Purim on TV Answer

03/06/2023

D. VeggieTales presented an episode titled Esther: The Girl Who Became Queen. VeggieTales was an animated video series retelling Christian Bible stories, with characters played by fruits and vegetables. In this Purim episode, Esther, a leek, and Mordecai, a grape with a Yiddish accent, overcome Haman, who is a gourd, leading to Haman’s banishment to the Island of Perpetual Tickling (the shows creators didn’t think it would be appropriate to hang Haman the gourd from a gallows as in the real Purim story).

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