Bob the Tomato and Friends!

Bob the Tomato and Friends! was a short-lived VeggieTales spinoff series that was first released on July 5th, 2011, and concluded its short run on October 23, 2013. This series would serve as Big Idea's third series after the productions of both 321 Penguins and LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures. This series acted like a Yo Gabba Gabba or a Dora the Explorer to the VeggieTales franchise that would act like a regular children's program with the same old VeggieTales humor, songs, and likeliness for the first fifteen minutes. it then would transition to a Silly Song Sing-Along and show Trivia for the next ten minutes before closing out with a random Silly Song or an entirely new Silly Song depending on the episode and theme. The series started with its series premiere The Portrait alongside the second episode Toilet Wars!. However, during the production of a recently announced Third Season and right after the airing of the episodes Super Fusions and Huge Multiverse Problems!, it was revealed by Big Idea that they would be shutting down the show's production after the second season concludes with the series finale altogether. Mike Nawrocki had expressed interest back in 2015 that he'd love to do another one of these cutesy animated VeggieTales Shows if he ever gets the chance. Back in 2019, it was confirmed after the release of The VeggieTales Show! that Bob the Tomato and Friends will have a new direct-to-video film that'll parody horror movies and their protagonists, a new spinoff to the original series titled Bob's Friendship Preschool! and another spinoff series titled The Friendship Circus!, an announcement that Big Idea has plans to bring the original series back with a third and fourth season, and a sequel to the original Direct-to-video film titled The New Adventures of Bob and his Friends! that'll go off in its own direction and lead up to the events of the unannounced/untitled/unconfirmed third movie. This series would be produced by WildBrain!, Universal, and Big Idea Entertainment with the licenses of Classic Media and DreamWorks respectively. 
== Series Synopsis: ==
In this wonderfully pleasing VeggieTales spinoff,