VeggieTales: God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!

I guess I must be a simple person because I love this video! It makes my whole family laugh out loud, and my husband and I LOVE the spoofs. I'm pretty sure they got permission do the spoofs. Saturday Night Live, Mad Magazine/TV, and Weird Al do it all the time and rarely (if at all) get sued over copyright infringement. Anyway, I love the song that Palmy sings about forgiveness. It gets stuck in your head all day, but what better moral to get stuck in your head??? As a Christian parent, I am glad to have this alternative. It's nice to give the kids a break from the "rude" cartoons that they show on TV these days. Also, this one is the second story that Mike Nawrocki and Phil Vischer did in the Veggie Tales Series, which makes for a great collector's item. If you get the DVD, it contains lots of cool special features and quite a few easter eggs (hidden special features within the different menus). My kids want to watch this one over and over, and I never get tired of it!!

While this episode may have low quality, this show will stay good for its tales of grumpy grapes, forgive-o-matics, and a cucumber Gillian on the island. I like this episode as it teaches a very important lesson, and tells it through a pretty hilarious Gillian's Island parody. I recommend this episode to families that need to teach their children to forgive each other.

Veggietales are a Christian video series whose characters are all vegetables or fruit (I say this because the main characters are Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber, which are both technically fruit).

The animation get a little sharper and more fluid with each new video, and the basic children's morality message is intertwined with adult-level cultural references and humor - adults will want to watch the episode away from the kids, so they can see what they're missing over the giggling!

The best part about these videos is that while they are undoubtedly Christian in nature, the actual Christianity is not very blatant. They never suggest that Christianity is the only true path. Except for the Christmas video and the occasional New-Testament quote at the end, the values and stories are common to Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

"God Wants Me to Forgive THEM?!" is the weakest of the series for several reasons. This was the second video in the series; the first, "Where's God When I'm Scared," had a "Silly Song" in the middle, and ended with "tune in next time..." but there wasn't a "Silly Song" in this one. The format of two fifteen-minute episodes rather than half an hour with an intermission gives less time to develop plot. And this particular episode is dripping with potential copyright infringement: the first half is entitled "The Grapes of Wrath," the second half is a "Gilligan's Island" spoof that introduces all the characters in a spoken version of the 1960's theme song (except the "movie star and that other girl" canceled). The intermission scene, the funny "Forgive-O-Matic," mentions infomercial classics Ronco, Ginsu, and Chia Pet by name.

If you're building a collection, though - this is the one to get. It is the only one I have not seen in the series' current release on light green videocassettes.

While this was the second veggietales made. It had to many creepy closeups and had no silly song with larry but the moral is nice and the voice for Larry is a lot better

I got this one recently (2002) because it was one of the few Veggie Tale videos we hadn't seen and it is nowhere as good as the current ones on the market. The stories are not as funny. I think the other comments are a little harsh. Sure they spoof Gilligans Island and the Grapes of Wrath, but I don't see that as a negative. I just think they could have done a better job doing it.