VeggieTales (Arabic dub)

حواديت الخضروات (roman: hwadit alkhdruat) (English: The Vegetable Show) is the Egyptian-Arabic dub of VeggieTales.

The show was dubbed in Egyptian/Arabic three times. The first two dubs (in Colloquial Egyptian) were produced in Cairo, Egypt by Arascope Film company: one in 1997 (as evidenced by the copyright date on the VHS and DVD covers) for the first few episodes up to Josh and the Big Wall!, and another in the mid-2000s from Madame Blueberry to The Ballad of Little Joe. A third dub was produced by SAT-7 Kids sometime in the mid-2010s for newer episodes.

The show is formerly aired on Playhouse Disney Middle East and MBC 3 (aired on Monday through Friday) from late 2005 to early 2006. The show is currently being streamed live on SAT-7 Kids' website (aired on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays) and on the Miracle Channel (aired on weekends during Fridays and Sundays).

Why This Dub Sucks

 * 1) The dubbing is horrible, as it copies most of the creative concepts that the original English dub has, and turns them into something very bad and awful.
 * 2) It ignores the theme of the original English dub of the show, because Bob and Larry's intro dialogue felt way too crazy, Junior's personality is changed from a 5-year-old male trope into a young female type of character, Jimmy and Jerry into the unlikeable overhyped jerks, and the other VeggieTales characters into the Megward The Wizard-type characters, which means that they're getting abused without any reason at all.
 * 3) Terrible voice acting in Egypt.
 * 4) Wastes the Arabic voice talents of Yasser Shaaban, Raafat Maher, and Tora Wissa.
 * 5) Silly names. For example, Bob's name in this dub is Bobo, Larry's name in this dub is Tikha, and Junior's name in this dub is Qarnabeet (Cauliflower).
 * 6) Needless cutting. For example, they cut out the scenes in each episode.
 * 7) The Arabic dub changes Bob and Larry from the funny, silly, and wacky characters to the annoying, aggravating, ear-bleeding, unfunny, and irritating characters with very bad things and with the personalities of Wuz Wuz & Bott Bott.
 * 8) The trailer for the Arabic dub of the show felt way too injured and dizzy.
 * 9) In Madame Blueberry, Jerry Louis's name is changed into Mickey Mouse in the Arabic dub.
 * 10) It tries way too hard to be funny and silly, but fails miserably. For example, Bob and Larry's countertop dialogue in this dub are very annoying and said characters' habits of God are taken way too far.
 * 11) Overuse of boyish and girlish stereotypes.
 * 12) The songs aren't as silly as they were in the original.
 * 13) The localization is boring, using Arascope fonts. This can be seen with the translated title card.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The jokes are still funny.
 * 2) At least the other VeggieTales characters aren't flanderized in this dub.
 * 3) The 3D animation still looks good.
 * 4) Some good episodes with lyrics in songs and the watermark that says "info@veggietales-arabic.com" that they're localized onscreen.
 * 5) At least they didn't dumb down the Are You My Neighbor? episode from the 1990s.