Revisiting VeggieTales as an Adult
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Children's Programming has given us countless shows over the years like Sponge-bob, Looney Tunes, and Pokemon, but as for christian homeschoolers who weren't allowed to watch those shows, Veggietales was our childhood icon, but is it as good as we remember? After revisiting Veggietales as an adult, I have the answer.
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Apologies for the wonky editing from 6:40 to 6:52, I received a copyright strike for Dance of the Cucumber and Oh Santa even though both clips fall under fair use so I had to trim them. Unfortunately UA-cam doesn't give us content creators the power to fight back for our videos so now my video looks poorly edited even though I spent weeks with poor sleep, editing it so that the video could be the best it possibly could for you, my dear viewers. Every night was a six hour fever dream of Christian vegetables telling me to edit the video (I'm not exaggerating, I repeatedly dreamt of Bob in Adobe Premiere talking shit about my editing). Regardless, I hope you enjoyed the video ❤
Edit: Also, the reason for the warning at the start of the video is because I know some of my viewers watch my videos with their families and kids and didn't want to get any angry messages from parents.
Don’t worry about it, Josh. You’re among the first I’ve seen on UA-cam to have not only a very similar upbringing as myself, but amazing video editing & humor to boot. You’ve instantly earned my subscription and I can’t wait to see/hear more from you in the future.
Josh Keefe, I love ur videos. While I wasn’t homeschooled, I definitely grew up with VeggieTales. Thanks for making me laugh!
Agnostic pride!!!!
I just have nightmares of Premiere ITSELF mocking my editing.
I don’t know how you’ll feel about this, but the original team that made Veggietales managed to buy distribution rights back, and have gotten together to make more Veggietale shows.
Virgin Hermie vs Chad Veggietales
Seb Andrews “Larry the Cucumber definitely fucks” isn’t something I thought I’d think this year but here we are
bad opinion hermie good
Hermie was just as good, thank you very much.
I watched both hermie and veggietales, I still love veggietales but hermie is just ok
Hermie was really good tho
*Larry:* _"In the future, humor will be randomly generated..."_
I can't believe a Christian cartoon predicted the aspects of the Internet.
“Prophetic” indeed
I guess God can really tell us about the future
w e e d e a t e r
Larry is a prophet.
W Ė Ę D Ē Æ T È R
Fun fact: Pixar contacted BigIdeas productions to find out how they did the lighting for their show. Pixar. Asked VEGGITALES. FOR ANIMATION TIPS.🤯
Oh my...😮
I'm fairly certain that statement was actually a joke by Phil Vischer, not legitimate. I could be wrong tho.
Veggietales had big dick energy
Seems ridiculous now, but realize, "Where's God When I'm Scared" was released in 1993, two whole years before Toy Story. Big Idea was ahead of the curve of the CGI boom.
@@JJSmithMedia That basically means Big Idea beat Pixar to being the animation pioneers everyone forgot...sort of. 😂
you knew it was gonna be a good day when your sunday school teacher whipped out the popcorn and new veggietales dvd
Silence verified
So true
Yes
@@henrycrabs3497 silence commoner
100%
You know what's funny? Being a non-Christian raised kid that loved VeggieTales growing up and not realizing it was a Christian show until after becoming an adult.
I've met a surprising amount of people who have said the same thing to me, like what did you guys think the Bible verses in the end were for??? xD
I honestly don't think I even acknowledged that part of the show... XD
@@Kaiju_Inc I seriously didn't realize either. I think I was so focused on Larry's songs and some of the skits that the verses flew over my head....lol
That feeling when a show retells famous bible stories and recites bible verse at the end while constantly reminding you you're loved by God, yet you didn't realize it was Christian until your adult years
Same here dude
Bad Christian shows: *exists*
Veggietales: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
I Remember Hermies! NOOOOO!
@Joshua Ham, ah a man of culture
Have we got a show for you.
This joke was randomly generated...
@pewtwo
weedeater
i’m not religious anymore but hearing, “god made you special and he loves you very much” makes me tear up. such fond memories.
That's cause it's true ;)
Hey, God still loves you and wants you to come back to Him. Only through Jesus Christ can we have the intimate relationship. He doesn't want you to devot yourself to religuon but to Jesus Himself. He will guide you to all truth as He is the life, the way, and the truth! God bless!
Kayvon Crenshaw nah
@@legotech101 Yeeee
@@kayvoncrenshaw1799 tru
“In the future, humor is randomly generated.”
That hits hard, especially in 2021.
"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"I don't know, why _did_ the chicken cross the road?"
.*robot noises*.
"w e e d e a t e r"
- Knock knock!
- Who's that?
- AI generated inflation vore Peppa Pig fetish art!
W E E D
E A T E R
"I'm sorry, Bob. I was sure this was gonna be the great new way to entertain kids and teach them nice lessons."
"Oh, like how to tell nonsense jokes and be emotionally unstable?"
_Oof..._ Yeah, that one got me.
that line becomes more and more true every passing year
When you really weren’t ever raised Christian yet were absolutely in love with veggie tales movies and stuff
I'm Jewish, why did my parents have me watch this?
They did let me watch all the other shows and movies though, except Billy and Mandy because "Mandy was mean"
I remember eating the fruit snacks without watching a single episode. They were just often on sale
Pippin2luv that was me as a kid, we got the VHS tapes all the tome
S A M E
@@shanez1215 Oh noes not the mandy
This show, at its peak, is the greatest Christian media I’ve ever seen produced.
CTHD while I loved Veggie Tales as a kid, it’s got nothing on The Prince of Egypt. Let’s be real, that movie is phenomenal!
yea but that was literally a full studio movie with val kilmer and other voices if i remember right.
Lumikki Harthri just because the production value is higher doesn’t mean it’s exempt from consideration here...it’s SUCH an amazing piece of Christian media! As far as low-budget content goes, though, yes..Veggie Tales slaps.
“Larry commits tax evasion.”
I just looked and........ yeah....... he’s not kidding. XD
That is hilarious as an adult. A robber breaks in during Christmas and he kindly shares the cookies he made for santa with the robber, befriending him. Same for a pillaging viking who breaks in. Then an IRS guy shows up and they just slam the door in his face and keep singing about sharing without him, haha.
It's literally the plot of the episode and it's hilarious
"I'm from the IRS! And i've come to tax your-"
Kaitlyn D 🚪
It’s Christian programming. They are tax exempt.
Dude. The grim reaper guy from the island of perpetual tickling absolutely terrified me as a kid, especially because my dad loved to tickle me as a kid.
I too... am extremely ticklish and the Grim tickle guy absolutely terrified me. Scared.
one of the only two nightmares that actually scared me I've ever had was when I was really little of that grim reaper guy stealing my parents. Truly horrifying
WAIT SAME
The Grim Tickler.
That guy is one of the earliest memories of childhood trauma I have.
It actually broke my heart a bit that Jonah is what killed veggietales. That was one of my favorite movies growing up.
Same. I loved Jonah, but at what cost did we get it?
It was a phenomenal masterpiece, I love it so much :'(
It did??
wow i didnt know that but i actually loved the movie!
The song from when he was in the whale? Absolute banger 👌👌
I was not homeschooled but "we are the pirates who don't do anything" still slaps!!!!!
Hairbrush and my lips are my favs
Especially the Relient K version
Oh noooo what we gonna do? The king likes Daniel more than me and you! Oh nooo what we gonna do? We gotta get him outta hereee
Come on, slaps bro
Dude any religious kid knows and love veggie tales
shoot, dance of the cucumber was my jam as a kid and i still love it
Even though this show is for kids, I love the humor as an adult. “I’m going to call the police” always gets me.
I didn't realize until I rewatched some of the episodes that their humor actually referenced some of my favorite movies and skits. In the episode "Duke and the Great Pie War", the Abbott and Costello reference went right over my head when I was younger!
TheMightyPancake yep! They referenced a lot of movies! Lord of the Ring, Indiana Jones, etc
FINALLY, SOMEONE ELSE WHO GETS IT!
I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain this to people, those who barely know anything about it like to stereotype it.
I didn't get the "i'm going to call the police" joke as a kid and didn't get why my older siblings and parents thought it was funny,. but now I'm an adult and it kills me every time.
And the cucumber saying "as I throw you into the furnace"
I am a 32 year old adult woman and to this day, whenever I can’t find my hairbrush I quietly sing “oh wheeeere is my hairbrush?” to myself 🙃
Almost 28 here and I do the same thing!
my grandpa had a ringtone that sang "oh wheeeeere is my cellphone"
Whenever I can't find my Hairbrush I actually get subconsciously annoyed because when I was younger and couldn't find it everyone in my family would start singing the song
How are so many people consistently losing a hairbrush?
@@jacstonebaby youd be surprised how slippery the lil fuckers can be
Personally, I think the over sheltering of christian parents imposed on their children is the primary reason most of the youth leave the church. Parents should be preparing their children for the real world, not pretending that it doesn't exist and then once they leave home be completely shocked at what the real world is and is not.
Daniel Natzke it’s done irreparable damage to the witness of the church. Instead of engaging with the art of the world to find gospel lessons in them they instead demonized everything that wasn’t explicitly Christian.
@@BlankGreenCanvas completely agree
Daniel Natzke it’s refreshingly nice to find actual genuine criticism towards the Church and the action of Christian parents that doesn’t sound like it was written by a 14 year old atheist.
Thanks for not stooping to that level.
As a Christian 18 year old who's come from such a background, I highly agree with this. Sadly, a lot of these ideologies were and still are picked by overprotective Christian parents out of ignorance, because of debates like the Satanic Panic, (even when those events were perhaps, with some exceptions, mostly used by con men/women for money. That or they were extremely crazy idk.) :/
@@jinn194 well, I grew up sheltered in the church and still am Christian after it. But, after attending university I realized how much damage sheltering is doing to Christianity.
I studied filmmaking, and I can't even begin to tell you how many times I was confronted by other Christians about "how I'm not a real Christian" because I have problems with faith films and don't particularly want to make movies like them.
I was raised in a Christian household. Wasn’t homeschooled, parents weren’t too restrictive of what I could watch (basically, it was based on whether or not they thought it was inappropriate). We didn’t have cable, so I grew up watching mostly PBS and the occasional DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Animaniacs, Pinkie and the Brain, etc. when we were somewhere that did have cable. That said, I voluntarily watched VeggieTales. A lot. I still watch VeggieTales. Because it’s the fucking best
Same! Except we had partial cable
@@amandahealey2216 I only had cable in hotels or at my grandparents'. That said, I can parrot literally any PBS or 4Kids theme song
Paste Eater we called cable ‘hotel tv’ because we watched it in hotels 😆
@@zakattack8624 What does that have to do with any of this?
Wait wait wait. Your parents wouldnt allow you to watch anything they thought was innapropiate...but let you watch animaniacs? With jokes like
Yacko:Search for fingerprints!
Dot: I found him! (Holding the singer Prince)
Yacko: No, Finger Prints (wiggling fingers)
Dot: I dont think so
And also
Dolly: Im youre biggest fan! What do you say about that!?
Brain: I say puberty has been awfully generous with you
Barbra manatee is the pinnacle of musical achievement
🎶Barbra MANATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE🎶
🎶Man-A-Tee. Man-A-Tee🎶
🎶You are the one for MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE🎶
🎶One for me. One for me🎶
Agreed. Given my name it quickly became my childhood theme song,haha
Get u someone who dances with u the way Larry dances with Barbara Manatee
My girlfriend (way before we were dating) sent me a link to Barbara Manatee as a way of subtlety telling me she liked me 😂😂
I literally ended up with a manatee plushie specifically because of that song.....I think I need to go get it and do the dance.....lol
The humor of Veggie Tales is what will always stick with me. A lot of the jokes and gags, especially later on were quite clever and make me laugh to this day. They're littered with pop culture references and even inside jokes for Big Idea themselves. They weren't afraid to make entertainment entertaining.
W E E D E A T E R
"Oh you'd think so, wouldn't you?!"
"I mean it guys, we should go back to Egypt."
"Huh!?"
"Remember the good times? Regular exercise, 3 square meals a day, swimming in the Nile, oh it was heaven."
"... We were in slavery!!!"
"Nothing is perfect."
@@yourcollegedebt8384LOLLL
@@yourcollegedebt8384What did they mean by 3 square meals
I wasn't even a homeschool religious kid, and I still loved that show.
Sour HoneyBee yeah
Me too
Same, but I did go to a Christian Pre-School so I never wasn't around anything VeggieTales.
"how to tell nonsense jokes and be emotionally unstable" is the title of my autobiography
I hope youre having a great day 😊 Jesus loves you
"Bob and Larry escaping communist Russia"
They *what*
30 seconds later I was disappointed
"Larry commits tax evasion"
Also the toy murdering a penguin
The best thing about Veggietales is that it doesn’t hammer in the Christian message into your head. It just wants to tell stories and lessons on being a good person
The stories are mostly from the Bible.
From the Bible
@@ohmrghost8789re read the comment
@@geroldy4546re read the comment
@@kingmac6638 he’s being vague with “stories and lessons” I’m just specifying
I’m starting to think all is homeschooled Christian children had the same childhood
Only the ones who complain. Those of us who had a good experience tend not to broadcast the fact.
Not just homeschoolers... I went to a Christian grade school and had a similar experience, though I could watch most Nickelodeon and Disney shows.
Ah yes the hive mind of Catholic home schooling
@@phazemof6951 not just catholic, although, Catholics seemed to have a rougher go of it, from what I’ve seen
Blake Adams welp everyone complains about the same things (including me) but I still like my upbringing
When I was going to a Christian college, for my final paper in my Old Testament class the assignment was to take a retelling of a biblical story (like The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston for example) and do a thorough analysis of how it's portrayed, the accuracy compared to the biblical story and message and whatnot. I chose the Jonah movie by Veggie Tales. I literally wrote a college paper on Veggie Tales, because why not? There were no restrictions other than it had to be anything that portrayed a story in the Old Testament. I got a really good grade by the way.
Just recently rewatched The Ten Commandments for the first time in years. I forgot how unbelievably good it is. It's ridiculously long, but it's so good, mostly because of Heston.
i watched the jonah movie literally almost every week as a kid, holy shit lmao
Once I took the Jonah movie on a car trip, but only the “extras” dvd was in the case, so I watched the outtakes over and over again for literal hours, and I couldn’t stop laughing
I really want to read that now lol. I kinda had to do the same for a few homework assignments in my OT class as well!
Jonah is my favorite. The first book of the bible I actually read was Jonah because I loved the movie.
I swear, as a kid with overly christian parents (I've never seen more than 2 full spongebob episodes, not a single bit of scooby doo, harry potter was out the window, and couldn't watch pokemon until I was 10), Veggietales was the BEST show EVER. I watched Jonah over and over and over, it was my favorite movie. When I heard there was gonna be a reboot of sorts coming to Netflix, I was so excited. But, as soon as I watched the first episode, I died on the inside. The best way I could describe the feeling was:
_"Look how they massacared my boy."_
"Look how they massacared my boy." They cut him up, boiled 'em, and made them into soup!
I died a little on the inside when i saw the reboot
TheSmartBoi i think everyone hated it honestly
So relatable, my dad didn’t let me watch sponge bob and I was allowed to read the Harry Potter books but he would always lecture me about how “Harry Potter is satan”.
I had christian parents but they were normal
More kids nowadays needed shows like Veggietales in my opinion
Yes
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Shows like this and Avatar: The Last Airbender
@@GraveRodathose two shows where some of my earliest memories
honestly! it doesn’t even need to be religious either, i have great memories of veggie tales cause it was goofy and fun which is what kids need
edit: worth adding that i’m an atheist now but still love veggie tales lol it’s kinda wild
"God made you special and he loves you very much" hit me with a wave of nostalgia and almost started crying
“God is bigger than the boogeyman” song got me through a lot of nights where I was feeling afraid of the dark, or other things. I’ll also never forget the fish-slapping Ninevites. And I will always love Silly Songs with Larry, no matter how old I am.
I had a junior the asparagus plush toy that sang that song and helped me sleep as a kid. Reading these comments has made the memories flood back. I'm not religious now, but those times were so simple and fun.
I still sing Gods bigger than the boogeyman when I get scared and I have no shame in it at all.
I loved that Song
The cheeseburger song was/is amazing.
Me too
Admit it. The hooded guy with the feather that took people to the isle of endless tickling gave you nightmares too.
Katie Scheuermann I’d completely forgotten about that guy until I saw him on screen and my heart stopped
He gave me a fetish, wdym
Oh jeez, I'm having flashbacks
@@naominerd4075 it cost you less than a penny not to say that
O👏🏾M👏🏾G
He'd pop up in my dreams as a special guest man.
I still remember this dream I had where he was looking for me and I was try to hide and stay the heck away from him at my grandmother's house.
I remember walking into the kitchen to get food and he was just standing there look through the silverware drawer with his back facing me and I was trying to tip to the food hoping he wouldn't turn around.😬😬
Fun fact, the VT creators were steeped in pop culture references, so even something super random (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down With All the Bananas) is a reference to a Hugh Grant movie, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, the Cheeseburger Song is a Meat Loaf/Air Supply parody, and Madame Blueberry is a parody of Madame Bovary. Also, they LOVED Monty Python.
They didn't reference Nintendo
7.8/10
They actually referenced Mario and Peach in the Star of Christmas.
Yeah it wasn't until I was an adult when I realized the French peas at Jericho were a super obvious reference to the French knights in Holy Grail 😂
@@traviscunningham7062 yessss
@@traviscunningham7062 did they EVER reference Pokemon?
"I am the Englishman who went up a hill and came down with all the bananas."
*colonialism intensifies*
*East India company intensifies*
*banana massacre intensifies*
But you can't have bananas without strawberries!
*Mass genocide of Natives intensifies*
Not to mention the failure that was The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. Ended up losing almost 2 mil in the box office, which is a shame since it wasn’t bad.
Rattles McSpookston it was actually a really good movie!! I was hopeful for a new movie more often, and better production for their shows after seeing that movie!
I really liked that movie as a kid.
@@disobey5615 agreed. The Pirates who don't do anything was an amazing break out concept they made. right along with Larryboy.
oh god y’all just pulling up repressed memories left and right
Bruh no joke I have the OST for that film from when I was a kid.
Fun fact! As a fellow homeschooled Christian (Catholic) who was ALSO the oldest of six, I watched these shows for a very long time and would switch on commentary for some entertainment. In one of the commentary tracks, they talk about how Pixar actually contacted them (I think after the rack, shack, and benny one) to ask how they were getting the animation to look like that. The Veggie Tales creators didn't tell them though, lol.
@@WillowTreeMeadows Yeah, but the Veggie Tales movie (totally blanking on the name) gave them all easier to pronounce nicknames for kids to remember- Rack, Shack, and Benny.
That's a cool fact! And I relate with you, I'm the eldest of five and was also raised in a Catholic homeschooling household. That's actually part of the reason I'm so into anime and horror games rn...because I couldn't play/watch them while I lived at home.
Uriah Major Oh man, tale as old as time. When I made the abrupt switch from not being able to watch most cable tv shows to sneaking anime on UA-cam, there was no hope from escaping a weeb phase, especially when it was 2007 and the anime crops were so bountiful. My brother is a big gamer now lol.
@@WillowTreeMeadows fun fact: george (narrator of that ep) says thats there names in the beginning of the episode but he said it was too long so he said to call them rack, shack and benny.
I was raised Christian and was allowed to watch everything and went to school.
a lot of christian kids were... I think homeschooling is more for the most conservative minority
me too, but veggie tales is still top tier
Ayo saaame, but mom still didn’t let me watch spongebob :( she didn’t think it would turn me gay or anything she just thought it was stupid
I grew up on Dora and Yo Gabba Gabba instead
@@reedplaysgames Oh man Yo Gabba Gabba...I haven't heard that name in ages
@@reedplaysgames i wasn’t allowed to watch spongebob also, the message the show portrayed was bad. Also my dad was super annoyed by Spongbob.
When the red fruit said
"How to tell nonsense jokes and be emotionally unstable"
I felt that.
@【offer】- Sam L
I wanna know how they knew because I started seeing that around 2012. What was the landscape of internet like in 2004 for them to call this so accurately?
I love how a show with the word vegetable in the name has a fruit as the main storyteller.
@@KaDaJxClonE Both tomatoes and cucumbers are fruit.
"Sir, we found a 90s VHS"
"GET THE VCR"
"It's Christian Propoganda"
"PUT BACK THE VCR"
"It's Veggietales"
"GET THE VCR"
lmao yes
Da_Pikmin_Coder That was a rollercoaster 😂
this made me lol, thanks
veggietales wasn't really propaganda like the rest... that's the reason it was good
I’m Christian, but wasn’t homeschooled or had restricted content. That said, I loved VeggieTales pretty much on par with any other show I’d watch as a kid, like SpongeBob or Harry Potter. To this day, I’m still happily in the faith.
I think that’s the golden formula, honestly. If parents want to ensure that their kids have faith, they need to give them the room to experience it their way and come to their own conclusions. Stifling them may ironically cause a kid to push back on God later in life. After all, God wants people to willingly choose Him, not have blind faith
Exactly. Some Christians parents don't understand that they have no control over whether their children becomes or not Christian. It is written in the Bible that God gives the choice to humans to follow him or not. So ironically by forcing their kids to christianity they kind of go against God's word.
I know too many people who grew up in that sheltered church environment where everything that seemed “worldly” was bad only for them to enter the real world horrified and miserable and inevitably abandon the faith altogether because of bad discipleship from their upbringing.
That’s exactly how I feel that’s so true
Also, many Christian parents unintentionally turn “worldly art” into forbidden fruit for their children. I wasn’t allowed to watch Harry Potter movies because James Dobson said that it promoted witchcraft but the magic worlds of Narnia and Middle Earth were okay even though Rowling is a person of faith herself.
@@BlankGreenCanvas Narnia's actually even a parallel to the bible (my kids church played the movie for us when I was younger)
I’m still suprised that the veggie tail intro isn’t a national anthem
Why would it be? This way it allowed for a larger audience beyond Burgerstan.
No mentions of The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
Yeah, I liked that one more than Jonah, at least based on my childhood memory.
Good memory right there
by far the best they ever made
yeah, he made no mention of the best movie veggietales made
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything is legit the single piece of entertainment from my childhood that i can remember most vividly.
Raised in Christan home: ☑️
Homeschooled: ☑️
Veggie tales: ☑️
Regrets: ❎
Daniel Earl same! Being home schooled is so much better!
AricTheUnique thats a classic homeschooler myth.
@AricTheUnique assumptions make an ass out of u.
I was home schooled for some of elementary school liked it but it definitely harmed my social development
Yeah.... I only know one normal homeschooler and he even agrees homeschoolers are socially stunted
"These stories are weird, and darker than I remember"
Yeah, that's the Bible for you.
So true. Like one story from Judges where the dude sacrifices his daughter to God because he promised if he won a war, he'd "Sacrifice the first thing he saw as he returned."
@@dragoninthewest1 and the most interesting thing about it is that God didn't even wanted him to do that. The main point of Judges is showing the decline of the "people of God" and how much, well, they deviated from God's path. (sorry if there are any english mistakes)
@@Joshua-gi6xd That's the entire Bible. Man, deviating from God. Holy men falling for fleshly disires even when God has graced him above all others. It's in our blood. It's what we do. And why Yesuah is so important.
Oh I've got a good one I always like to bring up. So this is Genesis 38, a man name Judah has two sons, his Firstborn, Er, and the other son, Onan. Years pass and Judah gets a wife for Er. However. Er is killed. By who? God... Gen Ch.38 verse 7, "But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death." No other explanation, just wicked. So now Judah wants Onan to fullfill the family duty by having his brother's wife's offspring, which is not a bro move. Onan plunges his dead brothers wife, however, he realizes just how much of a non bro move this was, and pulled out at the very last second and spilled his seed.
What happened next? Well... Verse 10, "What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also."
And thats the story of how the THiirdd Brother Also di- Nah I'm just kidding...
...Oh ya and then theres that story where some guys chop up a prostitute and spread her body parts across the lands.....not kidding....
@@pengmaeda9908 Wait *_WHAT_*
As a former homeschooler and current Christian who grew up with this show, this is now one of my favorite videos ever. Thank you, sir.
Center Row I went to public school since kindergarten but I loved veggietales to much.
It was great, except for the netflix series
Even my friends that aren’t Christian like the show whichInitially confused me but really shows how wide spread it got
It’s wild because I was homeschooled, I didn’t get to watch any of the “standard” kids’ shows, and I watched Veggie Tales. But we weren’t religious. I don’t know what was goin on that my parents were like “ah yes, no spongebob, but yEAH let’s watch some christian veggie-starring cartoons”
same, Spongebob was "stupid", we were kind of atheist, and VeggieTales was
a-ok somehow
Same. I don't remember how we watched it since I was younger then, but I know we had a cassette tape thing, so I must've watched it on that. I don't even know why, we're not religous and we haven't ever been.
You should have started praying to spite them.
We have both suffered lol
As a kid I loved Veggie Tales. Still see them sometimes with my younger siblings, but don’t favor them much anymore. Never watched Spongebob. My parents didn’t like it, I honestly think they just thought it was annoying
Best way to sum up this show: This show has Animaniacs levels of memorable comedy, and songs.
(Is that supposed to be show a second time, not "sow"?)
{-Peacock-} [Skullgirls] I agree with you. The two shows have quite a bit in common:
Fun songs
Silly
Somewhat educational
Funny
Good characters
Adult humor
Made memes
Politically incorrect
1993 debut
VeggieTales being Christian Animaniacs is fantastic
And nowadays, it's got a new show that follows the hilarious gags of the Muppet Show, and they went back to the classic designs.
thats actually really good
i wasn’t raised religious and until now i had NO IDEA this was a christian cartoon. when i found shelves full of veggie tales at a christian store, i had an existential crisis lol
Homie... they recite a bible verse at the end of every episode.
Was raised religious but not anymore, there's still many great things that can be enjoyed even if you disagree with the author or message they are wanting to portray. And tbf, most of the lessons were just basic common sense and decency towards others
My memory is pretty shitty and it wasn't like I went to church or read the bible or anything, so I forgot too for a solid many years lmao
@@ephemera5714if you had cable as a kid they were more of a kids show if that makes sense lol. They cut out all the obviously biblical episodes and the "messages" at the end were more of just like don't bully or do whatever because it's not nice rather then because god wouldn't want you to lol
@elenalorenzo4720 I grew up in an evangelical environment so I remember the tapes more than the cable show but now that I think about it there was a cable version that cut out the Christian stuff. Looking back it's pretty weird they would do that considering how hardcore protestant it originally was.
Ten days after I turned 8
Got my lips stuck in a gate
My friends all laughed And I just stood there until the fire department came and broke the lock with a crowbar And I had to spend the next six weeks in lip rehab with this kid named Oscar who got stung by a bee, right on the lip And we couldn't even talk to each other until the fifth week because both our lips were so swollen And when he did start speaking he just spoke Polish and I only knew like three words in Polish Except now I know four because Oscar taught me the word for lip,
'USTA!'
YES
I love these random ass comments
your friends all laughed... “usta”.. how do you spell that?
*i dOnT kNoW*
One of absolute favorite Silly Songs!! This part in particular is 👌.
She had a beard and it was weird.
It is an absolute CRIME and SIN against veggies everywhere that Everybody Has a Water Buffalo went unmentioned on this video. An absolute banger then and forever
Sofia Baxter I saw a clip of it somewhere in there but yes unmentioned is a catastrophe
Facts, it was F I R E
I have a baby kangaroo though, so I don't mind.
Period Larry's pipes were unparalleled
@@aroinperil Larry was pretty good with the saxophone too.
Is no one going to talk about how it’s called veggie tales, but the two main characters aren’t vegetables?
Hi Hi wtf
I guess Vegetational Tales wasn't as catchy.
Now who would watch a show called Fruity Fables?
@Alex Evans I....don't think this is true
@@ashleigh_marrrie it is true though! All chameleons are iguanas but not all iguanas are chameleons.
🎵Life without Jesus is like a donut like a donut like a donut life without Jesus is like a donut because there's a hole in the middle of your heart 🎵
Omg Donut Repair Club?? I totally had one of those VHS’s!
@@Nan0min had to dig real deep in the imagination station for that.
Life WITH jesus is like a donut because there is a hole in the middle of your brain.
@@Istayuplatedrivefast Oh brother you really did damage with that intellectual comment. Thank you.
@@Istayuplatedrivefast The pure intellectual power of your comment makes a simpleton like me want to start a reddit account so can finally consume so much knowledge I've ignored all my life as a stupid religion-follower.
“Wheres God when I’m scared” got me through not being able to sleep after being scared by a Mount Everest documentry
I survived child abuse and going away for college due to God Is Bigger.
@@zacharysiple629 You survived because you're strong.
@@guitarhero38633 Thanks, but that's only because of WGWIS. :)
@@guitarhero38633 I suppose it can be said that God bestowed upon us the gifts of strength or courage or wits that gets us through hard times.
@@guitarhero38633 Yes and God gave them that strength. Thank you
Your mom let you watch Harry Potter but didn't want you to see Lord of the Rings? Usually it's the opposite due to Tolkien's Christianity
But Tolkein was what most Christian parents truly feared... A CATHOLIC!!!
I mean, the creation of the world is completely allegorical to the Christian view of biblical creation (minus the whole flat earth that was bent thing)
That's actually the exact opposite of my parents, fine with Lotr, no HP tho... interestingly enough, I don't believe my parents were aware Tolkien was even a Christian when they first let me watch...
@@sebastianrosa7935 It honestly blows my mind how strict some Protestants are
@@sebastianrosa7935 its fun reading this from europe where the religious devide is a lot less extreme
I met the creator of VeggieTales, he's a nice guy.
WAAAAAAAAT? HOW?! XD
@@cukewinx2273 Well... I met him at the Salvation Army Bell Dinner Party, and I didn't know that he was born in Muscatine IA and I lived across the bridge from Muscatine. But I was least eleven when I met him.
@@caseycarpenter7343 my goodness..you are so lucky ^^
Lucky.
Phil Visher or Mike Nawrocki?
I’ve noticed a strange perception among the ex-homeschooled of UA-cam that VeggieTales was somehow just popular among themselves. As the public school educated child of agnostics, trust me, VeggieTales was mainstream AF.
Right I was thinking the same thing
Yeah my Christian friends actually had never seen it. Lol
2000s: "how to tell noNsEnse JOkes and bE emOTioNALLy UNsTABle?"
2020s: hahAHahahAhaha....
Oh, and the "cultist" episode is dark but basically a retelling of what Nebuchadnezzar did to Shadrak, Meshak, and Abednigo, Daniel's three Jewish friends (during the Babylonian empire).
I like that his cannon name is Mr. Nezer. I don't know if I spelled that right
@@spencercarlton4006 haha me too 😂
If you want something messed up, look up that VeggieTales episode/movie they did about the biblical book of Esther. More or less, the biblical book ends with Esther breaking royal protocol (potentially punishable by death) at the behest of hers uncle Mordacai to plead to the Persian king Xerxes (yeah, probably that same Xerxes depicted in 300, or pretty close to that historical period since there were a couple king Xerxes around that time) to expose his favored minister Haman for plotting to systematically persecute and murder the Jewish people remaining in Persia. It ends with the Jews being saved and Haman getting executed by Xerxes. In the VeggieTales movie, instead of executed, they basically euphemistically refer to execution by what was basically the "tickle monster." It was just this towering dude shrowded in a big hooded cloak who presumably tickled Haman out of a room, presumably to death. It was obviously euphemistic for being a kids show, but it's kinda horrifying haha.
@@Tyler_W yes!! Oh my goodness, can't tell you how much that tickler guy scared me when I was little
soda bottle _ Yep. Canonically his name is Nebby K. Nezzer.
Bob: OH LIKE HOW TO TELL NONSENSE JOKES AND BE EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE . Me who is emotionally unstable and tells nonsense jokes to keep what’s left of my sanity: I feel a bit called out
Emma Mae he predicted the future 😂
I now blame Larry the Cucumber for my nonsense jokes and emotional instability
Honestly tho. They had no idea how on spot they’d be with that prediction. 😂
y they gotta do us like dat ;(
W E E D
E A T E R
I’m also a homeschooled Christian but we were allowed to watch R rated movies (with our parents of course) we watched
terminator, matrix, true lies, patriot, flags of our fathers, etc. all before the age of 10. Love my parents!
Ikr as I grew up I was like yall had Matrix 1-3 on repeat when I was younger but I couldn't watch such n such. I'm still thankful for it though. It's made me picky about what I'm willing to watch.
I was also homeschooled! I was the eldest of five, and for some reason my parents waited until I was 12 to let us watch R rated movies. And I mean, all my little siblings were also allowed the watch them after i hit 12 lol
Same!! My dad always said “I don’t want you to grow up and not get any references”
Once I took the Jonah movie on a car trip, but only the “extras” dvd was in the case, so I watched the outtakes over and over again for literal hours, and I couldn’t stop laughing
YEESSS I always loved the bloopers from Jonah! I wish studios made blooper reels for animated movies again. I know that Pixar was popular for doing that back then, people would love them now.
please tell me how we have the exact same specific memory
Tree! Cabin! Larryboy!
bro the jonah outtakes were HILARIOUS I did the same shit lmao
I quote the Jonah dailies all the time, truly iconic
Larry the Cucumbers voice actor is now my University Film professor. He's great
I'll tell him thank you for you
Lol What university do you go to?
You're so lucky omg.
Heather Houston WHAT UNIVERSITY PLEASE TELL ME
You got the Legend Mike Nawrocki as you professor?!? Consider yourself blessed!
Tell him I love him
Who else here was raised on Veggie Tales?
GimmeeSomeMo
🖐🏾
Though I wasn’t homeschooled
@@aaromotivestudio3869 Ya me neither. I was in the next best thing: Private Christian School!
I had to watch it every Sunday at church... Until I lashed out at my parents over how much I hated church, I'm agnostic now. Veggie tales was the only part I enjoyed, still harbor some hate for the church happy veggie tales was actually decent though. It's complicated.
My son's first words were, " Ba-ba-da-mato", all one word, and said very fast. My kids LOVED veggie tales. I watched them as an adult, and still get misty eyed seeing them again...my kids are 20 and 18 now.
Me and I also wasn’t homeschooled either went to a shitty private school where literally everyone bullied me.
This shit was Christian crack. I still have 2 full bookshelves of veggietales VHS and DVDs that I watch every now and then. Everyone I hear the themesong, I am hit with a wave of nostalgia.
I grew up christian, not homeschooled, but yep remember all of these shows haha
Kobsta same
Yeah, every evangelical kid grew up with Veggietales. No homeschooling required, lads.
Same
Veggie tales is still a very good show
I go to a Catholic high school and I had to watch a full episode of veggietales as apart of an assembly my sophomore year
“What are you going to do?”
“I’m going to call the police.”
Take my like.
(Also "take a break")
hey, ham
Greetings, Mr. Hamilton :)
Smart kid.
5:43
I like how it didn't have much "that's heisey" and instead focused on more of the "be good" aspects of Christianity.
@@somerandomnon9161
Saying things Ice-cream-sodas are the works of the devil.
I wish that was a hiperbole but sadly some witch hunters actually though that. And that's why sundaes exist.
@@beastwarsFTW wha-what does this even mean? the fuck's an ice-cream-soda have to do with this?
@@somerandomnon9161
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@@beastwarsFTW oooh like "some people thought that icecream sodas were the work of the devil"?
@@somerandomnon9161
Yes, I don't understand why, something about hating teenagers.
Dude I totally forgot about Hermie. Even as a kid I knew that was bad. And don't even get me started on Bible Man
I was never subjected to Bibleman but my parents did buy a Hermie DVD. I was like...why did you buy this? I'm 13!
I hated hermie. Least favorite christian bible show.
I had two Bibleman vhs tapes but other than that I would vocally complain to my parents about any Christian shows besides VeggieTales. I just knew how bad they were even when so young. Psalty the psalter and donut man were the worst to me. Oh, and I guess adventures in odyssey was decent, but had some misses.
Bumper Stickers, Christians, churches, etc: _God loves you_
Me, an agnostic: Meh
A couple of vegetables: God made you special and he loves you very much
Me: _.He did...?_
Yes
I wonder if part of it might be because the bumper sticker one feels condescending, while hearing it from bob and larry feels genuine? Maybe it's because w/ bob and larry, it feels like they're saying it to you specifically
Every time I hear them say that I still go all :)
It's surreal to find out that even *VeggieTales* wasn't immune to the cancer that is bickering about religious differences.
>TFW veggietales died because it was proselytizing
nothing wrong with spreading religion I mean that was the whole point of the show
but PLEASE don't be a PP about it or you lose a company or something
@@roberttrue7219 There is something wrong about spreading religion, especially to children.
@@Aster_Risk Not really. I mean, yeah, it's bad to teach children or others a *specific* religion/belief, and say all others are heresy, but there's nothing wrong with exposing others to religion, as long as it isn't forced on them. For example, I grew up watching Veggietales, and I am currently agnostic.
Jesus tell me about it.
My parents' money likely counted for at least 10% of Big Idea's total revenue during the early-2000s. I was obsessed.
Some things you forgot to note;
* There was a second theatrical release, based on “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything”.
* Dreamworks would purchase Classic Media in the early 2010s, which led to the decline really setting in for the series.
* There was a short-lived revival in 2020, but the core staff was later fired.
I love the fact Veggie tales basically predicted the future of internet humor.
My religious mom told me "God made you special, and we love you very much." when I came tiptoeing out of the closet. So yeah, Veggie Tales has a special place in my heart.
That's adorable. Many christians could learn from your mother's example
What do you mean "tiptoeing out of the closet"?
I wish my religious mother was like that 😭
Right in the feels
This is so wholesome!
“We are the grapes of wrath, so stay out of our path!” A WHOLE MOOD
It is our style to never smile and ne ver laugh" :)
Good advice. They probably reek of B.O.
@@azsli2 rotten grapes
@@Karmy. yes definitely one of their lines is "we never take a bath"
Big Idea were such cool people. I grew up on VeggieTales, and when disaster struck and I lost everything in 2006 due to a tornado (not even a week after my mom died), a family friend of my dad's contacted Big Idea, who sent my family a care package that restored our VeggieTales collection (and then some) with DVDs, sing-a-long CDs, t-shirts, and a large photo frame with a picture featuring all the main characters, with autographs by Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki, and the rest of the team. They made such a difference to 8 year old me.
Honestly sounds like they put a lot of thought into it, clothes and collectors items you could sell as well as the dvd's.
Whoa, that's amazing!
“In the future entertainment will be randomly generated” - Larry the cucumber
*ＷＥ Ｅ Ｄ Ｅ ＡＴＥ Ｒ*
What's 2 plus 2?
*W E E D E A T E R*
W E E D E A T E R
May I just say, “Shocked and slightly embarrassed at the sight of Larry in a towel, he regains his composure to say...”
I could consider myself a sheltered christian child but now I’m basically a stoner-hippie christian adult, this show was golden in its simplicity and I’d love to see another like it teaching children God is always there for you even in the most common struggles. Very comforting concept as a child and nothing forced regardless of age nor even religion for that matter.
Doing drugs is against the bible
sophia watkins darn right, glad I don’t do drugs
The content itself may not be forcing itself down childrens' throats but the adults showing it to them definitely are
I loved watching this as a kid. Even though my parents weren’t even religious, they thought the cartoon was cute for a 5 year old so they bought a whole CD of episodes. They found out that it was a religious cartoon but they didn’t care. I liked it, my little sister liked it, we both shut up so they got to relax lol.
@@kielyb3027 shame they ruined the show now
They told the story of Esther in the style of The Godfather and the French Peas were pretty strong evidence that Nawrocki and Vischer knew their Holy Grail
He k yeah lmao
"God made you special" looks over at my identical twin brother
OOF
"Oh, like how to tell nonsense jokes, and how to be unstable?!"
I didn't come here to be attacked
Bruh
I’m 100% raising my children on veggie tales
Same.
if i do have children i will raise my children like vegetables
Heropon Riki lel
Same
Just leave out the god bits.
every time i eat a cheeseburger the faint melody of 'you're his cheeseburger his precious cheeseburger he'll wait for you ou ou' haunts the back of my brain lmao i stan veggie tales
Prime Veggietales is my ideal form of christian entertainment; wholesome, quality, not super preachy, and not really critical of "other" ideas.
I rarely see such content from that sector of entertainment.
To this day, no one in my house can say anything about a hairbrush without someone singing the song. Any mention of water buffaloes triggers a similar response. I haven't watched VeggieTales in at least 10 years, and yet on a walk the other day the Keep Walking song popped into my head and didn't leave. Did VeggieTales succeed in making me a life-long Christian? Uh... no, not exactly. Did it genuinely entertain me as a kid and become something I'm honestly excited about whenever I find out someone else knows it? Yeah, it definitely did.
TBH, their songs are more memorable than songs from Disney Movies, IMO.
@@NintegaDario yeah, and rightfully so!
(The Pirates song is good)
Silly Songs is all I've ever seen of Veggie Tales and I still end up singing them. They're pretty darn memorable.
But how often do water buffaloes really come up in conversation?
@@sarahb8147 Surprisingly, more often than you'd imagine
It amazes me that the meme lords on the internet haven't discovered and memed the daylights out of Silly Songs with Larry. Even as a Christian, I find VeggieTales a bit on the nose (granted, it's a little kid's show), but those are still freaking hilarious. That love song about a guy lovingly longing for a fast food cheeseburger is pure gold, and Dance of the Cucumber is still absolutely hilarious. If memes were a thing back then, those songs would have been unbelievably memeable. We should totally make this a thing.
Oh there are absolutely Veggietales memes that are well known. "Allow us to introduce ourselves" is one of the them. "Weedeater is also another one".
My wife and I still sing those songs to each other around the house. Barbara manatee and the cheeseburger songs being 2 favorites
Strung Up my family sings where's my hairbrush when we're looking for something. Especially when its a hairbrush.
@@lauratatum509 I always sing that when I can't find my hairbrush lmao, and I'm 22 and agnostic
I never grew up with this, but I watch this nowadays with my son. This hurts me more than it should. That remake of Larry and Bob being hurtful towards each other is a big knife into my chest.
Lastly, isn't it ironic that Big Idea's ship sank because of Jonah???? Like I refuse to believe that is an accident.
*"The Bible is Hardcore"*
-Charlie, 2019
dude shit went down in the bible. i still want to point out, moses followed gods orders for LITERALLY HIS ENTIRE LIFE and god banned him from entering the promised land BECAUSE HE HIT A ROCK WITH A STICK
What about that story where the kind put the dudes in a fucking blazing furnace
Host of Embers Timbo that’s because Moses made the Israelites think that he was the one who made the water come out of the rock, not God.
The Larry & Mr. Lunt commentary on the Jonah DVD is a comedic gold mine
“That’s what hush puppies are, they’re just puppies. They cook them and they say...HUSH...PUPPY.” *pained sounds of trying not to laugh and break character*
@@WyoteCoyote He's the one who hushed the puppies??!
@@WyoteCoyote That is... Dark.
Oh! I'll remember this later; thank you kind stranger...
To this day my favorite DVD commentary. Makes me want to do something like that, where characters from the movie act in character about producing the movie.
As a mostly athiest adult with a very negative view of religion, I’m really glad I got to grow up with Veggietales. I think the show did what a lot of christian media is afraid to do, and teaches the core beliefs every christian should adhere to: love thy neighbor. No matter what. Like, as a kid dealing with bad parents and a warped sense of identity, I really appreciated the fact that veggietales never told me i was evil or that what i was feeling was evil. Or that the bad things I did would be irredeemable. It basically helped teach me how to be a good person, more than the church ever did. And also helped shape my sense of humor.
Honestly, it's a great show for kids if you leave out the god parts. I find it funny as an adult who's also an atheist.
I was born in 2003, but growing up I always thought veggie tales was a big hit year after year, making new episodes and they didn’t actually drop off until they sold the show to NBC or Netflix… but man it makes me really sad to learn that their downfall kinda started before I was even born, still really thankful that my parents bought all those DVDs and VHS’ for me, veggie tales was a huge part of my childhood but imo it could have only existed at the time that it was at its peak with the whole Jesus movement of the 90s and 2000s, I rarely see Christian media anymore, really hurts to know that the best piece of Christian media ever made is just a memory now and some kids are never gonna experience it
“If your home bookshelf looked like this as a child”....
Intense homeschooling flashbacks ensue. This is too real. 😆
We had every single one of those items. I'm having flashbacks now too. Only Christian radio as well, right? Hello Chris Tomlin!
Nah, I mean we had the CS Lewis stuff. But I doubt my dad would have let Left Behind in our house. Our bookshelves were full of Bible Study Resources (Strong's concordance, Baker's Atlas, Ryrie's Systematic Theology, etc.), J. Dwight Pentecost, A Beka text books, and Saxon Math. Fuuuun...
I know, it was terrifyingly accurate! I'm pretty sure that everything in that photo that my family didn't actually have, I at least saw or heard of somewhere else.
Homeschooled 18 year old here, still addicted to veggietales
Same here (though not watching as much Veggietales now though). :)
Same
Im not even homeschooled and I still binge it with my brothers (however ofc I immediately turn away once they try to turn on veggietales in the house)
The bunny
The bunny
Ooh, I love the bunny
tEll me you've never heard of.. *the bunny song?*
I didn’t eat my soup,
or my bread,
just the bunny
UA-cam: The Money, The Money, Woah, I love the money, I dont love the likes, or the comments just the money, The Money, the money, Yeah! I love the money, Now my site is overrun by creepy kids vids for the money.
They had to rewrite some of the lyrics to that one because kids started getting the idea that it was okay to skip doing their homework and eat candy.
kissing a beard and it felt wierd, and he talks to a therapist about it. is-is that...CONVERSION THERAPY IN EPISODE 1!?
Lmfao oml hol' up. Questions
No lmfao just a coincidence
"I've never been to Boston in the fall"
"Rock- Rock Lobster!"
" *DONKEY* "
"Cap'n Crunch"
these memories came flooding back and I almost cried thanks. My fav was always the little asparagus who played that little sick boy in that one movie. I don't remember which. But I remember him coughing sickly and I remember me wanting to cry.
Also I thought the leek guy was just a funky lookin' asparagus.
wasn't he sick in one of the Christmas specials, the one where it was a spin off of A Christmas Carol
OKAY I JUST REALIZED THAT WAS A LEAK AND NOT A FUNKY LOOKING ASPARAGUS AND IVE WATCHED THIS SHIT SINCE I WAS 3
To this day I sing "Oh, where is my hairbrush?" when I can't find my hairbrush.
However, the Love Songs with Lundt was something I totally forget about until you brought it up.
I grew up homeschooled. Intro is accurate.
I got PTSD flashback from two thirds of that bookshelf.
Those pictures of C.S Lewis Books, Hangman's Curse, and Left Behind brought me some flashbacks
the use of mercy me and dc talk nailed it so hard
More than I care to admit
@Micah Miller It was a bit shocking to me to find that CS Lewis is a bit of a joke in Theological studies circles (knowledge courtesy of my sister), but now that I've read him along side some of the theological greats like Augustine, Hildegarde, or Leibniz, I kinda get it. He seems rational while you read him, but a lot of his arguments are based on hypothetical situations with very little Biblical foundation. Basically all of the Screwtape letters are constructed this way, and most of Mere Christianity is constructed like this as well. Most theological greats are guilty of this to some extent, but with C.S. Lewis he does it at least once a chapter, if not more.
Hey Josh, I just wanted to say thank you for making these videos. As someone who grew up super Christian and homeschooled and who has moved away from that, It's nice to see someone discussing these topics in a nuanced and approachable way. I also appreciate the insight you bring to these topics. Thank you :)