How is VeggieTales the most accurate Jekyll & Hyde???

[@nathanmcgill7249]

Also, this episode of VeggieTales featured close-ups of characters having human limbs, followed by the characters freaking out about it and going "Ah! The feet!" or whatever. Probably the funniest gag VeggieTales ever did, and it fits perfectly with the mystery/horror theme of the original novel

[@kathrineici9811]

It’s so good because you probably didn’t even notice until something was off the carrot reacts to it because “hand knocks on door” is a very normal shot in all media that it can be shown without eliciting a reaction Until the carrot goes “THE HAND!” And you remember “wait they don’t have hands”

[@unoriginalusername4416]

It also gradually builds with each iteration. The first time I think he just kind of glances around like “did anyone else see that?” And the third time he jumps back and yells

[@gamemaster2819]

The wa....the ha....aughth, nevermind

[@memyselfishness]

What made this even better, is that I rented a DVD copy of this when I was a child shortly after release, and it was corrupted. Disc was scratched and would glitch out, but it just so happened to glitch out basically whenever they did this gag. As a small child, that was existential horror.

[@nathanmcgill7249]

@@memyselfishness Sounds exactly like an analog horror video 😂 The forbidden limbed vegetables that VeggieTales doesn't want you to see!

[@sedi1186]

I love that veggie tails does a lot of strange things right

[@goldninjagaming9505]

Like Don Quixote (hope I'm spelling that right) of all things XD

[@longWriter]

@@goldninjagaming9505 Ehhh...I haven't read the original, but I did see the Wishbone adaptation when I was a kid, and as cheesy as that sounds, Wishbone is usually pretty accurate. And Don Quixote wasn't influenced by dreams and didn't run a restaurant. That said, I loved how Veggietales had his employee reacting to his plan to attack the other restaurant: "It's too late to turn back now!!" "No it's not."

[@Daviticus042]

*tales

[@Ensign_games]

They randomly generate it

[@ThatOneGuy0006]

Their adaptation of Lord of The Rings is the only one to have Tom Bombadil in it.

[@magnusprime962]

It’s kind of like how one of the most accurate adaptations of the Arthurian mythos is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It doesn’t make sense why the comedy is so accurate at first, but I think that’s actually their secret weapon. By not trying to be serious adaptations they’re able to include things that traditional writers would drop in favor of a more conventional narrative.

[@VigilanteAgumon]

Similarly, Life of Brian was an accurate depiction of Roman Judea around the time of Christ.

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

I grew up with Veggie Tales, and I thought the French peas on the walls of Jericho were the most hilarious thing ever. I saw Holy Grail as a teenager and thought the French soldiers on the walls of the castle were the most hilarious thing ever. It took til the day I showed my kids those scenes for me to _finally_ put two and two together. XD

[@macaronsncheese9835]

Apparently, one of the Pythons is an actual Arthurian scholar and that's a big part of why it's a relatively accurate retelling

[@SonicGirlsGeek]

I mean, it kind of makes sense, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Christian who was already using Jekyll and Hyde as a metaphor for sin and how it's something you are born with and have to control. Veggie Tales would have every reason to want to stick to the original story because both the book and the show have the same goal

[@foxpokemonforever4775]

Though in the Veggitales version Mr. Sly had more to do with the Dr.’s body image, if I recall correctly.

[@SpikyEaredPichu96]

Which is odd because the message is almost the opposite; it ends with Dr. Jiggle dancing in front of people without the restrictive costume that slimmed him down and learning that "When you realize God made you special, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, you can just be yourself." Which admittedly works better when all the good Doctor was hiding was his dance lessons. I do appreciate that, even if they talk about Christian values, Veggietales never shames the kids watching.

[@biggestnerdalive8476]

My film professor mentioned how there are no perfect adaptations of the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde because of the stuff you listed so I told him to watch the veggietales version

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@biggestnerdalive8476 wait seriously? That happened? That's awesome!

[@ickylynn6155]

Did he watch it?

[@Kevin_Tapia]

Replying in case of an update

[@jacketofdiamonds]

hope he enjoys lol

[@ttc_acronym]

:D

[@sharosecomics7793]

The horror gags with the human hands and feet were probably the best Veggietales ever utilized

[@ionryful]

Veggietales is so goated

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@ionryful there's never ever ever ever ever been a show like VeggieTales

[@lilari6146]

​@MoviesAndHeists guess🎵 'it's time for VeggieTa-aa-aaales 🎵

[@NJMiguess]

@@lilari6146 *childrens laughter laugh track*

[@rga1605]

I remember how I read the original novel, and that really puts in perspective how adaptations fail - a lot of adaptations isn't even bad DID, it's just becoming the Hulk, so points for Veggietales

[@FeatherVoid]

"Hyde angry..." "HYDE SMASH!"

[@genericname2747]

Mr Hyde is SHORTER than Dr Jekyll. It annoys me how so many people make him a big scary monster.

[@monknisandotherthings]

Even the hulk can be a really interesting split personality story but most people just wanna see or write him as a powerful being of destruction

[@Pneumonia-Nakey]

​@@genericname2747 And he's described as being YOUNGER than Jekyll too!

[@genericname2747]

@@Pneumonia-Nakey Yeah, there's a reason the detective thinks Hyde is Jekylls son

[@rainpooper7088]

To be fair, Jekyll and Hyde being the same person is one of the most famous twists of all time. If you've ever heard of the story, the twist will be the first thing you learn, so it'd be pretty silly for an adaptation to hinge on the audience trying to figure out the twist alongside Utterson the way the original book does. That is, of course, unless said adaptation is specifically designed to be baby's first exposure to the story.

[@curtthegamer934]

I disagree. There are always going to be a few people out there who don't know the twist. You'd definitely want it to actually be a twist just for those few people. Heck, there are already parents who are deliberately raising their kids with no exposure to the Darth Vader twist from Star Wars so they can actually be surprised the first time they see it, and the results have for the most part been successful. There's no reason parents can't do the same for other famous plot twists.

[@LongcrierInProgress]

​@@curtthegamer934 I agree. While this is an early favourite version of the story most dont include this. Rankin Bass comes close. But most live action adaptations dont even seem to bother and seem more like parodies of the story than an actual adaptation.

[@loukasfrantzolas6494]

@rainpooper7088 I was looking for this comment. I also feel like by shifting to the perspective of Dr. Jekyll the story works better as a musical. There's also another element here; the book itself is very bare bones. I don't mean to say that the book isn't brilliant either by the way, I'd say that the book is a masterpiece partly because of how bare bones it is. It has so much depth and so many questions and perspectives you could draw out of it. In that sense, it makes excellent fan fiction material.

[@curtthegamer934]

I feel like maybe they could pull one on the majority of the audience still, by simply changing the characters' names and maybe setting it in a different time period. Essentially do a "stealth adaptation" of the story, where it's an adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, but you market it as a murder mystery movie. Nobody would know that it's an adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde (even those who have read the book) until the very end of the movie, because of the changed character names.

[@42Fossy]

Take the Columbo approach - the tension isn't in finding out the conclusion to the mystery, but rather, watching how the protagonist works to come to that conclusion.

[@genericname2747]

Dude you are so right. Mr Hyde isn't an alternate personality, its just Jekyll but free from consequences or the rules of societu.

[@Blazedasonic]

Oooooh so I get it Mr. Butterbun is Mr. Utterson… I see it

[@jonathansmithCrabAuthor]

This isn’t the only time VeggieTales has done this. Several years later, they did an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s _A Little Princess_ titled “The Penniless Princess.” In the book, Sarah’s father dies. In the 1995 live-action movie, they rewrite it to have Sarah’s father survive with amnesia, which is of course miraculously reversed in the end. Well, in the VeggieTales version, Sarah’s father (who is portrayed by _Larry the Cucumber,_ mind you), dies. For real. No fake-out, no amnesia, he’s dead. EDIT: I originally said “Disney movie,” but as a reply pointed out, I was wrong and it was made by Warner Bros.

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@jonathansmithCrabAuthor LARRY DIES?😭 Did he at least keep his lips?mm

[@RainbowMilk1996]

The movie is by Warner Brothers, but yeah, the Veggie tales version is a solid adaptation Also, F in the chat for Larry

[@genericname2747]

I remember watching their version of Snow White. They make the mirror the man villain and he falls off a roof and dies. Its crazy.

[@jonathansmithCrabAuthor]

@@RainbowMilk1996Ah, you’re right. I got it mixed up.

[@Chriskentfan94]

​@@genericname2747 it was also Sleeping Beauty.

[@CalebTibster]

VeggieTales also has one of the most accurate adaptations of Don Quixote as well!

[@Lem0n-c2h7y]

Oh yes I have reached peak KZbin at the intersection of dissociative identity disorder literature about the Victorian era and veggie tales

[@selahelder4411]

And its a beautiful place to be, right?!

[@professormetal4411]

It's amazing how this whole video can go on about how Jekyll and Hyde is not a DID store and you still call it DID literature in the comments.

[@Lem0n-c2h7y]

@@professormetal4411 I meant dissociative identity disorder, literature about the Victorian era add veggie tales

[@TheInvisibleMan-06]

@@Lem0n-c2h7ybut Jekyll and Hyde _isn’t_ disassociative identity disorder

[@TheMr.L01]

I guess he really paid attention at Overdone British Literary Adaptation Camp.

[@drawingdragon]

I CANNOT. BELIEVE. I got recommended a video with this title 💀 I am not kidding I have literally said this to my friends and they do not believe me, WHY is the Veggietales parody of the novel the most accurate adaptation?? I grew up with Veggietales so I had this episode, like most of the rest, emblazoned in my memory eternally - and just last year I read the original novel for the first time and fell absolutely in love, I have been obsessed with the story ever since, it's my favorite book probably of all time. And in my head I may or may not have always read the name "Poole" with Angus' angry Scottish accent. So when I went looking for adaptations of this story, I was soooo disappointed to find none of them are remotely close to the original - not even the very first silent film adaptation (which I DID enjoy actually, dont get me wrong.) I was recommended the awful Broadway Musical adaptation and it's as opposite as it can possibly be to the novel. Then it hit me one day that the silly little cartoon about a dancing squash was MORE faithful to the genre, plot, setting, everything than major film adaptations. I am so tickled to see this pop up and see someone else had the exact same thought!

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@drawingdragon woohoo! And @bardboytroy has been doing a series of different Jekyll & Hyde Adaptations Apparently he found one version that actually is more accurate than this!🥰

[@big-trex3440]

I swear I see you everywhere on youtube

[@CheesyLizzy]

​@@MoviesAndHeistsI tried searching for @bardboytroy but I can't find his channel. Can I have a link?

[@nutella217]

i loved the broadway musical😭i know it isnt book-accurate but it did a good job of not making the plot straight-up DID, and the music is really interesting i think

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@nutella217 yay! They didn't make it actively hurtful to my friends

[@oneofmanyalexs]

As someone whos never read Jekyll and Hyde, its really interesting to hear someone who HAS read it compare it to an adaptation i watched all the time as a kid. And to actually answer the question "Why does vegietales have the most accurate adaptation?" In the directors commentary, (its been a few years so ill have to go fact check it) They said the director of the segment read the book for some reason and went "Hey, this is pretty good, lets use it for veggetales." Edit: Anyways fact check yourself before making bold clames online kids. It turnes out, alot of people at big idea really enjoyed the book and wanted to do a parody of it. So the director went and read the book, and agreed with them, and a couple scripts later we got the episode.

[@ackbeans4829]

Another extremely common W for VeggieTales

[@josephivenegas]

If He is Mr Sly, I'll be Mr SNEAK!

[@AlexanderEllis-x7v]

I remember reading the book for the first time and being so surprised by the fact that Dr.Jekyll very rarely had any dialogue. It was always Utterson, Jekyll man servant, or other friends who talked about him. And this was even after seeing the vegetables version as a dumb kid years before reading the book.

[@Kinsume1]

This reminds of watching a Winnie the Pooh Easter special, that, surprise! Was a “Christmas carol” retelling With Rabbit being the Scrooge, for how overly controlling he was for an Easter celebration And the ghost of Easter future was the NARRATOR! Acknowledging how they’ll sometimes talk to him, and he showed Rabbit the future by turning pages ahead in the book, showing that EVERYONE MOVED OUT OF THE HUNDRED ACRE WOODS TO NOT DEAL WITH RABBIT Like this was so impressive

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@Kinsume1 WHOA top 10 best fourth wall breaks compilation video

[@mommalion7028]

type a problems 😂

[@Awsome2464]

Which is funny because VeggieTales also made a Christmas Carol adaptation about Easter, aptly named "An Easter Carol".

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

​@@Awsome2464 Beat me to it! Also it's like, probably one of the heaviest VT episodes ever, dark themes at times, AND it's a sequel to their second Christmas episode "The Star of Christmas" , also a very heavy & deep episode. Highly recommend OP watching both stories back to back. "The Cavis & Millward Duology" , as I like to call it. Some of their greatest works yet

[@tim.eichorst]

What a blessed video to randomly cross my feed.

[@critica77y77]

So it's like the Jekyll & Hyde version of The Mask. In the comics, The Mask allowed Stanley to act on his repressed anger and kill people, while in the movie, Stanley's frustrations are more with his humdrum life in general, and he's not really a violent guy, so instead The Mask makes him a charismatic cartoon character who can do as he pleases.

[@AlexBadger]

Huh, I never thought of it that way...

[@LordJazzly]

I love that Veggie Tales did this sort of stuff; just sitting there quietly making - genuine artistic choices, in a Christian children's TV animation about talking vegetables. They did not have to make that much of an effort, or really any effort at all, but they did it anyway. Also - I think there was a French adaptation that was somewhat faithful to the mystery genre, and which made the relationship between Jekyll and the detective a main focus of characterisation. 'Le Testament du docteur Cordelier' is what Wikipedia has it as; I saw it one time on lat night pay TV when we were staying at a motel somewhere, and I was studying French at the time so I stayed up to watch it. It seemed pretty good but I was overtired and only had a middling understanding of French so your results may vary.

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@LordJazzly thanks for pointing this one out!

[@MegaKnight2012]

Veggie Tales really was a gold standard of storytelling, because they really made an effort to tell entertaining stories. It's not surprising that people don't know Jekyll & Hyde's original story, because so many filmmakers don't adapt the story and characters. It's funny to think about how lots of people object to modern filmmakers not being true to the source material, like anyone with Tolkien's Middle Earth, but there's not too many complaints about older works that filmmakers constantly change from the source material. Dracula is a prime example, as the first two movies made, Nosferatu and the Bela Lugosi movie, drastically change character and story part, but people don't talk about Dracula's adaption failures because not many people know the original work, just knockoff after knockoff. The same goes for modern Sherlock Holmes stories, that ignore key parts of his character, like how good he is with interacting with other people, comforting them during a crisis, or that he is religious.

[@gingy-]

Its so thematically appropriate despite how much it cuts out- so a pretty successful adaptation

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@gingy- the fact that it at least has the protagonist, the premise, and the plot (AND doesn't have the harmful DID thing) means it's a comparable phenomenal adaptation

[@Chocofr0st]

You have no idea how happy it makes me to see someone so passionate about the original story of Jekyll and Hyde, and it means so much more to see that this was posted so recently! I’ve always been upset that a lot of stuff told it from the POV of Jekyll and not the ACTUAL NOVEL PROTAGONIST, and GOD FORBID we mention the shit that the musical “adaptation” did… Genuine thank-you to both you and Veggietales for actually understanding the story and meaning of the novel!

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@Chocofr0st I have good news and bad news The bad news is: This wasn't posted so recently. The original video came out about a year ago on TikTok The good news is... Exactly the same as the bad news!🥰

[@Chocofr0st]

@@MoviesAndHeists Still happy to see someone so passionate about the original Stevenson novel :)

[@the1doctorwhat]

Veggie Tales is surprisingly solid. The creators wanted to make a genuinely entertaining show unlike a lot of other Christian media that expects the Christian values to carry the whole show/ song/ etc

[@typemasters2871]

It is interesting how Jekyll and Hyde went from “mystery where two characters are actually the same one person” into “a concoction that turns the drinker into a mindless beast when under certain circumstances” Basically taking werewolf concept but have the beast be some mutated human instead of a wolf person and the cause being some science concoction instead of a bite

[@MisterTiki]

THE HAND!!! THE WATCH!!!

[@reginaldwooster235]

Oh nevermind!

[@TheFloatingEyeballinQuestion]

The most accurate Jekyll & Hyde adaptation I’ve seen so far (I’m really really really into the story) is the Jekyll & Hyde musical short from PBS’ Arthur (it shows that Hyde is cognitively the same as Jekyll and Jekyll doesn’t feel remorse for what he’s done until it negatively affects him) and I think that’s really sad. I’m really excited to watch Veggie Tales and go crazy about it being accurate to the original novella. This is the best possible thing to show up on my Home Page.

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@TheFloatingEyeballinQuestion oh, it's so accurate that it has this running gag about this Monstrous Hand, which feels like VeggieTales just breaking the Fourth Wall... Until you remember the bit about the Monstrous Hand from the book The creators must have loved this book so much,n

[@altheam-c3479]

I'm not sure how I missed out on this movie even existing, I loved VeggieTales and had a whole hyperfixation of Jekyll and Hyde adaptations. (As an aside, I just looked into VeggieTales and there are so many more than I thought?! I watched it right after it came out but like the last one I owned was the Rumor Weed one and I THINK I either checked the Esther one out from the library or watched it separately somewhere else but I knew about it existing and when I looked at a list of episodes it's FAR beyond that. o.O) And that's true about Utterson. There's such a weirdly high tendancy for Jekyll to have no friends or for Utterson's role as friend (although never as main character) to be pushed to Lanyon instead. There are a number of versions that just have a Lanyon as the concerned friend but no Utterson at all. MazM Jekyll and Hyde is one of the only other adaptations that does have Utterson IN that role as protagonist, because it's quite faithful as a mystery genre style game.

[@parker-boy98]

The fact that a VeggieTales episode is the most faithful adaptation is saying something.

[@vonsowards1297]

Veggietales is also the most accurate version of The Little Princess

[@bobmcguffin5706]

I just started a VRchat rabbithole on KZbin and now I see this. Is KZbin giving me a message about alternate personas that dance when you're too shy to?

[@beingmegucaissuffering.5326]

This reminds me of how the wishbone phantom of the opera episode is one of the most faithful phantom of the opera adaptations

[@longWriter]

WIshbone did Jekyll and Hyde, too. Troy'll probably be bringing it up.

[@Fact-fiend_1000ASMR.]

And Frankenstein. Heck, they did Journey to the West(only the early parts with Sun being born, learning magic and being humbled by Buddha), Greek Mythology and The Aeniad. Wishbone not only did classic literature but obscure classic literature and exposed children to other lands. Too bad they never adapted Dracula. Imagine Wishbone as Jonathan Harker or funnier still, Van Helsing.

[@longWriter]

@@Fact-fiend_1000ASMR. John Harker is about the only role that'd fit Wishbone, TBH. Though figuring out how he'd rush Drac's coffin at the end with a knife is tough, since he's a dog, and can't really fight with a knife; probably he'd be doing his air-kicks on the minions while Quincy impales Dracula.

[@Fact-fiend_1000ASMR.]

@@longWriter I could see one way he could play Van Helsing, as the expositor of the supernatural, similar to Ichabod Crane. Though Jonathan Harker would be the best of the two options. I would be shocked if they included Quincy. Almost no adapatations include him.

[@cthulhucult3230]

​@@Fact-fiend_1000ASMR. There's a Halloween wishbone book that's based on Dracula. I haven't read it but it's easier to find than most wishbone books.

[@floridasavannah]

It's so sad that people hated it for being Christian, it was a masterpiece in storytelling, animation, and humor for adults and children. That show would have won so many awards if people weren't so bigoted.

[@MrBearyMcBearface]

Christians are hated. That was foretold.

[@TheBluestflamingos]

I've very rarely seen people hate on Veggie Tales. To the contrary, it's often used as an example of Christian media done well, in a sea of "God's Not Dead" movies and earbleeding music. People are, however, genrally suspicious of Christian media, because many people use it as a way to isolate themselves and their children from other world views.

[@Jon-qf6qg]

I will agree that Veggie Tales is great when it isn’t proselytizing. But being wary of media designed to subtly indoctrinate children isn’t bigotry. I held that opinion even back when I was a Sunday school teacher and we played the show for our kids.

[@Jon-qf6qg]

To clarify, I’m not opposed to it being shown in churches. But it played on secular TV channels, and I can absolutely see why people had a problem with that.

[@B-Mag]

Veggietales is very well liked by viewers of all faiths or lack thereof. It's commonly used as an example of Christian Media not being dogshit

[@reubenoakley5887]

Veggie Tales did the best Jekyll and Hyde adaptation, and Muppets did the best A Christmas Carol adaptation 😂

[@selahelder4411]

I just unabashedly love this video

[@blockman3508]

I won’t consider it fully accurate unless Utterson calls himself “Mr. Seek.”

[@Chriskentfan94]

They punned it with Sly and Sneak.

[@AndrewVarney-j2h]

Utterson does play a role in the Musical Version of Jekyll and Hyde (and while not super faithful to the book, it's okay. Plus there are several really good songs [those being This is the Moment, The Confrontation, Facade (and all it's reprises), and Alive)

[@mchills514]

Honestly this is the first piece of content I've ever seen from you and frankly I love it. Liked and subbed for sure!

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@mchills514 woohoo! Thank you!

[@MrStanFungi]

i saw this movie once when i was like 4 and i haven't seen a single thing about it until right now, so i thought it was some kind of fever dream that never existed

[@Ensign_games]

The absolute fuck? out of all of the peices of media I never would of expected the VeggieTales version to be the most accurate.

[@0-kingsloth-020]

Veggietales slappped

[@kathrineici9811]

So you’re saying Archibald succeeded in his goal xD

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@kathrineici9811 eventually, the VeggieTales became classy It just required Larry going to the wrong Summer Cam

[@joshcarter9660]

2:44 the musical has Utterson in it, although he does take a backseat to Jekyll

[@gamemaster2819]

Another adaptation with Utterson is the Wishbone episode, Mixed Breeds, where Wishbone stars as him. It does remove the part about Jekyll and Hyde being the same as a twist, though

[@possessedpicklejar4762]

It also helps that it’s for kids because the kids won’t be aware of the twist going into it.

[@GUNUFofficial]

Fun fact: the realistic (for big idea and at the time) human limbs that come out of nowhere are (allegedly) from a cancelled veggietales movie where the villain is a soup factory owner and (allegedly) that model is the villain, its all on the lost media wiki if you wanna see it, I might be misremembering stuff.

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

@@GUNUFofficial The Bob & Larry Movie. One of the things fans would've wanted the most. It "would've fed families" as a couple other fandom members would say (they don't want me calling them their "friend" since they say they don't have any, only *equals* like a true civilian) . The Pirates movie did.... not meet my expectations. Maybe if it were a prequel to the Jonah film. And I _know_ the Larry-Boy movie will be an absolute *dumpsterfire* since none of the OG crew will be on board, heh, ehhh.... -llerreFeilseL,liveDehteralasrevinUdnallerreFeilseL-

[@cptshelly]

Veggie tails predicted a lot of things , especially Internet culture , unironically the most accurate prediction

[@brendafarris7350]

Fun - You know I rather love myself some veggietales!

[@underfirebutok]

This has a similar energy to how everyone agrees that the Muppets adaptation of A Christmas Carol is the best one.

[@xXArcherSwordXx]

so basically; it’s the Veggietales equivalent of what The Muppets Christmas Carol is to the Original Christmas Carol? That’s cool!

[@reginaldwooster235]

"I think I bruised my spleen"

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

I might be sharing this take with the VeggieTales fandom if you don't mind. Combining a book-accurate parody with a lesson in self-worth and diving into the topic of self-consciousness is a massive win for this segment of A Snoodle's Tale. VT also has this whole gimmick where it doesn't exclusively appeal to Christians, so anyone of any religious affiliation, including secular, can adapt the messages to their own fit, which is my favorite thing about the show as a whole. I haven't seen their second movie based off their Pirates song yet, but their first one about Jonah has kinda grown on me (mainly because my severely Autistic brother has it on everyday lol) Also FYI you used fanart for the poster, which that itself isn't a bad thing, but what irked me is that you didn't say who the artist is, and it's kinda iffy in regards to animation right now in terms of credits & recognitions & all that. I can kinda understand since there's a whole community within the VeggieTales fandom that animates and makes fanart with their own models and it can be hard to tell the difference for most people (even some people running the official social media get messed up sometimes lol) . It can be so good in fact, that the creator of the show praised a fan project reanimating an entire episode for the 30th anniversary (Rack, Shack & Benny: Re-Molded) .

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@Idiotic_B_Purcell Please feel free to share it! I didn't know it was fanart until your comment. Thanks for letting me know!

[@thecageofinsanity.6968]

I was hearing this in my head this morning

[@d-manthecaptain1382]

Actually, there is another book accurate adaptation I've heard about, it's a 4 episode mini series from 1969 directed by Giorgio Albertazzi who also plays Hyde. Don't bother trying to find it online, apart some a clip on KZbin it's not anywhere. There's no dub, or subtitled version either. The only way to watch it is to track down the Italian DVD

[@shanryder]

Wow, its a small internet. I was introduced to your content on TikTok!

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@shanryder woohoo! Good to see you here

[@FishSauce008]

This is the story of Dr Heckle and Mr Jive

[@Crisis-Comics]

The only other version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that I know of which has Utterson is the 1986 animated version. That one tries to hybridize the mystery from Jekyll's friends' perspective while also trying to explore Jekyll's perspective (although in this version the formula is supposed to completely eradicate his evil side). It's also hilariously violent for the time. I can think of five people off the top of my head that Hyde murders in that movie.

[@Gracebeth3604]

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@Gracebeth3604 IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

[@longWriter]

I thought that Wishbone (a kid's PBS tv show from the 90s) kept Utterson and the mystery of why Jekyll put Hyde in his will, so Wishbone's adaption would've been pretty accurate, albeit shortened. I predict Troy'll bring Wishbone up.

[@TheFansOfFiction]

The problem with doing the twist, is that everyone knows the twist, so it is _extremely_ difficult to make it interesting.

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@TheFansOfFiction oh it's not hard. Everyone knows the twist, but nobody knows the story So just change the names Actually, you don't even need to change the names: "This is my mystery story. It's about a lawyer named Gabe trying to figure out why his client Hank left everything to a monster named Eddie--only to realize Eddie is just Hank in a fake wig and glasses"

[@rainpooper7088]

@MoviesAndHeists There probably already are adaptations just like this out there and you're just not finding them because they don't have Jekyll and Hyde on the cover. Which is precisely why no adaptations ever do this. Say you're adapting the famous Jekyll and Hyde story (even when you're not) and you'll get a big budget and a big audience, call them Gabe and Hank and no one will care and the few who do won't be able to find it as a version of Jekyll and Hyde unless you explicitly mention Jekyll and Hyde, which in turn would give away the twist.

[@d-manthecaptain1382]

It sometimes seems as if everybody already knows the twist in Star Wars too. That doesn't make it any less of a great twist, and that doesn't mean that younger people who only know the Star Wars and Mr. Hyde by their popularity won't be surprised by it. If a movie accurately adapted the twist it could very well become a default best version to recommend to people who haven't heard of the original story.

[@RabbiKolakowski]

how did Wishbone do? Idk what DID stands for. My favorite version is Abbott & Costello

[@longWriter]

I had to google DID myself; it's Dissociative Identity Disorder. I'd thought it was Duplicate Identity Disorder for a minute before I looked it up, but in retrospect, that wouldn't make any sense; if the identities are duplicates, that'd mean they're the same as each other.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Microwave society must do this next

[@omnitrix1279]

Actually, the Wishbone episode "Mixed Breeds" hits most or all of these points too, and maintains the seriousness of Hyde's crimes.

[@aynDRAWS]

I need to binge all the veggietales movies.

[@tparadox88]

Having never seen another adaptation but read the book, I didn't realize that Utterson is just completely gone from pretty much every version. I could've guessed, considering that coming to the novel from the cultural idea I was surprised by Utterson being the protagonist. A lot of Veggie Tales, especially after the company was bought by a secular children's entrainment publisher, if it's not specifically adapting a Bible story, will be a Good Moral story that has a Bible verse at the end that the publisher could cut out if they felt it necessary to sell in secular stores.

[@sbskinner369]

My friend and I (fans of the original book) have been saying this for ages!!!

[@pantrymonster]

I've never read the novel, but based on other adaptations, I always assumed that Dr Jekyll went under a sort of Bruce Banner/ Incredible Hulk transformation. Fun to learn that that wasn't the case!

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@pantrymonster honestly, I do have a soft spot for the Banner/Hulk versions (like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Van Helsing) But I kinda love that in the original book, Hyde is *shorter* than Jekyll! And it's enough of a height difference that people comment on it!

[@Superhero97-dz3kq]

It might not be that Christian a story by itself, but the dvd is paired with a Snoodle’s Tale, which even with it’s obvious Dr Seuss inspiration might be one of the most Christian stories VeggieTales ever made behind Easter Carol.

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@Superhero97-dz3kq A Snoodle's Tale: The one time VeggieTales had a voice actor for God

[@Superhero97-dz3kq]

@ Interesting thing I learned recently, there’s a theory that in the Book of Joshua the “Commander of the armies of the Lord” is a pre-incarnation of Christ, since he’s the Lord of Hosts. This would mean that there’s a VeggieTales where they gave Jesus a voice too, in Josh and the Big Wall, though probably unintentionally.

[@briandiehl9257]

​. There are quite a few places that would necessary refer to the preincarnate Christ if you take the whole bible into account, which appeared in veggietales

[@Crystal_Dylan]

There was a kids animated special of Jekyll and Hyde that had utterson. It falls into a lot of other typical adaptation thing but it does include Utterson

[@CurtisForrest-n6l]

Wishbone is the only other one

[@Lily-GraceRenfroe]

I love veggietales so much still 😭

[@Angelcatlatteyt]

I am gonna say shout out to monster high for making the most confusing take. The characters are Jackson Jeckyll and Holt Hyde and at the beginning of the series, do not know about each other. The first confusing element here is the "Hyde Condition" as its called is supposedly a family thing that can be passed down. Yet nobody in their family thought to tell them. Second. Jackson is human in a monster high school and doesn't question it that hard. Why? Because the other half of his family are fire elementals. And so is Holt. So like a human and a fire elemental share a body and switch back and forth with different names and sets of memories... And nobody decides to study that.

[@magictoast15]

I LONG TO DAAAAANCE, I LONG TO GROOOOOVE....

[@dominicsanimatedreviews5966]

I think what it comes down to is that people think if they know about a plot twist, that it is suddenly not worth partaking in fhe plot anymore. However, that is not how it should work. A good plot twist adds rewatch/reread value to allow for judgment. Whether things add up. They hit because they make sense. Unpredictability is in my opinion the least imporant part of a twist, because it's the easiest one to do. Anyone can make an ending that comes out of nowhere. What is for more important is that the audience COULD suspect it, with there being no contradictions, as well as there being an emotinal impact. Just because we all know the twist in the story doesn't mean they can't pull off an adaptation that isn't in Jeckyll's point of view. People will still be interested in the lead up if you do it well.

[@potahtwah9591]

Granted, in the book, iirc, they don't say what those base instincts really are. A normal movie would say murder, Veggietales has the strength to say "What if it's just stage fright? What if he really wants to be himself?" Which leads me to a single idea, "What if a drag queen's coming out moment was Veggietales: The Strange Case of Dr. Jiggle and Mr. Sly?"

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@potahtwah9591 I absolutely love this interpretation From what I remember, every time Hyde is in public, he defaults to violence & aggression, which sounds to me like that answers the question about which base instincts But I LOVE the sentence "VeggieTales has the strength to say What if it's just stage fright?"

[@kathrineici9811]

In the play his base desires are r*pe and m*rd*r

[@potahtwah9591]

@@MoviesAndHeists Hollywood could never give me a Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde story where Mr. Hyde his Drag Queen persona.

[@cabbagereviews8513]

I could've sworn Turbo did a version of Jekyll & Hyde

[@Chelsea_E_Lindsay]

It would be cool to see this review with actual clips from the movie, it would add to the great commentary from you :)

[@AroAceGamer]

Have you seen the 1986 version? That one is pretty faithful, too, even if a bit more simplified for children, though at the same time pretty dark. Even has Dr. Utterson trying to solve the mystery of the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde.

[@Rhythmech01]

I've been saying this!

[@puglife658]

Veggietales is great. Not only does it actually have good writing and clever humor, but it also doesn’t use its Christian roots(no pun intended) to justify bigotry. They actually uphold good values rather than using religion as an excuse to be hateful.

[@tearoses9940]

The musical has Utterson, but he’s demoted to supporting cast. He’s concerned for his buddy Jekyll, but iirc (been awhile since I’ve seen it, could be wrong), he doesn’t really do anything about it, let alone trying to sleuth things out.

[@SarahElisabethJoyal]

I'm honestly not sure how you *could* make a faithful noncomedic adaptation. How do you make a shocking moment out of something that literally everyone on earth knows?

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@SarahElisabethJoyal not hard! Literally just change the names Actually, you don't even have to change the names. The concept has been warped and twisted so hard that no one knows the original story "This is my mystery movie about a lawyer named Gabe trying to figure out why his client Hank left everything to this monster named Eddie--only to find out Eddie is just Hank in a fake wig and glasses"

[@SarahElisabethJoyal]

@MoviesAndHeists I want to see this now

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@SarahElisabethJoyal in that case, you're not gonna believe this movie recommendation I have! Sorry, *ahem* "have we got a show for you?"

[@SarahElisabethJoyal]

@@MoviesAndHeists it is to my great shame that I have not kept up with my old vegetable friends

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@SarahElisabethJoyal I have excellent news! The vegetables are still there, ready for you! This particular episode is free on KZbin, where you already are right now at this moment!

[@tf2heritageposts]

it does suck a little bit that since its a kids media (christian one at that) we couldnt have rampant vegetable murder but honestly thats a cute twist

[@lavender317]

Veggietales actually doesn't try to shove religion down your throat as much as most Christian kids shows. They adapt some stories from the bible and throw in verses sometimes, but they're moreso focused on telling fun stories and occasionally teaching morals than they are with spreading the word of christ

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@lavender317 yup! Phil Vischer is a Bible School dropout who just enjoys animating stuff and wanted something he could watch with his kid

[@aaronboy1246]

I love veggietales

[@Dilbert1999]

To be fair, how exactly are you going to have an adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with them being the same person being a plot twist? Isn't that already much too embedded in the cultural Zeitgeist for that to work?

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@Dilbert1999 oh, easily! Just change the names Actually you don't even need to change the names. Nobody remembers the original novel "This is my mystery novel about a lawyer named Gabe trying to figure out why his client Hank left everything to this monster named Eddie... Only to find out Eddie is just Hank in a fake wig and glasses"

[@drawingdragon]

It's not even that we as pop culture already know "the twist"; it's that the entire genre of mystery thriller is removed to make Jekyll the protagonist when he isn't, fundamentally changing the plot and pacing. It's not that it has to be a surprise to the audience, but that it IS a surprise to the protagonist, hence the plot happening at all

[@TheMr.L01]

There are also several stories where the twist is obvious and the compelling part is seeing the characters figure it out.

[@sonicrocks2007]

That is awesome

[@koolaidpp132]

goated video

[@nutella217]

i really should read the original book. i read the abridged version for school several years ago and didnt remember much. recently ive been really interested in the broadway musical (which im surprised to see a lot of people here dont like??) and i know it isnt book-accurate but it's still a really good story on its own imo (has one of the best soundtracks i've ever heard, lovely characters too), so now im looking to read the book so i can properly compare them!

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@nutella217 the eBook is free on Project Gutenberg The book is free at your local library And the audiobook is free on KZbin and any podcast app

[@angus80w]

Very interesting

[@scrubbingdoubles8585]

Jesus loves you Isaiah 41:10 Romans 3:23-24 John 3:16-17 Romans 8:35-39 Luke 23:42-43 Zephaniah 3:17

[@riatsila144]

I guess I can see what most "adaptations" are going for because the story is so ubiquitous, you know the twist culturally, so perhaps the thought (if indeed any thought was put into it) is that "people know the punchline, so we have to do something different with it." ... not saying it's right, I think the world needs more faithful adaptations, but I'm just wondering if that's the "Why?" behind it all. Much like so many remakes of War of the Worlds tend to be. As you say, building on (...or bastardizing) the concept moreso than adaptation of the original work. Back to the topic, VeggieTales doing it accurately makes sense... young children won't necessarily know the story, nor the twist, so it's all brand new.

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@riatsila144 yeah, I 100% get it too Just... don't hurt my friends who have DID

[@URAYsan]

veggietales 🔛🔝 as always

[@d_trich]

What about the Wishbone adaptation? I think they did a decent job for the fraction of a half hour they gave it.

[@1kaz1]

Have you played the MazM game Jekyll and Hyde?

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@1kaz1 never heard of it I know my friend @bardboytroy was doing a series of Every Jekyll & Hyde Adaptation That's what inspired this video

[@Quincy_Morris]

J&H is supposed to have a twist that 2 people are actually the same person. Not 2 people living in the same body. In any event, we need more Victorian era repression. Bring back shame!

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@Quincy_Morris yes! Thank you! Love the username btw. Very fitting for commenting on OG Gothic Horror novels

[@LvlGenesis]

I think people often forget that quite a few Christians take studying the Bible quite seriously which does require quite a bit of literary knowledge. Including knowing how different interpretations of the word are written. Doesn’t surprise me that VeggieTales does adaptations like this well.

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@@LvlGenesis I have good news and other news! The good news is: Phil Vischer went to Bible School! The other news is: He's a Bible School dropout He doesn't want to take the Bible super-seriously. He just likes making animations and wanted something he could watch with his kids

[@LvlGenesis]

I totally agree with that and I think the fact that he didn’t go to Bible College shows that you don’t need an extensive background to make something entertaining for Christian’s and non-Christian’s alike.

[@MoviesAndHeists]

@LvlGenesis oh to be clear: He did go to Bible college He just dropped out He knows how to do hermeneutics and exegesis. He just hates doing it🤣