Gideon: Tuba Warrior
| Gideon Tuba Warrior | |
|---|---|
 DVD cover | |
| Directed by |
Tim Hodge Brian K. Roberts |
| Produced by | David Pitts |
| Written by |
Mike Nawrocki Robert G. Lee |
| Starring |
Phil Vischer Mike Nawrocki Brian K. Roberts Lisa Vischer Kristin Blegen Ally Nawrocki |
| Music by | Kurt Heinecke |
| Edited by | J. Chris Wall |
Production company |
Big Idea Productions |
| Distributed by | Word Entertainment, Sony Wonder |
Release dates | October 4, 2007 |
Running time | 44 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Gideon: Tuba Warrior is the 30th VeggieTales episode. It was released in Christian bookstores on October 4, 2007, and was released in general market stores on October 7, 2007. The story is an adaptation of the Biblical story of Gideon from the Book of Judges. Its lesson is about trusting God.
Plot
As the show opens on the counter-top, The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything burst in to host the show, overriding Bob and Larry. After reluctantly giving in, Bob walks off (leaving Larry, who is one of the Pirates), the Pirates read the letter, which asks, in essence, whether to trust God. The Captain, aka, Pa Grape, then tells the story of George Müller a man who "trusted God for everything."
The story is narrated by the Captain, as he tells it through the eyes of his ancestor Great-Grandfather Simon, a reporter for the Bristol Snoop, a tabloid-like newspaper. He goes to George Muller's (Archibald Asparagus) orphanage and asks him non-sense questions ("Is it true you are running a school for alien dolphins?", "This is a turkey with the head of a cat") until he comes in with Muller to find that the orphanage is out of food and the orphans cannot eat breakfast the next day. They pray to God for food and the next day when Simon offers to go out and buy them food some friend of Muller's miraculously comes in and offers the children milk and bread.
In the Silly Song, the Pirates are declared too busy to do the song and thus, Bob the Tomato is caught off-guard and thrust into a ukelele-karaoke featuring the French Peas dressed up as "dancing hula-turtles!" Despite being initially enthusiastic, he becomes increasingly frantic and confused as the music and lyrics turn from standard ukelele music into non-sensical ramblings (after he had accidentally shredded his copy of the music through a fan and the peas taped it up).
Afterwards, the story of Gideon is played featuring Larry The Cucumber in the title role. Beginning with a montage of floats, as a victory parade for conquering the Midianites, Gideon stops the parade to explain that the large amount of praise lavished on him was not his to take. He then tells the "true" account, in which he reluctantly chooses to defend his country against an undefeated army of over 30,000 excessively hairy pickles, the Midianites, after an angel (Pa Grape) appears to him. Initially, he doesn't want to, and says that he's not a warrior, that he's afraid of the dark and screams like a girl, to which the angel replies, "He (the Almighty) chose you", "to say the truth I'm afraid of the dark too," and "Put me in the dark and I scream like a girl too." Gideon then asks for the miracle of a wet fleece and dry ground, which when the sign is complete, asks for another sign that the fleece be dry and the ground around drenched. This sign is completed too and Gideon accepts his job. When Gideon's sizable army is reduced to six carrots and six peas, he learns to trust God and is able to defeat the Midianites with horns and flashlights.
Finishing on the countertop, the Pirates are confused about Gideon's story as they did not know who he was (beyond their knowledge of Gideons International). However, Bob comes on and acknowledges he put the story in when the Pirates seemed to be at a lack for inspiration. After congratulating the Pirates for a good job on the show, Qwerty gives a verse and the Captain declares his desire to make a Pirates Who Don't Do Anything movie. Nobody is interested at first, and the show ends with the Captain saying he hopes he can get the funds necessary.
Title Changes
This episodes title originally was "Gideon and the Horn of Scorn", but then was changed to Gideon: A Lesson in Trusting God, and now changed to its current title "Gideon Tuba Warrior".
Countertop
- Bob the Tomato as himself
- Larry the Cucumber as Himself and Pirate Larry
- Pa Grape as Captain Pa
- Mr. Lunt as Pirate Lunt
George Muller
- Pa Grape as Mr. Simon
- Archibald Asparagus as George Mueller
- Mom Asparagus as Mary Mueller
- Junior Asparagus, Laura Carrot, Annie, Don Gourdon, Unnamed Orphan Girl, Aaron and Percy Pea as orphans
Lance the Turtle
- Bob the tomato as himself
- The French Peas as "The Wiggly Turtle Tobbies"
Gideon
- Larry the Cucumber as Gideon
- Pa Grape as the Angel
- Mr. Nezzer as a Midianite
- other hairy pickles as Midianites
- Archibal Asparagus as an asparagus soldier
- Jimmy and Jerry Gourd as parade reporters
- The French Peas as football players
- other carrots and peas
- Citizens of Nineveh as Themselves
- Crazed Jopponian as Himself
- Joppa Cucumber as Himself
- The American Peas as Themselves and Warrior Band
- Carrot Men with Green Stripes Brown Rope as Themselves
- Carrot Men with Tan Pants Brown Rope as Themselves
- Unnamed Villager Old Man as Themselves and Warrior Band
- Carrot Men as Themselves and Warrior Band
Countertop
- Bob the Tomato as himself
- Larry the Cucumber as Pirate Larry
- Pa Grape as Captain Pa
- Mr. Lunt as Pirate Lunt
External links
- Gideon: Tuba Warrior at the Internet Movie Database
- Review from Families.com