I wanted to defend our honor by pointing out that that series was apparently received as a joke all around, but then I remembered the huge success of our biblical vegetable movies.
Yeah, VeggieTales is equally fucked up. Bibleman I guess was the sort of thing people who thought that mainstream = sinful wanted. Like, they won't let their kids watch Superman or Batman because they're too mainstream, and Satan is the god of this world so if people of this world like it, it must be made by Satan. My parents would say that the people who played superman were cursed, because superman isn't human, has super-human abilities, and fell to earth and therefore he's a fallen angel an playing a demon lets demons enter you or some such bs. But then again they also said that Dairy Queen was flavored with aborted fetuses (which just sounds so fucking insane at face value, I don't know how it could have made sense, even to them), among other schizophrenic ramblings.
And VeggieTales isn't any better. One I remember that sticks out as particularly bad is the one about Bathsheba, in which they literally compared raping a woman to stealing a rubber ducky. Watching it felt like they knew that they were wrong to make that the comparison. They didn't even have Bob and Larry (the main characters) tell the story the first time, it was one of their shortest movies, and they cleaned up the story by not having Uriah die so the king could make amends. Plus there's a racist caricature, where the grape who was the stand in for the prophet Nathan is clearly an American Jewish stereotype. Also the "Silly Songs With Larry" segment makes light of the issue of endangered species, and features Larry jumping or falling onto the manatee (who he has been declaring his love for) out of frame and standing up looking ashamed and sheepish, which in the context of being an interruption in the middle of a story about rape, seems a lot like a rape joke. The whole thing is just so sickening and awkward that it makes you wonder who thought it was a good idea to publish it, and makes it unsurprising that they did not do any more Bible stories (or were not allowed to do any more Bible stories) for several years afterwards.
Topic: Bibleman