The Biblical stories that are recreated on the show are most restricted to the Old Testament because the show's creator made a promise to his mother, who earned her PhD in theology, that he would never portray Jesus as a vegetable. She also requested that the vegetables could not be shown having a redemptive relationship with God, which is why Bob always tells the viewer "God made YOU special and loves YOU very much" instead of saying "us". Despite the former, in The Best Christmas Gift (2019), a pea plays baby Jesus in a Christmas pageant.
VeggieTales has been nominated for 3 Emmy Award, 4 Annie Award, 13 GMA Dove Awards, 1 International World Animation Celebration Festival Award, 2 Chicago Film Festival Awards, and 6 Parents Choice Awards.
Qubo/syndication controversy - The VeggieTales episodes airing on NBC/qubo have been edited for broadcast to remove most references to God at the request of NBC's standards and practices department. On the DVDs, each episode ends with "God made you special." and has at least one reference to Qwerty (their computer) that gives a verse relating to the episode and other "God" references throughout show that are removed for airing on NBC.
There is a running gag in every episode during the teleplays where a vegetable says, "High five!", and another vegetable says, "No hands.".
VeggieTales has a continuous back story that all of the cartoons are actually teleplays, performed by various vegetables and fruit that live together on the same kitchen counter top. Some of these characters have "real names", and take on various roles in the teleplays, although they will also frequently appear as themselves. Most of these "regulars" were established in the very earliest videos.