Is Veggie Tales Lord of the Rings a Masterpiece?

The Lord of the Beans is simultaneously the best and worst adaptation of the Lord of the Rings that I’ve ever seen, and I’m not sure how to cope with that information.

Citations are available upon request!

[DGol]

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."

[monkfishy]

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

[McFlingleson]

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.

[mxstrikk]

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

[steveschritz]

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.”

[JoanieDoeShadow]

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.

[sarahs]

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”

[Anastas]

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.

[JohnRobertson]

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 😊

[jairlyra]

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 😂😂😂

[danieloutloud]

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 .

[lolli_popples]

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

[Hercules_Flexing]

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.

[theatand]

You no longer had to stand over whatever you were cooking to ensure it was not overcooked.

It is a labor saving device.

[mintymichael]

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

[itsajem]

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

[RoninCatholic]

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.

[gaspartiznado]

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

[StepperBox]

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.

[tiberiuscodius]

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