VeggieTales repurposed for TV

OGA March 11, 2006 Episode 1: The Asparagus of LaMancha teaches Lucy to stick by Sarah when the other girls think she is too weird. (September 9, 2006) Episode 2: Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler teaches Felix to treat Chester the way he wants to be treated instead of punching him back. (September 16, 2006)

OGA June 25, 2005 Episode 3: Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush teaches Pete to be nice to Marvin so Marvin will stop bullying him and become a friend. (September 23, 2006) Episode 6: Bully Trouble is Bob's second attempt to teach Gwyneth why she should not be afraid of the dentist. The Robin Hood reprise at the end of the story was cut for time. (October 14, 2006)

OGA April 1, 2000 Episode 4: All the Bananas is Larry's first attempt to teach Danny why he should share his donut. (September 30, 2006) Episode 10: King George and the Ducky teaches Alex why he should share his blocks with the other kids instead of building something big with all the blocks. (November 11, 2006) Episode 13: Endangered Love is the Silly Song break in the middle of A Snoodle's Tale.

OGA March 27, 2001 Episode 4: Lyle the Kindly Viking is Bob's second attempt to teach Danny why he should share his donut. (September 30, 2006) Episode 5: Larry's High Silk Hat is the Silly Song break in the middle of The Strange Case of Dr. Jiggle and Mr. Sly.

OGA May 18, 2004 Episode 5: The Strange Case of Dr. Jiggle and Mr. Sly teaches Stacy why she and Larry should not be ashamed of looking different from everyone else. (October 7, 2006) Episode 13: A Snoodle's Tale teaches Bartholomew why he should not give up on playing anything after he was called a doofus because he was terrible at soccer. (November 25, 2006)

OGA May 20, 2003 Episode 5: When The Strange Case of Dr. Jiggle and Mr. Sly is 3 minutes short, Bob asks Lisa Junior to play There's A Hole In The Bottom of the Sea after he returned the video, because "The bottom of the sea is a very special place." In the credits, Junior claims "I can burp the ABCs." before Bob says "Uh, this isn't that kind of show." (October 7, 2006) Episode 13: Binky the Opera Singer appears after Larry asks Jimmy if he had a dream about a giant bagel, and Jimmy says "No, but I had a dream about an aardvark singing opera, if you can picture that." Modern Major General appears after Archibald says Bartholomew could abandon soccer and take up musical theater. (November 25, 2006)

OGA August 31, 2004 Episode 6: Going Up is Larry's first attempt to teach Gwyneth why she should not be afraid of the dentist. Schoolhouse Polka is the Silly Song break in the middle of Bully Trouble. (October 14, 2006) Episode 7: Sumo of the Opera teaches Maria why she should finish drawing a big picture. The song A Sumo Can't Go Wrong was cut for time. (October 21, 2006)

OGA March 5, 2005 Episode 8: Babysitter in DeNile shows Mr. Lunt why we should look out for others, when he is the substitute mailman for Jimmy since Jerry is sick. (October 28, 2006) Episode 9: Duke and the Great Pie War teaches Rodney about true love. The opening song, Ballad of the Pie War, was cut for time. (November 4, 2006) Episode 15: The Blues with Larry is the Silly Song break in the middle of Dave and the Giant Pickle.

OGA March 28, 1995 Episode 8: The Story of Flibber-O-Loo shows Larry why we should take care of more people than just our brothers and sisters. (October 28, 2006) Episode 23: The Gourds Must Be Crazy, on a letter-free day, teaches us why we should love our neighbors. (February 16, 2008)

OGA July 21, 1998 Episode 11: Madame Blueberry teaches Ricky why he doesn't need to pick out every toy he wants at the toy store. The first 32 seconds with the butterfly and trees, the last verse of I'm So Blue, an extra 34 seconds before Larry sees the Stuff-Mart, an extra 40 seconds before the Stuff-Mart Rap, 18 seconds of Madame Blueberry, Larry and Bob hopping to the Stuff-Mart with the three scallion salesmen, 15 seconds where Madame Blueberry, Larry and Bob enter the Stuff-Mart, 18 seconds where the spectacle makes Madame Blueberry woozy, 40 seconds in the middle of Madame Blueberry's shopping montage, 16 seconds in the middle of Bob and Madame Blueberry's rush to the treehouse when the air compressor made it wobble side to side, and 23 seconds when Madame Blueberry started singing the thankfulness song were cut for time. (November 18, 2006) Episode 23: His Cheeseburger appears to pad out the episode after The Gourds Must Be Crazy, after which Larry makes a remark about Mr. Lunt loving that cheeseburger to relate it to the episode's topic about love.

OGA July 29, 2006 Episodes 12 & 14: These don't really have any Bob's House TV segments to teach someone about temptation. It was played as two episodes on TV with the opening theme song of LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures. (November 18/November 25, 2006)

OGA April 2, 1996 Episode 15: Dave and the Giant Pickle teaches Jacob that he can do big things even though he is little. (December 2, 2006)

OGA August 5, 2003 Episode 16: The Ballad of Little Joe teaches John to forgive his big brother when his big brother apologizes for being mean to him. 31 seconds of Little Joe telling his brothers to put the sheets in groups, 2 seconds of the stacked sheep looking back, 3 seconds of Joe getting pushed down by the Desperados, 34 seconds before we see Little Joe at the Rootin' Tootin' Pizza Palace, the first verse of I'm Blue, 36 seconds when McPotiphar makes Little Joe Employee of the Month, 7 seconds of Little Joe's face when he goes to jail, the second Little Joe song, the next scene where Bob asks Little Joe "If God is really good, why is this stuff happening to you?" the first dodgeball avalanche, 13 seconds before Mayor Nezzer wakes up and screams, 7 seconds before he asks "Is there anyone in Dodgeball City who can interpret dreams?" 7 seconds when Archie mentions his disorganized sock drawer, 19 seconds of the 7-year food-packing montage, 28 seconds when we see Little Joe's family again after 8 years, an extra 13 seconds when the 10 pea brothers approach Little Joe, 6 seconds when Little Joe bumps into a door after he puts on his bandana, and 3 seconds when Little Joe blows his nose were cut for time. (October 6, 2007)

OGA November 28, 1995 Episode 17: Rack, Shack and Benny teaches Stacy what to do if she has a hard time obeying her parents when she will lose a friend by not doing things she knows are wrong. The first 42 seconds when George introduces the characters and the 16 seconds when George mentions the surprise for Rack, Shack and Benny, 15 seconds of Laura driving through the vents of the chocolate factory with Rack, Shack and Benny, and Nebby saying "God has saved you from the fiery furnace." were cut for time. (October 20, 2007)

OGA April 22, 1997 Episode 18: The Fib From Outer Space taught Olivia why she should tell the truth about breaking the cookie jar. The first 42 seconds before Jimmy and Jerry's lab, Alfred saying "I've fallen and I can't get up!" 11 seconds of the main title, 9 seconds of Junior and Fib hopping down the sidewalk, LarryBoy mentioning a kid with green hair and a dog that can whistle, 12 seconds of LarryBoy complaining about looking around Bumblyburg for too long, 78 seconds of Scooter's police car and Larry playing Candy Land with Alfred, 10 seconds before Alfred mentions his modifications to the LarryMobile, 10 seconds where Laura thinks LarryBoy fell asleep, 6 seconds when Percy thought honking was part of the plan, and 17 seconds before Alfred says "The monster is a lie" were cut for time. (November 3, 2007)

OGA October 3, 2000 Episode 19: Esther, the Girl Who Became Queen teaches Elise to have the courage to not get beat up by a group of mean kids who hate her for following the rules. The first scene of the queen getting thrown out before the main title (though she and Miss Acmetha are still credited in the TV broadcast despite having their scenes edited out), Esther and Mordecai's introductory scene in Babylon before Haman's car arrives, a 108 second-portion of Esther singing to God to know why she has to be a queen and Miss Acmetha singing The Puppy Song (the in-story replacement for Silly Songs With Larry), 67 seconds before Bigthan Peaoni gives King Xerxes his cake, 31 seconds when The Grim Tickler takes away Bigthan and Theresa Peaoni, the first 30 seconds of Haman's Song, the middle 60 seconds of Haman's Song, 23 seconds before King Xerxes banishes Mordecai's family, 9 seconds before Mordecai finds the Banished! poster, 51 seconds when Mordecai warns Esther they will be banished, 47 seconds before Mordecai says "Esther, you never have to be afraid to do what's right." 367 seconds where Esther sings the two songs she sang before, invites Xerxes and Haman to dinner, and invites them to dinner again, 5 seconds when Haman tells Mordecai he will work in Chuckle City in 2 days, 20 seconds when we see Haman's question card from the first dinner and Larry reads King Xerxes yesterday's records, 18 seconds when The Grim Tickler takes Haman away, and the last 10 seconds of Esther's final zoom-out shot were cut for time. (December 8, 2007)

Jeepers! It must have been exhausting to cut the original 36-minute video's length in half to speed up the pacing for a 23-minute time limit on TV. I understand cutting out a repeat of Esther's two iconic songs, and trimming fat before Esther's second invite to dinner as well as a few other scenes that linger, but you cut out the best parts with The Grim Tickler!

OGA October 22, 1996 Episode 20: The Toy That Saved Christmas teaches Jodi that giving is better than receiving on Christmas. The first 82 seconds before George starts telling Annie his Christmas story, 23 seconds of George driving his mail truck over the main title, 4 seconds of the delivery penguin going down the mail chute, 13 seconds where Junior and Percy repeated phrases they heard from Buzz-Saw-Louie's nose, 24 seconds where Bob wanted to play Mouse Trap and Larry saw the broken Puggslyville bridge, the first 7 seconds of kids bawling about Buzz-Saw Louie, 3 seconds of transition to the Nezzer toy factory, 16 seconds of Bob, Junior, Larry and Louie hopping past a penguin washing dishes, 19 seconds of them hiding from a penguin, and 246 seconds when Wally P. Nezzer and the penguins rescue Bob, Junior, Larry and Louie from the broken Puggslyville bridge were cut for time. (December 15, 2007)

Hey, they cut out all the good parts! People who only saw this on TV - (at Bob's house in 2007 and 2008) will never get to know the comedy of getting to imagine a pig and a giant lizard at a bowling alley, children repeating false Christmas messages they heard on TV, Bob, Junior and Larry hiding from security penguins, or a rescue mission chase through a delivery chute. Watch the VeggieTales Christmas Spectacular from December 21, 1998 instead. As a 46-minute broadcast with commercials, it had enough time to show the full 27-minute presentation on Ion, and include Larry's 5-minute Silly Song where he waits for Santa Claus to come.

OGA July 27, 1999 Episode 21: LarryBoy and the Rumor Weed teaches Catherine to not spread a rumor that isn't true, and apologize to Sally. The first 158 1/2 seconds before LarryBoy catches Scallion #3, 72 1/2 seconds of the LarryBoy theme song and Alfred's dinner party story, 142 seconds with Rumor Weeds spreading the Alfred robot rumor and Larry finding one of those weeds before Alfred called him inside for a call from Madame Blueberry, 3 seconds near the end of The Rumor Weed Song, 8 seconds when Alfred says these weeds don't get energy from sunlight, 28 seconds when Alfred explains how the Larry-Satellite tracks the weeds and LarryBoy says "Bumblyburg will be really weedy!" 6 seconds of LarryBoy's Larry-Mobile driving out of the Larry-Cave, 9 seconds where LarryBoy says "But I thought the weed was under the ground." 5 1/2 seconds when LarryBoy says "Hey, my wings! I need those!" 2 1/2 seconds when LarryBoy says "Alfred! Are you insane?" 22 seconds of a joke in which LarryBoy misunderstands Alfred's definition of boring, 61 seconds when Scooter drives away from Alfred and LarryBoy's weed weapons drop blue powder, 11 1/3 seconds of an odd pan transition up from the sky to the sewers, 10 1/2 seconds of the little rumor weed next to the giant mother rumor weed talking to LarryBoy and a LB transition, and 6 seconds when a scallion remembers Alfred changing his tire and a pickle mother remembers Alfred carrying her groceries were cut for time. (December 29, 2007)

OGA November 4, 2006 Episode 22: Gideon Tuba Warrior teaches Mary to trust in God's plan for her Grandma. The second verse in The Great I AM and 22 seconds of Gideon's small-scale model of the Midianite field were cut for time. (February 9, 2008)

OGA November 1, 1994 Episode 23: The Forgive-O-Matic Silly Commercial appears to pad out the episode after The Gourds Must Be Crazy. Note: This is the only time anything from the first two videos was used in a Bob's House episode. They never dug into the main stories. Maybe they didn't want to show such primitive early 1990s animation on late 2000s television for longer than 3 minutes.

OGA March 3, 2007 Episodes 24 & 25: Moe and the Big Exit teaches Matt how important it is to follow directions when he doesn't want to go back to a store for model airplane directions. In Part 1, 17 seconds of Moe running away from a bear and Moe singing Home on the Range while he was stuck in the well were cut for time. (February 23/March 1, 2008)

OGA November 18, 1997 Episode 26: Josh and the Big Wall teaches Alice to obey her teacher's rules when everybody else disobeys them by running to the playground. Josh asking Bob "Do I know you?" to which Bob says "I'm the narrator." 48 seconds where the French Peas make fun of Josh before the second time he says "I'm a cucumber", 14 seconds where the Israelites walk away from Jericho, 8 seconds before Junior says "Wow. Those were very interesting directions!" 7 seconds where Jimmy says "Our God told us to do it this way." 8 seconds where Jimmy says "I've got Slushee in my ear." and Jimmy's last lines "Boy, did I pick a lousy day to wear my contacts!" and "Does anybody have any saline?" were cut for time. (March 8, 2008)

OGA February 10, 2004 Episodes 27 & 28: An Easter Carol teaches Louis about having hope for tomorrow. In Part 1, 66 seconds of Reverend Gilbert telling his son Edmund that they need to have hope and Moyer telling Laura about Ebenezer tearing down the church, 10 seconds of Moyer walking Laura back to St. Michael's Orphanage, 11 seconds of Ebenezer drinking tea and trying to stay awake, and 26 seconds of Millward hoisting Cavis up and avoiding the constable were cut for time. In Part 2, 10 seconds of Seymour questioning Easter with plastic eggs and Hope's Song were cut for time. (March 15/March 22, 2008)

Note: An Easter Carol is a sequel to The Star of Christmas, which, four years prior to the series at Bob the Tomato's house, aired on PBS for 1 hour. It was the second time VeggieTales had been broadcast on network TV in December, the first time being The Toy That Saved Christmas on NBC in 1998. Like these regular episodes, The Toy That Saved Christmas had other animation made for TV broadcasts surrounding it. Other veggies put on other Christmas-related musical numbers, and this episode's Silly Song, Oh Santa, was played a lot earlier in the show, but since it was a full-hour broadcast, the VeggieTales Christmas Spectacular had time to include the whole story. Oh Santa was reused as a Silly Song Break for the 2002 PBS broadcast of The Star of Christmas from.

If you tried to make more Bob's House episodes out of every 4:3 episode (from before the second movie), all 26 episodes that are not the 4 silly song karaoke episodes and Auto-tainment, I can verify that Big Idea could indeed make an additional 10 half-hour episodes for a total 38. 39 if you put together Bob's Vacation and Lessons From the Sock Drawer. For starters, The Star of Christmas, Lord of the Rings, and The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's can each make 2 episodes. But I can also imagine four other combinations of different stories and Silly/Autotainment songs. -Omelet, the silly song Pizza Angel, and The Story of George Mueller can make up an episode about asking for help when you need food. After telling the story of George Mueller starring his great-grandfather, Simon, Pa Grape shows us the Auto-tainment song Erie Canal to tell us another tale of his travels. -Tales From The Crisper and The Grapes of Wrath are both stories that Junior could tell somebody who is afraid of somebody picking on them. -Larry's Lagoon is something Larry could show a kid whose parents are mad at them for breaking their car, and teach them to ask for forgiveness. In the middle of the story, The Dance of the Cucumber would come to pad out the time. After Larry's Lagoon, Larry would play another Silly Song, Sport Utility Vehicle, to show us another one of his silly travels. -Daniel and the Lion's Den and Lutfi's Fanciful Flannelgraph (The Story of Saint Patrick) would both teach us about people who were kidnapped, but always prayed to God to keep them safe and it helped them overcome adversity.

With all the 16:9 videos, if I imagined them being episodes, most of them could be long enough for 2 episodes, but I also thought of putting together Lenny and the Lost Birthday and Snooderella, and pairing Abe and the Amazing Promise with The Little House That Stood, each from the four videos with two stories.

At the end of the 1 1/2-year run of VeggieTales on TV, 20 out of 26 films got their stories broadcast on TV in 28 episodes. If Prince Omelet and The Story of George Mueller were paired for an episode, it would be 21. We covered just almost everything from Are You My Neighbor? To Moe and the Big Exit. The only Tales between them which were not aired at Bob's house are The Star of Christmas, Lord of the Beans and The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's. While I can do without seeing The Star of Christmas, and Lisa Junior Asparagus's shortened remakes (XD) of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Wizard of Oz on TV, I am very disappointed that nobody made an episode out of the shorter first stories preceding Lyle and Gideon. I am sure somebody thought about it, but apparently Qubo's second 13-episode order with uneven 6:7 halves was sadly 1 too short. As I said, the Pizza Angel Silly Song and Pa Grape's Erie Canal song would fit right in to fill the time after each story, which make up 13 minutes together. Since Season 3 was 7 episodes, this could have been put at the middle of Season 2 to make that 7 instead of 6. Prince Omlet/Pizza Angel/George Mueller/Erie Canal should have been the 4th episode of Season 2, and aired on November 17, 2007.