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History: VeggieTales’ Rack, Shack and Benny had the unique problem of having too catchy of a song. Using a guitar and three chord, Phil Vischer came up with a song to be used when the veggies were supposed to bow down to the idol Mr. Nezzar built. The song talked about not going to church or school, not eating good food, etc. The problem was that the song was so easy to remember and amusing that children were going around singing about not going to church. VeggieTales tried to fix this problem by changing the words in a CD release to give a better option. However, this didn’t work also. The VeggieTales crew finally went back and edited the original– so if you have a DVD version of it, you won’t hear (in the show) the offending version.
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History: VeggieTales’ Where’s God When I’m S-Scared was the first VeggieTales movie produced by Big Idea, Inc. It includes the stories “Tales from the Crisper”, “Everybody’s Got a Water Buffalo”, and “Daniel”. This DVD also has the first VeggieTales silly song.

Tales from the Crisper: In this segment, Junior Asparagus is up late watching a monster movie starring a celery version of Frankenstien. This scares Junior as he’s ready for bed and he lies in bed afraid of things in his closet until Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber arrive in his room and get him to sing “God is Bigger than the Boogie Man.” After singing this song and realizing that God created everything and is therefore bigger than King Kong and the Slime Monster (even though the smile monster can spit slime), Junior tells his dad that he’s no longer afraid and can go to sleep. He falls asleep singing this song.

Everybody’s Got a Water Buffalo: Larry the Cucumber starts to sing about how everyone has a water buffalo and comparing them when Archibald Asparagus comes out to correct Larry to prevent them from getting nasty letters from people wondering where their water buffalo is. As soon as Archibald leaves the scene, Larry starts up again with everyone having a kangaroo and is chased away by Archibald.

Daniel: This musical composition is almost opretic in composition. It confuses the instance in Daniel’s recorded life between Daniel revealing Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and Daniel’s interaction with Darius and the lion’s den. Archibald Asparagus plays King Darius in both parts– but perhaps the fact that he’s wearing a different crown signifies a different king? Larry the Cucumber plays Daniel, and has no perceived aging between the beginning of the short and the end. I’m also not sure that Daniel was as afraid as portrayed– though the solo by Lisa Vischer in here is great. The only other quibble I have with this segment is that the king’s wisemen are not thrown in the lion’s den as punishment for being wrong, but are headed off to Egypt.

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Welcome to Veggie Tales Review and for embarking on this fun walk down the grocery aisle with us.  Throughout our time together, we will take a look into Big Idea’s Veggie Tales– the good, the bad, and the Giant Pickle.  Keep in mind that all rights are reserved by Big Idea, and that the character names, DVD names, and all assorted information may be trademarked, copywrited, or owned by Big Idea, and this site is just to be an index of all thing Veggie.

We’re here to cataloge Veggies because we love them.  They do a good job of hitting the mark of creating Sunday Morning Values in Saturday Morning fun and we’d like to provide you– parents, friends, family– with the ability to see what they have to offer and choose what you’d like to see for yourself!

So, please be patient as we start to review from our huge selection of Veggie paraphenalia and start practicing talking to your tomato.

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“Desparados, you’d better come to your senses.”

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