Like many other US millennials, I grew up on VeggieTales. I can't really make fun of it, I watched it so often that I threw a fit when my mom lent my VHS copies out to my neighbor. (Which I never got back. Thanks, mom.) For some reason, the concept of talking vegetables with no arms reenacting biblical stories somehow appealed to my generation on a strange level. If you talk to anyone, they'll be able to tell you a memory from the show. Personally, my favorite memory from VeggieTales is the "His Cheeseburger" song. Throughout my life, I would randomly find it stuck in my head, but it wasn't until recently that I actually sat down and thought about how strange that song scene was. Just to bring back a sense of nostalgia to my generation and satisfy my need to talk about this, here's a breakdown of "His Cheeseburger" from VeggieTales.
So it starts off with him asking the drive-thru person for a cheeseburger (and maybe a milkshake, too) and the drive-thru person just says, "I cannot give you either," with no other explanation. It takes the vegetable guy asking if he's at the right place for the drive-thru person to tell him that they're closed. Basically, this drive-thru worker does not know how to talk to customers and I hope they got a stern talking-to.
This vegetable guy decides that the best possible decision is to stay at the drive-thru and sleep in his car until they open the next morning. He wanted that cheeseburger so badly that he sleeps in his car for hours. This makes me wonder just how late it was when he went because it was obviously late enough that it didn't seem outrageous to stay there and wait it out. What kind of life is this vegetable living?
Then there's a game changer. The vegetable guy sees a sign for half price breakfast at Denny's. (Subtle advertising?) Suddenly, he forgets the hours he's spent asleep in his car waiting for this incredibly important cheeseburger and decides that the deal for breakfast is too good to pass up. I mean, he waited all night for this cheeseburger and just changes his mind! It sounds like this vegetable has commitment issues. Then he finally remembers that he had been waiting all night for this cheeseburger and has this existential crisis about what to do in this ever-so-important life decision. He tells the cheeseburger (that isn't even made yet) that he'll be back at lunch, so this vegetable obviously wants to have his cake and eat it, too.
Then, for no apparent reason, the vegetable that's singing decides to get very serious about cheeseburgers in an intense R&B reminiscent scene. They go from this cutesy little song about a vegetable who really wants a cheeseburger to an intense ballad about cheeseburgers and how important they are. It just makes no sense.
I guess I'm really just left wondering why this vegetable guy was going to get a burger so late at night by himself? Why is a vegetable even eating a burger? Who is the random vegetable that's singing about this guy's drive-thru experience? These are the questions that haunt me.
