VeggieTales

VeggieTales is a children's animated series created by Big Idea Entertainment featuring anthropomorphic vegetables in stories conveying moral themes based on Christianity.

History

The show was created by Phil Vischer, Michael Nawrocki, and Mike Nawrocki when they wanted to create a series of videos teaching children about stories and lessons from the Bible, while making it fun and entertaining.

Phil originally started out in 1990 when he wanted to use candy bars as a basis. However, his wife objected the idea as she thought it was a bad influnce on kids. So he drew a cucumber and thought that was the best choice, vegetables. He chose these objects as he said they were easy to animate as compared to characters with limbs, clothes, or hair because of the limitations on 3D graphics during the early 1990s.

Phil then joined with Mike Nawrocki, who they both did puppet shows in Bible college. Phil did one on "The Princess and the Pea," but telling it from the Pea's perspective, but never made it as a puppet show. Ultimately, the sketches Phil drew became the basis for VeggieTales.

The name itself came from Mike Nawrocki, as he felt it was a good title as it was about vegetables telling stories.

While Toy Story is considered the first animation film to use computer imagery for film, VeggieTales is the first video series using that type of animation prior to the film's release.

The series started with only either one or two episode(s) per year, until the company grew and produced three videos per year as of 2014. In 2016, no new episodes of the series were produced, likely due to Big Idea being too busy making and focusing on the Netflix series.

According to Phil in a recent podcast, Netflix will release 11 minute shorts exclusively along with new redesigns of the original cast. Not much is said about them, though Phil says that they have colored iris', similar to the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and their mouths are more dynamic. He also says that Archibald's hair looks swirly.

Episodes

1. Where's God When I'm S-Scared? (1993)
2. God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?! (1994)
3. Are You My Neighbor?
4. Rack, Shack and Benny
5. Dave and the Giant Pickle
6. The Toy That Saved Christmas
7. Very Silly Songs!
8. Larry-Boy! and the Fib from Outer Space! (1997)
9. Josh and the Big Wall! (1997)
10. Madame Blueberry (1998)
11. The End of Silliness?
12. Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed
13. King George and the Ducky
14. Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen
15. Lyle the Kindly Viking
16. The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown
17. Jonah Sing-Along Songs and More!
18. The Star of Christmas
19. The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment!
20. The Ballad of Little Joe (2003)
21. An Easter Carol (2003)
22. A Snoodle's Tale (2004)
23. Sumo of the Opera (2004)
24. Duke and the Great Pie War (2004)
25. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush (2005)
26. Lord of the Beans (2005)
27. Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler (2005)
28. LarryBoy and the Bad Apple
29. The Secret Life of Silver Duck
30. Gideon: Tuba Warrior
31. Moe and the Big Exit (2006)
32. The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's (2007)
33. Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue (2008)
34. Abe and the Amazing Promise
35. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella (2009)
36. Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving
37. Pistachio
38. Sweetpea Beauty
39. It's a Meaningful Life
40. Twas The Night Before Easter
41. Princess and the Popstar
42. The Little Drummer Boy
43. Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men (2011)
44. The Penniless Princess
45. The League of Incredible Vegetables
46. The Little House That Stood
47. MacLarry and the Stinky Cheese Battle
48. Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas
49. Veggies in Space: The Fennel Frontier
50. Celery Night Fever
51. Beauty and the Beet
52. Noah's Ark

Feature Films

1. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
2. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
3. Annie Onion and the Lost Guitar: A VeggieTales Movie

External links

• VeggieTales at Wikipedia