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00:00Hi, kids, and welcome to VeggieTales.
00:04I'm Bob the Tomato.
00:05And I'm Larry the Cucumber.
00:07And we're here to answer your questions.
00:10Yep.
00:11Now, this week, we got a letter from Pete McGinnis in Newcastle, Indiana.
00:15Hey, Pete.
00:16Pete writes, Dear Bob and Larry, I'm depressed.
00:20All my friends are in Mrs. Peterson's class, but I got stuck in Mr. Schubert's class.
00:26If God loves me, why do bad things happen?
00:30Your friend, Pete.
00:32Wow, that's a tricky one.
00:34Sure is.
00:35Well, Pete, I know a Bible story that I think could help you a lot.
00:39Uh, Bob?
00:41Yeah?
00:42I thought we were going to do a Western this time.
00:44A what?
00:45A Western.
00:46You know, with cowboys and tumbleweeds and little doggies.
00:50You promised we could, right before I went to cowboy camp.
00:53Uh, I think what Pete needs here is a Bible story, Larry.
00:58You promised, Bob.
01:00Promised?
01:01Did I really say promise?
01:03Yes, you did, Bob.
01:05I really think we need to do a Bible story.
01:08A Western, Bob.
01:09A Bible story.
01:10A Western, Bob.
01:12Can we have a second?
01:16Bob, you can't.
01:17They can't do a Western this time.
01:19Bob, I can prepare.
01:20I made the Bible story.
01:21What?
01:22It ain't gonna happen.
01:23What do you mean?
01:24No.
01:25Oh, man.
01:28Ahem.
01:29Well, after a bit of discussion, Larry and I have decided that what you really need,
01:35Pete, is a Western Bible story.
01:38That's right.
01:39So, without further ado...
01:42The Ballad of Little Joe
01:50A long, long time ago, way out in the West somewhere...
01:55That's right.
01:56The West.
01:57There lived a group of brothers.
02:00Cowboy brothers.
02:01Uh, right.
02:02Cowboy brothers.
02:04Hello, little doggies.
02:06With French accents.
02:07What?
02:08It's a French Western.
02:09Uh, okay.
02:11Anyway, there was Ruben...
02:14Simeon...
02:15Levi...
02:16Izzy...
02:18Zeb...
02:19Gad...
02:20Ash...
02:21Dan...
02:22Natty...
02:24Oh, and Jude.
02:26Hey, Jude!
02:30Then there was, uh, baby Ben, but he was too little to come outside.
02:36Oh, and one more.
02:39The Ballad of Little Joe
02:45Look who finally decided to get up.
02:48Hey, guys.
02:49What do you hear about the crazy dream I had last night?
02:52Quiet, little Joe.
02:53We are working here.
02:55Oh, right.
02:56Little Joe was a little different than the others.
02:59Besides talking differently, God had given him great organizational abilities.
03:04You should see his sock drawer.
03:09What kind of work are you doing, exactly?
03:12We must count our sheep.
03:14But every time we do...
03:17Well, maybe it wouldn't be so boring if you put the sheep in groups of five or ten.
03:22Then you just have to count the groups.
03:24I bet you'd have your work done in no time.
03:26What a ridiculous idea.
03:28You know nothing about sheep.
03:31Put them in groups of ten.
03:33So, can I tell you about my dream now?
03:36Come and get it!
03:40The Ballad of Little Joe
03:47Not so fast, fellas.
03:49Before we eat, I have a special announcement.
03:52I think we all know that today is Little Joe's birthday.
03:57Aw, paw.
03:59I baked it myself.
04:01All together!
04:03The Ballad of Little Joe
04:29Aw, you shouldn't have.
04:31Finally, we agree on something.
04:33For me?
04:38What are you waiting for? Try it on!
04:40What do we get for our birthday presents?
04:43Mittens.
04:44Little Joe is wearing a vest made from the finest calf hides.
04:49Perfect for riding the range or going a-courting.
04:52This is one vest that says,
04:54Look at me, I'm something special.
04:58And what do mittens say?
05:00They say,
05:02You are not as special as your brother.
05:06And for my birthday wish,
05:08I want to tell you all about my latest dream.
05:11It was the strangest thing.
05:16Past the mountains in the fields
05:19Where the cowboys practice
05:23Out beneath the desert sky
05:26Stood a dozen cactus
05:29C-c-c-cactuses? C-c-cacti? Cacky?
05:32Continue.
05:37Eleven cactus, those were you
05:40Gathered round the other
05:44They bowed, you see, to the one that was me
05:49Their dearest little brother
05:53Their dearest little brother
05:59Crazy, huh?
06:01What are you saying?
06:03That you will rule over us like a king?
06:06It was just a dream, right?
06:08That's not really going to happen.
06:11Maybe you should cut down on the bratwurst before bed.
06:15Needless to say,
06:16Joseph's dreams didn't make his brothers like him any better.
06:23Hey, why are we at this old abandoned mine shaft?
06:27This is where we hid your birthday present.
06:30Wow, very, uh, creative.
06:34It's time to get what you've got coming to you.
06:37Oh, I can't wait.
06:41I don't see a birthday present.
06:43You are not looking hard enough.
06:46Okay.
06:48No, I still don't see anything.
06:50Well then, how about now?
06:53Whoa!
06:57Uh, guys?
06:59A goat must have bumped me or something.
07:02Little help?
07:03We'd love to, but we're too busy bowing down before you.
07:09Hey, guys, this isn't funny.
07:11Really? It made me laugh.
07:17Hey, who's that?
07:18What are you guys doing? Come on, joke's over.
07:21Ha ha, real funny.
07:23Guys? Guys?
07:27Tommy, surround your middle.
07:29Who are you?
07:30Never you mind. Just tie the rope.
07:35Well, finally.
07:39Oh, dear.
07:45Hey, desperadoes, you better come to your senses.
07:54Happy trails, trainer.
08:03Little Joe didn't know where he was or where he was going.
08:07He'd never been away from the ranch before,
08:09and now here he was on the run with dangerous men.
08:13Ah, Mr. Desperado, did you put out the campfire last night?
08:24Oh, Joe
08:27Little Joe
08:35Another root beer over here
08:37A cherry slushy over there
08:39Check out that game of checkers by the door
08:42Make sure they're playing fair
08:44A year ago, my restaurant was going down the drain
08:48Oh, me, losing money left and right
08:51I thought I'd go insane
08:54Then Little Joe, he came along and turned the whole ship right
08:58It's been a month of Sundays since we last had a fight
09:05To Little Joe, to Little Joe
09:10When life hands you a lemon, just have some more root beer
09:14When life hands you a lemon, just have some more root beer
09:20To Little Joe
09:24Joe, me boy, it looks like another record month.
09:29Sorry, duty calls.
09:38My life is a disaster
09:42A sea of endless pain
09:45A picnic promising the sun
09:49But giving only pain
09:52So listen to my tale of woe
09:56Before we bid adieu
10:00It's why my heart is heavy
10:03It's why I am so blue
10:10Peanuts, get your hot roasted peanuts
10:14Life is a joke
10:16A trifle of folly
10:19Even my dog is melancholy
10:22My happy days are some
10:25That's why I'm so blue
10:31That's why I'm blue
10:34Peanuts, get your hot roasted peanuts
10:36Get them while they're hot
10:38I'm through.
10:41Boy, that song's getting shorter every week.
10:44Here you go, boss.
10:46Oh, and, uh, by the way, the peanuts make them thirsty,
10:49so get ready to sell a lot of root beer.
10:51You're a natural, me lad.
10:54And that's why you've earned this.
10:58I wasn't sure if you'd work out
11:01when I bought you from Los Desperados,
11:04but congratulations, me lad.
11:07Employee of the month?
11:09Oh, thank you, Mr. McPotterfer.
11:11I won't let you down, you'll see.
11:13From now on, I'll work harder than ever.
11:21C'est Joseph.
11:23Oh, hello, kitty.
11:25That's Miss Kitty to you.
11:27Whatever you say.
11:29Look, little Joe, don't be a sap.
11:31No one's looking.
11:33Take this money and get out of here.
11:36You and I both know you don't want to be here.
11:39With this much cash, you can get back home.
11:42I'm sorry, Miss Kitty, but stealing is wrong.
11:45If I took that money, I'd be disobeying God.
11:48Not to mention I'd probably lose my status as Employee of the Month.
11:51Good day, Miss Kitty.
11:55To show you there's no hard feelings about you-know-what,
11:59I made some alterations to your costume for you.
12:02Oh, well, that's really kind of you,
12:04but I wasn't aware that it was...
12:06It's a tad heavier than before.
12:09I put some extra stuffing in it.
12:12Thief!
12:16There's a thief among us.
12:19All right.
12:21What seems to be the trouble here?
12:23This man has been stealing from dear old McPotterfer
12:27since the day he arrived here.
12:29Little Joe?
12:34This does not look good.
12:36Joe, me lad!
12:39How could you?
12:41What do you have to say for yourself?
12:43I'm innocent.
12:45Tell it to the judge.
12:57Oh, Joe
13:00Oh, little Joe
13:05You put more stuffing in our cots
13:09The furnace is rebuilt
13:11You taught us to respect ourselves
13:14And even how to quilt
13:16A year ago, my little jail was busting at the seams
13:21Criminals both left and right were stacked up to the beams
13:26Then little Joe, he came along and taught them all a trade
13:31And I just bought a Stetson with the money that he made
13:37A year ago, Miss Kitty up and sent me off to jail
13:43And though I haven't done a thing, I'm stuck here without bail
13:48But my belief that God is good helps overcome frustration
13:53So I'll keep doing what is right despite incarceration
13:59I gotta hand it to you.
14:01You've got the best attitude of any prisoner I've ever had.
14:05God is good, Sheriff Bob.
14:07So what have I got to be down about?
14:09Well, if God is really good,
14:12why is all this stuff happening to you?
14:15I don't know that yet.
14:17But I will when it's time.
14:20I just need to keep doing what's right.
14:23All right, men. Lights out.
14:27Another day of quilting tomorrow.
14:38Get away!
14:50And that's when I woke up screaming.
14:53What does my dream mean, Joe?
14:55What do they mean?
14:57Well, there's good news and there's bad news.
15:00You're going back to work today.
15:02But you're being sent up the river.
15:04Congratulations!
15:05So sorry.
15:06Anyone here?
15:08Oh, yes, dear Baker, I have wonderful news.
15:11The mayor has given you a full pardon.
15:14He wants you to resume your duties immediately.
15:17And I'm extending an invitation to you, Mr. Blacksmith,
15:21to join my chain gang.
15:24Up the river!
15:31How do you do that?
15:33Oh, well, I've always just had this thing for dreams.
15:37Just another way God made me special.
15:39Yeah, and he loves you very much, I've heard.
15:44Little Joe really believed God loved him.
15:47Still, every now and then, he'd wonder what God was up to.
15:52Hey, God, Little Joe here.
15:55Not to complain or anything, but what's going on?
15:58I tell people what their dreams mean, and they always come true.
16:02But you gave me a dream a long time ago, and I'm in jail.
16:06And I didn't even do anything.
16:08I'm trying to do what's right, but I'm a little confused.
16:12Well, please be with Pa and baby Benjamin and most of my brothers.
16:22Okay, and you too. Good night, God.
16:28The very next day, who should show up but the mayor himself?
16:35As I believe we can all see here,
16:38the town's reserves are down a good 25%
16:42due to the fact that our bank is robbed on average every other week.
16:48Hey!
16:50Uh, Pizza Rock?
17:03It was horrible, just horrible.
17:06And it was so real, like it was really happening.
17:10Oh, that sounds dreadful.
17:12At any rate, as I was saying about our bank...
17:15But what did it mean?
17:17Is there anyone in Dodgeball City who can interpret dreams?
17:21Begging the mayor's pardon,
17:23but I know someone who might be able to help.
17:31My banker tells me you can interpret dreams.
17:35No, I can't, sir.
17:37What?
17:40I can't interpret your dreams, but God can.
17:43He'll give me the answer you're looking for.
17:45All right, well, he better,
17:48or I'll put you back in that jail and you'll never get out.
17:53Let's get started.
17:55Earlier today, I had the strangest dream.
18:01Seven cows sat on a hill
18:04So big and fat, I got my grill
18:07I was thinking about a barbecue
18:09Then seven scrawny ones came along
18:12Nope, the big fat cows were gone
18:19And then I dreamt I was in front of a large group of people
18:22in my underwear.
18:24What's that about?
18:28So come on, start interpreting.
18:31Well, it's really quite simple.
18:33The seven fat cows mean seven years of plenty are a-coming.
18:37More food than you can imagine.
18:39The seven skinny cows mean seven years of terrible famine.
18:43Famine so bad, the good years will be all but forgotten.
18:48If this is true, what do we do?
18:51Well, during the good years,
18:53you should store away as much food as possible
18:55to give back to the people during the seven bad years,
18:58and Dodgeball City will be saved.
19:01Of course, you'll need someone with great organizational abilities
19:04to make sure it all works.
19:06Archie, what's the state of your sock drawer?
19:08A little disorganized, I'm afraid.
19:10That's what I thought.
19:12Cucumber, you're in charge.
19:14Excuse me.
19:16What are you doing standing around here?
19:18You've got a city to save.
19:20Yay!
19:25So the mayor made Little Joe
19:27the most powerful man in Dodgeball City.
19:31After him, of course.
19:34And just like always, Little Joe got right to it,
19:37doing things right and making stuff work.
19:40Little Joe
19:43Oh, Little Joe
20:08Yahoo!
20:11You did it, Little Joe!
20:13Now we're ready for anything!
20:15I certainly hope so.
20:26Everyone, run for shelter!
20:31Run for your lives!
20:38Oh, nothing's gonna grow in that soil for years.
20:42You did it, Little Joe.
20:44You saved the town.
20:46Yeah.
20:48What is it, Little Joe?
20:50What's wrong?
20:52Well, sir, I've got a family out there somewhere.
20:56I just hope they're all right.
20:58Oh, I'd be surprised if this drought was that widespread.
21:01I'm sure they're right as rain.
21:07We are doomed!
21:09Calm down, brothers.
21:11Things do look a little bleak.
21:13But if we stick together,
21:15we'll get through this as a family.
21:17Right, Pa?
21:22We are doomed!
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22:11Howdy, strangers.
22:13I run this here town.
22:15What can I do ya for?
22:17We here tell you've got yourself some food stored up.
22:20So we reckon we'd come on down
22:22to see if we could buy some from you.
22:24Hmm. How many in your family?
22:26Just the eleven of us now.
22:28One of our brothers got ate up in a wild gopher accident.
22:31But that was years ago.
22:33That was years ago.
22:34Mighty sorry to hear that.
22:36We have regretted it every day since.
22:40He was my closest brother and I barely even remember him.
22:46Where's your...
22:47Where's your pa?
22:48He could not make the trip.
22:49His heart is broken.
22:55You'll see the sheriff.
22:57He'll take care of you.
22:59Give him whatever they need, but don't let him go till I say so.
23:03Are you okay, little Joe?
23:05I'm fine, but whatever you do, don't use my name around him.
23:09Whatever you say.
23:22I need to know if my brothers have changed.
23:25I need... a test.
23:29I need to know if my brothers have changed.
23:36You strangers ready to go?
23:38I reckon so.
23:39Your man gave us everything we need.
23:42We tried to pay, but he would not hear of it.
23:45Now I wonder why he wouldn't take money from a bunch of low-down dirty thieves.
23:50Pardon?
23:51You heard me.
23:52You all came a long way just to get caught robbing me.
23:55Now see here, we are not thieves.
23:57We came to buy some food.
23:59But if this is a problem, I...
24:02Them ain't pepperonis, partner.
24:09There's been a mistake.
24:10You bet there's been a mistake.
24:12Your brother tried to steal from me.
24:14And we don't take kindly to stealing around these here parts.
24:17You don't understand.
24:19My pa has already lost one boy.
24:21A boy he loved very much.
24:24And it was my fault.
24:25I cannot let him lose Benjamin too.
24:29Keep me prisoner and let my brother go free.
24:38All right, all right.
24:39Everybody get out of there.
24:41Little Joe, we got a problem.
24:44Little Joe?
24:46So, you'd really sacrifice yourselves for your brother?
24:51It's time to tell you who I really am.
24:54Brothers, it's me.
24:58Little Joe!
25:03You are not still upset about that little mineshaft joke, are you?
25:09Little Joe, I am to blame for what happened to you.
25:12Punish me, but I beg of you, let my brothers go.
25:17Hey, Jude.
25:18What you did was wrong.
25:20And it hurt me very much.
25:22But what you intended for harm, God used for good.
25:26To save you all.
25:28To save everyone.
25:30To save pa.
25:32How could I not forgive you?
25:35Yeah!
25:39Hey!
25:41Hey!
25:43Hey!
25:45Hey!
25:47You boys forgot your mittens.
25:51Little Joe?
25:53Pa!
25:54My boy!
25:56And that's the story of how a very bad thing became a very good thing.
26:01And led to the happiest family reunion the West had ever seen.
26:09That was great, Bob.
26:11That was the best Western Bible story I ever heard.
26:14Well, thanks, Larry.
26:16We're over here by QWERTY to talk about what we learned today.
26:19So, what did we learn today?
26:21That you can learn a lot about a person from their sock drawer.
26:24Maybe, but no.
26:26You see, good things and bad things happen to everyone.
26:29God made Little Joe a great organizer.
26:31That was good.
26:33But his brothers were mean to him.
26:35And he ended up in jail for no reason.
26:37That was bad.
26:39But God can use the good stuff and the bad stuff.
26:42And put it all together to make something great.
26:46Hey, Bob. Let's see if QWERTY has a verse for us.
26:49Okay.
26:50Hey, QWERTY. You got anything?
26:53And we know that God causes all things to work together for good.
26:57To those who love God.
26:59Romans 8, 28.
27:01Yep. So, Pete, even though you aren't in the class you wanted to be in,
27:05remember that God loves you just as much as he loved Little Joe.
27:10And if you try to do what's right,
27:12you might be amazed at what God has planned for you.
27:16Time to go. I've got to get ready for the next show.
27:19Where are you going now?
27:21Danish Immersion Camp.
27:23What?
27:25Flav. Gurk. Flav.
27:27Remember, God made you special.
27:30And that's a good thing.
27:32And he loves you very much.
27:34And that's a great thing.
27:36Goodbye!
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