VeggieTales in the House

The show looks like an anime rip-off. Here are some things: 1. Bob and Larry has eyebrows and tongue. 2. Larry looks like a pickle. 3. Petunia sounded like a teenager. 4. Madame Blueberry sounded too British, not French. 5. Junior Asparagus sounded like Jimmy Neutron. 6. Laura the Carrot sounded like female version of Timmy Turner. 7. Archibald looks too skinny and his British accent sounded like he had a frog in his throat. 8. Jean Claude and Philipe looked like circus freaks. 9. Ichabod "Ichabeezer" Money Nezzer sounded like Carl Wheezer, who went for a drink at a bar. 10. Jimmy has cravings or some sort. His brother, Jerry, is too stupid like Sheen from Jimmy Neutron. AND THEIR TEETH LOOKED LIKE VAMPIRE TEETH!!!!!

And that's why, Big Idea should replace Dreamworks with Paramount Pictures/Animation. They love racist stuff.

DISCLAIMER:Following review is from the view point of someone who watched the original when I was a child.

If you were a big fan of the original series and you've come here to get a nostalgic re imagining of the beloved show. TURN BACK! I tried to watch all four of the episodes but could not suffer through all of them. I made it through 1 and a half before I had to stop. This version does not live up in any aspect. SONGS, terrible; not memorable in the slightest and seems completely arbitrary. MESSAGE, of the 3 stories I watched I'm not even entirely sure what the faith based lessons they were supposed to be teaching were. Or how they would apply to a child's life! The bible verses they give seem like an after-thought to the each of the central stories. HUMOR, this point really kills it. I may have smirked a few times throughout but mostly it was from the sheer incredulous plot lines. A Mustache cream? Could be funny but handled horribly in this case.

The entire show seems dumbed down. Most of the characters are there but they are hollow unfunny shells. I think the writes serious underestimated what they have. If they'd have taken us who watched it as children into account and made a few nods to the old show or at least kept its best parts, they could have really capitalized on the older generation. But instead they've completely isolated us with this water down stuff. I mean I'm all for making changes but...The new "theme song"? I use that term lightly because it is perhaps the worst theme song in the existence of theme songs. I watched it not 4 minutes ago but the only impact it left was how terrible and bland it was. Silly Songs with Larry? Nowhere to be seen. In the original Larry was indeed silly, and some what scatter brained but I always thought he seemed like a goofy adult. Now he seems like a mentally handicapped adolescent. A true insult to what the show used to be.

The original had sketches based on the bible some were stories right of the bible. When I study now I still remember them! They truly taught me things and helped me learn. I don't see how this could help anyone. Sure it may be leaps and bounds better than the rest of TV programing for kids, but it is still SEVERELY lacking. To parents; stick with the original. To my fellows who enjoyed the show in the past. Say away from this, insulting, boring mess. To the writes of this show. Get your act together. This is just....Awful. How could you.

I hate VeggieTales in the House because it makes all of the characters look and sound too different. The casting department was too cheap to cast more than one replacement male and female actor for all the original characters not voiced by Mike or Phil! You can hear that problem in almost all of Tress MacNeille's female character voices, for example. Junior Asparagus, a young boy character, sounds too boyish, and not girly enough like the way Lisa's Junior originally sounded, Laura sounds uncomfortably high-pitched, and Madame Blueberry's new voice doesn't even try to have a French accent. The only female veggie whom Tress MacNeille can have sound close to her original voice is Petunia Rhubarb. Even with Phil and Mike voicing their own characters again, you can tell VeggieTales in the House has terrible voice direction, particularly in Archibald's voice. I liked having Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki reprise most of their characters in this series because that at least gave VeggieTales in the House some of the same identity that the original VeggieTales had, but it is very sad that, while they still get a credit for VeggieTales in the House being based on characters created by them, they don't write any VeggieTales in the House episodes of their own. However, Tim Hodge and Brian K. Roberts still got to direct some episodes, so they might be decent and resemble the spirit of the original film series more.

Like many VeggieTales fans who dislike in the House & City, and possibly Noah's Ark, we believe VeggieTales in the House/City takes place in an alternate universe from the veggies who acted out or experienced all of the stories in the original video series. From Where's God When I'm S-Scared up to Beauty and the Beet, as well as The VeggieTales Show, because all of the veggies have different designs and live in a little city below the countertop, which was only used to host Noah's Ark in this new world. Even if you can get past the bizarre new cheap animation style and different character voices, the writing is just not there. VeggieTales in the House & City has the bizarre energy of Fanboy & Chum Chum, which does not bode well with the original VeggieTales, and most of the time, Larry is an idiot and the stories are very uncreative and it is easy to guess what the lesson will be by the third minute of eleven. Furthermore, I feel very bad for Phil Vischer with VeggieTales in the House being more "de-Goded" than the qubo TV broadcasts of stories from VeggieTales videos in 23-minute episodes. Occasionally, a Bible verse will be read, but in an off-the-walls show like this that purged the religious aspects of VeggieTales, it doesn't feel the same to end every episode with the same "God made you special and He loves you very much" closing line from the original show.

Still, there are some things that I do enjoy and miss about VeggieTales in the House. It is much more watchable than the Japanese and Chinese spin-offs of Lilo & Stitch, The 2016 Powerpuff Girls, and My Little Pony: Pony Life, which are all bad spinoffs or reboots that butcher their Intellectual Property's predecessor very hard. I realized that there are some salvageable aspects of VeggieTales in the House since Callie Flower was good enough to come into the prime VeggieTales universe in The VeggieTales Show. Motato, Gary Garlic, Mr. & Tiny Pea, Shem, Granny Asparagus, Officer Wedge, and Ichabeezer are all other entertaining characters I may like to see redesigned one day in The VeggieTales Show. I still have a bit of respect for VeggieTales in the House for trying some new things. Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki definitely did not like Dreamworks and Netflix butchering their property with less intelligent writing, but maybe they enjoyed the new experience it gave them because, they had never voice acted in a half-hour Nickelodeon-type series. Phil Vischer pitched VeggieTales to Nickelodeon in 1991, but Nick was not interested in early computer animation one decade before Jimmy Neutron. I liked hearing their classic character voices in a slice-of-life setting, but in the House certainly could have used some better writing that felt more like VeggieTales even in their weird wacky city. VTitH is also worth watching because Phil and Mike also both voice a new recurring character, Phil Vischer is Granny Asparagus and Mike Nawrocki is Officer Wedge. I also liked having Rob Paulsen, who voiced Finnegan J. Beet from Beauty and the Beet, use the same voice for Ichabeezer in VeggieTales in the House because the same grouchy voice suited both characters. I was also surprised at how much I liked some of this show's new characters, like Motato, Tiny Pea and Callie Flower.

This show uses too much adult code words adults would love to hear from the young humans. And it's a winning game any way you put it. Because even if the children learn the controlled vocabulary of their adult jail masters, the adults still get to enjoy countless hours of being disappointed, let down, whatever.

The show is unnatural in speech. And the animation is very weird given the vegetables do not have visible hands and legs even if they do seem to use hands and legs.

Still, nice to have some variation from the killer robots routine.

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My two older children grew up with the older version of VeggieTales. They are not big fans of the new opening, but I'm sure it will grow on them. Although they were hesitant to watch it after the opening, they have given the new show a chance and seem to like it. My 7 year old loves it! As one of the previous reviewers points out--it is not the original VeggieTales. However, it is not bad just because it is not the same. There is nothing wrong with bringing a family friendly series to a new generation. Great job, Big Idea!!

It is refreshing to see Netflix has picked up a series with a positive message for kids (and adults).