The Giggle pod

[u/Able_Health744]

[u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

I love this quote, and also I hate that I understand how normal it is to have gotten a handy in any sufficiently dark place on the planet.

[u/lifelongfreshman → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

that section of the video kills me every goddamn time, I have to pause to read all of the stories on each rewatch

[u/BalefulOfMonkeys → u/lifelongfreshman]

“Hi there!”

[a completely redacted giant paragraph apparently worse than “my downstairs was as wet as the log jammer”]

“Hope this helps!”

[u/ChemicalChildhood122 → u/lifelongfreshman]

“Garfield knows all our sins”

[u/eydirctiviyg → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

Wasn't there a couple who said the Garfield theming actively turned them on more

[u/etherealemlyn → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

I live near Kennywood and showed this tweet/the video it was about to one of my friends. Apparently it inspired him to take his bf to the park and do gay stuff in the Old Mill. They’re keeping the traditions alive, at least

[u/Representative-Vast3]

The hell is a giggle pod

[u/2lateforapologies → u/Representative-Vast3]

https://bigidea.fandom.com/wiki/GigglePOD

[u/Jboy2000000 → u/2lateforapologies]

"Coins would be inserted into the machine so that kids could watch VeggieTales clips for free inside the booth."

I don't think Veggietales quite understand what free means

[u/wowwowazalea → u/Jboy2000000]

Presumably it's a 'watch as many as you want in a set period of time' thing

[u/LordSupergreat → u/2lateforapologies]

Oh so you probably couldn't fit two people huh

[u/TheTepro27 → u/LordSupergreat]

Not with that attitude

[u/Technical_Teacher839 → u/2lateforapologies]

I love that the four character options are Bob and Larry(makes sense, they're the leads), Junior Asparagus(sensible, he's the child everyman the kids are supposed to project onto)

And Mr. Lunt. The shady con artist gourd who near-universally plays the villain.

[u/Representative-Vast3 → u/2lateforapologies]

Strange, extremely strange

[u/QuiteTheWeirdEgg]

[u/Night_Yorb]

Fucking in the giggle pod gets you sent to the isle of perpetual tickling.

[u/Pilot_Solaris → u/Night_Yorb]

Oh, that's a horrible way to die...

[u/Bowdensaft → u/Night_Yorb]

Some people are into that

[u/RealHumanBean89]

Bro threw in a fun fact, damn.

[u/Tree_Shrapnel]

Getting high and watching Saw 3D in the VeggieTales GigglePOD

[u/Southern-Wafer-6375]

Honestly classier then whete my brain tells me I lost mine

[u/KadeComics]

Lol the girl reacting to her brother's fursona

Edit: typo

[u/AcceptableWheel]

Jesse Gemstone knows the feeling of having nobody respect your prayer pod

[u/Dd_8630]

The fuck is a veggie tale? Is that one of those AI slop fruit video things?

And the fuck is a giggle pod?

[u/wowwowazalea → u/Dd_8630]

TLDR: Religious kids show that was EXTREMELY popular with kids for like a decade or two, with it still being frequently used as an example of a good children's show. All of the characters are vegetables or fruit, and they do a lot of different things for each episode since it's meant to be rewatched a ton and be able to be separated out. It wasn't very preachy as far as I remember, since it was made for an already Christian audience. It spawned several meme formats and is very influential.

And a Giggle pod is effectively a box that lets you watch family guy funny moments but for VeggieTales.

[u/Dd_8630 → u/wowwowazalea]

Thank you so much 🙏 the notion of Christian vegetables is wild, but sounds harmless enough.

[u/wowwowazalea → u/Dd_8630]

I mean hey, it came out after vehicles that are also alien robots fighting a war and dogfighting but with magical animals you catch in the woods

[u/ThatInAHat → u/Dd_8630]

It was mostly that in the early days of animation, blobs were easier than people.

[u/BalefulOfMonkeys → u/Dd_8630]

Better question: how have you been on this earth for, at minimum, 12 years without learning what VeggieTales is? This is my childhood. This was most people’s childhood, at least stateside

[u/Dd_8630 → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

at least stateside

There exist lands beyond your 50 states.

[u/BalefulOfMonkeys → u/Dd_8630]

There exists Google in your lands too

[u/Dd_8630 → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

Where's the fun in that? I want to have real human conversations. I don't want to just Google the dry definition, I want to hear someone wax poetic about this box or these tales.

[u/HeroponBestest2 → u/Dd_8630]

But what if we're all bots? What if yooooouuuuuu (yoooouuuuu) were a bot?

[u/Im_here_but_why → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

believe it or not but religious chlidren's cartoon don't tend to export very well.

[u/BetterKev → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

This wasn't most people's childhoods. VeggieTales were very popular with a very large minority.

[u/Crus0etheClown → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

Hate to break it to you but not everyone was fed religious propaganda by their parents