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Josh and the Big Wall! is the ninth episode of VeggieTales.

Summary
This episode is a retelling of the Bible story of Joshua (Larry) and the Battle of Jericho. This episode is a retelling of the Bible story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho.

Why It Will Be Going to The Promised Land

 * 1) Much like The Toy That Saved Christmas and Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space, the CGI animation is cute, adorable and wonderful, especially for 1997 standards, avoiding the stiff and robotic movements of the early-to-mid 1990s episodes.
 * 2) * Also, the CGI animation can be really appealing to watch with your family, that makes the movements look more fluid and smooth using soft-body dynamics.
 * 3) * In fact, what's more, is that the CGI animation was also done entirely using Softimage 3D that allows the animators to animate the scenes in Alias Wavefront PowerAnimator, which can then be rendered in LightWave 3D.
 * 4) The Song of the Cebú, while the cause of the Silly Song segment's abrupt cancellation, is pretty entertaining to watch.
 * 5) The slushies made a nice touch to the story, since Bob and Junior were using their imaginations.
 * 6) The music and songs are wonderfully composed and orchestrated by Kurt Heinecke.
 * 7) Funny moments, such as Jimmy Gourd commenting on his eye contacts and the French Peas making jokes in-between the song, "Keep Walking".
 * 8) It was clever for Junior to break into the story to give everyone common sense and tell them to follow God's way, instead of doing things their own way.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The song of "Promised Land", while entertaining to watch, having weird details such as:
 * 2) * During when Pa states that he'll have a cheese soufflé, the blue trunk flashes.
 * 3) * At the end of the song, the color band holding Percy's wrap changes from red to gray.
 * 4) This episode has a few animation errors and clipping objects for example:
 * 5) * After God tells Moses about the Promised Land, you can still see part of the clothing after he leaves the screen.
 * 6) * After the Israelites get scared of the Pickle family and run away, Percy's escaping from the tree was rendered at a lower frame rate, which technically counts as a rendering glitch.
 * 7) After "The Song of the Cébu" Archibald Asparagus decided to cancel Silly Songs with Larry in the next video "Madame Blueberry" by replacing Larry with Mr. Lunt by opening "Love Song's with Mr. Lunt" causing Larry to become depressed worst of all the song from this video was recycled on "The End of Silliness".

Trivia

 * This is the first episode for a few things:
 * The first episode Everett Downing worked on as an assistant storyboard artist.
 * The first physical appearance of Aunt Ruth, who only cameo appeared in a slideshow still in the silly song, though was previously mentioned by Jerry Gourd in the I Can Be Your Friend song from Are You My Neighbor? in The Gourds Must Be Crazy and by Larry in the Love My Lips silly song from Dave and the Giant Pickle.
 * The first episode where Larry is replaced by Junior as the host.
 * This is the last episode for several things:
 * Tom Grape's last appearance to date.
 * The Peach's last appearance until Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas.
 * The last show Mike Nawrocki worked with the sound effects.
 * The last episode to use the original VeggieTales logo and theme song. By the time the next episode was released, the 1998 logo and opening montage were introduced.
 * This is the last episode to be distributed by Everland Entertainment.
 * According to the concept art, there were a few differences between that and the final product:
 * According to a The Morning Star November 23, 1997 newspaper article, the episode's original title was going to be "Joshua and the Battle of Jericho."
 * The ark was going to be on wheels.
 * The helmets on the army of Jericho were going to be colanders and something to an Asian straw hat. Also, the helmets would've covered the Peas' eyesight, but they'd still see (ala Tom Grape and Mr. Lunt).
 * The wall was going to be extendable, meaning, starting as a low wall and folding up to become bigger.
 * There was going to be a motorcycle involved.
 * The cover to the 1999 re-release was going to look similar to the original cover but never came to be.
 * There was going to be more shots of the walls of Jericho collapsing for the episode, but they were scrapped due to money running low and the episode's deadline.
 * This episode can be featured in Heroes of the Bible!: Stand Up, Stand Tall, Stand Strong!, and Larry Learns to Listen.
 * The Song of the Cebú will return in The End of Silliness?, The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown, Englishman with an Omelet, Heroes of the Bible!: Stand Up, Stand Tall, Stand Strong!, Sing-Alongs: I Love My Lips, and If I Sang A Silly Song.
 * Larry reads the interactive storybook version on The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment!
 * Near the end, Junior asks Bob about the legitimacy of the story. But it turns out that the slushee dropping and the rocket being built were things added in their story (possibly to make it appealing to young kids). This line was added in the script in order to prevent young children from asking that same question if they went to Sunday School.
 * This episode was originally going to be released on October 4, 1997, but was pushed back to nearly a month and a half later.
 * There exists an extremely rare early 2002 VHS reprint of this episode by Lyrick Studios/HiT Entertainment. It has a black tape with a white ink label, and it has a print date of March 15, 2002.

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