Duke and the Great Pie War

**Duke and The Great Pie War** is the 25th episode in the VeggieTales animated series. It was released on March 8, 2005 in both DVD and VHS format. Subtitled "A Lesson in Loving Your Family", it includes two stories aimed at teaching the value of family and the importance of putting others' needs ahead of your own. It is a prequel to King George and the Ducky.

Both features are based directly on accounts taking from the Bible. The first is retelling of story of the baby Moses and his sister Miriam from the Book of Exodus. The second story is derived from the story of Ruth and Naomi. In this account, Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi seek the protection of a distant relative named Boaz. Ruth and Boaz fall in love, but Boaz must first challenge a closer relative for the rights to the family estate. The story is recast to a medieval setting in this video, also making slight references to *Monty Python and the Holy Grail*.

## Story

### Opening Countertop

This episode starts out with a letter that asks Bob and Larry how someone should treat their siblings. It's at this point that Bob finds out that Larry has three brothers - one of them is Bob the Cucumber. Larry says that he has some stories, and away we go.

### Babysitter in DeNile

This story features Laura Carrot as Mariam. In this story, a baby has been born to Mariam's family, but they can't say what it is. In fact, they refer to it as "the baby" and the french peas (who are the egyptian guards) wonder why there are not more baby boys. Mariam is charged with taking care of the baby while the rest are sent to work, and she struggles with putting aside herself to take care of the little one. It's not until she almost has Aaron, her brother, run over by the princess's procession and he takes responsibility that she learns that families stick out for each other and that's how they show love. Eventually she hides the baby in the pool and the princess finds him and the rest of the story sticks with the Scripture. There's an interesting short about Mariam hiding the baby while the guards look during the credits.

### The Blues with Larry

Larry tries to sing the blues in the mose dressed up he's ever been. Except he can't sing except for how a great day he's having. Blind Lemon (who's accompianing him on the guitar and hermonica) tries to get him sad by giving and then taking away an ice cream bar, and then by smashing his cookie- but that doesn't stop Larry. Eventually the lemon gives up and what was once the blues come polka!

### Duke and the Great Pie War

Interestingly enough, the singing narrators are men singing in falsetto. Because of that, it's really hard to hear what they are saying the first few times around. Larry plays the part of Duke Duke- someone who owns a bunch of apple orchards and is remotely related to Nona and Petunia. Duke is not very good at being a knight. Nona eventually explains that Petunia married her son and they moved to Rhubarb, but after Nona's husband and son get killed in the pie war, they all moved back to Scone. However, that' not left them with much besides half the key to the royal vault. Petunia asks Duke to joust against the character Mr. Lunt is playing for the half of the duck.

There are three challenges. Duke does awful on the obstacle course, but is able to solve the Abbot's of Costello's "Who's on first" riddle. There is then a joust in which Duke wins, and in a a wedding, Duke and Petunia unite the duck which lays a jewel encrusted golden egg, and get married and live happly ever after.

This story tries to parallel the Bibical story of Ruth and Naomi and does a pretty good job.

In the wrap up, Larry introduces Bob to his brothers and they sing the "What have we learned?" song.

## Characters

* Bob the Tomato As Lucas
* Larry the Cucumber As Duke
* Petunia Rhubarb Debut
* Madame Blueberry As Nona
* Moses Baby Debut
* Miriam Laura Carrot
* Miriam's Mother
* Miriam's Father
* Aaron
* Miss Achmetha As The Pharaoh's Daughter
* Jimmy Gourd As Lifeguard
* Mr. Lunt As Otis
* Mr. Nezzer As Novak
* Pa Grape As Irwin
* Scallion #1 As Abbot of Costello
* The Three Dog Knights
* Four The French Peas As Himself
* Jean Claude Pea As Egyptian Guard
* Two Guards As Themselves
* Phillipe Pea As Egyptian Guard
* Unnamed Villager Old Man
* Bob the Cucumber
* Mark the Cucumber
* Steve the Cucumber
* Oscar
* Blind Lemon Lincoln
* Poodle the Puppies As Himself

## Theme Song Characters

* Junior With The Yellow Hat
* Dad Asparagus with Yellow and Purple Tie
* Mom Asparagus With Pearls & Earrings
* Larry With Tuba