50 Fun Facts About VeggieTales

Bob the Tomato hosts VeggieTales alongside which best friend?

Their creator sums up the pair as "Bob wants to help kids, Larry wants to help Bob."

How does nearly every classic VeggieTales episode sign off?

When NBC aired the show in 2006 it swapped the line for "Thanks for coming to my house today, kids," though the original stayed audible in closed captions.

Where do Bob and Larry open and close each classic episode?

The streaming era blew the counter up into an entire Veggie city, with Bob and Larry sharing an apartment on it.

What is the name of the desktop computer that displays the closing Bible verse?

In the very first video he glitches and posts a meatloaf recipe instead of a verse.

Which two friends created VeggieTales?

Between them the pair voice most of the cast, with Vischer alone covering roughly half the characters.

In the most famous Silly Song, Larry hops around the bathroom in a towel searching for what?

Fans voted it the number one Silly Song of all time in The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown, and it introduced the running-gag cameo of The Peach.

In what year was the first VeggieTales video released?

That debut, Where's God When I'm S-Scared?, was a 30-minute direct-to-video release that predates Toy Story.

Junior Asparagus is a typical boy of what age?

He is voiced by the wife of Bob's voice actor, who initially wasn't keen on casting her.

What does the stuffy British asparagus with the red bowtie wear over his right eye?

The stuffy Brit first appeared in a 1992 promo objecting that a show about talking vegetables was utter nonsense.

How many teeth does Larry have?

He even got a Silly Song celebrating it, "Happy Tooth Day," in 2013.

The 1996 video in which Junior faces an eight-foot pickle retells which Bible story?

Junior plays Dave, and the giant pickle is bullied by his own brothers Jimmy, Jerry and Tom Grape before the big fight.

Larry, Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape form which famously lazy trio?

The trio debuted in a 1997 Silly Song and went on to headline a whole theatrical movie in 2008.

What kind of hat does Junior Asparagus usually wear?

In the 2019 revival Junior is revealed to be homeschooled, which is why he's free to perform in the daytime shows.

Which movie hero does Larry's adventurer character Minnesota Cuke parody?

Country star Charlie Daniels performed the Minnesota Cuke theme song for the 2005 video.

The 2005 video 'Lord of the Beans' parodies the fantasy saga of which author?

The monocled asparagus plays Billboy Baggypants, celebrating his 122nd birthday, and Mr. Lunt is the Gollum figure, Ahem.

The 2002 movie Jonah stars which Veggie as the reluctant prophet?

The film was Big Idea's first theatrical release and premiered in August 2002 before its wide October opening.

Before he became a cucumber, Larry was originally conceived as what?

The creator's wife Lisa pointed out that parents wouldn't buy videos starring candy, so the character went green.

Why do the Veggies have no arms, legs or hair?

The earliest videos were animated in Softimage 3D, which Big Idea used until a new package arrived in 1999.

Mr. Lunt is unusual among the Veggies because he has no what?

He acts with the brim of his panama hat and eyebrow wrinkles instead; Pa Grape has the same quirk.

Rack, Shack & Benny takes place inside what kind of workplace?

The three workers refuse to sing the boss's "Bunny Song" and are sentenced to the furnace, echoing the fiery furnace of Daniel 3.

Which crooning ballad about a gourd's unrequited love for fast food is sung by Mr. Lunt?

It aired as "Love Songs with Mr. Lunt" after Larry's segment got cancelled, and Mr. Lunt insists he grew up in New Jersey, not Connecticut.

In 'Endangered Love', Larry dances with a stuffed toy of which animal while watching a soap opera?

Barbara Manatee's romance with Bill is cut short when Bob interrupts and suggests Larry read a book instead.

'Belly Button' was performed by which Veggie boy band?

The song parodies O-Town, and it won a Chicago International Children's Film Festival prize plus an Annie nomination.

In 'Pizza Angel', why is the box empty when the pizza finally arrives?

The number on Larry's door had broken off, so Jimmy Gourd couldn't find the house and helped himself.

Which streaming service launched VeggieTales in the House in 2014?

The deal called for 75 episodes over three years, and Bob and Larry became roommates in a full city built on the counter.

In the 2014-2017 streaming shows, the grumpy rich zucchini next door to Bob and Larry is called what?

In the sequel series he opens a fast-food joint called Ichaburger that becomes a recurring setting.

In The VeggieTales Show, Bob dreams of becoming the next what?

Bob's creator has long called him his "inner Mr. Rogers," just a frustrated one whose shows never go smoothly.

When NBC broadcast VeggieTales on Saturday mornings in 2006, what did the network cut from the episodes?

The Parents Television Council accused NBC of "ripping the heart and soul out of a successful product," and the creators said they weren't told in advance.

Approximately how many VeggieTales videos (VHS, DVD and Blu-ray) had been sold as of 2019?

Vischer's memoir claims that by 2000 one in three American homes owned a VeggieTales video.

In Jonah, what kind of creature is Khalil, the prophet's travelling companion?

He explains his odd looks by claiming his mother was a caterpillar and his father was a worm.

Aboard the storm-tossed ship in Jonah, how does the crew decide who has angered God?

Jonah loses and walks the plank, and the pirates try to fight off the whale with a bowling-ball cannon.

What was the production budget of Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie?

Big Idea predicted it would break even at $25 million, and it finished at $25.6 million, still Big Idea's highest-grossing film.

Which studio distributed the 2008 pirate movie to theaters?

The animation was outsourced to Toronto's Starz Animation, and the film's cast is led by Elliot, Sedgewick and George.

The 2008 pirate movie had a $15M budget; roughly how much did it earn at the box office?

The disappointing run stalled talk of a sequel, and the 2008 recession soon bankrupted parent company Entertainment Rights.

Which company bought Big Idea's assets when it went bankrupt in 2003?

The winning bid was $19.3 million, and the studio then moved from suburban Chicago to Franklin, Tennessee.

In Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures, what is Larry's day job?

Unlike the CGI main series, the spin-off was drawn in 2D with Adobe Flash and Bob runs the Daily Bumble.

What city does LarryBoy protect?

The Bad Apple tries to enslave the whole town by its temptations during its 300th birthday celebration.

The Frankencelery who terrifies Junior turns out to be actor Phil Winklestein from which city?

He reassures Junior that he's really very friendly and only acting, and the segment ends with the song "God is Bigger."

In LarryBoy and the Bad Apple, the villain enters the Larry-Cave through the hero's weakness for what?

Every citizen has a temptation of their own, and Mayor Blueberry falls first through her vanity.

Bacon Bill, introduced in 2015, made franchise history as the first character who was what?

He's a rocket scientist who owns a shark rocket and eventually leaves to run his grandfather's candy factory.

Which Old Testament king does Larry play in the bath-obsessed 2000 video about a stolen rubber duck?

The story adapts the Bathsheba episode, and Pa Grape's parable of the stolen sheep exposes the greedy monarch.

In the Esther video, which Veggie plays the scheming villain Haman?

The Persian court is styled after Casablanca and The Godfather, and Queen Vashti is banished for refusing to make the king a 3 a.m. sandwich.

The 2000 video King George and the Ducky was the first VeggieTales episode animated in which software?

Big Idea had used Softimage 3D since the very first video, and the switch came just before production on the Jonah movie.

The countertop computer's original design was modeled on which real machine?

The later redesign, with a sleek shell and black screen, deliberately resembles an iMac.

In the original release of 'I Love My Lips', Larry's Rorschach inkblot showed a photo of which celebrity?

After the singer's death the image was replaced, eventually with a caricature of Larry's own voice actor.

Where was the score for the 2008 pirate movie recorded?

Kurt Heinecke, VeggieTales' longtime composer, was recruited straight from his job as a church music director.

Before it was renamed Big Idea Productions, the studio behind VeggieTales went by what name?

The company was founded in 1989 to make graphics for TV commercials, and Larry's voice actor is credited with coining the VeggieTales name.

The co-creator who voices Bob was born in which small Iowa town?

He grew up in Chicago and, as a teen, played in a band with his brothers called the Raging Melons.

Larry's voice actor later launched which Christian children's chapter-book series?

The books follow a boy who revives two petrified squirrels from Jesus' time, and they became a Minno animated series in 2025.

When the French Peas force Bob to sing in Larry's spot, the segment gets renamed what?

Bob's lyric sheet goes through a fan mid-song, and the peas' hasty tape job turns "Lance the Turtle" into nonsense.