
The Veggie and Character Gang's Adventures of It's a Meaningful Life is the 3rd episode of The Veggie and Character Gang's Adventures of Veggietales season 3
Plot[]
Opening Countertop[]
The show starts out with Bob & Larry on the countertop as usual. Bob hadn't planned anything because he was expecting Larry to interfere with the show as usual. Feeling insulted, Larry decides to keep his mouth shut, even though Bob tries to reason with him. Bob then turns to Qwerty who posts up a video call from a girl named Maggie Greenman who hails from the city of Centennial in the state of Texas. She greets the trio and explains to them that she really wanted to get on the cheerleading team, but Maggie's pal Savannah got picked rather than Maggie herself, and is essentially rubbing this in her face. As such, Maggie feels unimportant, un-special, and wants advice on how to move forward. Even though he wasn't talking, Larry helped Bob with the situation by showing her a film.
It's a Meaningful Life[]
The story takes place in a town called Rockwell, where Stewart Green (Larry) aims to win a football game so he can go to the Salad Bowl. But after a mistake from the Decoy, Morty Bumble (Mr. Lunt), Stewart finds himself in the hospital. Now, not only is he unable to go to the Salad Bowl, but he can never play football again. Morty, however, does go to the Salad Bowl and he becomes famous. To try and cheer Stewart up, his dad (Mr. Nezzer) gives him a job at his toy train factory.
Fifteen years later, Stewart is still living in Rockwell and is now the CEO of the toy factory. Unfortunately, the factory is behind with the bills and needs to make 10,000 trains by Christmas. Stewart is also married to Donna (Petunia Rhubarb), has 3 kids. 2 sons named Barney & Art, and an adopted daughter named Emma. He also coaches his sons' football team consisting of them & some boys who used to be quite mean and comforts Emma when she didn't get the part she wanted in her school's Christmas play.
But Stewart's problems get worse when Morty comes back home and plans to buy the toy train factory. Stewart tries to make the factory to work harder and faster, but that only makes things worse. Just as he really starts to regret missing that football in the game, a train appears out of nowhere.
Stewart boards the train and starts to explore it. He then meets the eccentric conductor, Gabe. Gabe tells Stewart that he is able to show him what his life could have been like for him if he had only caught that football in three stops. The first stop shows Stewart as a greedy business man who plans to buy the Toy Factory and rename Rockwell just like Morty did. The second stop shows Rockwell without Stewart around. Thanks to Stewart not being there, Donna never got married to him. All of those football team players that Stewart coaches never became into football & they continue to be quite mean thanks to Stewart was never around to teach them how to be funny, sensitive or even well mannered. Stewart's twin sons Barney & Art don't exist in this universe either because they were never born all because Stewart never married Donna. As for Emma, she still lives in the orphanage that Stewart adopted her from with her teddy bear Teddy because Stewart was never around to adopt her.
At the third stop, Stewart is given a choice to either remain in the world where he is famous, or to go home and solve his problems. Stewart decides that he should head home, seeing that God's plan for him in Rockwell is better than being famous.
When Stewart goes back to the toy factory, he finds that everyone in Rockwell is helping him get back on track. Even Morty starts to see that no one will help him unless he learns to live a meaningful life too.
Closing Countertop[]
At the end of the story, Bob and Larry recap the lesson learned story, get a verse from Qwerty and make up with one another while Maggie learns to be happy knowing that God has something special planned for her future. After Maggie says bye to the trio, Bob and Larry sign off.
Characters[]
- Bob the Tomato (Football Coach)
- Larry the Cucumber (Stewart Green)
- Jimmy Gourd (Jim Gourdly)
- Petunia Rhubarb (Donna Green)
- Mr. Lunt (Morty Bumble)
- Mr. Nezzer (Stewart's Dad)
- Ellen (Linda)
- Art & Barney
- Emma
- Gabe
- Junior Asparagus (Silly Song)
- Lisa Asparagus (Silly Song)
- Percy Pea
- Gourdon Smithson
- Scooter (cameo)
- Oscar (Pete)
- Grandma Gourd
Cartoon Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Cameo as Football Team[]
Other Characters[]
Songs[]
- VeggieTales Theme Song
- Cheers to Stewart
- Cheers to Morty
- 110 Percent
- Munchy Dream
- Precious Girl
- Oh Bumblebee
- 110 Percent (Reprise)
- Stewart's Lament
- Bedtime Songs with Junior: Goodnight Junior
- Down These Tracks
- Cheezy Dream Jingle
- Oh Christmas Me
- Precious Child
- Cheers to Stewart Finale
- What Have We Learned
- Meant to Be
Episode Transcript[]
The Veggie and Character Gang's Adventures of It's a Meaningful Life/Transcript