Daniel and the Mailman Trap

Daniel and the Mailman Trap is the fourth episode of VeggieTales Abridged and is primarily based on the segment Daniel and the Lions' Den from the VeggieTales pilot Where's God When I'm S-Scared?

Plot synopsis
Bob starts the episode by saying he and Larry have received a letter, to which they both announce their apathy. However, a computer currently on the run from the police, QWERTY, tells the two, while being insulted by them, that they have to read the letter. The hosts adamantly refuse and decide to show a skit without ever reading the letter. QWERTY then conspires amongst himself to overthrow the hosts. In ancient Babylon, Darius, while deciding upon a vizier, has only three options, a set of scallions whom he refuses for very superficial reasons. Daniel (being played by Larry, who at first does not realize he's playing a role) bursts into Darius's palace, and at first is rejected before the offscreen narrator (who sounds like Trevor Liedtke's imitation of Pa Grape) commands him otherwise. The scallions are at first congratulatory towards Daniel and feel no animosity until they too are told by the narrator they are supposed to be jealous. The scallions plot against Daniel. Meanwhile the next day, Daniel goes for a walk and somehow falls into a massive, gaping hole filled with lions. The scallions elsewhere are still plotting. Back in the lions' den, Daniel gets fed up with the narrator, who quits. The scallions plan to egg and TP Daniel's house and ask Darius for directions. Darius first checks a trap he set for a tantalizing mailman (who only annoyed Darius because he was performing the basic duty of a mail carrier), which happens to be the whole where Daniel has fallen. Darius notices a dead cucumber and says, "On that cucumber congas. That's Daniel's head thingy! I loved that head thingy. You know that was the only reason they got the job, and now it's sort of dead body." Darius, to his own admission, arbitrarily blames the scallion for plotting Daniel, Scallion #2 asks Darius why is he going to do that, Darius questions back to him to not question to him because he's the king, before he punishes the scallions by shooting at them. The episode goes to black while Darius continues the shooting to his heart's desire.

Appearances

 * Bob
 * Larry (as himself and as Daniel)
 * QWERTY
 * Archibald (as Darius)
 * The Three Scallions (as candidates for vizier)
 * Pa Grape (as narrator, voice only)

Transcript
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Notes & trivia

 * The office of vizier did not exist in any way shape or form until the rise of the Abbasid caliphs, long after the ancient kingdom of Babylon fell. Of course, machine guns and postal services did not exist that far back either, nor did any king named Darius rule over any ancient kingdom named Babylon.
 * However, Daniel's headgear, might have been worn by Levantine peoples, even outside the Levant, that far back in history. Darius in the episode refers to it as a "head thingy," and it serves only as a prop that is never the topic of discussion in the base episode of VeggieTales, but the proper name for it is a keffiyeh.