VeggieTales

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

History

The show was created by Phil Vischer 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 obejected the idea, as she thinks it's a bad influnce on kids. So he drew a cucumber and thought that was the best choice, vegetables.

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 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.

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?
2. God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!
3. Are You My Neighbor?
4. Rack, Shack & 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!
9. Josh and the Big Wall!
10. Madame Blueberry
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
21. An Easter Carol
22. A Snoodle's Tale
23. Sumo of the Opera
24. Duke and the Great Pie War
25. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush
26. Lord of the Beans
27. Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler
28. LarryBoy and the Bad Apple
29. Gideon: Tuba Warrior
30. Moe and the Big Exit
31. The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's
32. Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue
33. Abe and the Amazing Promise
34. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella
35. Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving
36. Pistachio – The Little Boy That Woodn't
37. Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart
38. It's a Meaningful Life
39. Twas The Night Before Easter
40. Princess and the Popstar
41. The Little Drummer Boy
42. Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men
43. The Penniless Princess
44. The League of Incredible Vegetables
45. The Little House That Stood
46. MacLarry and the Stinky Cheese Battle
47. Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas
48. Veggies in Space: The Fennel Frontier
49. Celery Night Fever
50. Beauty and the Beet
51. Noah's Ark