#veggietales is iconic

[veggie-dailies]

This rendition of the traditional Christmas tune, sung by Lisa Vischer (wife of Phil Vischer and voice of Junior Asparagus) in the absence of Rebecca St. James, was used at the end of The Star of Christmas. It has never had an official release (as far as I'm aware), so the dialogue and sound effects at the beginning would have to be cleaned up and removed in order for this to be on CD-level.

[rumor-weed]

how could our beloved fan favorite, iconic, unforgettable duo of VeggieTales, Herbet and Wally, do this to us long-time fans? this cheap ruse is unforgivable I tell ya! unforgivable!

[the-down-upside-finch]

Honestly one of the best parts about Minding Q's is when the characters all start quoting and referencing random pieces of media and then I get to see which readers have a similar sense of humor

[thespaceyace]

IM LOSING MY MINDNRHEHEHWVAVAVSV

If he doesn't get approval from Alfred he dies

[cucumberteapot]

I'm sorry but after getting a good look at Aaron and Miles G's Prowler suits, I can't help burst out laughing. You got Miles G coming out with the popped collar bomber jacket, spray-painted icon and wearing air jordan 1 utility nikes and some kind of LED mask with respirators that closes back over his neck idk? But then you got Aaron wearing the most party city ass ghost costume with the veggietales larry-boy's mask and the Papyrus cape and I just can't-

[nerdylibertarian928]

I used to wonder if any Jews had ever seen Veggietales then I found this article and that's how I found out the Esther episode of Veggietales also counts as a Purim special

[avengerchuck]

Which do you prefer: Avenger or Rockstar?

I know this is a bogus answer, but I would really say it depends! Avenger has really nice covers, but pretty basic show content. I love the avenger tapes, but the banter is super bare bones and the footage is more often than not just more of the cyberstar "walkarounds running around a public place" hijinks. Rockstar has avenger beat in that regard. the puppets! The more fleshed out cast! Chuck has his ptt temper back! There are original stories going on, and themed seasonal shows that entice you to keep coming back. Even with the reused content, I love it being a little tradition of mine to come back and see the summer of fun/bootacular/holiday show with my pals. In terms of core memories, over all presentation, and iconicness though? Avenger is my absolute favorite for sure. It's the default character lineup in my brain. Early 2000s are my favorite showtapes to sit down and watch, mostly based on vibes, I do this all the damn time. I miss the goofy walkarounds and Duncan Brannan and veggietales and monkey ninjas when I go too long without watching an avenger tape. I've asked for avenger merchandise for, like, the past three birthdays. Overall- I think Rockstar probably has the better content. I LOVE rockstar shows. But Avenger feels like home!

[hyperfix8edcryptid]

*launches himself and tackles Larry*

[enriquemzn262]

The catholics are seething over an anime girl. She's not an official mascot or icon she's like the characters from veggietales.

For what I have seen it’s not the Catholics who are mad, but the evangelists/fundamentalists who are.

I honestly like her very much, and am hoping for figurines to arrive here in December so I can have one in my room to annoy my fiance, for who, in her words, represents “more idolatry for the Catholic Church”

She’s an evangelist btw hehe.

[bean-bracket]

Welcome to the BEAN BRACKET

Hello!

Inspired by other irl-thing brackets, like @mosticonicbirdcallbracket, @ultimateinstrumentpoll, @best-appliance-tournament, @bestvegetablepoll, @jewishfoodshowdown and @object-tournament, I've decided to launch a bracket for an all time worldwide favourite- the bean! She does so much for us- without her here, we wouldn't have coffee, hummus, enfrijoladas, or miso soup! Can you imagine such an awful world?

RULES:

cullinary and coloqial beans are both allowed! So kidney beans are allowed, but so are jumping beans (not actually beans)

Fictional beans are allowed, but real beans will take priority unless they're super iconic. Ditto bean-themed toys and confections.

No characters, human or otherwise, UNLESS they are literally a bean. Like an actual legume.

Complex foods/dishes prepared with beans won't be included. If you love tofu, submit the soybean, and use the preparation as propaganda instead!

Foods that are simply new states of bean (hah) like refried beans or Heinz baked beans may be considered.

Propaganda allowed and encouraged, please tag this blog in propaganda/bean recipie posts!

Askbox submissions won't be counted, please use the google form.

Bracket:

Matchups under the cut:

Coffee beans vs black beans

chickpeas/garbanzo beans vs Edamame shiba (Mameshiba)

Jellybeans vs the bean from VeggieTales : Lord of the Beans

Human Beans (us) vs Orca beans

toebeans vs soybeans

Scarlet Runner Beans vs Flickin' the bean

kidney beans vs Adzuki/red beans

Cocoa beans vs Vanilla beans

[whatsthebestofveggietales]

Okay time for the next round!

Thank you to everyone who voted for the best Veggietales songs. Please vote if you want to be a part of the competition. It’s okay if you don’t know the specific songs, I put the videos on the posts.

Okay. Which song is better?

[lycans-art-kingdom]

What was it that first made you want to draw? What inspired you to say "I wanna do this!"?

Watching cartoons for sure! Baby Lycan has always liked drawing her favorite heroes, from Veggietales Larryboy to Spongebob to Sonic the Hedgehog

I started taking it seriously around the age of 9, tracing iconic Sonic characters before learning and drawing them myself, eventually I learned to draw humans which let me to create Lucas and Laura, the pipeline of art I've gone through is hilarious.

I don't have any old art to demonstrate unfortunately, but rest assured I've improved much since then

[rumor-weed]

Go...goliath??? no... he's so pale too...

why are my vegetables so pale...?

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Since One Piece will be slow for a bit anyways, how about a somewhat holiday themed detour? There are a few other big fantasy worlds that have left a mark on me, but one that stuck with me for so long is The Chronicles of Narnia. One I'm sad to see seems to be fading into memory. Always feels like the known fact it draws a lot from CS Lewis's devout Christianity turns people off without giving it a fair shake. It's definitely Christian-inspired but as much drawing from European folklore and honestly...it's a disservice to act like Narnia's pulling the same preachy tone as Veggietales.

Order of the books is always a fun talking point. The reality Lewis did not release them in chronological order. First time revisiting this in a while and I forgot how fun his narration style is. We're doing this chronologically, so that'd mean starting with The Magician's Nephew. A prologue that only makes sense if you know what comes after. Imagine if One Piece opened with the Oden flashback.

The story is a nice origin point for the land of Narnia and the iconic lion Aslan's song of creation is a beautiful passage. So many fun little seeds for things you'd recognize if you read this at the "proper" point of just before the finale. A good reflection point before The Last Battle. But for me? This one sticks with me because holy shit CS Lewis would be able to write some amazing RPG sourcebooks. Flexing the worldbuilding a bit and having fun with it. The Wood Between the Worlds (something I use in my TTRPG multiverse) and the intoxicating tranquility of it all, the dead world of Charn and the unsettling Hall of Images. The feel of the totally not Garden of Eden and it's a great example of one thing I admire about Lewis's writing here. I like how he plays coy with the narration, like admitting he can't quite capture a translated poem's beauty. It's a cool effect, letting your mind wander and leaving a little mystery to things mortals aren't supposed to understand.

[veggie-dailies]

I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to upload the drawing tutorial thing- I haven't had spoons to finish the captions.

I will be updating the icon to Summer so we can cap off the season in style, and as for the daily facts (which I haven't updated in a long time either... 😰) I'm planning to do those on my own time and own pace, starting soon. They may be random or they may still be in original episode order, I'm trying to decide.

Thank you for being so patient! I'm glad you've been enjoying the miscellaneous uploads, especially Shakespearian Larry (1000+ notes?!?!). Let's keep keeping VeggieTales alive.

- Mint 🦋

[actually-autisticc]

My thoughts on the Super Mario Movie

My autistic ass needs someone to talk to about this film and I have nobody. I know I don’t post as often anymore on here but I need to let this energy out. Here’s what did work and didn’t work

What did work:

the animation: DAMN. It looked amazing. I loved how smooth they looked on screen and the details of the character models, the background, etc. You can tell they put a lot of love into it. It felt so nice to see our favorite video game characters on screen like this. All of the references were such a joy to find and recognize. It’s also crazy that Mario came from being an 8bit model to this glorious, detailed, 3D model. And some scenes “camera” moved in a way that would be in a game. When Mario and Luigi were on their way to their first plumbing job, the “camera” moved sideways as the first Mario games were side-scrolling. When Toad and Mario were heading to the castle and poor Mario was being thrown around, the “camera” moved around like I guess the newer games? I mean it looked like Super Mario Odyssey but there could be other games, I haven’t played every single one (now I want to). Really cool attention to detail. My autistic ass loves attention to detail. The models looked good as well like Bowser’s scales and the brothers’ clothing. Funny how 3D animation wasn’t as detailed before like with Veggietales and Toy Story 1 but now we have HAIR. You get it.

The music: Some parts hit, some didn’t. I loved the orchestral remixes of our beloved songs. When the kart scene came on, I immediately recognized the music and felt PUMPED, especially when they were making the karts and I heard the Mario Kart 8 theme. I wanted to jump out of my seat but couldn’t cause I didn’t wanna be weird. Hearing the theme songs as well felt satisfying. It scratched that itch I didn’t know I needed to be scratched. I found myself listening to the soundtrack right after. I’m glad they chose 80’s songs rather than fucking Doja Cat or whatever but it still threw me off hearing Take On Me, Holding Out for a Hero, and Mr. Blue Sky. (Cmon Shrek did Holding Out better. No topping it) As much as I love those songs, I remembered that this is an Illumination movie so of course they’d have popular songs. If they left the pop songs in the human world and kept the Mario songs in the Mushroom kingdom, etc, it would’ve made a little more sense. No Sleep til Brooklyn was good tho, made sense cause they live in Brooklyn and they were in the human world.

Chris Pratt: Yes, I know everyone was skeptical of Chris Pratt playing Mario. I love Chris in Guardians of the Galaxy as Peter Quill so I didn’t have much doubt but since he is a celebrity and you know how movies these days (mainly Illumination) love to get big names in their films. I wasn’t disappointed. He was good, not bad. As much as I love Martinet’s iconic Mario, I don’t think I’d be able to handle hearing it the whole time. It’s iconic but let’s be real hearing “let’s-a-go!” the whole time is a bit jarring. Mario’s from Brooklyn so that’s what Chris tried. And his Wahoo! was good! You knew he didn’t want to ruin this character because of how much it holds. He TRIED. And Martinet as Giuseppe saying “it’s a perfect!” Felt like he was sharing the torch with Chris. He squished all the critics doubts by saying “he’s Mario too, it’s fine. Deal with it.” Hearing the voice made me smile so wide, it was like hearing an old friend. I think he even said that doing Mario’s voice too much hurt so we don’t want him to feel any pain for our sake! We all owe Chris an apology. You did great bro

Seth Rogan: I love DK. He’s big, loud, goofy, and strong. Seth did that right and honestly idk who else would play him. Hearing Seth’s iconic laugh made me laugh, idk who can hate it. It fit DK as it kind of…sounded ape-like? The whole fight between Mario and DK was straight out of a game. I loved the interaction between DK and Mario. They’re enemies at first but soon, they respect each other as in the games. I wish that wasn’t the whole character development between two characters in the movie, I wish it was Mario & Luigi, Mario and toad, or Mario and Peach. Hell, even Mario and Bowser. But this is only the first movie so we’ll see more

Anna-Taylor Joy: not much to say about her. I think Peach was fun and I’m glad they didn’t go the “damsel in distress” or “girl boss” route. We get it, we’re becoming SOMEWHAT better in terms of shit like that but god we don’t need it every time. Peach was a badass, she cared for her kingdom and subjects, and she was sweet. That’s Peach! It wasn’t the “I don’t need no man” or forced relationship with Mario and that was good. I loved Peach’s racing outfit too and all the power ups. Peach was awesome, I’m glad they didn’t ruin her

Charlie Day: I haven’t seen much of him but wow I loved his Luigi! I always loved Luigi, he was always the b guy and he deserves a lot of love. He’s adorable. I wish Luigi had more of an interaction with Bowser. We could’ve gotten a lot of funny scenes with them together (of course it’d be fuel to the shipping fire) and it was cut too short. I mean, bowser didn’t need MUCH from Luigi, he just needed information so it wouldn’t make sense why he’d keep him around when he could throw him in the dungeon with Luma, the penguins, etc. And the whole thing with Mario and Luigi “sticking together” was nice but…they weren’t together AS much? Yes, Bowser kidnapped him but idk it didn’t really feel so emotional. Their team up at the end was amazing of course, had the biggest smile with the star music on. Luigi must be protected

Keegan-Michael Key: His Toad was good! Kind of wished we saw more of Toad and Mario together but he was the comic relief. Sucked he wasn’t in it as much but maybe next movie.

Jack Black: MY MAN. GOD HE KILLED IT. Was that any surprise? No, everyone knew Jack was gonna bring his a-game and he did. Bowser’s singing was amazing, I was cracking up during that scene. PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES aah it’s good. I loved how Bowser went from his usual scary self to a big sweetheart who just wants to love someone. Yea, he did threaten to kill Peach’s kingdom if she didn’t marry him but hey he said he wouldn’t if she agreed! You can absolutely tell Jack loved his role and that’s so important in movies for it to turn out well. Honestly, I’d say Bowser was my favorite in the whole movie! (Ngl, Bowser kinda..) Bowser was intimidating at parts, especially with Luigi. He was a lot scarier than I remembered and damn he is a power house. Im surprised that I didn’t see him utilize his shell and spin with it but whatever.

The story: yes there wasn’t much of a big plot. Do I care? Not really. It’s Mario! You don’t really need a plot per se because you already know the characters, you know the concept of Super Mario. To me, it was as if I was playing a really well animated game. It was fast, fun, and left me with a warm fuzzy feeling. The plot WAS Bowser coming, Mario and Luigi starting a company and not feeling like they’re on top. You don’t need a different story with Mario. Yes, this movie wasn’t on the level of Into the Spider-Verse or Puss in Boots like we were expecting but it didn’t need to be. I had a great time with a story or not

The sound effects: god, the little kid in me wanted to SCREAM. It felt so satisfying to hear all the sounds we hear in the games from hitting a shell, hitting the mystery box, or landing on the flag pole at the end of a level. They really hit the nail with them. And Luigi’s ringtone was GameCube!!

Oh yeah I loved Kamek’s voice. He sounded exactly how I pictured it. He was great. Loved the scene of him dressing up as Peach and getting ANGRY that he didn’t kiss Bowser

What didn’t work:

The slow motion moments: this was when I remembered “oh yea, illumination made this.” Some of the moments were fine with Mario giving Peach a side eye (with rizz). That was funny. But all the other times, it felt like the screaming goats in Thor Love and Thunder. In other words, it was used too much. To me, the slow-motion parts are just “haha, their voice is deep and slow. They move slowly. Haha funny joke.”

The songs: I did say the songs worked but they didn’t at the same time. I LOVED hearing all the familiar songs and sounds from the games. I liked the 80’s songs as Mario was made in the 80’s but it didn’t fit movie. As I said, it would’ve been better if they kept the 80’s songs in the human world and the Mario-esque songs in the Mushroom Kingdom, etc. But Illumination has gotta…illuminate I guess

The pacing: I felt like it was TOO quick. They go from Mario ending up in the Mushroom Kingdom and he finds Toad with barely an introduction and they rush to the castle. Then Mario finds Peach who just so happens to be going to the same place at the right time. There wasn’t enough time to breathe and there could’ve been so many good character interactions and development if they made it longer. We could have had more of Bowser and Luigi, Mario and Toad and Peach. I mean there are lots of characters and they have yet to introduce Yoshi, the Koopalings, and Daisy so hopefully it will be better in the second.

Illumination: I’m not too crazy with this studio. I love Despicable Me 1&2 but the rest are just meh. There were moments in the movie that were just so like this studio that it somewhat felt weird. The plumbing scene was funny but I think that is a good example. The whole thing with the dog being malicious was an Illumination thing. So were some of the models of the humans. The songs. Idk. If this movie was made by another studio like Dreamworks or Sony, maybe it would’ve been better??

Overall, I’d give this movie a 7.5/10. It had great moments and a lot going for it but there is still room for improvement. And that’s completely okay because we still have another movie. We only saw these characters on screen for ONE movie so there’s still more to be seen. I say fuck the critics, they don’t know what they’re talking about. This movie didn’t need to be woke or whatever. It almost didn’t need a plot. This movie was such a beautiful love letter to all of the Nintendo fans and I was smiling the entire time. They knew not to make it flop because of how iconic and beloved Mario is. I felt like a little kid again as I watched my favorite video game characters on screen and now I feel the need to play my Wii or switch. I look forward to seeing what they do in the next film.

TLDR: go see it. It’s a lot of fun

Also LET ME VOICE YOSHI I CAN DO HIS VOICE. IM GOING TO BE ON A TEACHER’S SALARY IM GONNA BE BROKE