History WesternAnimation / JonahAVeggieTalesMovie

** Khalil claims that [[MalignedMixedMarriage his mother was a caterpillar, and his father was a worm]], which is pretty confusing considering how caterpillars are famously known as the larva stage of a butterfly, and therefore cannot have any offspring at that stage, unless his mother was a butterfly when she had him. That and the fact that worms of all kinds (earthworms, leeches, ribbon worms, etc.) aren't even in the same biological phylum as caterpillars/butterflies.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: While most trailers avoided this trope, [[https://youtu.be/Bg4jkxbdvHs this one]] spoils [[spoiler: Khalil's WhamLine]].

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The Japanese dub doesn't credit who voiced the characters as the credits were still retained from the original release.

* AnimatedOuttakes: Includes animated bloopers, such as characters walking off cliffs, a fired porcupine needle missing and hitting the cameraman, and an airplane flying by during seventh-century Israel.

** After being the last one out in a game of go fish, Jonah admits that he's the reason for the storm the crew are stuck in, and the only option left is to throw him into the sea. Larry helpfully chimes in that he doesn't need to do that, as they have a plank that he can just walk off instead.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Many things run deep in Khalil's family, but when [[spoiler: Jonah cries about the people in Ninevah not being destroyed, Khalil gives up on him.]]

** The caterpillar/worm that eats the shade plant near the end of the Jonah story becomes Jonah's traveling buddy and a recurring character. (His mother was a caterpillar; his father was a worm. But he's okay with that now. TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that he gives Jonah was, in the original, delivered by God Himself - so the bug gets to deliver ''God's'' lines!

** Porcupines can't shoot their quills, as shown in the prologue. This is acknowledged in the [[InCharacterCommentaries In-Character Commentary]] by Larry and Mr. Lunt, where they claim to have used special effects to fire the quills.
** Khalil claims that [[MalignedMixedMarriage his mother was a caterpillar, and his father was a worm]], which is pretty confusing considering how caterpillars are famously known as the larva stage of a butterfly, and therefore cannot have any offspring at that stage, unless his mother was a butterfly when she had him. That and the fact that worms aren't even in the same biological phylum as caterpillars/butterflies.

** The caterpillar/worm that eats the shade plant near the end of the Jonah story becomes Jonah's traveling buddy and a recurring character. His mother was a caterpillar; his father was a worm. But he's okay with that now.
*** TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that he gives Jonah was, in the original, delivered by God Himself. The bug gets to deliver God's lines. How's that for an ascended extra?
** The reason for Ninevah's fish obsession was because in real life, they did indeed worship a fish god.
** As far as ''[=VeggieTales=]'' casting goes, Archibald usually plays a side character, but in this movie he's the protagonist.

* AnimationBump: Due to the animators having a movie-sized budget, the animation in ''Jonah'' is probably the best in the series. Notably, Big Idea was able to get lighting animators who had just finished work on films like ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' and ''WesternAnimation/IceAge''. The end result is ''gorgeous''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The last pair of cards that Khalil has during the game of Go Fish is a whale.

* TrialByCombat: The Pirates use the same principle logic that drove this practice to weed out the sinner on their ship. Clearly God's pissed off at one of them, so they figure the only way to figure out who God's mad at is to see who God makes lose a game of Go Fish. [[MundaneMadeAwesome So they have an absolutely intense game in the pouring apocalyptic rain while their ship threatens to sink around them.]] ''And it actually works'' (this is the film's version of the sailors drawing lots to see who gets tossed off the ship in the original story).

* FreezeFrameBonus: In ''Jonah'', the menu items in the seafood restaurant Bob and the gang stop at goes as follows:

* Foreshadowing: The last pair of cards that Khalil has during the game of Go Fish is a whale.

'''Mr. Lunt:''' They paid for a full 79 minutes of entertainment, pal! Get back in the booth! [''Larry doesn't.'']

* ShamuFu: The Ninevites are notorious for this, with “fish-slappers” being the derogatory term against them. This is the only sin the movie refers to in reference to the Ninevites, besides lying and stealing.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In ''Jonah'', the last pair that Khalil has during the game of Go Fish is a whale.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Jonah constantly calls Khalil a wrong name, like "Carlyle". He finally pronounces it correctly when [[spoiler:Khalil and Reginald abandon him]].
-->'''Khalil:''' Kha-''leel''. You got to put your back into it!

* AnAesop: Compassion and mercy are preferable to selfishness and revenge. Specifically, believing in God and urging people to be good aren't about looking down on them and waiting for them to receive punishment from The Lord, the goal is to help them understand that what they're doing is wrong and avoid punishment altogether, because everyone deserves a second chance. Khalil states the whole aesop plainly at the end of the story when he points out how petty and selfish Jonah is for waiting for the ninevites to be smited ''even after'' he delivered the message from God.
** Khalil learns that fame isn't important, and that the world needs less famous people and more people who compassionate and merciful.
* AnachronismStew: Parodied on the DVD. One of the bloopers has an airplane pass by.

** Before Jonah walks the plank, Pa mentions that they would usually offer a refund, but notes that it wouldn't do much good in this case. [[spoiler: When the pirates meet Jonah again in Ninevah, he asks if he still wants that refund, before admitting that they spent it all on cheese curls.]]

* DesignatedHero[[invoked]]: Jonah is framed as a deliberate and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] version of this idea in the story. While he does bring enlightening messages to the people of Israel, he never actually does anything particularly heroic. When he is ordered by God to deliver a message to the infamously sinful Nineveh, Jonah disobeys his orders by sailing the other way, though he does show shades of guilt at doing this. When the pirates and their ship are endangered by a massive storm, Jonah [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes his mistake]] and abandons ship to suffer the consequences for his actions. After being eaten then vomited by a whale, Jonah decides to get the message delivered to Nineveh and be done with it. After he sends the message, the citizens of Nineveh change their ways, but Jonah still expects God to annihilate the city. However, after God had a large plant grow to shade Jonah from the sun as he waits, Jonah has the gall to be upset [[SkewedPriorities when Khalil eats the stem of the plant]]. Even after Klahil gets it through Jonah's head that God has given Nineveh a second chance at redemption, which was exactly what He had given Jonah, Jonah still [[{{Wangst}} complains at how unfair all of it is]]. Of course, Khalil and [[EvenTheDogIsAshamed Reginald]] decide to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave Jonah to wallow in his selfish misery]], which is done to get the message of the story across. When the veggies listening to the story realize this, the Pirates explain that Jonah's heroism is besides the point.

* IgnoringBySinging: After stowing away with the pirates, Jonah has a dream where God asks him where he's running to. Jonah tries his hardest to ignore God by the excuse that he can't hear him, including singing loudly.

* MeetTheCelebrityContest: The FrameStory for the retelling of the book of Jonah involves Bob and Mr. Asparagus driving a bunch of kids to a Twippo concert. However, Laura has won the Twippo Sweepstakes and has a special ticket that will allow her to go backstage and meet him. She keeps rubbing it in the others' faces. When she loses it, Junior isn't particularly sorry, which leads into AnAesop about compassion, forgiveness, and mercy.

-->'''Mr. Lunt:''' The question is not "What did Jonah learn?" The question is - "What did ''you'' learn?"
* NonDubbedGrunts:

* RepeatedRehearsalFailure: In the HilariousOuttakes, Larry tries (and fails) to remember the sequence he's supposed to complete alongside Mr. Lunt in the Seafood shop. It's supposed to be "Nothing." "Zilch." "Nada." For the outtakes, he gets "Uhh... nothing!" "Zilch!" And "Noodle!" by accident when the camera rolls.

* SchizoTech: The Pirates play ping pong, baby wipes, plush toys with sound chips, tape recorders with motivational tapes and have their own outboard power motor, even though this supposedly takes place in Bible times (not to mention using an 18th century sailing vessel as their main mode of transportation).

* SelfDemonstratingSong: The song under the end credits is entitled, "The Song Under the Credits" and it's opening lines are "This is the song that runs under the credits. These are the credits, so this is where it goes."

* ShamuFu: The Ninevites are notorious for this, with “fish-slappers” being the derogatory term against them. This is the only sin the movie refers to in reference to the Ninevites.
* ShapedLikeItself:

* ShownTheirWork: The producers tell the ''entire'' story, going beyond what most retellings of Jonah do. Several events left out of most adaptations that are re-included are the sailors initially attempting to row back to land rather throw Jonah aboard, and Jonah not understanding that God intends to forgive the Ninevites.

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: All of the songs are left undubbed in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub. And for an odd reason, even the '' spoken'' lines in "The Credits Song" aren't dubbed either.

* SpeakOfTheDevil: When Dad Asparagus wishes the Pirates' story had a big musical finale:

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "There is no word, and I'm definitely ''not'' going to Ninevah!"

* TrialByCombat: The Pirates use the same principle logic that drove this practice to weed out the sinner on their ship. Clearly God's pissed off at one of them, so they figure the only way to figure out who God's mad at is to see who God makes lose a game of Go Fish. [[MundaneMadeAwesome So they have an absolutely intense game of Go Fish in the pouring apocalyptic rain while their ship threatens to sink around them.]] ''And it actually works''. (This is the film's version of the sailors drawing lots to see who gets tossed off the ship in the original story.)

-->'''Jonah:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh. Thank you.]]

* AnAesop:
** Compassion and mercy are preferable to selfishness and revenge.
** Khalil learns that fame isn't all that important.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Porcupines can't shoot their quills, as shown in the prologue. This is acknowledged in the [[InCharacterCommentaries In-Character Commentary]] by Larry and Mr. Lunt, where they claim to have used special effects to fire the quills.
** Khalil claims that [[MalignedMixedMarriage his mother was a caterpillar, and his father was a worm]], which is pretty confusing considering how caterpillars are famously known as the larva stage of a butterfly, and therefore cannot have any offspring at that stage. Unless his mother was a butterfly when she had him.
*** That and the fact that worms aren't even in the same biological phylum as caterpillars/butterflies.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Twippo. Just Twippo.

%% * CentralTheme: Compassion and mercy.

* DownerEnding: InUniverse with the Jonah tale told by the Pirates. When the listeners are stunned, they explain the story ''had'' to end that way because it was the best way to make the morals of compassion, mercy, and second chances clear.
-->'''Mr. Lunt:''' The question is not "What did Jonah learn?" The question is - "What did ''you'' learn?"
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Jonah was a prophet, but he never really got it.
** [[spoiler:Possibly averted later, where Twippo turns out to be Jonah, who sings a song about how the prophet failed to learn his lesson.]]

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%% * ShamuFu: The Ninevites are notorious for this.

*** [[UpToEleven That and the fact that worms aren't even in the same biological phylum as caterpillars/butterflies.]]

* AwardBaitSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZquc3pC9wA The Credits Song]]" is considered the greatest LampshadeHanging seen for this trope, going UpToEleven by also lampshading how many movies should (in the opinion of The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything) stop putting them in.