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What's the deal with Veggie Tales? Scott posted a link roundup which included a article about the relationship of its characters with Jesus.
I took a look and the cartoon looked like ass. Why would anything like it be something people know/care about? Was it the only cartoon children in fundy families were allowed to watch? Surely there are other options, I remember watching Superbook as a kid and it was not this offensive to my senses.
Turns out there's the new 3D Superbook, and it looks like an ad for a mobile game, that's the most flattering thing I can say about it. Are there no Christian animators left?
Besides what others have pointed out about how the earliest cartoons are very old (so the animation reflects that), I personally appreciated its clear influences including Mr. Rogers, Monty Python and the Muppets, so I just "got" the humor. For some reason it was big in our college Bible study group (say 1995-96). But there's definitely a big nostalgia factor to it. If you're not Christian and didn't run in those circles, yeah, it's probably just not for you. Phil Vischer by the way now runs The Holy Post, which is interesting for sitting at the intersection of being very strongly tied to the hosts' Evangelical roots but also bending heavily toward social justice and calling out hypocrisy and Christianity's unhealthy entanglement in American politics. I recommend it if you're heterodox and open minded, otherwise you're likely to hear something that enrages you. It's mostly just weekly commentary on current events.
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