“VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children’s videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.”

—  Phil Vischer

Source: The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables (2005), p. 1

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