VeggieTales: The Wonderful World Of Auto-tainment!

VeggieTales: The Wonderful World Of Auto-tainment!

See The Future Of Musical Comedy Today!

G 2003 · 30 min · ★ 4.8 · Family, Fantasy, Animation, Music

Larry the Cucumber's vision of the future includes automated robotic hosts telling jokes with random punch lines and musical numbers in which the performers and themes are chosen entirely by chance. As Bob the Tomato quickly points out, the jokes of the future aren't very funny because they don't make sense. Worse, technical malfunctions in the Ventrilomatic hosts actually promote emotional instability. Nonetheless, Bob admits that Larry's vision of the future contains some very cool adaptations of classic songs like Gilbert and Sullivan's fast-talking "Modern Major General" and Binky the Aardvark's solo performance of Mozart's The Barber of Seville. Larry's vision of the future also includes an amusing animated short about greed called "Lunch." Junior Asparagus calls Bob and Larry back to the present with a final song celebrating God's unconditional love.

Directed by Mike Nawrocki · Written by Mike Nawrocki

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Mike Nawrocki Larry the Cucumber (voice)
Mike Nawrocki Jean-Claude Pea (voice)
Phil Vischer Bob the Tomato (voice)
Phil Vischer Archibald Asparagus (voice)
Phil Vischer Mr. Lunt (voice)
Phil Vischer Pa Grape (voice)
Phil Vischer Phillipe Pea (voice)
Lisa Vischer Junior Asparagus (voice)
Ron Smith Rusty / The Ventril-o-matic (voice)

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