I guess I must be a simple person because I love this video! It makes my whole family laugh out loud, and my husband and I LOVE the spoofs. I'm pretty sure they got permission do the spoofs. Saturday Night Live, Mad Magazine/TV, and Weird Al do it all the time and rarely (if at all) get sued over copyright infringement. Anyway, I love the song that Palmy sings about forgiveness. It gets stuck in your head all day, but what better moral to get stuck in your head??? As a Christian parent, I am glad to have this alternative. It's nice to give the kids a break from the "rude" cartoons that they show on TV these days. Also, this one is the second story that Mike Nawrocki and Phil Vischer did in the Veggie Tales Series, which makes for a great collector's item. If you get the DVD, it contains lots of cool special features and quite a few easter eggs (hidden special features within the different menus). My kids want to watch this one over and over, and I never get tired of it!!
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VeggieTales: God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!
(1994 Video)
As usual, a very good video from Big Idea
13 March 2007
The Greatest American Hero
(1981–1983)
The Greatest American Show * not sure if this contains actual spoilers, but just in case...*
16 June 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Since someone else has beautifully described the premise of the show, I will explain my love for it.
This show was one of my favorites as a kid. I watched it with my dad every week, including the pilot. I've owned two copies of the theme song on 45 record singles since I was very young. Now that we own the series on DVD, my husband and I watch it with our kids (now they understand that corny song that mommy always plays on that prehistoric turntable at home). Even our four and five year old daughters stay glued, which is hard to get them to do unless they're watching something animated or with puppets. It's a great family show, and even though it's very dated, the stories stay fresh and the comic relief is the best. Just the expressions William Katt gets on his face are worth the watch. One of the best things about this show is how they incorporate life lessons for children, as well as for adults, into each episode, and do so without being too cheesy. I feel very proud to have my children see that even the most average guy can be a true hero, no matter how clumsy he may be. Throughout the series he reminds Bill, the FBI agent whom he "befriends", that being tough and violent isn't always the best way to solve issues and that compassion and communication is really best. As a high school special ed teacher, he teaches his "hood" students that they are not just nobodies, and that anyone can be really successful in life if they just put their minds to it. What a great, wonderful show that ended much too soon. Sadly, it only survived 3 short seasons. I'm very grateful to have it forever on DVD. I highly recommend this series to anyone.
This show was one of my favorites as a kid. I watched it with my dad every week, including the pilot. I've owned two copies of the theme song on 45 record singles since I was very young. Now that we own the series on DVD, my husband and I watch it with our kids (now they understand that corny song that mommy always plays on that prehistoric turntable at home). Even our four and five year old daughters stay glued, which is hard to get them to do unless they're watching something animated or with puppets. It's a great family show, and even though it's very dated, the stories stay fresh and the comic relief is the best. Just the expressions William Katt gets on his face are worth the watch. One of the best things about this show is how they incorporate life lessons for children, as well as for adults, into each episode, and do so without being too cheesy. I feel very proud to have my children see that even the most average guy can be a true hero, no matter how clumsy he may be. Throughout the series he reminds Bill, the FBI agent whom he "befriends", that being tough and violent isn't always the best way to solve issues and that compassion and communication is really best. As a high school special ed teacher, he teaches his "hood" students that they are not just nobodies, and that anyone can be really successful in life if they just put their minds to it. What a great, wonderful show that ended much too soon. Sadly, it only survived 3 short seasons. I'm very grateful to have it forever on DVD. I highly recommend this series to anyone.
Napoleon Dynamite
(2004)
Friggin' Awesome, Whaddaya THINK???? GOOOSH!!!
16 March 2005
Absolutely loved it! We watch it over and over, and recommend it to our friends, relatives, and enemies. I agree with the person who said that it's not about age - it's about whether or not you can relate to the movie's characters and situations. I happen to know plenty of people like these guys... in fact, I told my husband that Napoleon and Pedro are every guy who had a crush on me in high school!! I was even pretty doofy back then, lol!!! I was a lot like Deb, except I didn't date guys like that (I preferred the ones who considered me to be nonexistent, of course). They were just my buds. I also heard that this movie has no plot. Okaaaay... I must be either crazy or have really awesome plot-recognizing skills, because I think that a guy trying to prove himself while helping his friend run for class president is pretty much a plot. Besides, who doesn't like a good root-for-the-underdog flick every once in a while?? I hope I don't offend anyone by saying this, but the ones who say that the acting/directing,etc. is bad in ND may not be intelligent enough to understand that the deadpan factor is there on PURPOSE. That's what makes the movie humorous. It's called theatre of the absurd, sportsfans. And Racism?? Did I miss something? Anyhoo, my pastor says that you either get this movie or you don't, and I agree!!! As for me, I say, "Sweeeeeet!!" Peace Out, as "urban" Kip might say.
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