Hilarious In Hindsight / VeggieTales

• In the commentary for "Duke and the Great Pie War", David Pitts asked if they had any apple characters. A year later, an apple character shows up.
• In the Silly Song "Endangered Love", Larry plays a closeted Barbara Manatee fan who collects plushies and enjoys singing the songs, while hiding his fandom from Bob, who disapproves. Ten years later, the Brony fandom would gain popularity, with much of the same behavior.
  • The same segment also seems to have similarities to the "waifu" meme that spawned in the early 2000's, in which people are deeply obsessed with certain fictional characters, and also predicted VeggieTales gaining a Periphery Demographic later in its run.
• NBC airing VeggieTales at one point, coupled with The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie being released by Universal, can be seen as a collective foreshadowing of NBCUniversal acquiring VeggieTales owner DreamWorks Animation, taking Big Idea Entertainment with it.
  • VeggieTales would later be aired on Cozi TV, another network that NBCUniversal owned.
• The episode "Lyle the Kindly Viking" has a segment of the story of "Omelet", based on not being able to find a copy of Hamlet. The musical Something Rotten! would later run with a similar plot point as this, including the name of the play.
  • In the titular segment, which is a musical, two of the characters are named Olaf and Sven. 12 years later, another Animated Musical featured characters with those names.
• A number of fans have noted that the scene in "The Wonderful World Of Auto-Tainment!" where Bob and Larry visit the comedians of the future predicts the Non Sequitur randomness of Memetic Mutation on the internet and the use of AI to drive humorous posts with startling accuracy.
  • In the same episode, Larry insists that theme songs will no longer exist in the future. Many shows from The New '10s onwards have indeed abandoned the idea of a traditional theme song in favor a Recurring Riff.
• The bizarre opening of "The End of Silliness?" is basically a 90s YouTube Poop^note not the first similar work, however, as that would go to Daffy Duck in Hollywood in 1938.
• The VeggieTales Christmas Spectacular^note Originally aired for 3 years from 1998 - 2000; now featured on DVD releases of The Toy that Saved Christmas. features the veggies putting on a live televised presentation of The Toy that Saved Christmas. Naturally, things go wrong, and the veggies are left padding for extra time. Roughly 20 years later, the VeggieTales reboot (The VeggieTales Show) would premiere with an episode with a similar premise (albeit, with less mishaps and a stage performance instead of a live television event.)
• In 2001, Lyrick Studios — the company behind Barney & Friends and for a period of time the distributor of VeggieTales product in mass retail — sued Big Idea on behalf of their then-new owner HIT Entertainment for a supposed breach of contract. This was seen as one of the final straws that led Big Idea to bankruptcy in 2003. In the years since then, Universal bought out Big Idea's subsequent owners and acquired the video rights to HIT Entertainment's franchises, meaning both Barney and VeggieTales - the two former rival kid's brands who went to court - have their titles distributed by the same company.
• When VeggieTales was first being developed, a candy bar was to be the lead character until the wife of co-creator Phil Vischer persuaded him to use vegetables as she felt that parents wouldn't be happy about their children growing attached to a piece of junk food. Then along comes Veggietales In The House on Netflix, which has a new character named Bacon Bill, who is not a healthy food as far as anyone is concerned.
• In the 1990's when the show was new, GoodTimes Entertainment offered Phil Vischer to have the series distributed by them, with the caveat that all the religious references would be removed. Phil Vischer obviously refused, since doing so would defeat the purpose of the show. In 2002, GoodTimes would create their own VeggieTales-esque series, Good Sports Gang, without any problems with the religious stuff. We guess if you can't beat them, join them.
• The fact that "Rack, Shack, & Benny" has a song called "The Bunny Song", which is stated to be bad to sing since it idolizes chocolate bunnies, becomes hilarious when you realize that a musical group called Yancy released a song called "The Bunny Song" later down the line. It's an Easter song that is about a bunny explaining he thinks it's dumb that people think Easter is "just a time for hunting eggs" and believes it's about Jesus. Same title, exact opposite message!^note Of course, even VeggieTales flipped the message with the "New and Improved Bunny Song" introduced for the sing-alongs.

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