God Wants Me to Forgive Them !?!

God Wants Me to Forgive Them !?!


Release Date:

October 3, 1994

Rating

Mediokra

Review

Pros:

The character of Pa Grape is introduced.

A classic piece of literature is parodied in "The Grapes of Wrath."

Junior Asparagus injures himself in the first Veggie Tales attempt at an action sequence, and for some reason that strikes me as funny.
This episode contains two really fun catchy songs, "The Grapes of Wrath," and "Lagoon Song."

"Forgive-O-Matic" segment is pretty clever and funny.

Reference to Ch-ch-Chia products.

Reference to Ginsu knives.

I find it funny that a potato plays the role of a West Virginian miner.

"Gilligan's Island" is spoofed in "Larry's Lagoon" segment.

Bob gets smacked upside the head with a coconut, and that's, of course, funny.

Qwerty is caught playing a classic computer game.

Larry's dream about being a Russian ice breaker captain.

Larry's futile attempt to leave the island.
All the things we learned we can make out of bamboo and coconuts.

Bob running through the jungle like a madman.

Clever positioning of vegetables climbing up a ladder and onto a helicopter to the point that you believe it was possible.

Episode contains a professional voice actor.

Cons:

Animation in this episode looks cheaper and sloppier than the animation in the previous episode half the time.

Larry is still experimenting with his low dopey voice at times.

Way too many close ups of characters' noses in "The Grapes of Wrath."

Dad Asparagus appears to be sporting a psychedelic necktie for the majority of the first segment.
Rosie should be nominated for having the most obnoxious voice on Veggie Tales.

Pa Grape's lack of eyes is never addressed.

"Grapes of Wrath" segment is kind of slow at times.

Junior gets pretty whiny at times.

Larry seems to imply that Junior should forgive the grapes because they are really sorry, but shouldn't Junior forgive the grapes even if they were never sorry?

Larry once again implies that the reason Junior should forgive them is because they said they were sorry, even though that kind of goes against the whole point of the show.

Bob and the others realize that they should have forgiven Larry for his failures only after they forgive each other for own crimes against each other, but it seems much more likely that they would have just gotten mad at each other like they had previously gotten mad at Larry.

The whole scene where they realize they were wrong not to forgive Larry feels slow and forced.
There is no Silly Songs with Larry segment in this show.

This whole show only contains two new original songs.

This show technically has three new songs, but one of them is "Some Veggies Went to Sea."

Segments


The Grapes of Wrath

Story By:

Phil Vischer

Songs Included:

We Are the Grapes of Wrath

The Forgive-O-Matic

Story By:

Phil Vischer

Larry's Lagoon

Story By:

Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki

Songs Included:

Some Veggies Went to Sea
Lagoon Song (performed by Jeff Morrow)