Veggie Tales

by Heather PharesThe enormously popular Veggie Tales series of shows and movies about computer-animated garden vegetables that learn about Bible stories and Sunday-school lessons also spawned a series of albums, ranging from Veggie Tales: Veggie Tunes to Veggie Tales: On the Road with Bob & Larry. Part of a family media company called Big Idea, Veggie Tales was the brainchild of Phil Vischer, who wanted to create family entertainment with a set of strong moral values. He began Big Idea and Veggie Tales in 1993, working with friends and art-school grads until the first Veggie Tales episode, Where's God When I'm S-Scared?, was completed just before Christmas that year. By 1995, 130,000 Veggie Tales videos were sold; a year later, over 750,000 had been purchased. By 2001, more than 20 million copies of Veggie Tales videos had been sold. The Veggie Tales albums earned similar success.