Sean Bean is the quintessential bean.

@Jess_of_the_Shire

Жыл бұрын

Now that is an excellent point

@TyZaTube

11 ай бұрын

This is correct!

@JoanieDoeShadow

11 ай бұрын

YES!

@ALaModePi

11 ай бұрын

Yes. But if they'd put him in the movie, he would have died in Act 2.

@mcfarvo

11 ай бұрын

One bean to rule them all

The silly song joke has nothing to do with "wife bad" humor because the elf is not his wife. Her first words are "do I know you?" making the joke that Larry's poetic love is entirely one-sided. He sings about their great love, and she bursts the balloon to tell him to go away. Maybe the only thing keeping it from sinister stalker territory is that the language barrier keeps him from hearing "no."

@felipemitchell3

11 ай бұрын

not the first or last time Larry waxes poetically about a love is entirely one-sided and completely unknown to its object, usually to actual objects

@micahphilson

11 ай бұрын

@@ek5371 Barbara *_MANATEE!_*

@ALRinaldi

11 ай бұрын

Don’t forget his Hat! Although I thing the audio visual, multimedia event is the best.

@lillilake7259

11 ай бұрын

I love it because it the song emphasizing Aragon's desire to be more like the elves, just are Ear-o-Corn was "impersonating" elves

@badusernam

11 ай бұрын

@@ALRinaldi cebUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

The "Crazy Looking Guy" has to be a Tom Bombadil reference, and no one can change my mind

@atlas_of_prescottia

2 ай бұрын

Indeed! It's wild to me that Tolkien criticized C. S. Lewis for including Father Christmas when he himself included Tom. Also, the crazy looking guy is simply a short scallion.

I always appreciated that Veggie Tales' answer to how its characters could manipulate objects without having hands appeared to be that everyone in this universe has mild telekinetic powers.

@alisaurus4224

11 ай бұрын

The most WTF moment for me is when the veggies use their typical walk-bounce to climb a rope ladder while having neither arms nor legs (In “God Wants Me to Forgive Them?!”, the Gilligan’s Island parody) Then again, said ladder was leading to a functioning helicopter the Professor made entirely of bamboo, so i may be overthinking a bit

@ALu-nq8rf

10 ай бұрын

They're vegetables, so they can use photosynthesis to float their items

@k9guy

8 ай бұрын

this is how Bilboi wears the tank top

It's clearly a baked bean. Baked in the fiery chasm of Mount Doom, by the Black Bean Lord Soyron.

@firiel2366

11 ай бұрын

"Soyron" why I oughtta

@LynetteTheMadScientist

11 ай бұрын

Soybeans are indeed the embodiment of evil. This checks out

@spencerlybbert

11 ай бұрын

mount legume(I know its a stretch)

@justyouraverageblackstar3672

11 ай бұрын

A BAKED BEAN?!

@lordtelion

11 ай бұрын

Every Britt will be able to answer that quicker than the Eagles can fly to Mordor

ok now you have to watch the "behind the scenes cast commentary" where the IN-UNIVERSE VEGGITALES CHARACTERS comment on the "filming" and playing the lord of beans characters

@allisongliot

Жыл бұрын

That actually was my favorite part.

@JoanieDoeShadow

11 ай бұрын

LOL I love the In-Universe and out of Universe commentaries that Phil & Mike make.

@ink1931

11 ай бұрын

The Jonah commentary by Larry and Mr. Lunt is perhaps the funniest audio commentary ever recorded

@jordanfairbourne6067

11 ай бұрын

🤯 where do I watch this? I need to know immediately lol

@Ringohulk777

11 ай бұрын

Mr. Lunts treadmill

When this movie came out, my church had a special LOTR night where we all came dressed up as different characters, ate popcorn, and watched it. It was very wholesome.

@chase5298

4 ай бұрын

being indoctrinated as a child isn't wholesome at all

@redc2367

3 ай бұрын

@@chase5298 WEE WOO WEE WOO REDDIT ALERT

@Plainjane1398

3 ай бұрын

​@@chase5298 oh I'm telling you right now 😂😂😂 this was only indoctrinating strange senses of humor. Also veggietales was on the cusp of beating Disney before a tragic accident.

@nathanmontgomery7865

2 ай бұрын

@@chase5298 It is wholesome if you are being indoctrinated into the cult of Tolkien.

Only a true Tolkien fan could meet a character like Falaminion-Tereglith, son of Therabil-Elithimon and think "Boy, that sure is a perfectly reasonable name that guy has! _I_ certainly have no problem, mechanical or otherwise, with referring to Falaminion-Tereglith, son of Therabil-Elithimon in full whenever I talk about him!". Also, I think the background flobbits and dusty townsfolk are carrots, at least most of them. They just look pale and "fleshy" due to the lighting in their scenes. VeggieTales seems to use carrots _a lot_ for background characters, though Junior's best friend and go-to "little girl" character Laura is also a carrot.

“Chocolate pudding spead over too much ham” instantly launched this into a top tier parody for me.

@jillpole

11 ай бұрын

For me it was "twelfety-twooth birthday"

@Plainjane1398

3 ай бұрын

It was honestly one of my fav ones. Also the Jonah story but only with the commentary on jaha

The Lord of the Beans is unironically the best parody of LOTR

@christophersanders3252

11 ай бұрын

I enjoy it. My favorite line was during Bilbo's speech- "I'm twice as tall as half of you and half as short as twice of you!"

@micahphilson

11 ай бұрын

It 100% is. After through-watching the LotR trilogy, it's required viewing! It somehow recounts all the major plot points of the movies, while just deconstructing it entirely and blasting it with humor! While other sources tear down and reconstruct for humor, Veggie Tales legitimately topped them all with a succinct chef's kiss with a bean on top!

@micahphilson

11 ай бұрын

@@christophersanders3252 Like chocolate pudding scraped across too much ham!

@TeomanBaraner

11 ай бұрын

Yes but because you dont know (maybe) the italian parody "Lo Svarione degli Anelli". Every jokes is all about dr0gs lol

@Nudelllsuppe

11 ай бұрын

​@@TeomanBaranersame with lord of the weed in german, cult classic over here.

The “crazy looking guy on a unicycle” is a scallion. Voiced by Charlie Pincher, he only voices the one character that makes small appearances in many episodes 😊

@traviscunningham7062

7 ай бұрын

He also voices the catapiller from Jonah.

You no longer had to stand over whatever you were cooking to ensure it was not overcooked. It is a labor saving device.

My fav part is where they’re trying to decipher the riddle on the gate. It appears to have only a short sentence above the gate, but the Gandalf character reads it as a whole long riddle. “It’s a highly efficient tongue,” he explains. “You can fit a whole book on a napkin.”

@cameleopard42

11 ай бұрын

Wow, just like reformed Egyptian

@saoirse_miller

11 ай бұрын

@@cameleopard42LMAOOO

@generalalduin9548

11 ай бұрын

That’s like the best joke of the movie, right behind making the Orcs into living sporks

@StepperBox

11 ай бұрын

Same!

@WaffleGlobal

11 ай бұрын

@@cameleopard42oHO!! Very good sir!

The elvish impersonator line actually got me though, there’s so many levels to that joke and I’m convinced that the whole reason they made this episode was so they could make that joke with the silly song segment

@philipgood5041

11 ай бұрын

Damn you I just got that joke f*CK that's so good and so bad at the same time

@joshuasmith2486

11 ай бұрын

@@philipgood5041 welcome to silly songs with Larry. There to make kids laugh.

@SingingSpock

11 ай бұрын

It's a great line. "You're no elf! You're an Elvish impersonator! You sicken me, deceitful one!"

@hunterolson1756

11 ай бұрын

"give the gourd a bow and arrow and he's a real elf!" Is something I say to this day

My favorite joke of this episode was the language bit over the blue gate. Where the overly large complicated riddle seems to be only a few squiggles. When Larry questions it, Gandolf explains that you can fit a whole book on a napkin. For some reason that stuck with me.

That whole 'Treeson' gag knocked me out of my chair... just because all of the 'cannot laugh' drama had me very anxious so I didn't expect what came to be. I'm a fan of those 'first to laugh loses' youtube videos because of these type of situations so maybe it's partially due to my... imagination. lol

My brother wrote a stage adaptation of the Lord of the Beans for our kids church when I was probably about nine and I played one of the children in the land of woe. As I remember it, my line was “please sir, help us”

@Jess_of_the_Shire

11 ай бұрын

Your brother is powerful beyond belief

@hurinthalion5984

11 ай бұрын

my sibling in Christ that is amazing

@skellington8090

9 ай бұрын

Dang, I wish I could’ve seen it! It sounds awesome!

@MitchYurko

7 ай бұрын

please tell me there is a home video of this somewhere!

It has been mentioned by the character artists at "Big Idea" productions that making a variety of vegetable characters is time consuming and expensive so it was decided early on to make crowds and such all be carrots ( pointy end up ) . These are simple to model , clothe , etc. so , what looks like "fleshy fingers" to you are carrots .

@GeekTeach

11 ай бұрын

She caught that the children were peas, but didn't default to carrots. It seems our Part Time Hobbit is unaware of Forrest Gump as well 😁

@D_and_B_Gaming

11 ай бұрын

Spot on! They're carrots.

@JoshuaWillis89

11 ай бұрын

Makes sense. They look more like parsnips in this episode, but basically same thing.

@BatTCK

11 ай бұрын

The one episode they did try that was Larryboy and the Rumor Weed. Big vegetable crowd at the end, but time consuming and expensive.

@cimoirine

11 ай бұрын

The comment I was looking for! Carrots!!

Talking about hands, there was a vegietales parody on Jekyll and Hyde and there walking shots with shoes and another shot where you saw hands and the inspector was freaked out and yelled “the feet! The feet!”, and did the same for the hands. It was hilarious.

This was amazing. The only other Veggie Tale experience I have is the Yodeling Veterinarians of the Alps. As for the quiz, I got the First Bean which is good because I love food. Lastly, I can slowly the descent into madness as you describe this, and I can't help but laugh.

The other Elf exists because it's Jerry Gourd. For most of Veggies Tales history Jimmy and Jerry were a package deal, with the exception of Boyz In The Sink. The Ultimate duo of veggies. So you make one of them the elf we're expecting and the other one the unexpected tag-a-long that the fellowship of the bean needed.

@Roescoe

11 ай бұрын

Yup a lot of the reasons for the characters is because they are "acting a role" in the story. Veggie tales is very meta.

@lpb8733

11 ай бұрын

The other elf is the keebler elf. My kids picked up on it right away, because of the costume. Then the cookies baked in a tree at the end.

@lilannegirl03

11 ай бұрын

​@@lpb8733yes, exactly!! "nothing tastes better than cookies baked in a tree"! 😂

@raineredacted161

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, not anything to do with the plot just a fun injoke that was really nice

@therogueaxolotl.

11 ай бұрын

I see him as a stand in for Boromir and the other hobbits. He abandons the group, but ultimately saves them by being bait. And the sporks go after him like the orks go after merry and pippen.

I love how she's not bothered by the fact that the veggies hold things by just floating them around for not having hands, but is bothered by a veggie using tank top without shoulders 😂😂😂

I got the Third Bean in the quiz. Also I LOVED this special growing up. I grew up in a very Christian household so Veggie Tales was kind of a household name for me. I had a lot of the VHS tapes. Since I also grew up loving LOTR... when this came out I was really excited and it didn't disappoint.

Before I became King, I was Jimmy's and Jerry Gourd's agent and they are something of an inseparable duo. Other Elf was the compromise to keep them together, as we had initially requested one of them play "Aragourd," which I still contend is better than a cucumber playing... Ear-O-Corn.

I just assumed the crazy guy on the unicycle was Tom Bombadil and also a Scallion. My wife confirms she had the same assumption.

@a-s-greig

11 ай бұрын

Technically he's Charlie Pincher, and not any of the three unnamed Scallions. Debuted as a convict in "The Star of Christmas" (2002). One of my favorite Christmas specials in any media I might add.

@BoHorn

11 ай бұрын

It’s definitely tom bombadil,but could it be bok choy? It would rhyme with his song and greeting.

@paulburris5216

11 ай бұрын

I think it's a leek.

@BoHorn

11 ай бұрын

@@paulburris5216 I think ur right

I can't believe you skipped over Grumpy the Dwarf's first line of dialog: "could we have parked any further away??" and the part of Bilboy's speech where he goes "I'm twice as tall as half of you, and half as short as twice of you" and the flobbits look very confused, that was the funniest shit😂

@pamdawkins13

10 ай бұрын

My favourite thing about that is that I always thought it was hilarious, but then I watched Lord of the rings for the first time, and realized that the shot of the two confused flobbits is directly paralleling a shot in Lord of the rings, and it became even funnier.

Remember renting this from Netflix before it became a streaming service remember coming home from school and watching it a few times didn't know veggietales was similar versions of Hollywood movies at the time but i do appreciate the lesson of this episode ❤❤ as someone who didn't have a lot when first coming up in life this series means a lot to me in general

The fact that talking vegetables with invisible appendages and a limited budget have made a better adaptation of LotR than Amazon did.

As long as the fruit or vegetable isn't sentient, the Veggie characters are free to eat them. This was something that was addressed in the behind-the-scenes for Duke and the Great Pie War. Also, most background characters are portrayed as carrots.

@ReanimationLabs2000-et9ve

11 ай бұрын

Just like Pluto and Goofy. Both are dogs, but only one is sapient.

@bryanegelhoffsanimationtec257

11 ай бұрын

I remember in certain specials like Larry Boy and the Rumor Weed, some of the background characters were pumpkins and mushrooms. But I'm guessing they used mainly carrots in later specials to cut costs. Also, I'm surprised only one special used an apple character, as well as the whole pumpkin and mushroom thing.

@stevenunderwood9935

11 ай бұрын

@@bryanegelhoffsanimationtec257 Yeah, in the behind the scenes of Moe and the Big Exit, it was explained that the creators were afraid that too much variety in vegetable background characters would be too visually distracting. As a kid I really liked that aspect about Rumor Weed. :)

The most memorable thing I remember from that film is they have a commentary track done by the characters as thought they were just actors in this movie, and I will never forget the one stupid joke that made me laugh. They claimed that they filmed Lord of the Beans in Old Zealand.

@duncanmagee

9 ай бұрын

new pealand would have been better

@Plainjane1398

3 ай бұрын

Wait they did it for that one too!!!! I need to find this😂😂😂

@seatbelttruck

2 ай бұрын

My favorite is the fact that they apparently compressed Archibald with a sideways cummerbund to make him short in the last scene.

I wanted to scream, at the top of my voice, _CARROTS WOMAN, THEY'RE CARROTS!!!_ But to be fair, they look so strange with the hair and clothes. I only know this because they've made every background character a carrot or pea since the Jonah movie.

I loved this episode as a kid and it was actually my first real exposure to Lord of the Rings! Rewatching it now that I get all the jokes is so much fun lol This was such a fun video! also, I too am the Fourth Bean, and together we will summon a million crock pots and air fryers

13:42 To answer your question, the character on the unicycle doesn’t have a name in the story, but is played by the recurring veggie named Charlie Pincher. He’s an old scallion who often plays crotchety or sage characters. Hope this helps clear things up! Love this vid btw. You’re so fun and engaging.

@drew_thedrawer

Жыл бұрын

20:47 Also those background veggies… they’re just carrots, ma’am. … Pale, emaciated carrots.

@seshiontheartist951

11 ай бұрын

The character on the unicycle is supposed to be Tom bombadil. He's in the books but not in any of the movies

@CrankyGrandma

11 ай бұрын

@@seshiontheartist951 yes! As soon as he came up singing I said “Bombadil!”

@azmendozafamily

11 ай бұрын

A true sage of culture!

@wonder5487

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! I thought he was a leek.

As a veteran VeggieTales watcher, the random scary looking man makes appearances in many VeggieTales episodes as a wacky side character when needed. I actually had to google it, but his name is Charlie Pincher officially. So, we both learned something new. But he’s a very distinct and recognizable character that I still have in my mind to this day.

@marshall5319

11 ай бұрын

He kinda looks like a leek

@Wendy_O._Koopa

11 ай бұрын

I always assumed he was Scallion #4

@brumagemm

11 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the sprouts that pop out of aging garlic bulbs lol

@JLLunsford1

10 ай бұрын

Is he playing the part of Tom Bombadill?

@CCClarinet12

10 ай бұрын

@@Wendy_O._Koopasame

The third bean is fantastic, as am I. Also, this is the first video I've seen of you therefore I was blown away by your rats names. Probably the coolest names I've ever heard 😂❤

It is incredibly rare that I watch one video from someone I've never heard of before and immediately subscribe. Looking forward to watching more of your content

The key difference between the Bean and the Ring is that the Bean is directly a metaphor/allegory for your natural talents as a member of the audience while the Ring is meant primarily as an in-universe artefact of evil magic and is _somewhat applicable to_ metaphorical analysis as representing the use of unethical means to achieve your goals. No matter how altruistic your desires, using evil powers or evil actions to attempt this will always lead to ruin. The Bean, however, is _meant_ to be used - to simply sit on it and not use it when you could use it to help others is unethical.

Ok but the idea of the orks being sporks is genius. Incredible idea.

He's not crazy looking guy he's a lucky boy with a new umbrella and it's his pride and joy

This is just a theory, but I always believe that throughout the "Lord of the Rings" franchise, (the book series and the movie series) there was either little or no knowledge of Frodo's mother and father. Come to think of it, I often wondered if Bilbo was older than Frodo's parents or if he was younger than them. BTW, about the flobbits and the people in the Land of Woe. The flobbits were obviously carrots and probably pears or mangos, 🥕🍐🥭 while the people in the Land of Woe were carrots and peas.🥕 That makes sense. Doesn't it?

@seatbelttruck

2 ай бұрын

Frodo's parents were "drownded" when they went boating on the Brandywine River. They were younger than Bilbo.

I know it was a parody, but the idea of an AU where the ring (or bean) is a neutral tool rather than inherently evil is fascinating to me. I'd be interested in seeing more fantasy stories play with that idea. And the way this one ended is actually pretty heartwarming imo.

@evangelinewood3325

11 ай бұрын

Honestly, yeah. I like the trope of an evil artifact that corrupts its holder, but it's a bit played out at this point. An artifact that is neither good nor evil, and instead just gives power to its holder, leaving it entirely in the holder's hands how they'll use the power, is an idea I'd love to see more of. Also I love integrating comedy elements into fantasy stories. So I kind of like the concept of an ancient magical artifact as old as time itself that just creates incredibly niche, specific, and usually useless objects. It'd be a clever joke given the right context.

@adrianen4644

11 ай бұрын

@@evangelinewood3325 I feel like the triforce could probably count there. Although it splits up when misused, it can still be used for good and evil in that state, as seen in all three main characters using their respective piece of it.

@joelpartee594

11 ай бұрын

Tolkien himself explored that with the Silmarils. Not only were they not inherently evil, they were clearly good, both in the source of their light and in their being hallowed by Varda.

Fun fact, one of the composers for VeggieTales actually bought my house growing up. I got to meet Larry the cucumber 😂

@mollycblaeser

11 ай бұрын

Whaaaa?! That's so cool!

@yikesgina

5 ай бұрын

I love it.

Loved this video Jess! Being a massive Tolkien fan AND having a soft spot for Veggietales stories (my kids grew up on them), this was a home run for me. A few of my own inputs here... This isn't the only time the Veggietales team pokes fun at themselves for the veggie's lack of hands... I vaguely remember an episode where Bob the Tomato asks Larry why or how he's wearing gloves, and Larry just tossing the issue aside with an "I dunno" before the plot moves along... one of the endearing comical qualities of the series, in my opinion. I think the Hobbits (aside from the Baggypantses) and the residents of the village in the Land of Woe are all supposed to be carrots... and the creepy guy, I think, was supposed to be a leek. I agree that Lord of the Beans wasn't meant as an adaptation as much as an honoring parody that was used to teach a moral lesson. After one of the times watching it with my kids, I wondered what Tolkien would have thought had he seen it... and whether or not Christopher was aware of it and what his opinion was.

You have such dedication 🤩 You do so much for us, appreciate

One thing is sure: they're really good at making parodies, puns, and gags whether too on the nose or not. It makes sense in the end and doesn't feel too overly chaotic or nonsensical. Just that right amount of "Monty python-esque" humor with pop culture references, and maybe even some not so pop culture references too at times.

To discuss the "which vegetable are the flobbits" question, I look at it like this. In VeggieTales, we are watching a group of characters act out other stories (think the Muppets like in Christmas Carol). Thus, they are playing flobbits, but are still the vegetables they are. Like, Elijah Wood is a human, but played a hobbit. Does that make any sense?

@markpolo97

11 ай бұрын

I think the background characters are carrots.

@SkippyStuff

11 ай бұрын

It makes perfect sense. In other episodes, background characters are just peas and carrots.

@brandelynnefreleng7597

11 ай бұрын

As someone who watched veggie tales as a kid, this tracks with all of the VT lore I know of.

@mikedrop4421

11 ай бұрын

​@@SkippyStuff that's actually a joke too since Legend has it peas and carrots is what background characters are instructed to say in movies and TV shows due to the fact peas and carrots are tough words to lip-read

@Jason0binladen

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I mean they're not even flesh colored they're orange

3:56 [Core memory unlocked] the bean is established later to have the power to summon anything the wielder wishes for. Bilboy threw down the bean to summon a cake, then slipped away while everyone was distracted

14:18-14:23 as someone who used to dabble with Tolkien lore, the "crazy looking guy" is meant to, as I see it, embody Tom Bombadil from the Lord of the Rings books. I also see now that in 14:44-14:50 you've realized that, but here me out: Tom Bombadil in the books tried on the ring of power once, and found no use for it. He didn't value its power, or let it consume him. He just vibes. As for "crazy looking guy" I think the point is that he's meant to embody someone using their gift wisely. The "gift" in question being his umbrella. It's very on the nose, yet no one seems to get it. He's what Toto is meant to be like, just like Frodo and the ring compared to Tom Bombadil - not being consumed by it. I hope this helps!

A crime you didn't show the line "I'm twice as tall as half of you and half as short as twice of you" absolute stellar line right there

Most of the background characters are carrots. Also disappointed you didn't mention the "veggie commentary" of LOTB, in which Larry, Jimmy and Pa talk about the behind the scenes of filming it in Old Zealand.

I love how I gotten acquainted with your channel trough to your exploits in medieval make up and food … and ended up also watching your detailed expose on veggietales. You have class. Also my apologies for you having to go through this.

You just earned yourself a subscriber, excellent video! Also, First Bean team for life. Also Also the background characters are Carrots. Also Also Also The real Veggietales lore is that all of the characters are in-universe actors using props and such on a kitchen counter for most episodes while the "movies" have a bigger budget for special effects.

I guess to add some context to how the gift angle is portrayed, I believe series creator Phil Vischer discussed in his autobiography titled "Me, Myself and Bob" that this episode's message was somewhat inspired by his own life experiences that led to the creation of VeggieTales itself. Phil was a boy fascinated with film and puppetry at a young age and was clearly gifted at it as noted by many of his peers and family. He wanted to use his gifts at telling fun stories with fun characters to preach the same Christian morals that just so happened to change his life and ideology in the hopes that creating VeggieTales would in some tangential way leave the world in a better place than it would be without it. The message of Lord of the Beans can easily fall under scrutiny when compared to the message of the source it's clearly parodying but when you consider how it directly ties into the creation of VeggieTales, I think it takes on a whole other meaning distinct to itself rather than just another parody. It serves (at least to me) as an example that you can use your gifts and talents to help/inspire other people and possibly even make their lives better. I remember getting this episode for Christmas when I was 5 years old and finding that message very resonant to myself at the time and it remained in the back of my head since I watched it even as I drifted away from religion as a whole in recent years. It was something that was very important for me to hear at the time, and I think that along with how much funnier it's gotten the older I get is what makes it probably my favorite episode of the show. This obviously isn't something that a casual onlooker would be aware of for obvious reasons (it really requires a bit of a deep dive) so I figured it was worth noting here

Fun little fact: Shortly after this episode's release, Phil Vischer, the director/creator of Veggietales, got a cease-and-desist notice from New Line Cinema about them illegally parodying the "Lord of the Rings" films without permission. They had parodied a good number of things before, including Star Trek, Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hide, Batman, and Phantom of the Opera. But in all of those they deviated more from the original source, or didn't do the entire show as the parody. I want to say it was removed from the shelves because of this cease and desist order, but I could be wrong on that.

@SirTheory

11 ай бұрын

I worked in a Christian bookstore during this era and I don't remember us having to remove LotB at any point for any reason. I might be misremembering, of course, cuz that was ages ago lol. I did a smidge of research (ie, I googled the episode with "cease and desist") and it seems like the C&D is why that episode didn't appear in a compilation release, but the individual DVD release has been and remains available. That said, I'm not sure how I feel about the sources that came up on my search (essentially IMDb's trivia page and TVTropes's trivia page) and I wouldn't be entirely shocked if there are other reasons LotB wasn't included in the compilation (namely, being popular enough to sell on an individual basis lol). Anyway, parodies are pretty well protected by US law; there are nuances to the law that I don't know/understand, and perhaps there is something in LotB that could have made a lawsuit dicey, but my gut feeling is that a C&D would have been sent more as an attempt to strongarm a smaller studio than actual intent to bring about a lawsuit.

@dimpledwonder7461

11 ай бұрын

You don’t need permission to parody. There’s a law for it

@alisaurus4224

11 ай бұрын

Jekyll & Hyde and Phantom are old enough to be public domain, unless they were specifically copying ALW’s musical

@Schampu4000

10 ай бұрын

Good. They fuckin deserved the cease and desist

@yikesgina

5 ай бұрын

I got my niece a copy for her birthday 😂

You make me laugh to the point of avoiding drinks whilst watching... and I'm glad you exist. This is your best comedy IMHO.

This is something that I never would have thought could exist ever, yet I am most glad it does.

After seeing all the obscure pre PJ Lotr adaptions it's kinda interesting to see this "adaptation" (parody?) and which parts it takes and leaves. What I find most notable is how they completely remove Sauron (arguably the most important character in the original) in favour of Saruman, because he is so much easier to explain. Oh yeah, also, I'm the first bean! Free cheese!

@dr.insaneoiv

11 ай бұрын

It's a parody.

I saw this when I was a kid! It was very funny. I find it funny that I'm a vegetarian now. Edit: most of the extras are carrots. The ones in the land of woe have a subtle sepia filter, making their orangeness less apparent. Also, they are smooth because textures were expensive in 2005, so "smooth" was what they could afford.

The fact you made that quiz really shows dedication. I got the shapechange bean!!

Parsnips, mushrooms, casava...hearts of palm... for those mysterious plants of dubious designation.

I'm sure this is elsewhere in the comments: the "Other Elf" is the Keebler Elf. They can't call him that for copyright reasons, so they just awkwardly call him the Other Elf. He goes into a tree and makes cookies later.

@ryanchou2846

11 ай бұрын

This

@SkippyStuff

11 ай бұрын

I take it you didn't watch the whole video. She answered this question when she gets to that part of the story.

Lol I love over analyzing Veggie Tales. 😂 I also think the majority of the background veggies are actually carrots.🤔🥕

@Jess_of_the_Shire

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm....they'd have to be a pretty pale carrot....mayhaps a turnip?

@KarmasAB123

11 ай бұрын

@@Jess_of_the_Shire Parsnip?

@briankinney1871

11 ай бұрын

@@Jess_of_the_Shire These ones were pale because they were dusty and/or dehydrated.

@MaynardCrow

11 ай бұрын

@@Jess_of_the_ShireBudget isn't great and doesn't have a huge fanbase. They got to use whatever extras are willing to turnip.

@____thecommenter1569

11 ай бұрын

​@@MaynardCrow That was a top notch joke

My best guess, crazy looking umbrella guy is a leek.

As new as I am to your channel, I have never seen you this gloriously unhinged, and it is sublime. Cheers!

As a kid who did grow uo with Veggies Tales, and who read Lord of thw Rings as kid before watching the movies, Lord of the Beans was amazing! Also, the bwst thing about VeggieTales is that it never took itself too seriously. They constantly did crazy stuff for humor's sake.

I'm not surprised Lord of the Beans has a great song and is hilarious. I'm not Christian, my parents aren't Christian, but "Oh Where Is My Hairbrush" is part of our family's inside joke canon. It gets referenced waaaay more often than is proportional to a show I personally saw maybe like 3 times ever, at other people's houses, when I was little. Heck, I still remember seeing and enjoying the "love your neighbor" one, with them shaking down Larry for his milk money, the rhyming dialogue ("you people have ilk! How will I grow if I don't drink my milk!") and the song at the end. They make pretty funny and catchy stuff for a bible teaching kids program of singing vegetables

ok first off. i’m on the fourth bean team. so hell yeah. second off thank you for making this video, i’m going to be bingeing your channel all day tomorrow. you’ve managed to mix my favorite youtube format with my favorite piece of intellectual property!

Scallion #1 has been around sense the first episode of Veggie Tales and has never gotten a name, this keeps my up at night to this day and I am an adult now.

I seriously want to give her a big hug. I've grown up with veggietales so I know that the background characters are usually carrots, peas and parsnips, how there is often a part in the show where there is a silly song is not to be taken too seriously and is just there for humour, and the fact that it's more like a theatrical play with vegetable actors. But I can see now how this all can be quite confusing for those who are watching this for the first time. Everything is going to be okay Part Time Hobbit.

I (a certified Christian homeschooler) came here to explain that the Tom Bombadil character was played by Mr. Pincher and that most of the villagers and Flobbits are carrots, but y'all beat me to it. (Also a "pincher" can refer to a piece of a plant that you pinch off so that the plant puts more energy into growing vegetables. So Mr. Pincher might just be part of a tomato plant or something.)

@zachmercer1065

11 ай бұрын

“-might just be part of a tomato plant or something.” Are you telling me… that all this time… Mr. Pincher is where all of Bob the Tomato’s careless silliness went? I cannot accept this. I refuse to accept this. …yet this would perfectly explain why Bob is consistently the most mature and least silly character in all of Veggie Tales and I don’t know how to feel about that.

"He gave me the whole bean before he went and committed sudoku"

I'm Cuban-American and live in Miami, FL. In my neck of the woods black beans are by far the quintessential bean. lol

I believe the wiki has been updated as the Umbrella Guy is listed as Charlie Pincher, another scallion character and at one point part of the scallion trio. I don't know if this somehow suggests he was designed as an antagonist character but the scallions usually are. Additionally, I think the fleshy looking background characters are carrots

I believe that in VeggieTales lore, the characters are supposed to be human-sized. The best evidence I can think of for this is that in the movie *Jonah*, the titular character boards a pirate ship and sails the ocean. The waves, even during a tremendous storm, are about the size you’d expect IRL. If the vegetables (and thus, their ship) were to scale, the ocean swells would tower several stories above their heads. Thus, I’m pretty sure Mr. Lunt would weigh 100-200 lbs, making the 200 lb Peep still impossible for him to consume, but nowhere near 100x his weight. This is backed up by what we can see of the Peep, which suggests it was roughly the same size as Mr. Lunt, which would make no sense if he was only 2 lbs.

@AlexanderJWei

3 ай бұрын

Surely The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything! ;-)

The two gourds are together in every Veggie Tales movie

My kids grew up on VT. I am SO HAPPY hearing you say these names and recounting the this ridiculous story. 😂

This popped up on my recommended and after watching I was a happier bean than before. Please keep making content, your sense of humor and general vibe just rocks!

@Jess_of_the_Shire

Жыл бұрын

That's so sweet! I'm glad this video popped up for you, happy to have you stop by the channel!

congrats this is your magnum opus, you should be very proud of this thorough analysis, also there is a possibility that the lord of the beans was my second introduction to Tolkien's work after I watched The Two Towers at my cousins house go team second bean :)

@Jess_of_the_Shire

Жыл бұрын

I fully and gladly accept this as the peak of my career. It's great so many people connected to this as a kid! I can't imagine how many new LotR fans this made

Also...hot tip for spork sourcing...Natural Grocers. For some reason Light My Fire sporks are an impulse buy at checkout and I have amassed an obscene amount of them. I only mention this because statistically this will come around again as an imperative product in your video production.

A) the background characters are mostly carrots, although they are definitely less orange in this episode for some reason. B) veggie cannibalism is all over the series (pizza is a highly reocurring food that definitely still has tomato sauce) and one of my favorite things to go off the deep end about and make all of my friends concerned with my knowledge of a children's series.

This was fantastic commentary. The crazy veg (I think a leek?) is very much Tom Bombadil "Bright blue his jacket is and his boots are yellow" fellow. Singing about inanimate objects are a jam. Also, I always thought the other flobbits (and the dusty background characters) were carrots. But nothing has shaken me as much as the fact Mr. Lunt is not a potato....

So, you didn't get that the other elf was a Keebler elf? I saw it immediately and thought it was hilarious.

17:24 it's Merry and Pippin! At some point during Billboy's party, you can see the Pippin character running around and screaming because he somehow set himself on fire (I'm guessing he was playing with fireworks), and the Merry character is chasing him with a bucket of water, which he eventually dumps on Pippin🤣

Before my parents thought I was old enough to see LotR, we watched Lord of the Beans when it came out. It introduced the Tolkien universe to me, and not too long after, we finally watched the LotR trilogy. Then LotB again. And... Wow, are those amazing together! I've actually viewed LotB in its entirety far more than LotR (primarily because of their lengths), but LotB is one of my favorite most underrated shows. The music is incredible (and something LotR way undersold compared to Tolkien's books, he's huge on music!), the visuals are great, and it somehow showcasess many of the best iconic beats of the trilogy in raucous comedic fashion in a fraction of the time! So I'd say, while you may never be the type to watch the Bean, it's almost essential viewing after watching through the LotR trilogy!

My three kids grew up on Veggie Tales as they were born during the height of VeggieTales. I loved your reaction on the "Lord of the Beans", you really have to use your imagination with VeggieTales as they have no hands, feels, or shoulders.

I think the adult flobbits are colour muted carrots, which makes the pairing of pea children perfectly

Dang, I loved "Lord of the Beans." I WAS a big Veggie Tales fan, and I remember squealing with delight when I saw the ad for it before an earlier episode. I was disappointed by the lack of Sam, though... The "Crazy Looking guy" is Mr. Pincher (introduced in "The Star of Christmas") and I'm pretty sure he's a scallion. The background characters you're wondering about are carrots. If you look at the named carrot characters, like Laura, the design is similar. I'm a little sad you didn't express confusion on how Bilboy shrunk, because if you had I'd be able to point out the audio commentary, where they reveal that they compressed him with a sideways cummerbund.

"The Other Elf" is dressed like the Keebler elf, which is supposed to be a joke for grown-ups. At the end, he makes cookies inside the trunk of a tree. He comes out and says "Everyone likes cookies baked from a tree" just like the old Keebler commercials.

A wizard is never late, he arrives precisely when he beans to.

@a-s-greig

11 ай бұрын

*_*overly long laugh sequence*_*

You frogot to mention that the grape is constantly complaining about giving up dinner at his house

So the Crazy looking Guy was first featured in The Star of Christmas in 2002. His actual name, at least the name he used in that episode, is Charlie Pincher, and the wiki says he's a scallion. Makes sense since the top of his head(?) looks like other scallions in the show

If no one else has mentioned it, the extra elf character was a play off of the Keebler elf. At one point he goes into a tree and bakes cookies Also I'm fairly certain the fleshy characters are "baby" carrots with a weird color and the unknown plant character is most Iikely a wild onion of some sort

@MarySueSlayer

11 ай бұрын

I came here to explain the Keebler Elf thing and I'm so glad you beat me to it 😂

@Hannah-fe4yf

11 ай бұрын

This needs to be higher so everyone can understand

@wolffe6044

11 ай бұрын

Clearly, you three didn't watch the video.

The lack of hands is a running gag throughout VeggieTales. The tank top is just a more subtle instance than usual. Kidney beans are longer relative to their width, and less curved. I say that the One Bean is a pink bean. (I don't think there's any canonical description beyond just being a bean.) The quiz says I'm on Team First Bean. Wait, "wife bad"? I thought it was that the Elvish impersonator had a crush on the elf, their entire relationship was all in his head, and she was properly telling him to get lost. I think the flobbits are parsnips. Yes, popular opinion says carrots. But if you start with an animated carrot and change to a paler color palette, what do you have? A parsnip. They didn't change the themes of the story to fit the time constraints. They choose a Christian message, and then come up with a story to present it with. I'm an adult, I'm not Christian, and yes, I'm a fan of VeggieTales.

“And if I remember my 7th grade ‘diabolical languages class’” Randalf

Hi, just stumbled across your video and I love this. Lord of the Beans came along too late for me to experience during childhood but it looks like it was a genuine classic. Along a similar line of strange adaptations, have you covered/heard of Lord of the Peeps? It was an attempted near shot-for-short remake of LOTR using marshmallow peeps back in like 2007. I don't think they got much past leaving the shire, but what they did of it was legendary. Could be some fun lore to dredge up from the depths of Ye Olde Internette! :)

I grew up watching many Veggie Tales stories on VHS and DVD, including this one. When I get coffee, I frequently have "This is that bean!" line pop into my head lol.

This was a staple of my childhood 😅 Thank You Soooo much for covering it!!❤ Plus I got the third bean, which I'm not upset about 😂

@Jess_of_the_Shire

Жыл бұрын

It was a ton of fun! And the third bean rules. Not quite as cool as the fourth, but still pretty cool

Team Second Bean makes a lot of sense for me tbh. Loved the quiz (and the video!!) ! ❤

the thing i remember most about this movie was from the dvd special features, which was the cookie recipe the other elf supposedly made for the sporks

I sent Phil Vischer a message a while back about how I thought ‘Lyle the Kindly Viking’ is a masterpiece. We watch it at least twice per week as it’s my sons favorite.

@a-s-greig

11 ай бұрын

Was my favorite for years, too.

@mollycblaeser

11 ай бұрын

Omg my family & I still quote this! 🎼 I need to go the bathroom! 🎼 but it's a musical! 🎼