Mr. Nezzer

Nebby K. Nezzer
Species: Zucchini Age: Unknown First Appearance: Rack, Shack, and Benny Last Appearance: Beauty and the Beet

Nebby K. Nezzer is a major protagonist from Big Idea Studios' famous cartoon, VeggieTales. He was replaced by the similar-looking Ichabeezer only in the Netflix shows due to DreamWorks having a policy against interracial casting (his voice is based on a black character from The Nightmare Before Christmas).

He is set to return in The VeggieTales Show but with a new voice actor, David Mann, as Phil Vischer isn't comfortable voicing him anymore.

Bio

In his debut episode, he and Mr. Lunt work at the chocolate factory.

Voice Actors

• Phil Vischer (VeggieTales)
• David Mann (The VeggieTales Show)

Fun Facts

• A running gag is that the characters Mr. Nezzer plays since his debut is that they often run a factory.
• Phil's inspiration for Mr. Nezzer's voice was that of Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
  • As Oogie Boogie's voice actor Ken Page is naturally African-American, Mr. Nezzer was considered to be a stereotypical African-American. As a result, DreamWorks had strongly thought Mr. Nezzer of his African-American race and, due to their policy restricting African-American characters being portrayed by white voice actors, had replaced the character with a similar-looking character Ichabeezer (voiced by Rob Paulsen) for the two Netflix series.
  • When The VeggieTales Show was put into production, as Phil managed to reprise most of his Veggie character roles, he was originally going to reprise Mr. Nezzer as well, but recused himself from reprising just that the character because he felt that his voice was not working out well for an African-American character since Phil himself is naturally Caucasian. It is confirmed that David Mann will assume the role of Mr. Nezzer for the new show.
• Mr. Nezzer in his original appearance was inspired by Nebuchadnezzar II from the original Biblical account of "Shadrach, Medshash, and Abedengo" from the Book of Daniel.
• Has had the most villainous roles out of all the characters, considering him the main antagonist of the series, even though he is actually a nice guy in real life.
• He has very short minor roles in both VeggieTales movies.
• Duke and the Great Pie War is the only time he worked for Mr. Lunt.
• He often is paired with Mr. Lunt as villains, good guys, or just partners.
• He is partners in "Sheerluck Holmes" and "Duke and the Great Pie War."
• He is known for singing "The Bunny Song."
• He was the bad guy in most episodes, but he was good in some episodes and outside of the stories, he's a very nice guy.
• He reformed in four episodes.
• He didn't actually appear in The Toy That Saved Christmas, as Wally P. Nezzer is actually his brother and possibly not the same character, as the difference is told by the size of their noses. Mr. Nezzer also mentioned this in A Very Veggie Christmas.
  • Even though Wally P. Nezzer only intended to appear once in The Toy That Saved Christmas, Nebby K. Nezzer oddly had the same bigger nose as Wally P. during Josh and the Big Wall! and Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed.

Gallery

See Mr. Nezzer/Gallery.