19 Facts About Phil Vischer

Phillip Roger Vischer was born on June 16,1966 and is an American filmmaker, animator, author, puppeteer, and voice actor.

Phil Vischer is the creator of the animated video series VeggieTales alongside Mike Nawrocki.

Phil Vischer provided the voice of Bob the Tomato and about half of the other characters in the series.

Phil Vischer attended Glenbard West High School and graduated in 1984.

For three semesters, Phil Vischer attended St Paul Bible College ; around that time, he worked at a small Christian video production company.

The "Big Idea" for Phil Vischer, was to teach children about right-from-wrong using God's messages from the Bible.

Phil Vischer offered to settle with HiT for $500,000 but, HiT declined and the case went to trial after the judge denied Big Idea's motion for summary judgement.

In late 2009, Phil Vischer began production on a new spin-off series of his puppet show from JellyTelly entitled "What's in the Bible".

Phil Vischer hired renowned YouTubers Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal to write, sing, and perform several songs about the books of the Bible for the series.

In June 2020, Phil Vischer launched a video streaming service named MrPhil.

Phil Vischer said he launched the streaming service one month early due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

TV features non-VeggieTales content that Vischer created, including The Mr Phil Show, and What's In The Bible.

Phil Vischer said that he had to pay for the ability to upload What's In The Bible, since he had sold it to another party.

In March 2019, Phil Vischer announced on his Twitter that he had re-teamed with his longtime partner Mike Nawrocki at TBN to revive the VeggieTales series.

At first, Phil Vischer declined involvement in the TBN reboot until he realized that TBN intended to continue the concept of the original VeggieTales direct-to-video series, before it became a DreamWorks franchise.

In 2021, Phil Vischer announced on Twitter that he and Nawrocki had departed from the franchise after being denied greater creative control by Big Idea Entertainment and claimed that the unit was looking to recast their characters.

Phil Vischer has commented on social and political issues in interviews, on his Twitter, and through his podcast.

In 2019, Phil Vischer expressed concern over rising LGBT representation in children's media in response to Arthur's depiction of a same-sex marriage.

In 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, Phil Vischer put out a 17-minute video addressing systemic racism.