History YMMV / VeggieTales

* SeasonalRot: Depending on who you ask, the show started to decline either shortly after the [[WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie first theatrical movie]] when the episodes became much more self-aware, [[ReferenceOverdosed filled with more pop-culture references]], focused less and less on Biblical stories and [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] much of the cast, or around the early 2010's when the animation budget was slashed in half thanks to Big Idea being purchased by Creator/{{DreamWorks}} and outsourcing the animation to cheaper studios, and many episodes' plots were [[RecycledScript rehashed from previous episodes]]. The DenserAndWackier revival series ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTalesInTheHouse'' and ''[=VeggieTales=] in the City'' haven't helped matters.

* AmericansHateTingle: Despite SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing, the series never gained enough popularity to last in Finland or Japan. One reason for the latter is because Japan preferred Shintoism and Buddhism over Christianity (the religion the series tried to teach to young viewers).

* IdiotPlot: A minor example -- during the opening countertop segment of ''Rack, Shack, and Benny'', when Bob brings up what the topic of the show is (trying to do the right thing), Larry's first reaction is to go straight to Qwerty for help. The only reason they have him do this is because he has an oven mitt on his head (thus he can't see), so of course he doesn't see where he's going and falls into the sink. While Larry is a [[TheDitz Ditz]], this is a course of action that never happens until the closing countertop segment; they specifically made him break away from the usual routine ''just'' to make him fall into the sink.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: While the series isn't too bad at parodying stuff, some of their recent work seem to rely too much on recent ongoing trends. These include:
** "Veggies in Space" pandering on ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' and the recent seasons of ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** The Silly Song "Best Friends Forever", which has the characters texting. It doesn't help that the phones used are a keyboard phone and a flip phone, which have both been supplanted by smartphones, leading to jokes that Bob (who has a history of being behind the times) was in charge of the song.
** Vanna Banana from "Princess and the Popstar" being a spoof on ''Series/HannahMontana''.

** The show is also enjoyed by many non-Christians for how appealing and hilarious the writing is.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The revival series, ''WesternAnimation/TheVeggieTalesShow'', uses the original character designs instead of the widely-reviled ''In The House'' ones, brings back Lisa Vischer after her roles were handed off to Creator/TressMacNeille in ''In The House'' and "Noah's Ark", and brought back Mr. Nezzer after he was replaced by Ichabeezer, which pleased a lot of fans.

%% * SoBadItsGood: In-universe. When Jimmy and Jerry sub in for the beginning of ''King George and the Ducky'', their story is ''The Englishman Who Went up a Hill (and came down with all the bananas)''. [[https://youtu.be/CRdXgYgqmyE It has to be seen to be believed.]] %% What reactions in-universe make this "so bad it's good"?

* MagnificentBitch: The Bad Apple, from ''Larryboy and the Bad Apple'', is a manipulative fruit who considers herself the embodiment of temptation. Seeking vengeance on all of Bumblyburg for the humiliation of her ancestor, the Bad Apple plans to lure every citizen into a temptation-based funhouse to trap them forever so she can claim the city in her family's name. To accomplish this, the Bad Apple lures the mayor of Bumblyburg and its top reporter Petunia into her "temptation webs", trapping them both before doing the same to Larryboy himself and his butler Alfred. With a silver tongue always ready to spin a web of lies and deceit to accomplish her goals, the Bad Apple comes dangerously close to succeeding in her scheme, proving to be one of Larryboy's most notable and dangerous adversaries.

** The show is also enjoyed by many non-Christians and even the irreligious, for how appealing and hilarious the writing is.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: The song "My Day" from ''[[Recap/VeggieTalesEpisode18TheWonderfulWorldOfAutotainment The Wonderful World of Autotainment]]'' is pretty much saccharine to the core.

* MagnificentBastard: The Bad Apple, from ''Larryboy and the Bad Apple'', is a manipulative fruit who considers herself the embodiment of temptation. Seeking vengeance on all of Bumblyburg for the humiliation of her ancestor, the Bad Apple plans to lure every citizen into a temptation-based funhouse to trap them forever so she can claim the city in her family's name. To accomplish this, the Bad Apple lures the mayor of Bumblyburg and its top reporter Petunia into her "temptation webs", trapping them both before doing the same to Larryboy himself and his butler Alfred. With a silver tongue always ready to spin a web of lies and deceit to accomplish her goals, the Bad Apple comes dangerously close to succeeding in her scheme, proving to be one of Larryboy's most notable and dangerous adversaries.

* UncannyValley: Even cartoonish vegetables aren't exempt from this trope. While the animation was serviceable for early 90's standards, the facial expressions on the characters in the earlier episodes could slightly veer into this at times. This, of course, subsided as the [[ArtEvolution animation became more fluid over time]].

** ''[=VeggieTales=]'' came out in 1993 in which basically CGI was in its infancy (before even ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''), and it was the first CGI Christian series where the genre was nearly unheard of, now that the CGI has aged badly and every studio wants to take its crack on the [[FollowTheLeader CG Christian craze]], it seems ''[=VeggieTales=]'' is now seen as just that, a CG Christian show.

* HarsherInHindsight: Eric Metaxes' involvement with the series becomes a lot bitter in 2021 after political differences between him and Phil Vischer, which resulted not only Phil, but also any family members blocked from his Twitter. Phil felt upset about it after being good friends with him since 1999.
* HilariousInHindsight: [[HilariousInHindsight/VeggieTales Has its' own page]].

* WinBackTheCrowd: The 2019 relaunch of the show as ''The [=VeggieTales=] Show'' seems bent on going back to the series' roots and pointedly avoiding and/or removing many of the unpopular changes that ultimately made ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTalesInTheHouse[=/=]City'' a DorkAge for the franchise, not the least of which includes discarding the base-breaking at best redesigns and using a slightly updated version of the veggies' "classic" designs, as well as bringing back Mr. Nezzer, having Lisa Vischer voice Junior again (while still keeping Tress [=MacNeille=] as Madame Blueberry, as well as bit parts) and unceremoniously dumping Scrappies such as Bacon Bill and Tina Celerina (and any characters ported over from ''In The House/City'' were redesigned to better fit the original artstyle; so far, only Callie Flower has made the jump). The reaction from the fanbase so far has been very positive.

* SpecialEffectFailure: ''Sweetpea Beauty'' has probably the worst animation of any ''[=VeggieTales=]'' video. The lighting is very basic, props randomly move from one position to another, one character's mouth randomly grows and drops in framerate, and ''entire backgrounds and textures disappear for no apparent reason''. Jimmy and Jerry are also discolored during the "Pants" song. As such, Hawaii Animation Studios only animated this video and ''It's a Meaningful Life''.

** Out-of-universe, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' managed to do a ActuallyPrettyFunny two-second-long parody of the series by playing its premise totally straight:

** Petunia Rhubarb is an air-headed, sweet-natured girl.

* MemeticMutation: [[Memes/VeggieTales Right here]].

'''Homer:''' ''(watching the video)'' Mmmmmmmmm, Moses....
** Also out-of-universe, there's the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' ''TV Funhouse'' parody, entitled ''Religetables''. The sketch, which uses the [[StockParodyJokes Stock Parody Joke]] of "the characters deal with the darker or controversial parts of Christianity", is a bit controversial among ''[=VeggieTales=]'' fans, as a result talking about the plot [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment wouldn't be good for this page]].

** In more recent years, ''[=VeggieTales=]'' has changed its intro (which cuts off a verse of the theme song), its animation studio ([[SpecialEffectsFailure the quality seems to have gone down]]), its logo, QWERTY, the format of the letters (they're now videos from kids), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the DVD cases are no longer green]]. The [=DVDs=] also no longer have those fun little {{Easter Egg}}s on them, [[NostalgiaFilter like they used to...]]

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Yes, the show is unabashedly {{Anvilicious}}, but that's kind of the point and the show works better for it.

%% * SeasonalRot: Depending on who you ask, the show started to decline either shortly after the [[WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie first theatrical movie]] when the episodes became much more self-aware, [[ReferenceOverdosed filled with more pop-culture references]], focused less and less on Biblical stories and [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] much of the cast, or around the early 2010's when the animation budget was slashed in half thanks to Big Idea being purchased by Creator/{{DreamWorks}} and outsourcing the animation to cheaper studios, and many episodes' plots were [[RecycledScript rehashed from previous episodes]]. The DenserAndWackier revival series ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTalesInTheHouse'' and ''[=VeggieTales=] in the City'' haven't helped matters.

%% * SeasonalRot: * Depending on who you ask, the show started to decline either shortly after the [[WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie first theatrical movie]] when the episodes became much more self-aware, [[ReferenceOverdosed filled with more pop-culture references]], focused less and less on Biblical stories and [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] much of the cast, or around the early 2010's when the animation budget was slashed in half thanks to Big Idea being purchased by Creator/{{DreamWorks}} and outsourcing the animation to cheaper studios, and many episodes' plots were [[RecycledScript rehashed from previous episodes]]. The DenserAndWackier revival series ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTalesInTheHouse'' and ''[=VeggieTales=] in the City'' haven't helped matters.

%% * SeasonalRot: A show about talking vegetables was bound to succumb to this. Phil stated in a podcast that he noticed that the post-''Jonah'' episodes aren't as successful (in terms of selling) as the older ones, and speculates how it's probably how the media reacts nowadays. %% This example doesn't explain what elements of the show itself dropped in quality after the "Jonah" movie.

* SeasonalRot: A show about talking vegetables was bound to succumb to this. Phil stated in a podcast that he noticed that the post-''Jonah'' episodes aren't as successful (in terms of selling) as the older ones, and speculates how it's probably how the media reacts nowadays.

* SoBadItsGood: In-universe. When Jimmy and Jerry sub in for the beginning of ''King George and the Ducky'', their story is ''The Englishman Who Went up a Hill (and came down with all the bananas)''. [[https://youtu.be/CRdXgYgqmyE It has to be seen to be believed.]]

* WTHCastingAgency: While fans prefer Lisa Vischer as the voice of Junior instead of Tress MacNeille, it should be noted that Lisa Vischer's voice for him is more of a girlish voice than a boyish voice.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: In the Silly Song "Oh, Santa", Larry bakes three cookies for Santa; however, when a robber breaks in, Larry decides to give him one out of generosity, and the same goes for a Norse Viking. However, he brazenly slams the door in the face of ''[[TakeThat an agent from the IRS]]'', and even gives a knowing smirk to the camera. At the end of the song, the agent comes in anyway, asks if Larry has "claimed" the cookie, then takes it anyway.

* BizarroEpisode: "The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment" has been called one of the weirdest ''[=VeggieTales=]'' videos yet. Bob and Larry travel to the future, where they learn entertainment will rely entirely on making characters perform songs and jokes related to subjects picked at random. Some might also find the Aesop randomly tacked on ("Even if your day doesn't go as planned, at least God still loves you!"). The episode started out as a compilation of music videos for songs from ''[=VeggieTales=]''-themed soundtracks, though one could easily mistake it for an AshcanCopy that was released in desperation due to its nonsensical narrative, random crossover with ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' (Big Idea's other animated show), and the inclusion of a completely-unrelated animated short that doesn't feature any of the ''[=VeggieTales=]'' cast. The only thing the episode is really remembered for is the "weedeater" meme.