VeggieTales/Reasons

## Fun Facts

* The show is really entertaining, creative, and funny, it also manages to do a good job with its various lessons, like God, and without getting too preachy.
* The CGI animation is really appealing to watch.
	+ In fact, what's more, is that the CGI animation was originally made in Softimage and PowerAnimator.
	+ Since then, it was currently made in Maya and it was slightly improved, but that isn't saying much at all.
* Plenty of lovable, cute, funny and memorable characters such as:
	+ Bob the Tomato.
	+ Larry the Cucumber.
	+ Junior Asparagus.
	+ Laura Carrot.
	+ Jimmy Gourd.
	+ Jerry Gourd.
	+ Mr. Lunt.
	+ Mr. Nezzer.
	+ Pa Grape.
	+ The French Peas.
	+ Archibald Asparagus.
	+ Madame Blueberry.
	+ Petunia Rhubarb.
	+ Scooter carrot.
	+ Junior's parents.
	+ And many more.
* It teaches plenty of Biblical lessons and great morals that are not jammed down your kids' throat at all.
* Amazing and well done voice acting.
* The stories are really interesting and entertaining. What makes them better is that they are based off of real bible stories.
* **Cause you're his cheeseburger! His precious cheeseburger!**
* Many great and memorable episodes such as:
	+ Where's god when I'm s-scared? (which started the series on a high note)
	+ God wants me to forgive them?!?
	+ Are you my neighbor?
	+ Rack, Shack, and Benny
	+ Dave and the giant pickle
	+ The toy that saved Christmas
	+ Very silly songs!
	+ Larry-Boy and the fib from outer space!
	+ Josh and the big wall
	+ Madame Blueberry
	+ Silly Sing along 2: The end of silliness?
	+ Larry-Boy and the rumor weed
	+ King George and the Ducky (despite King George's/Larry's behavior (read BQ #5)
	+ Esther: the girl who became queen
	+ Lyle the Kindly viking
	+ The Ultimate silly song countdown
	+ The star of Christmas
	+ The ballad of little joe
	+ An Easter carol
	+ A Snoodle's tale
	+ Sumo of the opera
	+ Duke and the great pie war
	+ Minnesota Cuke and the search for Samson's hairbrush
	+ Lord of the Beans
	+ Sheerluck Holmes and the golden ruler
	+ LarryBoy and the bad apple
	+ Gideon: Tuba warrior
	+ Moe and the big exit
	+ The wonderful world of ha's
	+ Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's big rescue
	+ Abe and the amazing promise
	+ Minnesota Cuke and the search for Noah's umbrella
	+ Saint Nicholas, the joy of giving
	+ Pistachio: The little boy that woodn't
	+ Twas the night before easter
	+ Princess and the popstar
	+ The little drummer boy
	+ Robin Good and his not-so-merry men
	+ The Penniless princess
	+ The League of incredible vegetables
	+ The Little house that stood
	+ MacLarry and the stinky cheese battle
	+ Merry Larry and the true meaning of Christmas
	+ Veggies in space: The fennel frontier
	+ Celery night fever
	+ Beauty and the beet
* Catchy and/or heartwarming songs such as:
	+ God is Bigger
	+ I'm a Rumor Weed
	+ The Bunny Song
	+ The Grapes of Wrath
	+ His cheeseburger
	+ And many, many other songs!
* There are also good dubs of the show.
* A lot of pop culture references such as *Madame Bovary*, *Saturday Night Fever*, *The Avengers*, etc. And unlike some other pieces of media, it works pretty well here.
* Catchy theme song.
* **I Am That Hero!**
* There were many, many iconic moments.
* In 2019, It spawned "The VeggieTales Show" which put the series back to it's roots.
* It also spawned two theatrical films, both of which were pretty good.
* The Show was good when Lyrick Studios had the rights for the show.

## Goofs/Errors

* While the CGI animation is pretty okay most of the time, some of the CGI animation in the 90s era episodes often at times has errors like objects clipping through something and other minor mistakes, with one major example being the inconsistent lighting in "Are You My Neighbor?".
	+ Heck, it can be cheap, lazy, and unfinished, even for the 1990s standards, and may look like a video game for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, or Dreamcast and also looks similar to Elroy's Toy, Imaginit and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys. It clearly hasn't aged well that there are some models and character designs that look a bit too childish, squashy and stretchy, particularly the non-regular cast.
* The series started going downhill after *Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie* flopped at the box-office. Phil Vischer, the creator of the series, sold his company Big Idea Productions to Classic Media. As a result some episodes after *Jonah* like "The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment!", "Sweetpea Beauty" and "It's a Meaningful Life" are mediocre. "The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment!" suffered from low-quality jokes, recycled music and rushed CGI animation and graphics, but the show itself was still decent and didn't decline in quality until 2009. Some episodes like "Sweetpea Beauty" and "It's a Meaningful Life" look like they were made by an animation studio which focused on the pre-rendered CGI animation and thus looked low-quality for 2010 standards.
* Some of the dubs on the other hand, especially the Persian dub, were pretty mediocre.
* While the voice acting is very good for most of the dubs, the Arabic dub was not well received.
* Some episodes were either bad, mediocre, or had some fatal flaws, including:
	+ It's series finale, "Noah's Ark", wasn't too good as well since it was the beginning of the Netflix series design era, as well as other flaws.
	+ The episode "LarryBoy and The Fib From Outer Space" and the episode "LarryBoy and the Rumor Weed" , although both are exciting in any way, received a lot of letters from parents criticizing it for a few flaws, such as Larry being too serious, some dark and intense scenes, such as the Fib catching Junior and the Rumor Weed catching Alfred, Larry stating he is going to die if he and his Larrymobile crashes into a water tower (as well as Alfred, who is Archibald Asparagus, telling him to stop yelling at him), and shouting "GOODBYE BUMBLYBURG!!!" when he was about to be eaten by the enlarged Fib and about to crash into the ground. Plus, LarryBoy didn't save the day or defeat the villains, but other characters such as Junior and Laura did (for Junior, he defeated the Fib by telling the truth about breaking the Art Bigotti plate, as well as encouraging the others to say nice things about Alfred to defeat the Rumor Weed with Laura). Fortunately, the third LarryBoy episode (the Bad Apple one) finally depicts LarryBoy defeating the Bad Apple.
	+ "King George and The Ducky" received tons of criticism for Larry's behavior when he played as King George, since many fans hated to see Larry be selfish and mean (it could be because viewers always thought Larry wasn't the person to do such thing) although it was part of the episode and the main characters are only playing as the story characters.
	+ *Rack Shack and Benny* was a great episode, but *The Bunny Song* had to be altered in later prints, because of the lyrics “I don’t go to church. And I don’t go to school!”, or “I don’t love my mom, or my dad”. Since the song was catchy, it had to be altered instead of removed.
	+ Speaking of the episode, although it was based off of the Biblical tale of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the Book of Daniel, the plot had Mr. Nezzer attempting to burn the trio alive for refusing to sing the Bunny Song. This could have gotten Mr. Nezzer arrested for commiting a crime of murder (although the trio survived the fire by getting rescued by an angel prior to the story being based off of a Biblical tale).
* The Netflix adaptations, VeggieTales in the House and VeggieTales in the City were poorly received.
* "Silly Sing-along 2: THE END OF SILLINESS" was the only video that served as heartbreak for Larry The Cucumber who almost lost his mind after Archibald Asparagus canceled "Silly Song's with Larry" in the previous video episode "Madame Blueberry". But on the other hand "The End Of Silliness" was the only weakest episode of the VeggieTales franchise.
* Some of the character designs can be a bit confusing.
	+ Junior asparagus is said to be asparagus, but he looks more like an artichoke, or broccoli.
	+ Madame blueberry is said being a blueberry, but she looks more like a plum.