Hey now, SpongeBob is plenty educational. For example: the episode where SpongeBob quite literally breaks his butt and then refuses to go outside as a result teaches that you can’t always run away from your fears/problems; you gotta face them head-on.
I watched "Rocky and Bullwinkle" when I was a kid and found out many years later Rocky was voiced by a woman but I turned out hetro despite it. Lots of subtle adult political subtext if you look back on it now, my Dad liked watching it as much as I did.
Same voice actress who played Rocky also played Natasha, Nell, and provided voices for other one-off female characters in the series. June Foray is a legend.
If you ever saw 80s Ducktales, she was Magica de Spell too.
In the 70's and 80's I worked as a recording engineer in Chicago and recorded many voice over talents. The best was Len Dressler AKA "The Jolly Green Giant", he was both jolly and a giant (6'5"?) but not green!
Back then there were no pagers or answering machines, doctors and talent had answering services. We used a lot of local TV and Radio announcers and the joke was if you got Ron Roland's service and you needed him in a hurry he would probably be at Trader Vic's just down the street. A great talent.
We used Len as a singer as well when I worked for a jingle company. His joke was "would you like to hear that down an octave?" Chelcie Ross was another of my favorites, funny guy recorded him before he became a movie star. Peter Coyote was another I recorded much later when I was in the Bay area.
I did not allow my kids to watch SpongeBob, and did allow VeggieTales, but the irony is in the reason: I knew it was inevitable that they would catch up with their peers on all the toilet jokes they missed once they started school.
So what they got to watch at home was mostly said the science kid, and other things you’d likely find on PBS kids. I turned on VeggieTales, though, because I live in the Bible Belt and wanted to have the convos abt that stuff at home, to reduce chances of somebody trying to slip them some Hateraid.
I didn’t watch Veggie Tales, but I did catch snippets of episodes when over at a friend’s w/kids who watched it. Seemed to have a lot of heart & humor alongside the preachy bits. 1 of the guys who worked on it did another show after that had all the preachy bits with none of the heart. Snoozefest.
I do a spot on Larry impression. I was dressed up for a church event, and people thought it was animatronic. Never had an issue with Veggie Tales, only the judgement after I revealed I like guys.
The religious consultant for the show was also the guy who signed off on the "gay people are welcome here in the Methodist church" ad campaign. He's a pretty nice guy.
My mom banned SpongeBob because it's supposedly full of crude humor. I realized as an adult that it's more likely because she found SpongeBob's voice irritating.
Theres an episode where spongebob and patrick raise a claim together that has spongebob crossdressing to be the mom. Theres also the time they held hands in their underwear. Those are the only things i can think of even remotely close to being homosexual.
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@blueharuka.bsky.social Oh Biblemn was the gay Christian thing my foster mom did after giving my G.I.Joe Barbie at the time as a toddler. The videos were fun with the villain and electricity sizzling off of Biblemn's nipples,you wonder why I turned out the way I did.
When I got outed as gay, my parents blamed everything under the Sun. The TV shows, movies, vidya, books, whatever they could blame. Anything to not admit I was born this way.
I only watched the vegetable story show when I was spending the night at my Christian friends' houses as a kid. I have vivid memories of watching it on the movie player that attached to the car seat headrest of their minivan. Even as a young kid, I thought it was all horseshit propaganda. Church too
Well, thanks for the Veggie Tales flashback. Feel 13-14 again.
I was sent to a Christian elementary play junior high school, and my classmates loved that show. I didn’t care much for it, but I still remember the theme hah.
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Anyway, dungeon with thy.
Also it gave us the Indoors song.
I think there were some episodes that were okay to watch, but our parents wanted us to be open minded with ourselves.
I really don't think SpongeBob is the problem here.
Learn something new everyday. 🙂
If you ever saw 80s Ducktales, she was Magica de Spell too.
half-truths,
or outright lies
puberty is gonna happen to them, too - whether you like it or not.
The REAL crime.
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And then there's a movie called Joshua and the promised land that is absolute bare bones in every category.
I was sent to a Christian elementary play junior high school, and my classmates loved that show. I didn’t care much for it, but I still remember the theme hah.