Veggie Tales

VeggieTales is a series of children's books and computer animated videos produced by Big Idea Productions conveying Christian ideals to children via humorous, anthropomorphic vegetable-shaped characters. VeggieTales was co-created by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki. more...

History

The first VeggieTales video was released in 1993, and was the U.S.'s first completely computer animated video widely distributed in VHS format. Since then, the VeggieTales videos have sold well over 35 million copies. In addition to the videos, there are also books, games, and the ubiquitous plush toys which accompany nearly anything beloved by children.

Reportedly, the characters are vegetables because of the limitations of early computer animation technology; it would have been difficult and expensive to give them arms and legs. (However, they are usually able to hold objects as if they had hands and they typically "walk" by bouncing.) The lack of appendages is sometimes used as self-referential humor, as is the lack of other human characteristics, such as in "The Hairbrush Song". Later videos do not share this limitation: for instance, one of the supporting characters in Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie is a many-legged caterpillar. In a "director" commentary between three VeggieTales characters for Jonah, they reveal that they actually pick stuff up with wire removal technology. They also revealed that they breathe through their mouths, as their noses lack nostrils.

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