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1	* In the episode about them going around the wall of Jericho, it is very obvious that it's small. So small, that they can lap around it several times in a day. There is nothing around the "wall" (more like a building) for miles. What's stopping them from just going around it? Why must they destroy Jericho? Just to prove God's point?
2	** Jericho was a stronghold of the Cannanites, and allowing it to stay there would be allowing pagan influence to remain in the land that was to be given over completely to Israel. You can see in other places that by allowing some Cannanites to exist among them left footholds for other cultures and religions that eventually lead to their undoing.
3	** Also Jericho was way bigger in real life.
4	** 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 realistically sized wall would not be very easy.
5	* What do they have to do with Christianity lately? Their TV show and latest movies are generic, yet awesome, kids cartoons. The episodes aren't blatantly Christian aside from mentions of God at the beginning and end of each episode.
6	** Blame NBC. They took out any references to Christianity from the TV show. I guess it was kind of understandable, given that they would want to expand their audience to everyone, not just Christians. Still, its kind of annoying.
7	*** Franchise Original Sin is in full effect here. people may not remember there were parody episodes as well as those based on bible stories. heck the first episode ever was an original story that had Danial and the lion's den slapped on for good measure. it was just they became more common after the ballad of big joe up until the noah episode.
8	*** But that kind of goes against the entire point? It was supposed to be an edutainment show about Christianity. I'm an atheist, but that just sounds like shooting yourself in the foot here.
9	* In the ''Lyle the Kindly Viking'' episode, the French Peas bring Archibald "Omelet" because they couldn't find ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''... which, being a literary classic as it is, is available in pretty much every bookstore everywhere. They might be peas, but ''still''...
10	** {{Rule of Funny}}.
11	** On that note, what does ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' have to do with sharing, the topic of this particular episode?
12	* Why so many asparagus characters?
13	** [[FridgeBrilliance Have you ever seen an asparagus patch? One root can produce ten or more spears]].
14	* Qwerty is supposed to be male? He sounds and acts like a female computer.
15	** How does he act like a female computer? All I remember him doing is looking at whatever characters happened to come over to him, and jumping every once in a while to face a different direction. As for the sound, it's just beeps.
16	*** His voice is feminine, if not gender neutral at best. He acts somewhat feminine too.
17	*** Actually, he's voiced by the same person who voices Larry. If you listen closely, you can hear it's the same inflection and everything, just heavily modulated.
18	* 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 toy factory was to entertain kids, not turn them into a salad!
19	** The kids are probably too 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 crap 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.
20	** 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?]]
21	* From the episode "Princess and the Popstar": did the writers forget that Laura, "Princess" here, already had a brother named Lenny? They couldn't have him play Pepper? They had to create a brand new character to play Laura's character's brother? They had no problem recoloring the nina from "Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella", so why couldn't they reuse Lenny?
22	** In-universe reason? Lenny was either sick/grounded during production. Real life reason? The new execs probably forgot he existed since he's on so sporadically.
23	* Is Archibald related to Junior and his family at all? Aside from the obvious fact that they're both asparaguses (asparagi?), whenever Archie and Junior share screentime together, Archie seems to have an almost avuncular relationship with the young sprout (except for "Wizard of Ha's"). Heck, in "Lord of the Beans", Archie plays Junior's uncle. So could they be related?
24	* Why do the characters need to eat if they're food themselves? Many episodes show them as having the biological need to satisfy hunger, which may not sound too bad [[RuleOfFunny considering that it's a cartoon]], but once you hear the lyric "'''Tomato''' sauce and cheese so gooey" in the "Pizza Angel" song you'll realize how disturbing it becomes in context, because it verges on cannibalism, especially if Larry were to share some of that pizza with Bob... Could it possibly be that the non-produce food items have no sentience and are thus immune to harm by the talking fruits and veggies?
25	** Some animals eat other animals in real life. Maybe by Veggie standards, Larry is like a wolf and Bob is like a sheep... okay, that just sounds crazy. [[MST3KMantra Maybe we should just relax]].
26	** The foods the characters themselves eat are shown to be lifeless. WordOfGod confirms that non-sentient produce items are okay to consume.
27	* If vegetables can't reproduce and don't have sex organs, then how do they have kids in the first place?
28	** Seeds. What else?
29	* In "I Love My Lips", why is Archibald more concerned that Larry loves and doesn't want to lose his lips than that he's seriously thinking about them spontaneously leaving being possible?
30	* "...How are we clapping?" "I have no idea."
31	** [[RunningGag That one comes up a lot.]] For example, before the intro song, Larry points out to Bob that he can't play the guitar because he has no hands. One wonders how he can change notes on the sousaphone...
32	*** This can be done by varying your embouchure, although this requires a tremendous amount of facial strength and control for a tuba or sousaphone.
33	** And yet in Lord of the Beans, when Ear-o'-Corn is doing his Elvis impersonation, he does play the guitar without hands!
34	*** Junior's Dad is also able to play the guitar with no hands in WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie.
35	* In the Silly Song "The Yodeling Veterinarian of the Alps", after Larry refused to pay Pa Grape a raise, his next patient is a bear with his paws caught in bear traps, whom Larry learns from the hard way that his yodeling was not what cured his animal patients. The bear begins angrily chasing him because of his incompetence. But how was the bear even able to chase him? The wounds from the bear traps should have made it very difficult for him to run.

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