YMMV / VeggieTales Episode 12 Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed

• Awesome Music: The W's significantly jazzed up "The Rumor Weed Song".
• Hilarious in Hindsight
  • Laura and Junior mistakenly think Alfred may be a robot because he uses the word "recharge" as an analogy. They wouldn't be the last cartoon characters to make that mistake.
  • The concept of antagonistic sentient rumours later drove much of the plot of Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story.
  • Plants being the enemy is more hilarious if you have seen The Happening.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Rumor Weed was based on Joan Rivers and closely resembles her, aside from being a weed.
• Older Than They Think: Some believe Larry-Boy using his suction cup ears as grappling hooks originated from The Bad Apple or The Cartoon Adventures, but it actually originated from the end of this episode (though Cartoon Adventures expanded on it to be more Spider-Man like).
• The Unintelligible: Dad Carrot’s voice is very hard to understand due to his voice actor's heavy Arabic accent. This made it more difficult for audiences to recognize that he was making a Power Rangers reference with the line, “I heard there are teenagers inside him that know karate!” (i.e. comparing Alfred to a Megazord).
• Values Resonance: The age of social media has made spreading rumors and doing irreparable damage to innocent people's reputations not only easier but faster (to the point that the terms "fake news" and "cancel culture" have entered the public vernacular), a moral about the dangers of spreading rumors feels a lot more Germaine.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: As the final SoftImage episode, the producers really stepped up their game and as a result, this comes off as the single most impressive-looking classic-era VeggieTales episode by no small margin. Things that would have been unheard of in prior episodes like motion blur, Depth of Field, and Idiosyncratic Wipes are used extensively, and the through-the-ground shot of Larry digging underground still looks quite impressive (especially considering the usual budget of these episodes) even today.

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