The lightning flash in the background sky when Wiseman #1 suggest to Darius that Daniel be thrown into the Lion's Den was actually a computer glitch that Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki couldn't fix. So, they just added a thunderclap sound effect and made it lightning.
In July of 1993, Phil Vischer, two young art school grads, and friends volunteering on weekends, produced this, the first fully computer animated direct-to-video produced in the United States.
750,000 units were sold through Christian bookstores, mostly through word of mouth, before the Veggie Tales videos were sold at mass market stores like Target, Wal-Mart and K-Mart.
This is the first VeggieTales video to have a silly song. Originally, this was going to be the only silly song while other episodes were going to feature other funny half-time gimmicks. But when the next video didn't feature the silly song, people actually wrote to Big Idea asking what happened to the silly song. After that, the silly song became a regular thing.
In this video, Larry the Cucumber's voice is lower in pitch and sounds more like Bob the Tomato. In later releases, Mike Nawrocki gives Larry a more distinctive higher-pitched voice.