Guest ephymeris Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 I watched Superbook, Flying House, and as for creepy puppet shit, we had Sunshine Factory. I felt a little weird as a kid because my favorite episode of Flying House was when Satan tempted Jezus in the desert because I liked the idea of wishes coming true. The little girl wanted to be a princess and I liked her dream sequence... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwc Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 I watched Davey and Goliath. At home. Before church. Unless it was one of the weeks my local station showed (the original) George of the Jungle then fuck'em. But I also had flannel graphs in Sunday school. They ruled. Big board of felt. Paper cut-outs with stuff on the back so they'd stick to the felt...sometimes...not always...maybe...if the Lord wills it...by the power of Grayskull (is that how that goes?). If the teacher wasn't a control freak bitch then maybe, just maybe, she'd let *you* touch the paper cut-out thing and move it about the board and *be* a part of story! It was a magical time to be alive. mwc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Genesis Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Leave it to Beaver (okay, maybe a slightly suggestive title, but nobody knew it), Yugi: You're right, Joey! My Beaver was totally exposed! Tea: I didn't know Yugi had a beaver (random Yugioh Abridged reference)! I remember watching Superbook and Flying House like once during bible class at church when I was a kid, but other than that, I never watched Christian cartoons when I was a kid. I was too busy watching Power Rangers and Fox Kids on Saturday mornings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouroboros Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 I grew up with socialist propaganda, so I have no cute Christian childhood TV series to relate to. The only Christian child story I've seen is the Veggie Tales. --- Oh, the flannel graph. My mom did that for Sunday school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentLoner Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 No flannel graphs at my church, maybe being catholic wasn't so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Genesis Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 I grew up with socialist propaganda, so I have no cute Christian childhood TV series to relate to. If you had to choose between Christian kids' cartoons and socialist propaganda, which would you rather watch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouroboros Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 I grew up with socialist propaganda, so I have no cute Christian childhood TV series to relate to. If you had to choose between Christian kids' cartoons and socialist propaganda, which would you rather watch? Neither. Well, actually, I can't tell since I don't have much experience of Christian programs. But I do know that some of the shows were extremely twisted when I grew up. There has been some debate (tongue-in-cheek kind) about how a whole generation (mine) have post-traumatic disorders because of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpheliaGinger Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 The only thing I ever grew up on was the mildly Christian movies from Feature Films for Families. I was mostly watching Nickelodeon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight-mindwanderings Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 What the hell is a flannel graph? They were kind of like thisbut less awesome. More like this: OH GOD THE HORROR!!! I had forgotten all about them! We used these ALL the time... Good thing I had an imagination and tended to play with them like dolls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viridia Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 I forgot to vote for it but Bibleman was the shit. Wow, that was...just funny. Also, flannel graphs! My mom used to be the Sunday school teacher before getting fed up with the church, so we have tons of them lying around. My sisters and me used to set them up in funny/dirty situations... I actually still like Veggietales, just good childhood memories (: I never did like McGee and Me, or the Odyssey thing. Even when I was little I thought those were just useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueGiant Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 I have vague recollections of Circle Square, from an independent Christian station in St. Louis. I however remember watching the Flying House and Superbook, and even kind of thought of them as a somewhat shared continuity. Of course, they also ran right before Inspector Gadget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted April 28, 2010 Super Moderator Share Posted April 28, 2010 I bet that flannelgraph lady in the picture can make a mean tuna casserole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentLoner Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 I was on the bus home in traffic today and actually thought up this question and remembered a Spanish kids tv show "Historias dela Biblia" or something. It had clay animation and it could get creepy as hell. Don't want to look that up, ugh. Enough bad memories as is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vomit Comet Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 I was on the bus home in traffic today and actually thought up this question and remembered a Spanish kids tv show "Historias dela Biblia" or something. It had clay animation and it could get creepy as hell. Don't want to look that up, ugh. Enough bad memories as is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJWb0us8004 Well, that's all that turned up. No claymation, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpheliaGinger Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 What the hell is a flannel graph? They were kind of like thisbut less awesome. More like this: My churches rarely used them but we used them none the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 I remember the ones with the archaeology kids (Greatest Adventure Bible stories). I have no problem saying that I definitely feel some nostalgia for those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Broke Free Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 This is one of the few times where I feel blessed being 50. I can recall watching Davey & Goliath on television back in the 1960’s but fortunately I left the church early in life and was never introduced to any of this other crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Objet_trouve24 Posted April 29, 2010 Author Share Posted April 29, 2010 Hey flannel graph kids...thought I'd post this. Always thought it was a creative idea for a christian music video: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Objet_trouve24 Posted April 29, 2010 Author Share Posted April 29, 2010 I grew up with socialist propaganda, so I have no cute Christian childhood TV series to relate to. If you had to choose between Christian kids' cartoons and socialist propaganda, which would you rather watch? What was the difference again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheild Maiden Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 Mostly Veggie Tales tv shows/movies and Focus On The Family tapes.cds. My dad would put the tapes of FOTF on everynight and have me and my sister fall asleep to them. O_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagan Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 Hey flannel graph kids...thought I'd post this. Always thought it was a creative idea for a christian music video: I do like that song. And the video was pretty funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vendredie Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 I didn't always go to church regularly, and my parents aren't the fundie types, so the only one of those I've seen- or even heard of- is Veggie Tales. I grew up on secular programming. The only Christian show I ever really watched regularly was 7th Heaven, back when me and my sister were home alone after school and had finished our chores. It began to piss me off after a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mriana Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 I liked Davey and Goliath as a kid, but when Veggietales came out after my kids were born, I wanted to PUKE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flockoff Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 I never watched any of those shows, so I was going to say I dodged a bullet until I remembered this: I went to an ACE school where we had cartoons like this on every other page of our textbooks/"PACEs." They lived squeaky clean lives in a world where people cited scripture spontaneously with chapter and verse, conjunctions were avoided in normal speech, and the one black family was rarely seen with the rest of the characters. It looks even creepier now of course, but I'd pay for a book that just has all the cartoons. This video nails it pretty well: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurari Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 The one I especially remember was the Kingdom Chums: The Original Top Ten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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