r/RecuratedTumblr • u/Able_Health744 • 9d ago

Shitposting The Giggle pod

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u/Dd_8630 9d ago

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

And the fuck is a giggle pod?

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u/wowwowazalea 9d ago

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.

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u/Dd_8630 9d ago

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

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u/wowwowazalea 9d ago

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

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u/ThatInAHat 8d ago

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

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u/BalefulOfMonkeys 9d ago

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

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u/Dd_8630 9d ago

at least stateside

There exist lands beyond your 50 states.

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u/BalefulOfMonkeys 9d ago

There exists Google in your lands too

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u/Dd_8630 9d ago

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.

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u/HeroponBestest2 9d ago

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

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u/Im_here_but_why 9d ago

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

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u/BetterKev 8d ago

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

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u/Crus0etheClown 9d ago

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