Search Results for: blog veggietales controversy has many parents steaming

Movie News: Cursing Doesn’t Pay

Believe it or not PG-rated movies that included the least amount of profanity made the most money at U.S. box offices. Are you shocked by the news? It’s true; at least according to a new study by the Nielsen Company, which tracked PG-rated movies and calculated how much profanity was used in each. The research firm says it cross-referenced box office data on 400 films in wide-release from the fall of 2005 to the fall of 2007. Nielsen controlled for marketing and production budgets of films, as well as depictions of violence and sex and found movies that scored an … Continue reading →

Where’s God When I’m S-s-s-cared? (1993)

The first VeggieTales video ever begins with “Tales From the Crisper.” Junior Asparagus (voiced by creator Phil Vischer’s wife, Lisa) has stayed up past his bedtime to watch a scary movie about a monster named Frankencelery. When it’s time to go to bed, he imagines that everything around him is turning into monsters. Climbing into bed, he is scared to go to sleep, thinking that he’ll get eaten alive. At that moment, Bob and Larry show up in his room to bring him a message. “You don’t have to be afraid,” they tell Junior, and then they sing him a … Continue reading →

VeggieTales: It’s All About the Cebu!

About five years ago, my mom went to visit my sister in Virginia and came home babbling something about waltzing with potatoes and how there was this talking tomato and I really had to hear the “Song of the Cebu” and I would just love it. For a little while I thought she had picked up some strain of strange Virginian flu and should be quarantined until the delirium passed, but then she put in the video “Josh and the Big Wall” and I had a chance to figure out what on earth she was talking about. VeggieTales is the … Continue reading →

Legendary Animator Dies

“Tom and Jerry,””The Flintstones,””Yogi Bear,””Huckleberry Hound and Friends,””Top Cat,””Scooby-Doo,””Johnny Quest,””The Jetsons” and “Animal Follies.” If you grew up watching any of these animated series you may be saddened to hear that Joe Barbera, one of its creators has died. In 1937 Barbera and partner Bill Hanna formed the legendary team of Hanna-Barbera and in the decades since their cartoon creations have entertained generations of children. Sadly, almost exactly 70 years after his hiring at the cartoon factory, Barbera died Monday of natural causes with his wife Sheila at his side, a spokesman for the family told news reporters. He was … Continue reading →