Duke and the Great Pie War is the 25th episode in the VeggieTales

VeggieTales

VeggieTales is an American series of children's computer animated films featuring anthropomorphic vegetables in stories conveying moral themes based on Christianity...

animated series. It was released on March 8, 2005 in both DVD and VHS format. Subtitled "A Lesson in Loving Your Family", it includes two stories aimed at teaching the value of family and the importance of putting others' needs ahead of your own. It is a prequel

Prequel

A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...

 to King George and the Ducky

King George and the Ducky

King George And The Ducky is the thirteenth episode in the VeggieTales animated series. It was released in April 2000 on VHS and on May 20, 2003 on DVD. Subtitled "A lesson about... Selfishness", it teaches viewers that they must think of others before themselves...

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Both features are based directly on accounts taken from the Bible

Bible

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. The first is retelling of story of the baby Moses

Moses

Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible and Qur'an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed...

 and his sister Miriam from the Book of Exodus. The second story is derived from the Book of Ruth

Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament. In the Jewish canon the Book of Ruth is included in the third division, or the Writings . In the Christian canon the Book of Ruth is placed between Judges and 1 Samuel...

. In this account, Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi

Naomi (Bible)

Naomi is Ruth's mother-in-law in the Old Testament Book of Ruth...

 seek the protection of a distant relative named Boaz

Boaz

Boaz is a major figure in The Book of Ruth in the Bible. The term is found 24 times in the Scriptures, being two in Greek ....

. Ruth and Boaz fall in love, but Boaz must first challenge a closer relative for the rights to the family estate. The story is recast to a medieval setting in this video, also making slight references to Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1974 British comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python , and directed by Gilliam and Jones...

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Plot

In "Babysitter in De-Nile", Laura Carrot portrays Miriam, a big (and little) sister in Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

 who wonders why people in the village refuse to acknowledge that her new baby brother Moses

Moses

Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible and Qur'an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed...

 is a boy. She is forced to look after the baby because her parents and elder brother Aaron are working in the brickyards. She finds babysitting tougher than she thought and complains about her plight. But when Aaron is almost run down by a chariot, she learns the value of family. Once she learns that the Egyptians

Egyptians

Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

 are taking away all the Hebrew baby boys, Miriam decides to hide Baby Moses in the Nile River. Everyone had to have pea

Pea

A pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas. Peapods are botanically a fruit, since they contain seeds developed from the ovary of a flower. However, peas are considered to be a vegetable in cooking...

 Miriams when Miriam is turned into a pea.

Cast

• Phil Vischer
  Phil Vischer
  Phillip "Phil" Vischer is an American voice actor, animator, director, writer and puppeteer known for creating the computer-animated video series VeggieTales with partner and friend Mike Nawrocki...
  
  
  • Philipe as an Egyptian guard
  • Jimmy Gourd as a lifeguard
• Mike Nawrocki
  Mike Nawrocki
  Michael Nawrocki is an American voice actor, writer, animator and director. He is the co-founder and Executive Vice President of Big Idea Entertainment, the company best known for bringing computer-animated vegetables to life in the popular VeggieTales series...
  
  
  • Jean Claude as an Egyptian guard
• Jacquelyn Ritz
  • Laura Carrot as Miriam
  • Paura as Miriam's mother
  • Baby Lou Carrot as Moses
• Tim Hodge
  • Miriam's father as himself (debut)
• Charlotte Jackson
  • Miss Achmetha as the Nile River valley girl

Music

This episode includes the "VeggieTales Theme" and "What We Have Learned," and the following songs:

• What Can a Baby Do?, sung by Miriam
• The Blues with Larry (Silly Song
  Silly Songs with Larry
  Silly Songs with Larry is a regular feature in the Big Idea's popular 3D cartoon series VeggieTales. It generally consists of Larry the Cucumber singing either alone or with some of the other Veggie characters. Occasionally, another character or an ensemble gets the lead vocal. It is occasionally...
  
  ), sung by Larry and Blind Lemon