There are some “product pitch” meetings at which I would dearly love to have been a fly in the wall:
PRODUCER: “So, what have you guys got?”
CREATOR #1: “Well, it’s an animated show for kids.”
PRODUCER: “Who are your characters?”
CREATOR #2: “Vegetables.”
PRODUCER: “What?”
CREATOR #1: “Vegetables! We’ve got an animated tomato, a stalk of celery, a couple of squashes, maybe a blueberry and some others….”
PRODUCER: “Talking vegetables.”
CREATOR #2: “Sure!”
PRODUCER: “And what do these vegetables do? Have battles? Fight off evil fruits from outer space?”
CREATOR #1: “Nope. Our veggies will actually perform little skits and stories, some of which will be based on Bible stories, but all of which will teach constructive values to the kids!”
PRODUCER: “Vegetables.”
CREATOR #2: “Yup.”
PRODUCER: “Teaching values.”
CREATOR #1: “Yup.”
PRODUCER: “Veggies teaching values.”
BOTH CREATORS: “Yes!!”
PRODUCER: “Are we calling it The Righteous Produce?”
CREATOR #1: “Uhhh….no. VeggieTales.”
PRODUCER: “VeggieTales.” [thinks a minute] “OK, here’s your development money. How wacky can it be?”
[Exeunt CREATORS.]
PRODUCER: “Those guys are gonna lost their shirts….”
[Six months later….]
CREATOR #1: “Hey, the PRODUCER just sent us a Christmas card. Guess we’re a hit!”
CREATOR #2: “Of course we’re a hit! Who couldn’t like Veggies?”
CREATOR #1: “There’s a postscript here….he wants us to think about adding an evil lima bean colony from Mars.”
CREATOR #2: “No.”
(VeggieTales is one of the cleverest things I’ve ever seen in a kid’s show. Seriously. Sometimes the goofiest concepts are the best.)
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