![]() Larry claims that he can’t get in the way of progress, possibly alluding to how many of the staff members felt during the production transfer (“Should we stay as we are and do our own thing, or conform to what others want but improve our income and resources?”). At first, Bob is worried about these futuristic changes, claiming that he doesn’t want to lose his job to robots (likely a reference to serious job loss threats under the recent contracts that the writers and voice actors surely went through). ![]() However, the show returned to its normal format after Autotainment. So just what was this wacko Veggietales installment? I like to think of it as the writers expressing their experience under a new production company, and a meta critique on the state of comedy and media in general. It is not uncommon for a show to go through an odd restructuring after a production shift. This was the first video Big Idea created after being acquired by Classic Media and Warner Bros. There’s no QWERTY Bible passage, no story with a definite moral attached to it, and nothing that one would expect from a Veggietales cartoon. The program goes on to provide the viewer with randomized sketch comedy provided by the Veggietales cast (also chosen at random), determined by pairs of balls with concepts written on them (think the “idea balls” or “manatee jokes” from South Park’s attack on Family Guy). When Bob questions this using Larry’s logic, his response is that a theme song was played because what Larry had earlier said made it unexpected. ![]() After some brief dialogue, the “Wonderful World of Autotainment” theme song is played. The white space then transfers into a futuristic game show-like setting, with robot hosts and randomized sketch comedy equipment. This is because, according to Larry, unexpectedness translates into comedy. In the future, Larry explains, comedy will be randomized, and jokes will be delivered by robots programmed to randomize punchlines. Larry tells Bob that the normal Veggietales format has changed to make way for the future. He explains to Bob that the format of the show has changed. The episode starts off with Larry refusing to carry on with the normal theme song (stating that theme songs are too predictable), and begins lecturing Bob in a plain white space apparently located in the future (“The future’s been white since the 70s”). Remember that really weird episode of Veggietales that just made absolutely no sense and was absolutely nothing like Veggietales?
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