Now Mr. Bozell is offended by Comedy Central:
Speaking of cartoonishly overdone death scenes, let’s not ignore the season finale of “Drawn Together,” another vile “adult” late-night cartoon that airs right after “South Park,” in which cartoon characters from different eras and genres are thrown together in a house like a reality show. Predictably, the producers brag on the Comedy Central website that they’re doing the same humor they enjoyed in “tenth grade.”
The finale was a “clip show” of previous episodes, putting all of the most shocking cartoon sex and violence in one intense package. One clip mocked the “Veggie Tales” cartoon for Christian preschoolers. The cucumber character goes on a shooting rampage, killing nearly all the show’s major characters, shooting most of them bloodily in the head. Behind the killings, a laugh track howls.
Another clip features the “Veggie Fables” characters singing a song called “God Is Watching.” The lyrics predictably associate Christianity only with condemnation. The happy vegetables sing about how God watches you shower and touch yourself, and they then turn angry and promise, “Your flesh will burn, your bones will churn, your soul will be torn asunder. You wretched, heathen, heretic, burn in Hell! For eternity!”
I rather like the Veggie Tales, (in the background, that is to say, the music is much better than most kiddie schlock), but this sounds absolutely hilarious. It reminds me of the time that Big Chilly’s little brother’s school choir – public school, of course – had a concert, but changed the words of the song “God is Watching Us” to the very creepy, pedophilic “They are Watching Us”. The choral director couldn’t figure out why people in the audience kept cracking up.
Christians face enough genuine challenges in secular society without going out of their way to invent new ones. And vegetables singing about eternal damnation is funny, so just accept it and spend your energy figuring out how to get your kid out of the secular mind-warp facilities.
It is unseemly for Christians to adopt the victimization/protest model of their opponents. We have the Light on our side, there is no need to indulge in passive-aggressive Gramscian deception.
Tangential note: As a creator, what I find incredibly annoying about people such Hagelin and Bozell how that they’ll devote space infinitum to talking about eeeevil products that they dislike, but seldom bother to so much as mention Christian books, movies and games that might provide a worthwhile alternative. Ironically, the only way to ensure coverage in the Christian is to combine children or elements of the sacred with decapitation, sodomy or witchcraft.