If you grew up evangelical in the 1980s you likely heard Psalty - and Psaltina, Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, and Charity Churchmouse. I was looking for the recording where Charity says "I don't want to be a servant. I want to have servants!" but it eludes me. Best line in the series.
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Anthropomorphic Bibles creep me out. How about you?
My family had a massive collection of those when I was little. I think I listened to the Christmas Calamity and the Time Machine story the most frequently.
G Poulin, good question, I had to think about it a bit. I anthropomorphize things on my own quite readily, speaking to them as if they have personalities inside them. I don't mentally change their appearance at all. I also like beast-fable, even with illustrations. I don't like them in 3D moving about at all. All of them creep me out, not just the Bibles. When living things are in my own imagination I can simply imbue them with a little personality, with few visual or reality changes. When someone else does it to me full bore, I don't like it, especially an inanimate object.
Deeply into Uncanny Valley
Never saw this show, but as far as appearances go, I much prefer VeggieTales, even if it left a lot of Sunday school kids with the impression that King David was an asparagus.
The cartoon version doesn't bother me so much, 'cuz it's a cartoon. But the live-action Psalty gives me some serious willies. Looks like the Christian version of Drag Queen Story Hour. But at least he's not reading "Heather has Two Mommies" to the kiddies, I would presume.
There may be something to that, as they both have that imitation quality. Weird pickup, but worth noticing.
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