The VeggieTales Show

Bob the Tomato directs his first Christmas special at the new Nezzer Theater. But when he receives a letter from a young fan who's having a difficult holiday season, Bob begins to wonder what's the point of celebrating Christmas when so much is wrong in the world? Larry and the rest of the gang band together to put on a spectacular show reminding the audience (and Bob) that the promise of Christmas is God with us in the bad times, and God with us to END the bad times!

Lesson: God Being With Us (the True Meaning of Christmas)

Notes: This was not the original pilot episode for the series. This was the second episode written after the original pilot. However, this was the first episode to enter production and to be released in order to make the 2019 Christmas season. This is also the only episode to feature the original "VeggieTales Theme Song" from the original series.

Bob the Tomato pitches billionaire Mr. Nezzer a new series idea and asks him for permission to use his theater. Nezzer grants Bob access to his theater on one condition, that he brings back the entire original cast of "VeggieTales " for the new show. Bob is reluctant to bring back the original cast because they were dysfunctional, never followed his directions, and always messed things up in each episode of the previous VeggieTales series. Believing he learned from his mistakes from the previous series, Bob makes it his sole duty to put himself and his ideas first in order to have a good and successful show. The cast auditions and pitches ideas for the show, but each of them conflict with Bob’s me first attitude. It’s only when Pa Grape shares the story of Abraham who chooses to make peace with his nephew Lot that Bob learns a valuable lesson in making peace with his cast members.

Lesson: Getting Along With Others (Fruit of the Spirit: Peace)

Note: This was the original pilot episode that sets up the series premise of Mr. Nezzer giving Bob the Tomato the keys to his theater for the new show. This was the second episode to be placed into production and be released in order for the Christmas episode to make the 2019 Christmas season. This is also the first episode to feature the series theme song entitled " The VeggieTales Show Theme Song".

Larry the Cucumber is a finalist to receive a lifetime supply of Doodle-Whoppers Cookies! Now he can finally be happy! But when Junior Asparagus is revealed as the other finalist, Bob determines that both veggie friends need a lesson in the true meaning of “joy” — happiness that lasts. Bob rallies the veggies for a performance on the story of Paul and Silas — two friends who remained joyful even in the midst of a prison sentence.

Lesson: Having a Happy Heart (Fruit of the Spirit: Joy)

Silly Songs With Larry: “The Agitated Song”

Notes: This episode marks the return of the popular “Silly Songs With Larry” segment after a five year hiatus since 2015, and the first instance of a character from the Netflix series (Callie Flower) being ported over to the new show.

As the cast discusses ideas for the night’s show, Laura Carrot runs into the theater declaring her love for teen singing idol Jimmy Lucky. Laura believes that true love is a warm and gushy feeling you have inside you. However, Petunia teaches Laura what true love actually is through the Bible story of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz.

Lesson: Love That You Do (Fruit of the Spirit: Love)

Note: This is the first VeggieTales production to feature the new 2020 Big Idea logo.

Note 2: There was a technical error on TBN's Yippee Streaming service for the release date of this episode. This episode was originally released a month early on April 2, 2020. NBCUniversal, Big Idea Entertainment, and TBN had scheduled this episode to be released on May 1, 2020. As a result, this episode was removed from the service 24 hours later when the company realized the mistake. It was re-released on May 1, 2020.

Callie Flower has a family problem and attempts to tell the rest of the cast. However, the casts are too occupied with answering a fan’s question for the night’s show to pay attention to Callie. The question they are trying to answer is “how to make the world a better place”. Jimmy and Jerry believe the best way to make the world a better place is through an invention that feeds the poor. Pa Grape on the other hand believes the best example of making the world a better place is the Bible story of Peter, John, and the lame beggar.

Lesson: Helping Others (Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness)

Silly Songs With Larry: “Amazing Glazed”

Mr. Nezzer is approached by renowned playwright, ShakeSparagus, who was extremely impressed by Larry’s performance in the last show. As a result, ShakeSparagus gives Nezzer the script to his new play entitled “MacCheese” and wants Larry to play the lead. However, being the main star of ShakeSparagus’ new play goes to Larry’s head. His pride causes Larry to ruin the play and to hurt the feelings of the other cast mates. Bob decides to teach Larry a lesson in humility through the Bible story of the Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar.

Lesson: Humility

As the cast prepares for the night’s show, Larry vows to never be “good” again after his good deed causes him to miss out on getting the new L-1 Mark 5, a collectors item of the popular robot from the tv show “Space Rangers of Durble”. Mr. Lunt takes this opportunity to convince Bob to allow him to advertise his new product “Mr. Lunt’s Robot Call” to the audience throughout the entire show. As Mr. Lunt’s product goes awry, Pa Grape steps in to teach Larry a lesson of goodness through a western version of the Bible parable of the Foolish Rich Man.

Lesson: “What is Really Good” (Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness)

As the cast prepares for the night’s show, Madame Blueberry returns from vacation and discovers her prized plant had died. She becomes furious at Junior because he promised to water her plant when she was on vacation. Junior thought it was no big deal since it was just a plant and not very big or important. Pa Grape steps in to teach Junior a lesson of faithfulness by putting on a play about a record producer who gives his two interns a small task to do. This is the retelling of the Bible parable of the Talents. Afterwards, Archibald the Asparagus tells the Bible story of David and Jonathan.

Lesson: "Being Faithful" (Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness)

Silly Songs With Larry: "Wanna Wallaby"

Larry the Cucumber completes his script about the Wright Brothers and wants it to be performed for next week’s show so he could carefully build a replica of the Wright flyer. However, Bob the Tomato moves Larry’s play up for that night’s show because he did not prepare any script and fears that Mr. Nezzer will replace him with the mailman as director of the theater. The mailman is much faster at his job than Bob is at his. As a result, Bob rushes the construction of the replica of the Wright flyer. This causes it to completely fall apart and injure the actors on stage. Petunia Rubarb then takes control of the show and decides to teach Bob and the audience a lesson in patience through the Bible story of Noah’s Ark.

Jimmy and Jerry Gourd have ruined some of the Veggie show costumes by washing them on the heavy duty, extra-hard cycle. Bob is awfully frustrated and he is not gentle with his reply to Jimmy and Jerry. But they were only trying to help! It makes for a good time for a lesson about gentle actions and gentle words. It’s through the story of King Rehoboam in the Bible that the Veggies learn the meaning and importance of gentleness. As a result relationships are mended and the crew is happily back together again.

Lesson: "Being Tenderhearted" (Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness)

When LarryBoy’s biggest super-fan, Callie Flower, accidentally wrecks the LarryMobile, she makes a not-so-good choice and lies, making up a story about how the accident happened. Callie’s lie causes trouble for LarryBoy and the residents of Bumblyburg lose faith in their superhero. Callie sees the hurt she has caused and tells the truth about the accident. Callie learns a valuable lesson straight from God’s word: always tell the truth!

Note: This is the first episode to not take place in Mr. Nezzer's Theater (except for the Theme Song).

Excited about his new smart phone, Larry believes access to more knowledge will solve all his problems. Pa Grape and Blueberry suggest there might be something even more important than knowledge - wisdom. Dr. Flurry demonstrates the difference between knowledge and wisdom with an animal show starring Jimmy and Jerry that goes horribly wrong. Petunia launches a retelling of the biblical story of Abigail and Nabal where the Veggies learn that being wise is something really valuable.

Larry wants to play his new kazoo in the show, but his kazoo is broken. Junior and Laura are determined to do their space show but it goes horribly wrong and spoils their friendship. It seems that so many things are breaking on the Veggie set. Pa Grape suggests the story of the Prodigal Son to learn about how to fix broken friendships. Join the Veggies as they learn the importance of forgiveness in mending a friendship that is broken.

Lesson: Forgiveness

When Madame Blueberry develops a bad case of the hiccups, the opera she is set to perform is called off. Callie, a cauliflower with a flowery voice, would be a perfect substitution if not for her terrible stage fright. The Veggie crew hears the story of Nehemiah’s bravery and while Callie watches from the stage wings, she is inspired to be brave too.

Mr. Lunt has been growing out his hair which gives him the perfect opportunity to star as Samson in the new play for Mr. Nezzer’s theater. Bob thinks it’s the perfect idea for learning a lesson on self-control. The problem is, Samson broke all of his promises and ended up not being very self-controlled at all! The Veggies finally land on the story of Daniel for an on point lesson on self-control that delivers. No lion!

Note: Mr Nezzer sings the theme song with the others in Jimmy's place because he was sleeping.

Larry is learning a lesson in generosity! After he brings in enough donuts for everyone and doesn’t want to share, the Veggie crew tells the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 and how we can live a life of abundance when we trust in God!

Silly Songs with Larry: "Tooth Sweater"

The Veggies are asked to perform for Mr. Nezzer’s mother who is visiting. Performing her favorite story of David and Goliath seems the perfect fit. Mr. Nezzer keeps interfering with the show rehearsal and causes a blackout in the theater. The Veggies are completely in the dark and feeling afraid! Mother Nezzer saves the day with a story of The Good Shepherd and how we can always trust in God’s care.

Silly Songs with Larry: "Sleep Singing"

Larry, Junior and Laura went to a parade and came back to tell all of their Veggie buddies about the marching bands, balloons and the many interesting and important people in the parade like a fireman, a policeman and even an astronaut. Meanwhile Laura admits that she sometimes feels pretty ordinary. She wonders if God sees her and cares about her. It’s through the story of Peter and Cornelius that Laura learns that God's love is for EVERYONE and that he cares about each one of us.

Silly Songs with Larry: "Alligator Family"

When super-villain Awful Alvin unleashes his angry eyebrows on Bumblyburg, it is up to LarryBoy to save the city. Ultimately even LarryBoy falls victim to the angry eyebrows effects and all seems lost for Bumblyburg with everyone arguing all the time. Just in time, Alfred discovers a cure for anger and together with LarryBoy they help everyone exchange anger for blessings.

Bob is fed up. His show is languishing in second place, while his cross-town rival, Guy Broccoli, is in first place and getting all kinds of attention. Bob wants his show to have first place! Bob sees an opportunity to win by stopping Guy Broccoli from getting to his show! Pa Grape intervenes to tell the story of David who could of stopped his enemy, King Saul, by doing something wrong – yet David ultimately chose to do what was right. In the end we learn to trust God and to never grow weary in doing what’s right and good.

The Veggies receive a letter from the Veggie Fan Club where the fan asks for help on understanding what “faith” looks like and how to practice it in their everyday lives. Does having faith mean believing really hard or believing in impossible things? Pa Grape suggests the Veggies act out the story of Abraham and Sarah. They trusted God for a child even when it seemed impossible. Their faith in God helps us all learn about how to practice faith in God every day in big things and in small things.

The Emperor of Envy wants to be bigger and better than everyone in Bumblyburg! But first he must deal with the League of Incredible Vegetables. The Emperor comes up with a devious plan and decides to infect each of the League members with his envy formula. As a result the League is weakened and split apart by their envy of each other. To save Bumblyburg, the League must put aside their envy and choose to be grateful for the way God made them.