It was produced through the partnerships of TBN, NBCUniversal, Big Idea Entertainment, and Trilogy Animation, and ran from October 22, 2019, to April 1, 2022.
Among the show's episodes are a nine-episode arc about the fruit of the Spirit, and stories focusing on LarryBoy and the League of Incredible Vegetables.
[17] DreamWorks replaced the original creative crew that had been working at Big Idea Entertainment for nearly two decades with an entirely new team of nearly 75 artists led under the direction of Doug TenNapel.
While the last season of VeggieTales in the City premiered on Netflix in the fall of 2017, marketing employees continued to work for Big Idea Entertainment.
[25] As discussions to revise the series began to take place in 2018, NBCUniversal, would now manage Big Idea Entertainment itself as a in-name-only subsidiary through DreamWorks Classics.
In late 2018, Vischer received a phone call from The Trinity Broadcast Network, which was in talks to license VeggieTales from NBCUniversal in order to create a new reboot.
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?
Lesson: God Being With Us (the True Meaning of Christmas) 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.
Lesson: Getting Along With Others (Fruit of the Spirit: Peace) Larry the Cucumber is a finalist to receive a lifetime supply of Doodle-Whoppers Cookies!
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.
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) Mr. Nezzer is approached by renowned playwright, ShakeSparagus, who was extremely impressed by Larry’s performance in the last 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.
As the cast prepares for the night’s show, Madame Blueberry returns from vacation and discovers her prized plant had died.
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.
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.
Petunia Rhubarb 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.
Lesson: Forgiveness When Madame Blueberry develops a bad case of the hiccups, the opera she is set to perform is called off.
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.
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.
A tabloid TV reporter, Adele Pepper, gives The League of Incredible Vegetables non-stop coverage, ostensibly to celebrate their exploits.
Buttons Crimini is determined to sow seeds of discord among the Leaguers and break up the team of the Incredible Vegetables with their infighting.
Ricochet exposes the plot, and with Alfred’s help they convince LarryBoy, Thingamabob, Vogue and S-Cape to “forgive one another and walk in love.” The teammates reunite in time to thwart Buttons Crimini’s evil plan.
After nearly two years of doing shows, the Nezzer theater is beginning to fall apart with leaky pipes, power outages, and cracks in the walls and roof.
He quickly replaces the opening act of the show with a song by Jimmy and Jerry, but the performance is ruined as the stage collapses.