
Running time	30-50 Minutes (Videos) 30 Minutes (TV Version)
Production company	Big Idea Productions
Original release
Network	qubo
Release	1993-present
Related
3-2-1 Penguins!, Larryboy Cartoon Adventures

VeggieTales is a series of English language children's computer animated films featuring anthropomorphic vegetables and conveying moral themes based on Christianity and often compatible with Judaism, spliced with joking references to pop culture and current events. VeggieTales was created by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki, who also provide many of the voices. It is produced by Big Idea. VeggieTales has also been released as books, games, and many other branded items such as toys and clothing. Additionally, the series has been adapted for television broadcast beginning on Saturday September 9, 2006.

History

Main article: Big Idea Productions

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Big Idea's current logo (2002-Present)

Big Idea Productions was founded in 1993 by computer animators Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki. Their purpose was to produce children's videos which could convey Christian moral themes and teach Biblical values and lessons. They developed the animated feature VeggieTales around the concept of stories told by vegetable characters living on a kitchen countertop. Big Idea has released 36 VeggieTales episodes to date. Of those, three are Silly Song collections, three are holiday specials, three are LarryBoy episodes and one a drawing tutorial. In addition to these episodes, there are five compilations that combine previously released material, and two feature length movies, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie and The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie. On September 30th, 2008, Big Idea said that Mike Nawrocki would create an "original new VeggieTales TV series."

Format

The video episodes generally follow a standard format where a moral issue is posited in the opening countertop sequence followed by one or more "films" that address the issue. The show television show has altered this by opening with Bob greeting kids and inviting them over to his house. Then Bob, Larry, and other veggies (Archibald Asparagus, Junior Asparagus, Mr. Lunt, Pa Grape, and Jimmy Gourd) sing the show's theme song (a different song than that on the videos and DVDs) as they hop to Bob's front door. At the end of the theme song Pa Grape makes a comment about Archibald's new sweater. (There's a different comment in each episode.)

The show opens to Bob's living room where Bob says "Hi kids! Welcome to VeggieTales!". Followed by Larry saying "On TV!" The two wait for the mailman, Jimmy Gourd, to deliver their letter. When Jimmy comes, he happily sings his Mail Song, which Bob and Larry both find tedious. Then instead of handing the letter to Bob and Larry, he insists on cramming it through the mail slot.

Bob and Larry read their letter and try to decide how to solve the viewer's problem. One of their neighbors comes in and attempts to solve it. One of three things happen. Archibald will read a story from his Big Book of Oddities (which he got from Oprah's Book Club), Pa Grape will show an old film, or Mr. Lunt will appear as Paco the Storytelling Mule (a stick puppet) and tell a story. The result always proves disastrous, as the story or film makes no sense. Bob/Larry intervenes with a story from a VeggieTales episode to solve the problem. (Some episodes include every silly song for Larry). Afterwards Bob and Larry wrap things up by reiterating the story's lesson and thanking the kids for coming to his house.

In some episodes the format is slightly altered. In the Lord of the Beans, Bob and Larry had to talk really fast to save some time. In fact, Larry had to walk to the front door, and thus, interrupting Jimmy's "Mail Song" and there was a neighbor named Mr. Lunt who plays a stick puppet, Paco the Storytelling Mule, of a neighbor interference in the opposite direction.

Religious content controversy

The VeggieTales episodes have been edited for broadcast to remove most references to God at the request of NBC's standards and practices department. (Although the religious references have remained intact in the closed-captions accompanying each episode.) The removal of specific religious references has drawn criticism from the Christian conservative watch group Parents Television Council, which has complained to NBC for the edited VeggieTales episodes. VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer has also expressed discontent with the edits, stating that he was not informed that religious content would be removed from the series until after the qubo deal was finalized, and he would have refused to sign the contract if he had known of this beforehand. "I would have declined partly because I knew a lot of fans would feel like it was a sellout or it was done for money," he explains. Still, Vischer adds that he understands NBC's wish to remain religiously neutral, commenting, "VeggieTales is religious, NBC is not. I want to focus people more on 'Isn't it cool that Bob and Larry are on television.'" Due to numerous parent complaints, however, NBC finally relented and decided to stop cutting all references of God out. So when the second batch of episodes were sent to the network (and ending for Madame Blueberry), all biblical references were left intact.

Characters

VeggieTales has a continuous back story that all of the cartoons are actually teleplays, performed by various vegetables and fruit that live together on the same kitchen countertop. Some of these characters have "real names", and take on various roles in the teleplays, although they will also frequently appear as themselves. Most of these "regulars" were established in the very earliest videos.

Primary characters

Bob The Tomato

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Bob the Tomato

Voiced by VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer, Bob the Tomato is usually the "straight man" in his partnership with Larry, the "Abbott" of the pair, as they introduce many of the stories at the beginning and wrap-up the Biblical lesson at the end of most of the cartoons. He is the voice of reason trying to maintain control over an absolutely chaotic show, very much reminiscent of Kermit the Frog's role on The Muppet Show. However, he plays many character roles in the story segments, some of which contrast his mature persona. In later episodes, Bob's role has become less central, getting less onscreen time compared to several other characters. In his very first appearance in a pitch reel for VeggieTales, Bob delivers a speech beginning with "I have a dream" designed to sell the show. Phil Vischer revealed this in his book Me, Myself and Bob. Bob first appeared to the public in the 1993 release, "Where's God When I'm S-Scared?", Big Idea's first video. In it, he and Larry set the precedent for the opening format which became a VeggieTales standard, where a letter is read from a viewer by the duo on the kitchen counter which served as a sort of studio. He also played himself in the first of the two 15-minute segment titled "Tales from the Crisper", comforting a frightened Junior Asparagus with a cheerful song, "God Is Bigger Than the Boogeyman." Though a convincing and easily identifiable anthropomorphic tomato from the start, his animation evolved over time to make him first more tomato-like, and later more cartoony. While in the first episodes Bob was very elastic in his animation, distorting himself significantly, this tendency was toned down greatly, giving him a more fruit-like consistency. Artistic changes were made as well: Bob's body became smaller with proportion to his face and more round, his skin became less shiny and more brightly red, eventually developing a smooth glow, which was more stylistic and probably more kid-friendly. With improving technology at the disposal of Big Idea's artists, Bob's skin became gradually less angular, and the polygons that made his shell essentially disappeared. His leaves would also become more realistic-looking during the transition to Maya. Also, Phil Vischer's voice acting for Bob has taken a slightly higher pitch, though not nearly as significantly as Mike Nawrocki's voice acting for Larry the Cucumber.

Larry the Cucumber

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Larry the Cucumber

Voiced by VeggieTales cofounder Mike Nawrocki and providing the voice for Granddad on the spin-off 3-2-1 Penguins!, he partners with his best friend, Bob the Tomato, as the wacky sidekick when hosting episodes, and plays numerous and varied roles throughout the series. Larry has also starred in a spinoff role as comical superhero Larry-Boy, in computer-animated and traditionally animated adventures. His most notable role, however, is the host of a short, recurring musical segment entitled "Silly Songs with Larry," in which Larry performs hilarious musical numbers of various style and content matter. Larry's onscreen debut was in Big Idea's first video, called Where's God When I'm S-Scared? He co-hosts the shows with Bob the Tomato, a tradition that has continued even today. In this first episode, he was the source of most of the jokes, including physical gags as well as silly dialogue. The video also introduced "Silly Songs with Larry," in which he wore an oversize cowboy hat and sang "The Water Buffalo Song." The Silly Song segment, placed between halves of the traditionally half-hour long story, became a very popular staple of VeggieTales entertainment. So far, Larry is the only character to have appeared in every single VeggieTales episode. One of the most notable differences between the Larry of When I'm S-Scared" and more recent videos is the range of his voice. While Mike Nawrocki has always performed Larry's voice, early scenes, including the first Silly Songs were voiced with a broad vocal range, from Nawrocki's natural tenor to well above. Later on, that range was limited in scope to the upper range, giving Larry a more youthful, and of course, sillier sound. Also, in the earlier years, Larry had an affected lisp. Gradually, Larry's speech became more normal, at about the time of the making of the film King George and the Ducky. Larry is one of the only Veggies to have spoken about his family. We become aware of Larry's Aunt Ruth in "Dave and the Giant Pickle," in the Silly Song "I love my lips." Larry describes that Aunt Ruth "had a beard." Larry's Aunt Ruth is also referenced in "Josh and the Big Wall" when Larry conducts a slide show during the Silly Song. In "Duke and the Great Pie War", he mentions that he has three brothers -- Bob, Mark, and Steve; Bob is the oldest. The brothers join Bob and Larry at the end of the show and perform the "What Have We Learned" song. Larry also mentions that his father is an astronaut. He also mentioned his father in The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's. In the story, he is a floss farmhand and the Tin Man.

Junior Asparagus

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Junior Asparagus

The five-year-old Junior Asparagus is one of the most active co-stars of the VeggieTales series. Junior is a typical playful child, but also is wise beyond his years, taking the lead role in several videos, including "Where's God When I'm S-Scared?", "Dave and the Giant Pickle", "King George and the Ducky" and "Lyle the Kindly Viking". He is also a member of the boy band "Boyz in the Sink", which also consists of Larry the Cucumber, Mr. Lunt and Jimmy Gourd. Junior has a loving relationship with his parents, who also appear in several of the videos. He plays Benjamin in "The Ballad of Little Joe", who is framed by Little Joe to see if his brothers have changed. Junior also has one of the leading roles in the VeggieTales movie, "Jonah- a VeggieTales Movie." Junior is voiced by Lisa Vischer, wife of Phil Vischer, who co-owns Jellyfish Labs with him. In a duet with Amy Grant, Junior's real name is revealed to be Bart. He made a cameo appearance in the Yodeling Vet. In the initial episodes, Junior was as much a main character as Bob or Larry, having a starring role in at least one segment in every episode. He even appeared alongside Bob during Josh and the Big Wall, replacing Larry, and even interacted with the story's characters. However, as the series evolved, his role become more toned down, and then "Esther...The Girl Who Became Queen" would become the first episode Junior does not make an appearance in.

Secondary characters

Archibald Asparagus

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Archibald

Archibald Asparagus has a taste for "class" and wants more than anything to turn the usually wacky VeggieTales into a more highbrow production. Archibald was inspired by the Monty Python's Flying Circus character "The Colonel", a stuffy army officer played by Graham Chapman who occasionally appeared out of nowhere to order the end of a sketch. Archibald is voiced by VeggieTales Founder, Phil Vischer.

His 3D-animated depiction has remained generally the same over the years, except that the vectors have become less sharp with rising CG technology. He also had a side-mouth in earlier shows. Also in earlier shows, there was no glass in his monacle. The glass was added when they started using Maya.

Mr. Lunt

Mr. Lunt is a decorative gourd who grew up in New Jersey and speaks with a Mexican-Spanish accent. He often appears as Mr. Nezzer's assistant, and they debuted together in Rack, Shack, and Benny. Mr. Lunt also frequently appears as part of "The Pirates who Don't Do Anything", and even once got his own Silly Song ("His Cheeseburger") and starred in two others ("Belly Button" and "A Mess Down In Egypt"). A notable feature is his lack of eyes. He often wears a hat and often uses the brim of the hat for expression. Mr. Lunt is voiced by Vischer.

Jimmy and Jerry Gourd

Jimmy and Jerry are a secondary comic duo, and are brothers. While Bob and Larry can be considered animated versions of Abbott and Costello, Jimmy (orange gourd) and Jerry (yellow gourd) might more closely resemble Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Both appeared together in "Are You My Neighbor?" (their debut). They later appear in "Dave and the Giant Pickle", "Josh and the Big Wall!" and "King George and the Ducky"; Jimmy is a member in end of silliness and of the boy band Boyz in the Sink ("The Ballad of Little Joe" and "Moe and the Big Exit"). Jerry's appearance notably changes over time, having lost his dark green stripes around the time of "The Star of Christmas." Jimmy and Jerry are played by Vischer and Nawrocki respectively.

Madame Blueberry

Madame Blueberry first appeared as the title character in Madame Blueberry. She later appeared as the mayor of Bumblyburg in the LarryBoy world in Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed and LarryBoy and the Bad Apple. She appeared as Nona, Princess Petunia's mother-in-law, in Duke and the Great Pie War. She was the Queen in Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler and McPotipher's wife in The Ballad of Little Joe. In The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's, she is Splenda the sweet non-fattening fairy.

Petunia Rhubarb

Petunia Rhubarb is one of the show's newest major characters. She is a rhubarb who first appeared in "Duke and the Great Pie War." She later appeared in "Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush," "LarryBoy and the Bad Apple," and "Moe and the Big Exit." She also has a role in The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie. She is often cast as the role of Larry's love interest. She is voiced by Cydney Trent. She is a red-headed vegetable usually seen wearing a braid.

Pa Grape

Pa Grape is, as his name suggests, a grape. He is voiced by Vischer, and he appeared in "God Wants Me to Forgive Them?" During the video "The Grapes of Wrath" Pa, Ma, Tom, and Rosie, describe various unpleasant things that they will do to others. Then at the end they become "The Grapes of Math." He appears in "King George and the Ducky" as the wise storyteller. He is also a member of the Pirates who don't do anything along with Larry the Cucumber and Mr. Lunt. He has appeared in several other secondary roles, Dave's father in "Dave and the Giant Pickle", Litte Joe's father in "The Ballad of Little Joe", and as the knight's trainer in "The Duke and the Great Pie War" also as cousin Mordecai in Esther...The Girl Who Became Queen and the Monk in Lyle the Kindly Viking, Larry's trainer in Sumo of the Opera, a floss farmhand/hungry Lion in The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's, and as the angel sent to guide Gideon in Gideon: Tuba Warrior and as also the nurse in The Yodeling Veterinarian of the Alps, Please add more to this.

Other characters

• Qwerty is the countertop computer which Bob and Larry use to read Bible verses at the end of each show. Though Qwerty is a machine, he does have anthropomorphic characteristics, including responsive noises and voice activation. Qwerty's name comes from the first six letters on a standard English keyboard. According to Phil Vischer, Qwerty is an Intel 80386 model.

• The Rapscallions are a trio of (generally) devious scallions headed by their tallest, Cedric. While Scallion #2 only ever appears in the trio, Cedric has been alone in several of the films, including Larry's High Silk Hat (as a custodian) and King George and the Ducky (as the king's general), and Scallion #3 (the shortest) is known as the "milk money bandit" in one of the Larry Boy stories, and sings high tenor.

• Ma Grape is the wife of Pa Grape. She made her first appearance in God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!. She has also appeared in Moe and the Big Exit as Jethro's Wife, and as herself in The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything.

• Cedric, voiced by Phil Vischer, is the leader of the rapscallions. Cedric, who often appears apart from the other scallions, first appeared as a devious salesman in The Forgive-o-Matic. He has subsequently appeared as a bank robber in Oh, Santa!, a Stuff-Mart salesman in Madame Blueberry, and other episodes.

• The French peas, led by Phillipe and Jean-Claude (who are voiced by Phil Vischer & Mike Nawrocki), are a group of Monty-Pythonesque green peas. They, too, are often portrayed as villians, albeit agitating ones as opposed to menacing. Like the French taunters in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the French peas often taunt passersby with strange, nonsensical threats, such as pouring grape slushies from vats and cement trucks atop a castle wall when guarding it. The French peas first appeared as Philistines (in Dave and the Giant Pickle and subsequently appeared in several episodes. Numerous voice actors have played the French peas, including animator Brian K. Roberts. Only one pea other than Phillipe and Jean-Claude has been named — Cristoffe, voiced by Chris Olsen, a former animator.

• Scooter, a Scottish carrot, voiced by Jim Poole and occasionally Tim Hodge, first appeard was as the engineer of the USS Applepies in The Gourds Must Be Crazy, as a spoof of Scotty from Star Trek.

• Mr. Nebby K. Nezzer made his debut in Rack, Shack, and Benny, in which he owns the chocolate bunny factory with Mr. Lunt as his unpleasant foreman.

• The Carrots are a family of carrots of which Laura, the oldest child, is Junior's best friend and the only recurring member of the family, while the other Carrots never appear in shows without Laura. Laura's brother is named Lenny. Baby Lou only appeared in The Toy That Saved Christmas.

• Voiced by Brian K. Roberts, Gourdon (also called Bobby and Chester) is one of the schoolyard bullies around Junior Asparagus's age. He first appeared in Bully Trouble.

• Mabel (voiced by Pamela Thomas) and Penelope (voiced by Gail Bock) are a pear and an asparagus, respectively. Like Archibald, they have British accents, though unlike Archibald, theirs are cockney. Their first appearance was in Daniel and the Lion's Den as King Darius's maidservants.

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Frankencelery (Phil Winklestein)

• Phil Winklestein, voiced by Phil Vischer, has purple eyelids, cervical electrodes, black hair and a unibrow and first appears in Tales From the Crisper as the star of the veggie horror TV show Frankencelery. Hailing from Toledo, Ohio, "Frankencelery" (as he is generally referred to) is a mild-mannered, high-voiced celery stalk (although in The Yodeling Veterinarian of the Alps Frankencelery sings the low bass part in a quartet with the rapscallions).

• Voiced by G. Bock, Archibald's wife, only ever referred to as "Lovey", first appeared in Larry's Lagoon.

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The peach.

• The "peach" first appears in The Hairbrush Song. The running joke of the peach is that he, unlike all the other characters, has hair. He played Samson in Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush, but only in various pictures shown throughout the show.

• Art Bigotti is an African-American broccoli bowling champion.

• The Onions first appear in The Toy That Saved Christmas, Annie (voiced by Shelby Vischer and later by Allie Nawrocki, Mike Nawrocki's daughter, in 2005) has two parents represented by Shelby Vischer's parents, Phil (father) and Lisa (mother) who first appeared in Madame Blueberry and are poor French green onions (another word for scallions).

Episodes

1. Where's God When I'm S-Scared? (1993): Junior learns that he doesn't need to be afraid because God is bigger than any monster, as well as a retelling of the Bible story of Daniel and the Lion's Den. Its theme is handling fear.
2. God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?! (1994): Bob and Larry learn what it means to forgive through parodies of The Grapes of Wrath and Gilligan's Island. Its theme is forgiveness.
3. Are You My Neighbor? (1995): The Veggies learn what "loving your neighbor" really means through a Dr. Seuss-style retelling of the Biblical story of The Good Samaritan and a parody of Star Trek. Its theme is loving one's neighbor.
4. Rack, Shack, and Benny (1995): A retelling of the Biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being thrown into the fiery furnace with the VeggieTales characters as workmen in a chocolate factory who stand up for what's right. Its theme is handling peer pressure.
5. Dave and the Giant Pickle (1996): Starring Junior as Dave who learns that "little guys can do big things, too" in a retelling of story of David and Goliath. Its theme is self-esteem.
6. The Toy that Saved Christmas (1996): The veggies learn the true meaning of Christmas with the help of Grandpa George and a Buzz-Saw Louie action figure. Its theme is giving.
7. Very Silly Songs! (1997): A collection of Silly Songs and other songs from the first five VeggieTales episodes. Originally titled "A Very Silly Sing-Along."
8. Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space! (1997): This lesson on honesty features Larry as a plunger-headed hero who must defeat a Fib that is rampaging out of control. Larry-Boy is a spoof on Batman & Spiderman. The theme is telling the truth.
9. Josh and the Big Wall! (1997): Larry stars as Joshua in this retelling of the Biblical story of the Battle of Jericho, highlighting the importance of obedience. The theme is obedience.
10. Madame Blueberry (1998): Madame Blueberry falls victim to her own greed and learns to be thankful in a parody of Madame Bovary. Its theme is thankfulness.
11. The End of Silliness? (1998): Larry has a nervous breakdown after he finds out that the "Silly Songs with Larry" segment of the show has been cancelled in this second Silly Songs collection.
12. Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed (1999): Junior Asparagus and Laura Carrot learn about the dangers of spreading rumors as Larry-Boy battles a weed besmirching Alfred's reputation. Its theme is the power of words.
13. King George and the Ducky (2000): Larry stars as King George, whose obsession with rubber ducks teaches a lesson on selfishness and its impact in a retelling of the story of David and Bathsheba. Its theme is selfishness.
14. Esther… The Girl Who Became Queen (2000): Esther saves her family from endless tickling and learns a lesson on courage in a retelling of the Biblical story of Esther. Its theme is courage.
15. Lyle the Kindly Viking (2001): Junior stars as Lyle, a Viking who secretly returns his share of the loot in this parody of a Gilbert and Sullivan musical. The first segment of this lesson on sharing is a parody of Hamlet. Its theme is sharing.
16. The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown (2001): In the third Silly Song collection, the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything present a compilation of the viewers' top 10 favorite Silly Songs.
17. Jonah Sing-Along Songs and More! (2002): A collection of songs, mainly from Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie.
18. The Star of Christmas (2002): Starring Bob and Larry as Cavis and Millward, two theater proprietors whose extravagant production threatens to overwhelm Edmund's (Junior's) modest pageant on opening night.
19. The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment! (2003): Bob and Larry imagine the future of entertainment and learn a valuable lesson in this musical collection.
20. The Ballad of Little Joe (2003): Larry stars as Little Joe exercising faith in the face of hardship in this retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph set in the American Old West, which is partially a parody of Bonanza and perhaps even Gunsmoke. Its theme is facing hardship.
21. An Easter Carol (2004): Based on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, this is a sequel to The Star of Christmas, climaxing in the clearest presentation of the gospel in the series. Its lessons include hope, faith, and the Resurrection.
22. A Snoodle's Tale (2004): Kids learn that God made them special in an homage to Dr. Seuss and features a parody of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Its theme is self-worth.
23. Bob and Larry's How to Draw! (2004): Kids of all ages learn to draw with Larry and writer/director/artist Tim Hodge.
24. Sumo of the Opera (2004): Larry stars as the Italian Scallion, a Sumo wrestler who learns to persevere in this cross between Rocky, The Mikado, and The Karate Kid. Its theme is perseverance.
25. Duke and the Great Pie War (2005): It's a prequel to King George and the Ducky, Larry stars as Duke who must rescue the second half of the golden duck. based loosely on the story of Ruth as well as a retelling of the childhood story of Moses from Miriam's viewpoint. Its theme is loving one's family.
26. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush (2005): In a parody of Indiana Jones, Minnesota Cuke (Larry) searches for the great ancient relic, Samson's Hairbrush, in the catacombs under the town of Seville. Its theme is dealing with bullies.
27. Lord of the Beans (2005): Toto Baggypants (Junior) and the Fellowship Of The Bean journey through Center-Earth to discover the purpose of Toto's gift in this parody of The Lord of the Rings. Its theme is using God's gifts well.
28. Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler (2006): Larry stars as detective Sheerluck Holmes who must solve the mystery of the missing Golden Ruler in this Sherlock Holmes parody. Its theme is friendship.
29. LarryBoy and the Bad Apple (2006): In Larry-Boy's third adventure he must overcome temptation and defeat The Bad Apple who attempts to lure the citizens of Bumblyburg into her trap by preying on their specific weaknesses. Its theme is temptation.
30. Gideon: Tuba Warrior (2006): Larry stars in this episode based on a Biblical story of Gideon. Its theme is trusting God.
31. Moe and the Big Exit (2007): Larry stars in the Biblical story of Moses told as a parody of The Lone Ranger and set years after The Ballad of Little Joe. Its theme is following directions.
32. God Made You Special (2007):Bob and Larry decide to make a show about how God Made You Special.
33. The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's (2007): Junior Asparagus stars in the story of a prodigal son as a parody of The Wizard of Oz
34. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything Sing-Along Songs And More! (2007)
35. Lessons From the Sock Drawer: A Collection of VeggieTales Shorts and Briefs (2008): A collection of previously-released shorts.
36. Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue (2008): Bob & Larry star in this episode as Huckleberry Larry and Tomato Sawyer.
37. Abe and the Amazing Promise is scheduled to be released February 2009

Other media

DVD compilations

• Heroes of the Bible: Volume 1 (2001): Includes Daniel and the Lion's Den, Dave and the Giant Pickle, and Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen.
• Heroes of the Bible: Volume 2 (2001): Includes The Story of Flibber-O-Loo, Rack, Shack, and Benny, and Josh and the Big Wall!.

Feature-length films

• Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002): Archibald Asparagus stars as Jonah in this version of the Biblical story. The Veggies learn that God is a God of second chances, and that we need to give second chances too and be compassionate and merciful.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008): In this second VeggieTales feature film, three certain lazy wannabe pirates go back in time to the 17th century to fight real pirates and become heroes in a battle to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant -- for a hero is not tall, strong, handsome, or even human.

Stage show

The VeggieTales characters (left to right) of Mr. Lunt, Pa Grape, and Larry the Cucumber on the main stage at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers during the Celebrate Freedom 2007 concert on September 1, 2007 dressed in costume for their new film The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie that was released on January 11, 2008.

VeggieTales Live is a series of stage shows based on the VeggieTales videos. Over the years there have been about 5 different versions of the shows. Some versions of the show have toured across the U.S. and others have been made for theme parks like Dollywood in early 2005 and Silver Dollar City in late 1993s.

Spin-offs

• See LarryBoy cartoon series

Music CDs

1. Silly Songs with Larry (2001) plus songs from Lost Puppies Oh, Santa! Do the Moo Shoo and Silly Song Remix Medley
2. A Very Veggie Easter (2006)
3. VeggieTunes 1 (1993)
4. VeggieTunes 2 (1996)
5. VeggieTunes 3: A Queen, a King, and a Very Blue Berry (2000)
6. VeggieTunes 4 (2004)
7. Larry-Boy: The Original Soundtrack (1999)
8. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie Soundtrack (2002)
9. A Very Veggie Christmas (1996)
10. The Incredible Singing Christmas Tree (2002)
11. Veggie Rocks!(2004)
12. VeggieTales Worship Songs (2006)
13. Bob and Larry Sing The 70's (2005)
14. Boyz in the Sink (2004)
15. Pirates Boatload of Fun with four songs with Were Vikings! There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea Modern Major General and Erie Canal
16. On the Road with Bob and Larry
17. Bob and Larry's Sunday Morning Songs with two songs with Zaccheus and Love Your Neighbor
18. Bob and Larry's Backyard Party with two songs with You Are My Sunshine and I Can Be Your Friend
19. O Veggie, Where Art Thou?
20. Bob and Larry's Campfire Songs
21. Junior's Bedtime Songs with three songs with My Day Think of Me and The Thankfulness Song
22. Junior's Playtime Songs with two songs with Love My Lips and Look, Olaf!
23. More Sunday Morning Songs with Bob and Larry
24. Bob and Larry's Toddler Songs
25. LarryBoy: The New Soundtrack (2006) with the score of Journey to a New World
26. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything Original Movie Soundtrack (2008) plus a song for Anointed was Second Chances
27. God Made You Special (2007)
28. Christian Hits Music (2007)
29. VeggieTales Greatest Hits (2008)
30. Storytime with Bob and Larry Volume 1 (2009) with three stories "King George" Esther and "Minnesota Cuke"
31. Storytime with Bob and Larry Volume 2 (2009) with three stories "LarryBoy and the Bad Apple" "Ballad of Little Joe" and "Lyle the Kindly Viking"

External links

• Big Idea Productions/VeggieTales (official site)
• Veggietales at Qubo.com
• Veggietales at Christian Cartoons Online
• Ultimate Veggie Fansite