History Headscratchers / VeggieTales

* So Mr. Nezzer was removed from the series when Dreamworks bought it and was replaced by Ichabeezer. The reason for this is that Dreamworks had a policy that characters could only be voiced by actors of their own ethnicity and Mr. Nezzer was voiced by Phil Vischer doing an imitation of [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]] who was voiced by a black actor. But then why was Mr. Lunt who is a Hispanic character, still voiced by Phil Vischer who is white, kept in the series? Also, why didn’t they just give Mr. Nezzer a new voice actor instead of writing him out of the series? After all, he wouldn’t be the only character who got a new voice actor when Dreamworks bought the series.

* So Mr. Nezzer was removed from the series when Dreamworks bought it and was replaced by Ichabeezer. The reason for this is that Dreamworks had a policy that characters could only be voiced by actors of their own ethnicity and Mr. Nezzer was voiced by Phil Vischer doing an imitation of [[TheNightmareBefore Christmas Oogie Boogie]] who was voiced by a black actor. But then why was Mr. Lunt who is a Hispanic character, still voiced by Phil Vischer who is white, kept in the series? Also, why didn’t they just give Mr. Nezzer a new voice actor instead of writing him out of the series? After all, he wouldn’t be the only character who got a new voice actor when Dreamworks bought the series.

** Have you ever seen an asparagus patch? One root can produce ten or more spears.

** Remember, this is a Christian animated program. While [=VeggieTales=] is obliviously one of the most profitable ones out there, Christian programs in general are much lower budget and have much less advanced animation programs. Animating a large realisticly sized wall woukd not be very easy.

** It's not right to remove the Christian aspect from VeggieTales. It would be like someone buying Dora the Explora and removing everytime she speaks Spanish. It's a crutial aspect of the franchize and one of the most important reasons WesternAnimation/VeggieTales was created in the first place. If you don't want Christian morals than don't get involved with [=VeggieTales=]. NBC has enough money to start new projects and hire animators who want to teach religiously moot morals. [=VeggieTales=] is clearly animated in cheaper, maybe even over the counter programs so starting a new program would not be too hard for NBC. Keep [=VeggieTales=] religious because religion was the reason it was made in the first place.

** It's not right to remove the Christian aspect from VeggieTales. It would be like someone buying Dora the Explora and removing everytime she speaks Spanish. It's a crutial aspect of the franchize and one of the most important reasons VeggieTales was created in the first place. If you don't want Christian morals than don't get involved with VeggieTales. NBC has enough money to start new projects and hire animators who want to teach religiously moot morals. VeggieTales is clearly animated in cheaper, maybe even over the counter programs so starting a new program would not be too hard for NBC. Keep VeggieTales religious because religion was the reason it was made in the first place.

** Remember, this is a Christian animated program. While VeggieTales is obliviously one of the most profitable ones out there, Christian programs in general are much lower budget and have much less advanced animation programs. Animating a large realisticly sized wall woukd not be very easy.

* Also from The Toy That Saved Christmas, during the climax, [[spoiler: once our protagonists were freed from being tied up, why didn't they just jump sled instead of racing to tie the ropes back together to lasso a tree? And why didn't Mr. Nezzer jump sled when he saw they were OK?]]

** The kids are probably to naive to know any better, and the goal of Nezzer's toy factory at least is quite clearly to make money. Up until his HeelFaceTurn, he wouldn't have given a shit if some dumb kid got hurt by his toys, especially since he was willing to outright kill Junior and his friends to prevent his marketing ploy from falling through.

* Why didn`t those whiny kids in the Toy That Saved Christmas ever think that ''Buzzszaw'' Louie could be dangerous? Nezzer himself says the saw is full functional,and the living Louie opts to have it removed. I thought the whole point of a tpy factory was to entertain kids, not turn them into a salad!

*** Most children's christian entertainment is horrifyingly bad. Go to your local christian bookstore and see how long you can watch most of those things, because they usually treat viewers like morons. WesternAnimation/Veggietales and the few other good ones are a breath of fresh air to someone like me.

**** Not necessarily. This Jewish troper's mother showed troper and her siblings plenty of WesternAnimation/Veggietales videos, but turned them off before QWERTY could put up a Bible quote. We still got the moral lessons, though.

*** Again, his "voice" is beeps, semi high pitched beeps but not really enough that it would mark him as a girl. And again how the heck does he act feminine? He sits there. That's like walking out side and saying "That rock looks like a girl rock".
*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint There's a girl rock in the movie.]]

**** So, what, the Silly Songs ''weren't'' [[EarWorm EarWorms]] because they were being played in between scenes from bible stories? It ''wasn't'' entertaining to watch them get bombarded with [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext slushies]] while the french peas sung another {{EarWorm}} about knocking their wall down? Larry suddenly dropping down and trying to speak through sand ''isn't'' funny because when he comes back up and spits sand out of his mouth he reveals he said something religious? The stuff suddenly becomes entertaining just because it's not Christian?

* Where'd the Petunia person come from? I didn't see her in old episodes so she's at least vaguely new, but she shows up in basically every episode. Was there some sort of explanation for her having about as much screen time as Larry while older characters get smaller parts?
** She's been around since 2004. She's a girl, and Larry's LoveInterest.
** Larry's love interest? In canon? No joke? Veggie Tales is officially Ruined FOREVER as far as I'm concerned. New question: Why the heck does Larry need a love interest?
*** In any episodes where Petunia's character needs a love interest, it's Larry's character, and vice-versa. I don't know if this actually applies to Larry and Petunia.
**** She originated to tell the story of Ruth in a medieval setting (Which Word of God claims is a prequel to King George and the Duck) because they didn't have any other female characters to use. Larry was Boaz in that episode.

** Larry's love interest? In canon? No joke? Veggie Tales is officially {{Ruined FOREVER}} as far as I'm concerned. New question: Why the heck does Larry need a love interest?

** You can still teach lessons about morality without religion O.o

* What's with TheMovie's? I didn't know anything of the series for years, and I loved the movies. I was surprised to find out the show as Christian. The movies seem like any other fun kids movie, it's mainstream and so not religious.

**** Not necessarily. This Jewish troper's mother showed troper and her siblings plenty of Veggietales videos, but turned them off before QWERTY could put up a Bible quote. We still got the moral lessons, though.

* This troper is rather sad that they've, for the most part, stopped doing videos of Bible stories and have been just doing parodies, because she distinctly remembers VeggieTales for it's Bible stories and not so much the parodies, maybe they ran out of stories because they've all be retold in some form or another. Then again the Bible does have R-rated material in it, but never mind

* Why is VeggieTales a Christian series anyway? It seems like any other cartoon series, with random Christian references put in.

*** Most children's christian entertainment is horrifyingly bad. Go to your local christian bookstore and see how long you can watch most of those things, because they usually treat viewers like morons. Veggietales and the few other good ones are a breath of fresh air to someone like me.