Funny / Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie

• Bob is not amused by all the singing while he's trying to drive, not that the kids notice.
  Bob: Maybe for the next song maybe I could drive into the river!
  Kids: Yeah! ♪Drive into the river, Bob! Oh drive into the river, Bob!♪
  Bob: Or maybe you could help me with the map!
• Upon entering the Seafood restaurant:
  Dad Asparagus: ...I need to use your phone to call-
  Bob (interrupting): -a tow truck!
  Dad (annoyed): -my wife.
• The French Peas' "Steak and Shrimp" song. It is just filled with Narm Charm. Before that, one of the peas (Jean-Claude) eagerly asks "Would you like to have a seat? Maybe enjoy a nice... (French peas look at each other) ...COMBO PLATTER?"
• The film is full of Funny Background Events, such as this exchange by the Pirates who are hidden and muffled.
  Pirate Lunt: See, the guy, one guy, all he does, he just folds these napkins.
  Pirate Larry: Oh, the napkin guy.
  Pirate Lunt: He works at night after everybody's gone.
  Pirate Larry: Yeah. You know, um, he used to fold maps.
  Pirate Lunt: No. No. Listen to me! He takes one spoon, he takes one knife, and he takes one fork, and he rolls it up in a napkin. He's the one that makes it into that little swan shape.
• Jonah imagines God wiping out Nineveh. First, a huge burst of heavenly flame appears and reduces the whole city to a crater... except for one citizen. As he jumps around protesting angrily, a smaller flame finishes him off.
• When Jonah prepares to leave Joppa, he's confronted by quite a few citizens about what his next message is. He says he has no message and is not going to Nineveh and runs as fast as possible… until he accidentally whacks his head on a sign. The sign swings back and smacks him in the face, knocking him down.
• Khalil's introduction. As Jonah is lying down for a rest, the cheese curl bag he's using for a pillow says that the listener is powerful and attractive. Jonah starts upright, shrieking about the bag talking. Then it turns out Khalil was hiding in the bag, listening to a motivational tape.
  • In the same scene, after Khalil mentions his uncle was slapped by a fish in Ninevah once, Jonah is suddenly reminded of what he needed to do. Khalil guesses that he was supposed to be married to a beautiful woman whose father belonged to an international ring of camel thieves, and that the message he was supposed to deliver would break the heart of this woman. After saying this, Khalil gets upset, and Jonah is visibly confused by this.
• A last attempt to brave the storm leads to Mr. Lunt introducing an unusually modern motor (which his cousin asks him to hold onto every year) to the other passengers. The hilarity is the three of them repeating their reaction verbatim after Mr. Lunt explains what it is.
  Passengers: Ooh!
  Larry: Cool.
  Pa Grape: What is it?
  Mr. Lunt: This, my friends, is a Jupiter 1,600-horsepower, high-octane, dual-propellor, pull-ignition, outboard motor with the optional chrome trim package!
  Passengers: Ooh!
  Larry: Cool.
  Pa Grape: What is it?
• Everyone prays for their safety (given that they aren't responsible for needing to throw Jonah overboard) before he walks the plank - except for Larry, who prays for the duckie preserver Jonah wears. After Jonah is swallowed by the whale, both Pa and Lunt are shocked and dismayed at Jonah's fate - but when the duckie pops up out of the water, Larry gives a huge, unabashed happy smile.
• The confusion of the sailors as they see a dim glow and hear vague strains of music from the choir of angels singing "Second Chances" to Jonah. Even funnier is when we cut to the whale and it is nodding its head to the music inside of it.
• Look closely at Jonah's camel Reginald and you'll see Jonah isn't the only one wearing a monocle.
• Larry's reaction to the leader of Ninevah being Mr. Twisty.
  Larry: He looks happier on the bag.
• When Jonah asks why Khalil ate the weed that was giving him shade, Khalil replies, "All your whining made me hungry!"
• Jonah's Wangst is hilarious.
  Jonah: OH, I WISH I WERE BACK IN THAT WHALE!!!
  Khalil: (stonily) You are pathetic.
• "The Credits Song"'s conclusion. Long story short, the Pirates get bored and leave to do something else:
  Larry: I'm gonna go home and take a nap!
  Pa Grape: Come on, we have contractual obligations to finish the song.
  Mr. Lunt: They paid for a full 79 minutes of entertainment, pal! Get back in the booth!
  Larry: Wake me up for the prequel!
  (door slam)
  Pa Grape: Oh, come on! We were just starting to have fun! (Beat) Oh man, I need a Tums.
  (door slam)
  Mr. Lunt: What? What, are we done? You mean that's it? Zim-bom-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-bing?... Hey, hey, ho ho ho, Hey hey, ho ho ho, hey hey... If you need me, I'll be on the porch.
  (door slam)
• The Animated Outtakes are undoubtedly hilarious, in the vein of Pixar's outtakes.
  • Case in point: When Dad Asparagus is steering the runaway bus in the opening, a certain someone is in place of the underwear on the clothesline:
  LarryBoy: Hey, guys! What's up?
  • Later on in the outtakes, when the pirates have to ad-lib:
  Lunt: You know, these lobsters remind me of my Aunt Lucy. This may come as a surprise to you, but my Aunt Lucy was a lobster.
  Pa Grape: Yeah, right.
  Lunt: No, really! I mean, a pretty big one, too! Sometimes, when she fell asleep, we used to pull on her tendons and make her legs move.
  Pa Grape: No—
  Lunt: No really, it was fun! We did it at the church picnic once, and we actually got her walking across the table!
  Junior: What!?
  Lunt: Hey, they told me to ad-lib! You don't give me a script, you take what you get, my friend!
  Pa Grape: True, but the kid's got a point. That was odd.
  Larry: Dude, you are weird.
• Jonah came with a bonus feature of "Digital Dailies", which is pretty much Vischer, Nawrocki, and Hodge ad-libbing as Mr. Lunt, Larry, and Khalil respectively, as they go through animation errors and pretend that they actually filmed it. It's arguably funnier than the film.
  • The opening sequence with Bob, Dad, and the kids in the van was apparently a headache to "film" due to numerous accidents and incidents, according to Lunt, Larry, and Khalil. For example, the van was backed up to film another take before Dad Asparagus (who was outside looking for his keys) could get back in it and leaving him stranded on a distant hill, the van suddenly leaked oil onto Dad's guitar, causing Dad to lose his grip on it and send it flying out the van window, and at one point Laura's seat became disconnected from the rest of the van and went careening out of control through the forest until it (off-camera) crash-landed in the river^*Both of the latter instances were probably the result of the models for the van and the veggies being inadvertently left out of the shot.
  • After seeing another animation error with Junior's eyes:
  Mr. Lunt: "Do we know how to make movies? Actually? [...] We're never gonna get this film done if we've got so many technical and biological difficulties."
  • After seeing an animation error with Laura's mouth suddenly growing unnaturally large:
  Mr. Lunt: "Was she animated by some Ren and Stimpy animator or something, what's that all about?!"

  • Their disgusted reaction upon seeing that is also priceless.
  • After seeing Pa Grape in all black^note In actuality, it was because the textures weren't added in yet:
  Mr. Lunt: That's what you get when you shoot on Johnny Cash day.
  • Upon seeing an error in Khalil randomly floating on a cheese curl, they develop ideas for the sequel, Khalil and the Magic Cheese Curl. In the process, they take a dig at Disney:
  Larry: "Our next movie could be Khalil and the Magic Cheese Curl. Wouldn't that be a good one?"
  Khalil: "I think that would be a wonderful idea."
  Mr. Lunt: "Sounds too much like The Smurfs to me."
  Larry: (starts singing in tune to A Whole New World): "A Whole New Cheese Curl..."
  Mr. Lunt: (starts to sing the same tune) "Don't hold your curl."
  Khalil: (starts protesting) "You are making fun of me! I'm going to the next shot!"
  Larry: (starts singing in tune to Part of Your World): "I want to be part of that cheese curl."
  • When shown an unfinished 3D turnaround of Khalil, with nothing but his eyes and mouth, Khalil says it was the work of vanishing cream. And they speculate what the cube at his tail region is.
  • There is one "blooper" where a T-posing Dad Asparagus somehow follows the camera like a weatherman when it pans to another shot.
  Mr. Lunt: "You know they always say that Dad Asparagus likes to stay on top of things."
• This Easter Egg on the 2-Disc Collector's Edition DVD in which the French Peas attempt to record a bootleg copy of the film.
  Theater Worker: I'm sorry sir, even if the King himself, Elvis Presley, the bright star of my horizon came here with a camera I'd have to ask him to cease and desist.
  Jean-Claude: Throw your popcorn in his general direction!
• The entire DVD commentary (by Mr. Lunt and Larry) for Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, from their first film "Socks and Stripes" ("Highly regarded in France", says Mr. Lunt) to the casting of the whale.
• The 2-Disc Collector's Edition DVD Plush Toy Easter Egg outtakes, including a couple adult bonuses:
  Jonah Plush: Tickle me prophet, tickle me prophet...
  Jonah Plush: Move over bacon, here comes...something leaner...
  Jonah Plush: Ixnay on the...insay...

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