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* TheUnintelligible: Dad Carrot’s voice is very hard to understand. This made it more difficult for audiences to recognize that he was making a Power Rangers reference with the line, “I heard there are teenagers inside him that know karate!” (i.e. comparing Alfred to Megazord).

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* TheUnintelligible: Dad Carrot’s voice is very hard to understand.understand due to his voice actor's heavy Arabic accent. This made it more difficult for audiences to recognize that he was making a Power Rangers reference with the line, “I heard there are teenagers inside him that know karate!” (i.e. comparing Alfred to a Megazord).
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* ValuesResonance: With the age of social media, which has made spreading rumors and doing irreparable damage to innocent people's reputations not only easier but faster (to the point that the terms "fake news" and "cancel culture" have entered the public vernacular), a moral about the dangers of spreading rumors feels a lot more germaine.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As the final [=SoftImage=] episode, the producers really stepped up their game and as a result this comes off as the single most impressive looking classic-era [=VeggieTales=] episode by no small margin. Things that would have been unheard of in prior episodes like motion blur, depth of field, and IdiosyncraticWipes are used extensively, and the through-the-ground shot of Larry digging underground still looks quite impressive (especially considering the usual budget of these episodes) even today.

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* ValuesResonance: With the The age of social media, which media has made spreading rumors and doing irreparable damage to innocent people's reputations not only easier but faster (to the point that the terms "fake news" and "cancel culture" have entered the public vernacular), a moral about the dangers of spreading rumors feels a lot more germaine.
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* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As the final [=SoftImage=] episode, the producers really stepped up their game and as a result result, this comes off as the single most impressive looking impressive-looking classic-era [=VeggieTales=] episode by no small margin. Things that would have been unheard of in prior episodes like [[RackFocus motion blur, depth of field, blur]], DepthOfField, and IdiosyncraticWipes are used extensively, and the through-the-ground shot of Larry digging underground still looks quite impressive (especially considering the usual budget of these episodes) even today.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Rumor Weed was based on Joan Rivers and closely resembles her, aside from being a weed.


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* TheUnintelligible: Dad Carrot’s voice is very hard to understand. This made it more difficult for audiences to recognize that he was making a Power Rangers reference with the line, “I heard there are teenagers inside him that know karate!” (i.e. comparing Alfred to Megazord).
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* ValuesResonance: With the age of social media, which has made spreading rumors and doing irreparable damage to innocent people's reputations not only easier but faster (to the point that the term "fake news" has entered the public vernacular), a moral about the dangers of spreading rumors feels a lot more germaine.

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* ValuesResonance: With the age of social media, which has made spreading rumors and doing irreparable damage to innocent people's reputations not only easier but faster (to the point that the term terms "fake news" has and "cancel culture" have entered the public vernacular), a moral about the dangers of spreading rumors feels a lot more germaine.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As the final [=SoftImage=] episode, the producers really stepped up their game and as a result this comes off as the single most impressive looking classic-era [=VeggieTales=] episode by no small margin. Things that would have been unheard of in prior episodes like motion blur, depth of field, and IdiosyncraticWipes are used extensively, and the through-the-ground shot of Larry digging underground still looks quite impressive (especially considering the usual budget of these episodes) even today.

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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As the final [=SoftImage=] episode, the producers really stepped up their game and as a result this comes off as the single most impressive looking classic-era [=VeggieTales=] episode by no small margin. Things that would have been unheard of in prior episodes like motion blur, depth of field, and IdiosyncraticWipes are used extensively, and the through-the-ground shot of Larry digging underground still looks quite impressive (especially considering the usual budget of these episodes) even today.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As the final [=SoftImage=] episode, the producers really stepped up their game and as a result this comes off as the single most impressive looking classic-era [=VeggieTales=] episode by no small margin. Things that would have been unheard of in prior episodes like motion blur, depth of field, and IdiosyncraticWipes are used extensively, and the through-the-ground shot of Larry digging underground still looks quite impressive (especially considering the usual budget of these episodes) even today.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The W's significantly jazzed up "The Rumor Weed Song".

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* HilariousInHindsight: Laura and Junior mistakenly think Alfred may be a robot because he uses the word "recharge" as an analogy. [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E9KrabBorgRockAByeBivalve They wouldn't be the last cartoon characters to make that mistake.]]

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Laura and Junior mistakenly think Alfred may be a robot because he uses the word "recharge" as an analogy. [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E9KrabBorgRockAByeBivalve They wouldn't be the last cartoon characters to make that mistake.]]



* ValuesResonance: While crushing rumors was a good moral then, the rise of social media has made spreading false information all the easier, giving the moral a lot more bite.

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* ValuesResonance: While crushing rumors was a good moral then, With the rise age of social media media, which has made spreading false information all rumors and doing irreparable damage to innocent people's reputations not only easier but faster (to the easier, giving point that the term "fake news" has entered the public vernacular), a moral about the dangers of spreading rumors feels a lot more bite.germaine.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Some believe Larry-Boy using his suction cup ears as grappling hooks originated from ''The Bad Apple'' or ''The Cartoon Adventures'', but it actually originated from the end of this episode (though ''Cartoon Adventures'' expanded on it to be more Spider-Man like).
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** Plants being the enemy is more hilarious if you have seen ''Film/TheHappening''.
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** The concept of antagonistic sentient rumours later drove much of the plot of {{VideoGame/Magia Record Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story}}.
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* ValuesResonance: While crushing rumors was a good moral then, it seems to be more important nowadays with the popularity of social networking sites.

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* ValuesResonance: While crushing rumors was a good moral then, it seems to be more important nowadays with the popularity rise of social networking sites.media has made spreading false information all the easier, giving the moral a lot more bite.
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* ValuesResonance: While crushing rumors was a good moral then, it seems to be more important nowadays in age of social networking sites.

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* ValuesResonance: While crushing rumors was a good moral then, it seems to be more important nowadays in age with the popularity of social networking sites.
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* ValuesResonance: Not only does crushing rumors seem good, it seems important nowadays when social media thrives.

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* ValuesResonance: Not only does While crushing rumors seem good, was a good moral then, it seems to be more important nowadays when in age of social media thrives.networking sites.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Laura and Junior mistakenly think Alfred may be a robot because he uses the word "recharge" as an analogy. [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E9KrabBorgRockAByeBivalve They wouldn't be the last cartoon characters to make that mistake.]]
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* ValuesResonance: Not only does crushing rumors seem good, it seems important nowadays when social media thrives.

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