History Trivia / JonahAVeggieTalesMovie

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Icelandic, Estonian, 1st and 2nd Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, and Croatian dubs as well as the Latvian voiceover are this trope. While the Estonian, Polish, Croatian, and Icelandic dubs as well as the Latvian voiceover have been released on DVD, good luck finding copies of them.

** Merchandise example: A book called ''Khalil and the Big Gulp'' was to be produced for this movie. It was intended to be aimed at children four and under, and was the film's story retold by Khalil in rhyme. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030520135733/http://www.zonderkidz.com/Browse.asp?catalog=29&category=855667&page=1 The website of the book's publisher]] reveals that the book was cancelled despite it getting promotion before its release. It's likely it was scrapped because the book line already had two books with the same concept (''A Picture That! Sticker Book'' and ''A Worm's Eye View'').

** One of the tie-in books for the movie, "Draw With Jonah and Friends", has a page that says that Khalil's TrademarkFavoriteFood is leaves. This may be a reference to the Mr. Twisty's Twisted Leafies plot element in the early draft of the film, which was replaced by Khalil being found in a bag of Mr. Twisty's Twisted Cheese Curls.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The Amazon subtitles for the movie claims that Laura said the line "What's seafoo?" when it was actually Annie who says it.

** Merchandise example: A book called ''Khalil and the Big Gulp'' was to be produced for this movie. It was intended to be aimed at children four and under, and was the film's story retold by Khalil in rhyme. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030520135733/http://www.zonderkidz.com/Browse.asp?catalog=29&category=855667&page=1 The website of the book's publisher]] reveals that the book was cancelled despite it getting promotion before its' release. It's likely it was scrapped because the book line already had two books with the same concept (''A Picture That! Sticker Book'' and ''A Worm's Eye View'').

** Khalil was originally going to be a worm just like the one from the biblical account that eats Jonah's shade. He was changed to a caterpillar due to a piece of concept art which had him saying the same line used in the film of him explaining that he's actually half-caterpillar. Additionally, once he became a caterpillar there was a time where he was to have two sets of arms instead of one, as well as another time when he was supposed to have his antennae peeking out of his turban.

* {{Defictionalization}}: Khalil's Jonah plush toy was defictionalized for the movie's merchandise line. However, the plush looks different than the one in the movie, as it wears a duck-shaped inner tube and has an open mouth instead of a smiling mouth.

** The whale was originally designed to look more intimidating, but concerns that it would terrify kids lead to it being redrawn. Among the other designs were ones based on humpback whales, trout, and one that looked uncannily like Archibald, monocle and all.

** Other candidates to play Jonah were Bob, Larry, Junior, and Jimmy Gourd, but neither of them were uptight enough to fit the role.

** Merchandise example: A book called ''Khalil and the Big Gulp'' was to be produced for this movie. It was intended to be aimed at children four and under, and was the film's story retold by Khalil in rhyme. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030520135733/http://www.zonderkidz.com/Browse.asp?catalog=29&category=855667&page=1 The website of the book's publisher]] reveals that the book was cancelled despite it getting promotion before its' release. It's likely it was scrapped because the book line already had two books with the same concept (''A Picture That! Sticker Book'' and ''A Worm's Eye View'') already existed.

** At one time, "Compassion" was actually going to fade onto the menu Junior was reading instead of already appearing but the idea was scrapped for going too far.

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Wikipedia once stated that the film aired on Creator/{{Freeform}} as part of 25 Days of Christmas, and [[https://youtu.be/l5R4tBRexnY a video even exists]] of the alleged airing. A quick lookup of that year's schedule reveals that the film was nowhere to be found on the schedule, and the timeslot mentioned was instead given to a showing of ''Film/TheSantaClause''. Also, the film has only aired on TBN and Smile of a Child.

** The storybook in the Collector's Edition book of the story keeps Khalil's "Was this part of the cruise package?" line that was cut from the final film.

* EarlyDraftTieIn: One of the tie-in books for the movie, "Draw With Jonah and Friends", has a page that says that Khalil's TrademarkFavoriteFood is leaves. This may be a reference to the Mr. Twisty's Twisted Leafies plot element in the early draft of the film, which was replaced by Khalil being found in a bag of Mr. Twisty's Twisted Cheese Curls.

** Khalil was originally going to be a worm just like the one from the biblical account that eats Jonah's shade. He was changed to a caterpillar due to a piece of concept art which had him saying the same line used in the film of him explaining that he's actually half-caterpillar. Additionally, once he became a caterpillar there was a time where he was to have two sets of arms instead of one.

* ChannelHop: The film was originally released by Artisan Pictures through its Family Home Entertainment (F.H.E.) Pictures label under a 15 year distribution arrangement, and the rights subsequently went to Creator/{{Lionsgate}} when that company bought Artisan over a year later. After the arrangement ended in 2018, Big Idea's parent company Creator/{{Universal}} Pictures (who inherited the studio via its Creator/DreamWorksAnimation buyout) took over all distribution to the film. Ironically, Universal distributed the follow-up film ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnythingAVeggieTalesMovie'' prior to the [=DreamWorks=] acquisition (the film in question was released four years before [=DreamWorks=] bought out Big Idea).

* TroubledProduction: Mostly as a result of taking too much without seeing. The movie originally wasn't supposed to be a movie, just a higher budget 45-minute episode (instead of the usual 30 minutes), but the staff had too much trouble keeping it that short and eventually decided to turn it into a full fledged movie, with much of the staff in hindsight realizing that was too big a leap for much of them to handle. The project soon turned into a mess of too many new hires with misplaced management, constant budget overruns, long working hours, and the end result was a numerous amount of layoffs. For more info, much of the story was covered in [[https://philvischer.com/news/what-happened-to-big-idea-part-1/ this series of blog posts by Phil Vischer himself.]]

* CreatorBacklash: Phil Vischer has made it clear he doesn't consider the movie an outright OldShame, but he has been very upfront about how he doesn't feel comfortable looking back at ''Jonah'' in a wholly positive light due to the film's production not being a particularly happy time for both Big Idea and himself personally. Averted with Mike Nawrocki, who has said in the years since he does still enjoy the film and is ultimately proud of it, even if he acknowledged the impending doom it caused the company.
* CreatorKiller: Sort of. Phil Vischer explained on his site that this movie was one of the biggest contributing factors into driving Big Idea into its bankruptcy.
* DuelingDubs: The movie has a total of three different Russian versions. The first version was a proper dub and was released on VHS and DVD in 2003. The second version, however, was a voiceover that seems to have been made for TV. The third version was another dub commissioned by Universal for Netflix in 2019.