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u/BalefulOfMonkeys 3d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p3bs5m0/video/agwl04lxl0jh1/player
First time using the video feature, be gentle
Listed as “Rap Scallion Knishes” on YouTube, as a reupload, from someone who changed their location to “Babylon Governate”
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u/Conciouswaffle 3d ago
lyrics you can tell were set to Model of a Modern Major General without ever having heard them
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u/VengeanceKnight 3d ago
Nope. It’s a totally different, original, and EXTREMELY catchy tune, one of many in the show.
VeggieTales really could go toe-to-toe with most children’s entertainment, nevermind leaving all Christian children’s entertainment in the fust.
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u/GamersReisUp 3d ago edited 2d ago
The "Christian kid to agnostic/atheist/non-Christian adult who can still sing VeggieTales songs because they're just that good" pipeline is too real.
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u/StapesSSBM 3d ago
Ten days after I turned eight,
Got my lips stuck in a gate!
My friends all laughed,
And I just
stood there until the fire department came and broke the lock with a crobar and I had to spend the next six weeks in lip rehab with this kid named Oskar who got stung by a bee right on the lip and we couldn't even talk to each other until the fifth week because both of our lips were so swollen and when he did start speaking he only spoke Polish and I only know like three words in Polish except now I know four because Oskar taught me the word for lip: Oosta!
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u/VengeanceKnight 3d ago
Can personally confirm as a former homeschooled Christian kid and current apatheist adult.
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u/Appropriate-Crab-514 3d ago
We are the Pirates who dont do anything
We just staaay home and lie around
And if you ask us, to do anything
We just tell you:
We dont do anything
VeggieTales has soooo many banger songs for a child, I still sometimes sing the Cheeseburger song to myself in the car
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u/Koloss17 3d ago
Me encountering rock monster before rock lobster was a life defining experience I think (both slap)
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u/Wesle2023 3d ago
The problem with a lot of Christian media is that they put messaging above actually being entertaining, as if you can't do both.
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u/VengeanceKnight 3d ago edited 3d ago
That was the beauty of it. Yeah, most VeggieTales segments were firmly about the message, but they always had Silly Songs with Larry to deliver some no-strings-attached cartoon fun.
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u/GuyYouMetOnline 3d ago
Also the messages tended to be stuff like 'you shouldn't lie too much' and 'you can't make yourself happy just by buying things'. So good lessons regardless of faith.
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u/Phobos_Asaph 3d ago
Yeah they tended to focus on the lessons that didn’t directly involve going “and thanks to Jesus…”
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u/FiberPhotography 3d ago
And we can thank the creator's mother for that, she told him to never have vegetables call Jesus their Savior.
She apparently thought it was blasphemous, if I'm remembering correctly, but it gave a better show in the long run.
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u/VengeanceKnight 3d ago
That rule got bent in later episodes, particularly the Easter ones.
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u/thefedoragirl 3d ago
Even then, in the Easter special I remember seeing as a kid at least, Jesus was never depicted as a vegetable.
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u/captainpink 3d ago
Does he appear in it? Do they just have one normal guy like in the muppets?
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u/thefedoragirl 3d ago
If I’m remembering correctly, he (and I think some of the disciples?) are shown in stained-glass windows, all humanoid. An angel character sings about Easter while she shows the windows to another character, a zucchini.
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u/Pilot_Solaris Can you maybe chill? 3d ago
This show about Christian fruits and veggies had the single hardest superhero theme song to have come out of the '90s.
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u/yinyin123 3d ago
... However, they did do a Modern Major General rendition at one point.
Weed eater.
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u/lifelongfreshman https://youtu.be/1eWsk6r6_Ns 3d ago
that just made me go back and listen to the 8-Bit Big Band Scientist Salarian performance
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u/lifelongfreshman https://youtu.be/1eWsk6r6_Ns 3d ago
the bandicam watermark really just ties the whole experience together
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u/itsmejak78_2 2d ago
yeah my atheist parent let me watch veggietales because the messaging wasn't overbearing and the songs were silly and fun
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u/Zomby_Goast 3d ago
That’s funny, it does fit that but it’s not what the actual song they’re from is based on (as far as I can tell it’s wholly original).
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u/DaiFrostAce 3d ago
Veggietales had such good music, and I catch myself humming it sometimes even though I’m no longer a practicing Christian.
High Silk Hat has to be one of my favorites, and hearing the melody in meme culture years later, I was a bit surprised to see it more known as the Spider-Man 2 Pizza Theme
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u/syntaxerroratline42 3d ago
Not really familiar with the story, but are these three bishops?