Even in this little cartoon world of theirs, where literally anything could happen, God doesn't actually do anything to help. At least they nailed that aspect of Christianity.
@@Captain_Of_A_Starship, and all the bad things? Why does God allow, and in the Old Testament explicitly demand, genocide? Why does he allow starvation, war, and the erosion of democracy?
@@Captain_Of_A_Starship I know more about religion than you and the next 10 of your most theologically literate friends combined. Your statement is entirely juvenile and unsupportable in any way whatsoever. Grow up.
Remember that the existence of Cube Jesus implies the existence of a Cube Roman Empire that fed cube slaves to cube tigers in the Cube Colosseum for the enjoyment of the Cube Cesar
And cube versions of all the bible characters, including all of the disciples, plus a cube God. And what kind of Christians are they? There is the possibility that cube Henry Viii had a dispute with the cube pope. And oh no what if there's a cube Satan.
@@nameofuser5743 Now I really, really want to see a Cube Yael hammer a tent spike through a cube General Sisera’s head. Or other cube Scary Bible stories! (Cube kids getting savaged by a cube bear after making fun of a cube prophet’s beard, anyone?)
Exactly! I was so hoping Emma would pick up on or mention that, how the message/lesson of this episode was inherently hypocritical (like so, so much of Christianity), but oh well. Enjoyable nevertheless. Cheers!!!
The most amazing is thar they thought daddy would be mad because the got to many cucumbers. It's quite hilarious. Why would anyone get mad about more to sell? Not the worst Christian video I've seen. Look at Caleb and Sofia from Jehovas witnesses. They're so manipulating and scary. If you don't behave, Jehova will hate you, and you'll go to hell. That's scary menipulative and right down abusive.
@@akehapkap6143 Another ironic footnote on JWs. A core belief is that a set number of people can enter heaven and there are more JWs than that number. 🧐
I absolutely love the way they completely ignore the central rule that kept Veggie Tales from being off-putting. They never prayed unless they were in the role of a character from the bible. Larry never prayed, but Moses did. These guy are praying for an answer to hunger while surrounded by a bunch of Minecraft pickle skins. It's mesmerizing.
Lessons you learn: - child labor is OK. - kids dont need supervision, let the use dangerous chemicals or tractors - Always follow instructions, dont critical thinking - charity is the way To get rid of the sh** you can’t buy or use. All kids need To learn this things
not to mention... cucumbers are rather un-nutritious and would make fairly meh donations. still better than nothing, but hardly the solution to feeding 50 homeless folks.
I like how Kip offered to help his dad with the new business idea and dad's idea of "helping" was for Kip and Finn to plant, grow, and harvest the entire crop on their own. "Are you actually gonna do any work for this business idea you had, Dad, or are you just planning on using us as free labor for the entire project?" Lmao
The fact that they don't even show the actual charity part of actually giving the cubecumbers to the hungry homeless people just accentuates what they think Christian charity should be. It's not about helping people, it's about feeling good doing it (and it this case, solve a *personal* problem first)
Right, the followup video is all the homeless people going, "what the hell is this, if you don't want 100 cucumbers per person, why do you think I would?"
@@kingexplosionmurderfuckoff9376 say that to the people that grow up eating mud cookies. Literally room temp butter kneed together with mud from outside and baked. They literally only eat it to stop their stomach from eating itself and to stop the hunger pains. Never mind that those kids all grow up with severe health issues, well beyond stunted growth, as a result of extreme malnutrition their entire lives. This family clearly has the means to give something of substance but instead just pass along their problems to those that have little choice but to accept because they have so little to begin with. Honestly in those situations, sometimes actual nothing would be better then a long time of something that is made up of nothing.
Looking at the butterfly effect of this episode: Don't follow instructions = too much food = able to help the homeless. Therefore the moral teaching to always follow instructions = just food for you = only pray for the homeless because there's nothing in it for you to help. Great lesson for kids.
Okay, but when they close their eyes to pray, it's not their eye-hole windows that close. Their irises and pupils squinch down into little slits instead! I can't unsee it, help me!
This is what H. P. Lovecraft was thinking about when he talked about horrors so intense they would drive you mad just by seeing them. Every day we stray further from Cthulhu's light.
@@tjenadonn6158 It's what I'm going to see in my nightmares tonight - all the people I know and love just staring at me, blinking with their eyeballs instead of their eyelids. Do you think if I make a sacrifice to Cthulhu right now, tell him how awesome he is and that everything good that's ever happened to me is because of him and not as the result of my own or others' efforts, while also acknowledging that everything bad that's ever happened to me is my own damn fault because I must have done something shameful that took me out of Cthulhu's light so I clearly deserve all of the terrible things that I have experienced (including, but not limited to, chronic illness, poor mental health, loss of work leading to financial difficulties and seeing this video) ... well, do you think Cthulhu would let me forget about the whole eyeball thing? Also, does the sacrifice have to be human? I have some nice leftover pork chops in the fridge and half a packet of oreos. (If I'd known I was going to have to save my soul and sanity from demonic cube people, I would have used all the willpower I possess to not open the packet of oreos.)
@@SakkaraKirax The best he can offer is that when the Old Ones return you will be among the first to be eaten, thus sparing you from the horrors to come. On the bright side the whole human sacrifice deal has been way overblown by the tabloids; he'll take just about anything as long as it's not from Chick-fil-A. He may be an eldritch abomination, but he's not a monster.
the eyeholewindow raising and lowering at the top to denote eyebrow motion, rendering the brows themselves to vestigial forehead markings, is the part i cant unsee
There was a case here in Australia after bushfires where one of the Christian charities wouldn't give support to anyone not Christian. Even though they said they were going to help everyone with the donations people gave.
christians don't consider non-christians to be "people" in the same way that christians are, so to them "everyone" just means "everyone who is a Good Saved Christian Person, and not those Evil Worldly Subhuman Sinners"
Never heard of that one. There was the fundraiser which was meant to be for national relief but the proceeds ended up being purloined by NSW due to a technicality.
That's quite an extraordinary claim. I didn't see it mentioned anywhere at the time and cannot find any trace of that happening online. Are you sure this actually happened or are you just remembering something someone told you? I have a very low view of Christians but that sounds very unlikely.
That would turn into a legal case, would it not? (I'm a Yank I don't know Aussie law.)Resulting in no more support via public partnership with that entity? If it could be proven that this was official within this organization and not just some members going off the rails...
I really don't understand how it took them so long to arrive at the "send the homeless people the cubecumbers" idea. The INSTANT they mentioned a disaster I was like "Oh, they're gonna send the cubecumbers to the homeless, okay" and then they just... continued.... to NOT do that.... for a REALLY long time.
You missed the point. They only came up with that idea after praying and going to church. If it wasn't for Cube-Jesus, all those people/cubes would have starved TO DEATH!!!
You'd probably get some Christian counterargument where they'd say that he didn't follow directions because the lord knew there were hungry people and eventually when he got around to it he'd give divine inspiration to feed the homeless. Because you need to be told, obviously. You can't think for yourself.
@@drdave8607 So I guess prayers never work until you go to church? I mean this would be an example of God just needing to whisper a hint. About the only form of prayer that looks at all like it might be plausibly granted.
@@stevewebber707 Well, yeah, according to this. If some random, atheist cube walked by their house, saw all of those cubecumbers, and then suggested they donate them, that'd be nothing. But if they prayed for help first and went to church to really drive the prayer home....then it's an act of Cube-Jesus of course! Proof even!
This makes me want to get my friends together and do some Heathen Charity. Most of the gods probably wouldn't give a shit, but if Loki is out there, he'll probably love the chaos created when Christians hear a bunch of filthy witches are doing more selfless charity work than they are.
I might be an ex-witch, but I have a thousand percent more respect for Wiccan beliefs/customs than this bankrupt cartoon. If you ever start it up, lemme know, Ill join 👍
Can I join? I'm not Wiccan or anything (though I have read some on it because I do find it interesting,) and I'm sure an athiest will piss them off just as much. (The number of christains I know that think atheism is worse than straight up stereotypical media portrayal of Satanists, because at least they "believe in something"...)
*PAGAN PRIDE PROJECT does this.* The Web and Farcebook. Local chapters everywhere. Festival and Pagan Pride Day in a public space near you - food and booths and a ritual. Eclectic. *Charity fundraising, too! One human charity and one animal welfare charity.* Autumn Equinox weekend! LAST WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER if it rains on the one closest to the Equinox
A Christian: "So Emma, as an atheist, what DO you believe? Where do you get your morals, your purpose, your love? Deep in the depths of your soul, what do you truly believe?" Emma: "Cucumber and carrot batons, they purely exist as an edible spoon for eating hummus. That's what I believe."
Are you serious Tom? You don't need to submit to a book of myths that endorses rape, murder, slavery, genocide, bigotry and hatred. There is centuries of law starting with pre christian civilizations and reinforced by empathy and love is natural to humans, no god needed.
It was kind of amazing seeing the family hear about the people directly described as "hungry", sat among their sea of cube-cumbers like "Oh-no! Hungry Cubes! What can we do? IDK, guess we'll have to pray about it."
What got me about that prayer was when he asked God to help him care as much as his wife does about the cubes. Like, "Can I have help caring about these hungry, homeless cubes? Because right now I just... don't..."
Few things irritate me more than "Christians" who can't even tie their shoes without praying first. Like, holy sh*t at least try to take SOME initiative in your life.
My dad has some obsession with growing potatoes and grows far more than he and mom can possibly eat. When I saw the mountains of cucumbers it reminded me of him. One big difference however. He has long donated his overabundance of potatoes to the local food bank and never once did he need to "pray about it" to get the idea nor did he ever mention any religious motivation. He just didn't want them to go to waste and it made him feel good to help those in need. Interesting that when the cube parents prayed at home (twice) they never bothered to "wait on the Lord" for a revelatory answer. It never once occurred to them that they could donate their overage to the homeless hungry cubes (until the family friend came up with the idea from the practical notes he had been taking). It seems like the family's focus was on capitalistic and self-serving goals. Their "thoughts and prayers" yielded no results apart from making them "feel holy" without really accomplishing anything. If Finn hadn't been paying attention to the practical needs of his community and making the logical humanitarian connection, the family would not have been helpful in any practical way. Odd considering the bible verses instructing farmers not to harvest every last crop, rather to leave some for the poor to pick from the field. (Leviticus 19:9-10, Leviticus 23:22) It seems like a missed opportunity for the producers to include biblical verses directly related to the topic, but then again modern Christians tend to disdain, avoid and forget any bible verses that may "support socialism".
Outside of a few fringe remnants (my sister and brother-in-law are bisexual Christian anarcho-socialists a la Leo Tolstoy) Christianity is just the youth indoctrination wing of the political far right. The Bible is never their source material, only ever their excuse.
An overabundance of potatoes, or using the ones not fit for human consumption and destined for cattle feed, can also be "upcycled" to Wodka 😉 This is how a distillery of a friend started, following the tradition of farmers 🥃
Yep, my parents have two grapefruit trees and some orange trees that just produce more fruit than the family and immediate neighbors could ever eat. For the past 30-ish years they’ve been taking boxes and boxes of fruit to their church where volunteers add them to boxes of food that go out to needy families. In years where the orange trees go crazy, a couple of the ladies at the church take about half of them (usually the ugliest ones), make orange marmalade, and add the little jars of homemade marmalade to the special Christmas food boxes. I’m atheist so church wouldn’t be my first idea of where to donate all that stuff, but they go to a little church that’s big on donations and volunteering so at least there’s that. And when they first moved in and were drowning in citrus fruits it didn’t even cross their minds to try and sell them or throw them away. Their first thought was “who do we donate them to?” No prayer necessary. No need to wait for their kids to figure it out. Just “how do we get this to hungry people?”
Yeah, okay, but we all know there's only a few verses in Leviticus that are actually relevant. You cannot be sexually immoral or have tattoos, but all the other stuff is kinda outdated, right?
25:16 i really hate the "i forgive you, son" because it's got the implication that he did something that is worth "forgiving", also has the implication of being judged for a mistake (which BTW you can't just go "hey don't do this thing" without explaining why _not_ to do that thing, and then blame it on the person for doing the thing), rather than like "hey, we all make mistakes, it's okay"
Well it wasn't a mistake, he was explicitly asked to follow the instructions, to which he agreed, and he didn't. This story could play out in a non christian setting as well.
I didn't think it was possible for me to dislike this show concept and the art style any further. But then she started to sing. Was the purpose of the turtles not to be "cute"?... And then she prays for a purpose for the turtles? Okay... I hate the jittery mo-cap movement on those characters as well. Makes it feel even "cheaper".
To be fair, being cute is not a good purpose either. Pets are members of your family that you should care for, not toys you can throw out whenever you get tired of them.
@@blackbloom8552 I don't really see how "being cute" as an owner chosen purpose for the pet excludes the pet from being a family member, or means that they are just a play thing. 🤔 I personally think that it is self-explanatory that animals are not toys and can not be treated like objects. Buying a pet is a decision that needs to be very well considered, since most pets (cats and dogs) will be around for at least 15 years, in good conditions. The pet will have biological (food, water and environment), mental (a playing partner or other forms of stimulus) and genetically coded needs (like cats need a scratch tree, high observation points and lil cozy caves to hide and sleep in, or dogs really like long walks to simulate the pack being on a hunt or patrolling the turf).
Can you imagine being homeless and hungry, and then getting a mountain of cucumbers? Then a bunch of Christians are patting themselves on the back for the saintly deed they did, and they’re getting all this praise and publicity for it? I mean, it’s better than nothing, but a diet of just cucumbers sounds pretty horrible, especially if you’re homeless on top of it. Thanks god. I mean, they even had a blues song breakdown in the middle of the show to lament how they hated cubecumbers and didn’t want to eat them anymore, so now they just pass it off to the homeless like “the Poors will be happy to have anything, even if it’s something that is distressing to us. glory to his name, we’re the goodest for being so kind”.
I'm starting to think the reason they're cubecumbers is because the producers thought that many protruding, popping up cucumbers would be too phallic for christian kids and might open the show up to ridicule... they failed
If the show were realistic, Kip would have simply dumped the leftover cucumbers in a ditch while the homeless cubes starved. Like real life farms in America do when they can't sell all of their produce because free food drives down market value.
The farms would gladly sell them if stores would buy them. And actually a LOT of farmers DO buy the "misfit" fruits and veggies. They're turned into cow feed. Honestly that food going to waste is purely on the shoulders of retailers and consumers. To farmers, not selling it is a loss on money so if anything selling it is far more beneficial to them. They would prefer to sell it over trashing it or just dumping it all in the compost bins.
One kid estimated it as 50 days. Longer than Jesus fasted, longer than Noah floated, longer than God rained down plagues of locusts and frogs and turtles and cucumbers upon the head of Pharoah. Just sayin', the mom and dad cubes of every household better watch their firstborn cubes' asses real close tonight.
Same, I thought that would come almost immediately after seeing the news report. I guess they really just absorbed that as "this is terrible, oh well"...
The windows flickering is called Z-fighting. It's caused by rounding errors when you put two objects way too close together. It's an issue that needs to be worked around and can't really be fixed on a technical level. But in this case it looks like they put multiple window parts over each other instead of putting in properly sized pieces of window. However the proper way to do a window is just to put a plane there and texture it.
Actually Z fighting occurs when the Gfx card can't decide which of two texture layers to display first because they both have the same world coordinates, whether because one model has intersecting faces or because two models have been placed with overlapping faces. It is not a feature of normal workflow and is very easy to avoid. If you see Z-fighting, somebody made a rookie mistake :)
@@LadyMoonweb and it can't decide exactly because of rounding errors :P but yes i agree that it's pretty simple to avoid (and hell if you want something to be at exactly the same space you can still get cheeky and save it via shaders :P)
@@robertwiesner6825 Most of the time Z-fighting occurs it's because people have duplicate faces in the exact same space... no rounding errors needed for explanation if the values are exactly the same 😉
It's called z-fighting because two things are fighting over the same spot on the z-axis (the one going toward / away from the camera, as opposed to the horizontal x-axis or the vertical y-axis).
I wondered how long it would take for anyone to suggest giving their massive surplus of food to the homeless fire survivors. This story has the "Christian family" praying for them instantly but taking *days* to even think of actually doing something, and even then it's as a solution to one of *their* problems. And this is put forward as an example of charity.
this was so morally bankrupt child labor, child endangerment, negligence. Then questioning things like having pets just to have pets they did not need a purpose yet here they wound up as work animals, to be adopted out to people who would put them to work?. praying for homeless people who needed food while taking literal days to come to the conclusion that they could actually help them and they only thought to help because they had no other use for the food.
The dad contributed pretty much nothing apart from coming up with the idea and selling the cubecumbers, leaving it to his son and friend to do all the donkey work.
Something very accurately christian about drowning in excess food and praying for god to help a bunch of hungry people going "oh wow don't know how to help them"
The "moral" of most Christian kid shows generally comes down to "Always Follow Directions!", because obedient little droids is what Christian parents want. Kids gotta be brought up to obey pointless rules, because that's what a religion basically is. I don't think the little girl owns the turtles --- it's established she is raising them for the pet shop, I think.
That's I got about the turtles. It seems like she's raising them *for* the pet shop. She's super concerned with how they'll think about how good of a job she does with them. It almost seems like she's an employee on a trial basis.
The ridiculous number of pointless rules makes me think that religious rulers in the past were having a bit of (narcissistic) fun trying to find out just how far they could go before the sheep stopped obeying them.
The "moral" of all secular show comes down to... Do whatever you want, when you want, because it is all about you and how your actions affect others is irrelevant. That's the driving force behind secular politics, education, media, etc ..
I can’t even. So many Christians I’ve met have been so shocked I’m atheist because I’m so active volunteering in my community. It seems to astonish them that people volunteer because they care not because it’s their duty/obligation or to promote faith through action.
The Modern Church: “Why is it we have so much trouble getting critical thinkers to join our church…?” Moral of their own movie: “Follow directions because thinking for yourself is dangerous.” Older sister; “Turtles don’t need a purpose, they are cute. That is the purpose of turtles!” Also the older sister; “God, help me find a purpose for these turtles.” The moral of the story for all of us who are actually paying attention? Religious groups are absolutely consistent about wanting an outcome they actively discourage creating.
The two smart Christians I know had to start watching livestreams of a church in California because they couldn't find any within driving distance that actually treated them like adults and respected their intelligence. We live in central New York State, what used to be the heart of the Burned Over District: not exactly an area that's short on people or diversity in terms of options for the choosy Christian. The fact that there's seemingly only one Protestant church in the country that doesn't treat its members like children who need parental controls turned on 24/7 really does say it all.
@@tjenadonn6158 I work with quite a few Christians that make the belief system look pretty good. They’re generally good people, who don’t judge others, and are shockingly intelligent… But I have to point out that the overwhelming majority joined the church as adults, they did not grow up in it. It’s also telling that their own children are receiving secular educations, or private ones that they themselves have a very direct hand in. It seems like they just straight up don’t trust their fellow Christians to teach their children…
@@Onyx-qd9tl In my case it's that both of them were raised some sort of Christian and came to radically different understandings of the religion than the ones they were raised with. One of them, my sister, was like me raised Catholic in a family with a grandmother who was more Catholic than the Pope and tried to disown our mother for marrying our Christian Universalist and First Nations father instead of someone who was just as white, Irish, and Catholic as the rest of the family. The other one, my brother in law, was raised by a narcissistic hell-mom who kicked him to the curb when he came out as trans at 16. After two long and complicated stories that involved a stint in the military for him, a stint in the psych ward for her, and a stint in evangelicalism for them both they're now hard and fast Christian socialists in the vein of people like Leo Tolstoy, with my sister recently coming out as anarcho-communist. So yeah, even though they're devout Christians practicing Christianity they'd stick out like a bacon cheeseburger on the menu of a kosher restaurant if they started talking about their beliefs among most Christians.
@@tjenadonn6158 holy 💩… How is that not it’s own video? You’ve got a few videos on here but nothing too recent. A story like that would justify a full episode of explanation. At the very least it’s interesting enough to be worth sharing, something to think about…
Christianity has like a whole community network so many get echo chambered. If you watch or read a documentary on the creators of veggie tales you can see some of it. For said communities they tend to view church teaching as reaffirming what they know is right. There is also a social value of being more "Christian" then others. Basically for some they follow the rules faithfully to prove they are better then others. There's many reasons why follow the rules blindly is so valued. Christian revivals have people that came to Christ after going through absolute hell, education and income varies wildly with the church being a big force to prevent crime or hopelessness, and the storied examples of great Christians normally believed when all else was lost. I don't necessarily believe that devotion rules out critical thinking. I also get why people follow the rules, especially when your in some bad straights. The only real conflict is how much of it is for show rather then personal spiritual fulfillment.
Man, at least Veggie Tales had a good excuse for the less than stellar animation quality. They were limited by the technology available back then and I'd say that Veggie Tales STILL looks better than Sponge Cube Square Kid over here. Don't tell me they didn't choose to make the main kid yellow and make him look like SpongeBob for no reason at all. I literally though that this was gonna be a sort of land animal SpongeBob rip off when I first saw the thumbnail lol. The voice actor kinda plays Kip with the same pitch of voice as SpongeBob, too. He can't do a decent impression though which is why he just keeps the pitch and tries as best to get the tone of SpongeBob's voice as he can.
VeggieTales didn't just have "an excuse" for less-than-stellar animation quality. VeggieTales was the first major 3D-animated production and absolutely revolutionized the industry.
There's a nice snippet from the Tales of Hasidim about religious charity and praying that others receive help: "Why Did God Create Atheists? There is a famous story told in Hasidic literature that addresses this very question. The Master teaches the student that God created everything in the world to be appreciated, since everything is here to teach us a lesson. One clever student asks “What lesson can we learn from atheists? Why did God create them?” The Master responds “God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all - the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that god commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his acts are based on an inner sense of morality. And look at the kindness he can bestow upon others simply because he feels it to be right.” “This means,” the Master continued “that when someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say ‘I pray that God will help you.’ Instead for the moment, you should become an atheist, imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.'” If there is redemption in religion, I believe it is when people come to understand this story. ~Tales of Hasidim vol. 2"
Its overall one of the nicer take on atheist but it still commit the mistake of treating people as props for the character development of Christians. The worst part is that basiquelly imply that god create people that will be doomed for hell just to teach you to be a good person. Edit: This may or may not apply as much to the hasids jews which have a different concept of salvation.
@@blackbloom8552 Uh, Hasids are ultra Orthodox Jews. Not only does the original post have nothing to do with Christianity, it’s based on an entirely different worldview and belief system. (I mean, there are significant issues to be found with the ultra orthodox, but it’s way different than Christianity.)
@UCAsk_57wGjGPugxqqJscyCQ Judaism and Christianity are completely different religions with very different beliefs and social systems. I mean, this is a huge topic; it’s like asking “how are Buddhists and Christians different” or “what’s the difference between democracy and authoritarianism?” Just two completely different systems. (For one example , it’s entirely possible to be a “good Jew” and not actually believe in the existence of God-though I don’t know as Hasids would agree!)
Instructions for parenting young children: Step 1) do not give them tractors Step 2) do not allow them to enslave turtles Bonus step: don’t enslave the children.
Inverted normals: Check Materials completely lacking normal maps data: check Inconsistent smoothing of model faces: check Freshman quality lighting solution with inappropriate self-shading and hard edges: check Z-fighting: check Warped faces and materials instead of proper animation: check Built in the modelling program instead of a proper engine: check Fastest possible production quality: check Accuracy and impact of the episode message: ambiguous and lost in the rest of the mess. Understandable in entirety by target audience: not really. In all very, very bad. Also, Finn reminds me of Pugsley Addams and is probably the only decent thing in it.
Also, did anyone else notice that the dad is the only character with a subtle divine glow to make him special and superior to everyone else? I wonder what the purpose of _that_ could be... Oh and the Cube Jesus picture looking over the dad's shoulder. Subtle!
@@rainbowkrampus It's really not something a trained individual would do. It was done like this because the animator didn't know how to actually animate and moved model edges or UVW coordinates inappropriately. In a way it's endearing, that somebody made this who really had no idea what they were doing.
For much of the episode, I thought Kip was supposed to have braces or something, but the metal brackets were weirdly in *between* his teeth. I finally figured out that something about the lighting program caused the front of his teeth to be in shadow and appear grey, but the beveled sides of his teeth to be bright white and almost shine or glow. So as he talked, those beveled edges looked like silver metal. The lighting was just SO janky.
Oh, and to the point about the dad glowing slightly (kinda): you could tell they were trying to push gender norms just by looking at the character design. The male characters had natural-for-a-human hair colors, but the mom and sister had to have pink hair. It just felt like girls/women aren’t as human as boys/men and girls definitely can’t do boy things (like drive that digger). And Finn is less rough-and-tumble, so we have to make it obvious he has a crush on the sister so no one thinks he’s gay. Why do 5-year-olds need to have a crush on anyone? It’s all just to reinforce gender norms in the little children watching.
Hi! Don’t know if this will get seen or not, but I’m actually the animator that worked on this. I promise I’m not here to defend or argue anything, because most of it boils down to either it being a kids show, or a difference in faith versus secular. I did want to address the animation though! Because I definitely made a lot of mistakes. Makes me cringe to see a lot of scenes where I just completely neglected something I should have fixed. Usually the eyes specifically. Most of it all was done with face/motion capture, and my job was to translate it to the characters and clean it all up. Though I did hand animate other parts! And while I’m still not perfect, I’ve definitely learned a lot since we did this. Although it wasn’t well received, I’m glad you checked it out! Feedback definitely helps. Also glad you liked Cube Jesus haha. I made that as a joke, but they liked it so much they put it in.
hey man i wish you well in your animation career sometimes you just gotta take a gig and not everything is your best work!! you learn from every piece you make (say this as one artist to another) and mad props for commenting
@@hadalzonemicrobe7206 I completely agree. I've do my best to push myself to specifically learn something new with every personal project I do now. It's opened me up to so many more skillsets that I didn't think I could have. Thank you for your well wishes! I don't really get to do too much animation these days, but I'm hoping that one day that'll change. Hope you have a great day!
So, Cubedad prayed for his new buisness: didn't get a single advice from Cubejesus (a headsup about not letting his kid do things without supervision would have been great). Then Cubedad and Cubemom prayed about the homeless people: we didn't hear any news about the situtation getting better. Finally, the whole Cubefamilly prayed about, well, everything: nothing happens. At last, the Cubekids use their brain (for once apparently) and choose to give their cubecumber to homeless cubepeople and... exploit the cube tortoises..? And somehow it's "Thanks to the Cubelord"? Is that a parody meant to show that prayers don't do shit but people do, while the clergy attribute people's hard work to Cubegod? Because let me get this straight: the cubecumber catastrophy happened _before_ the homelessness situation. So either Cubegod guide Cubedumbkid into not following the instructions so they'll have cubecumbers for the future homeless cubepeople (so, kids: don't bother following instructions, that's the lesson), either Cubegod made Cubepeople homeless so Cubechrstianfamily could get rid of cubecumbers and cubeturtles, because f*ck all those 50 miscreants maybe. Or... all of this happened without the intervention of Cubegod.
I mean, this is how I was taught that God intervenes and influences your life. Maybe God “inspired” Finn to make notes about the news story. Or maybe God inspired him to look back at his notes in that moment. Maybe God knew the fire was going to happen so he encouraged Kip to be obstinate and spill the fertilizer, thus helping the fire victims *and* teaching Kip a lesson about following directions (somehow). This was how things were always explained to me. God might “inspire” little things or send you signs (and omg, some people see “signs” everywhere) therefore he deserves the credit when things go right because he probably is behind it. I was around 12 when I figured it was bullshit and thought, at first, if there’s a god, there’s no way he/she/it meddles in individual lives like that.
"I hate that Cubekins exist in this kind of capitalist dystopia where we have to rely on charity when people are made homeless through a fire" Do you men the United States of America?
Because giving things to others for free , even if you don't need it, is communism (in their eyes). Thats why Catholic church supported every frickin right wing dictator against those annoying hungry workers masses. Just like Jesus would do.
Those cute turtles were the highlight of this and I felt sorry for them being used as beasts of burden. The rest of the animation looked pretty iffy. It was more fun watching your reactions than the actual show itself.
And their Cubic Heavenly Father didst hear the pitiful cubecumber prayer. Lo, it did come to pass that he didst answer. And, he did instruct them to make pickles.
"Have you prayed about it?" It sounds jarring, but this is literally how my closest Christian friends talk and think. One is moving out of state, and when deciding where to move to, was advised by his brother and friends to pray and to see if God was calling him to San Antonio, Texas, or to Chicago, Illinois. I was staggered to hear that these sorts of decisions are apparently also part of God's grand plan.
I had an aunt tell me once to pray when I had spelt oil on my shirt. Children are being abused all over the world but God is supposed to take time away from that to clean my shirt.
@@Cheepchipsable That is true. I don't have a problem with praying before making a decision as such. The problem is in the idea that you need to get God's permission to live your life -- or as the OP says, whether God wants you to move to this state or that. God wants you to be _happy_ and He left it to you to pursue that happiness in your own way.
As if said god couldn't just insert the idea into your head without waiting days, a la the story of Samuel. Or Joseph the dream prophet, even, in some cases, where you get the idea before there was any reason why you should have thought of it.
Is it just me, or do their eyes look like they are in pain? Like they are silently screaming inside? I think it has something to do with the way the eye-window turns down at the corners.
OK, the worst/most disturbing thing about the animation is when the characters blink. Yes, their eye window does close slightly, but the pupil and iris completely collapse as well. It's gross and weird.
Giving away something that you don't want that inconveniences you doesn't seem like charity to me; it's using others to benefit yourself. Kind of like handing off your flowers to an older lady for the benefit of your Tiktok video rather than her happiness. Corinthians 13:3 has something to say about this. And I think the whole last 5 minutes of the show was the exact opposite of Matthew 6:2 ! Emma - do you agree ?
Expecting present day Christians to read the Bible beyond the parts they can use to justify being the biggest bigoted bastards on the planet is akin to expecting an amoeba to build a moon lander.
Over fertilizing plants results in nitrogen burn which will damage the roots. In severe cases it renders the roots unable to absorb anything, including water.
I couldn't get past the image of CubeJesus on the wall in the background. I howled and rolled on the floor. Emma, you're right to call attention to this absurdist masterpiece. I want one, too!!!
I see a big contradiction in the moral. It's said that the kid should have follow the instruction and he made a problem because of this, but this problem turned to solve a huge problem. So he was right not to follow the instruction, but he was wrong not to follow the instruction. Tell me if I missed something because I don't understand
And inside that cube - a cubic cat which is both dead and alive! God solves Schrodinger's dilemma and slices the Gordian knot, all while microwaving a burrito so hot he can't eat it!
It's about how god can use one misfortune to solve another! Instead of, ya know, preventing both misfortunes! His ways. So mysterious. Next time I do something assholeish I'm just going to claim that I'm being mysterious.
the flickering of the windows was because the differently colored glass parts were overlapping and the surfaces were on the same plane, so the rendering software couldnt know which one it should render which means for each frame one part was picked at random to render
The dad's voice acting is just super unsettling to me, there's no emotion in his voice and his dialogue sounds like an alien trying to masquerade as human lol The turtles are cute though and that backing track with the harmonica goes kinda hard
I can't decide what's funnier, Emma's commentary or the comments section. I laughed way harder than I should have at Emma's concern over the cube turtles! I would love to see more reactions to cringey Christian kid content.
The child slavery is real. Also they didn’t decide to just give the food to the now homeless ppl? They prayed instead. Kinda relates to the lack of gun control and the thoughts and prayers instead of above.
Well, at least my church goes on mission trips to Tanzania to give homeless people food, water, clothes, and medicine. People should know that praying does not make wishes come true.
Have you ever considered covering media you like? Especially things that you think are underrated or relatively unknown? I just noticed you cover a lot of cringe or cursed media and would be curious to see the flip side.
Precisely! Loved that little bit of inherent hypocrisy/confusion in what the actual message/lesson of this episode was actually even supposed to be. 😂Cheers!!
Training an animal is about teach the animal to follow instructions. The over fertilization wasn't directly because of not following instructions, it's because of fight. So, they can just block the road and build statues ?
I can't stand it when I see a surgeon come out and tell parents, " after a very complicated 14 hour brain surgery, your 8 year old boy will be ok" and their reply is " oh thank you god, oh sweet jesus, thank you so much", I'd be pissed if I was that surgeon
Emma - Thanks for the nightmare fuel. It was hard enough living my life with the big G watching. But now, knowing that Cube-Jesus is watching too, good lord! Anyways, another great video Emma (I guess?). And BTW, I'm one of those two people who enjoys a good Foley critique, so thanks for that.
Maybe they used Blender to make the show and instead of deleting the default cube they said to themselves: "Hey, why not bevel the edges a bit and make a character out of it?" Also, if for some reason anyone is curious about the flickering at 28:20, that usually happens when two overlapping planes are placed on top of each other with the distance being lower than the rounding error that occurs during rendering.
I have never laughed so hard at any video as much as this one! Your comments were so spot on, I was crying laughing!!! Love it! This is now one of my favorite videos ever! Nice job Emma!
What a great message for kids: You can’t help people who have lost literally everything unless you’re completely inundated with stuff you don’t want or have any use for. Otherwise…. thoughts and prayers guys
I think the "background noise" is just another example of how cheap this show is. Listening to their voices, they all sound like they recorded their lines in a garage with beginner microphones.
Are these cubecumber plants immortal? Is there anything stopping them from just uprooting some plants until they have a manageable output? I guess if they just prayed harder Jesus would have done it for them.
I think Emma is just confused about USA culture, we grow cube cumbers it’s why we have English cucumbers those are the roundish ones, kids drive tractors it’s part of their school curriculum along with how to hopefully survive a mass shooting, turtles need to be trained otherwise the pet store will recall them. It’s just an American thing
You jest about the tractors, but in the area of the US where I grew up, there was a high-school vocational school where teens would learn professional farming. So yes, we did have children driving tractors as part of their school curriculum. XD
@@chainsawtotheheart Having supervised both teens and 4-7 year olds, I can say with some authority that teens have better judgement and decision making skills than 4-7 year olds. Granted if I had to choose between an unsupervised 6 year old and a 14 year old that had two friends egging them on I might give the tractor to the 6 year old...
"Do not make Jesus a vegetable" Advice the creator of veggie tales received from his grandmother and the creator of cubekins desperately, desperately needed
It's refreshing that people from other countries think the idea that people need charity to get through a catastrophe rather than relying on the government is ridiculous... because as an American I didn't even blink at that.
The German comedian Henning Wehn had a line when he was doing his first American tour to the effect of "We Germans don't give to charity, we just pay our taxes."
Because if victims have to wait until people have prayed, prayed again, and gone to church before it finally dawns on them they could help, more people than necessary will have died. Imagine if the crews of lifeboats, ambulances, or fire brigades wasted time praying before coming to the rescue.
I asked my very conservative mom if I could cut bangs when I was 14 and she said “….hmmm have you prayed about it?” Really?? No one thought to pickle the cubecumbers??
Even in this little cartoon world of theirs, where literally anything could happen, God doesn't actually do anything to help. At least they nailed that aspect of Christianity.
He helps all the time, everything that is good comes from Him
@@Captain_Of_A_Starship, and all the bad things? Why does God allow, and in the Old Testament explicitly demand, genocide? Why does he allow starvation, war, and the erosion of democracy?
@@Captain_Of_A_Starship lol "god is when we say it is"
You gotta see how feable that argument is
@@Furry-iousNews
It's because you guys won't study it for yourselves so the context is lost on you.
@@Captain_Of_A_Starship I know more about religion than you and the next 10 of your most theologically literate friends combined. Your statement is entirely juvenile and unsupportable in any way whatsoever. Grow up.
Remember that the existence of Cube Jesus implies the existence of a Cube Roman Empire that fed cube slaves to cube tigers in the Cube Colosseum for the enjoyment of the Cube Cesar
And cube versions of all the bible characters, including all of the disciples, plus a cube God. And what kind of Christians are they? There is the possibility that cube Henry Viii had a dispute with the cube pope. And oh no what if there's a cube Satan.
@@nameofuser5743 Now I really, really want to see a Cube Yael hammer a tent spike through a cube General Sisera’s head. Or other cube Scary Bible stories! (Cube kids getting savaged by a cube bear after making fun of a cube prophet’s beard, anyone?)
@@cassandramiller4477 oh yes PLEEEZE! Cube Job suffering from the tests of The Mighty Square, who seems to have borrowed Thor's HAMMER....!
@@nameofuser5743 I wonder if Satan might be round, you know, heretical anti Cube, refusing to go with Cube God's Plan...?!
How about Cube Jesuits in a Cube Inquisition? Cube Martin Luther? Cube John Wesley?
*ahhhhhck.....CUBE CROMWELL?*
Wait, so if Kip had followed the directions then those homeless cubes would have starved?
Lesson learned: Don’t follow directions.
Exactly! I was so hoping Emma would pick up on or mention that, how the message/lesson of this episode was inherently hypocritical (like so, so much of Christianity), but oh well. Enjoyable nevertheless. Cheers!!!
The most amazing is thar they thought daddy would be mad because the got to many cucumbers. It's quite hilarious. Why would anyone get mad about more to sell? Not the worst Christian video I've seen. Look at Caleb and Sofia from Jehovas witnesses. They're so manipulating and scary. If you don't behave, Jehova will hate you, and you'll go to hell. That's scary menipulative and right down abusive.
@@akehapkap6143 Jehova Witnesses don't believe in hell. They only think non-JW will disappear from existence forever in the final day.
@@akehapkap6143 Another ironic footnote on JWs. A core belief is that a set number of people can enter heaven and there are more JWs than that number. 🧐
Turtle soup
I absolutely love the way they completely ignore the central rule that kept Veggie Tales from being off-putting. They never prayed unless they were in the role of a character from the bible. Larry never prayed, but Moses did. These guy are praying for an answer to hunger while surrounded by a bunch of Minecraft pickle skins. It's mesmerizing.
Yes! And the fact that they never portrayed Jesus as a vegetable
You know, I never noticed that about VeggieTales...
They had actually thought about how to properly plan a good show. Looks like Kip isn't the only bad planner lol
I was just thinking this lol no one wants to thing about cuboid Jesus getting tortured and crubecificed
I read somewhere that Veggie Tales was originally secular, but the network wanted it to be religious. That may explain it.
Lessons you learn:
- child labor is OK.
- kids dont need supervision, let the use dangerous chemicals or tractors
- Always follow instructions, dont critical thinking
- charity is the way To get rid of the sh** you can’t buy or use.
All kids need To learn this things
Standard christian nonsense
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@@johnstewart2793 people with penis (males) get people with uterus (females) pregnant. prove me wrong.
not to mention... cucumbers are rather un-nutritious and would make fairly meh donations. still better than nothing, but hardly the solution to feeding 50 homeless folks.
@@alveolate would better to help with temporary drinking water shortage. or something like that.
I like how Kip offered to help his dad with the new business idea and dad's idea of "helping" was for Kip and Finn to plant, grow, and harvest the entire crop on their own.
"Are you actually gonna do any work for this business idea you had, Dad, or are you just planning on using us as free labor for the entire project?" Lmao
dw child labor is god's plan
“Have you prayed about it?” Is SO passive aggressive 😂
and it's a perfect set up for victim blaming. "Oh, you prayed about it, and God didn't do something? ooooh, you must not have done something "right""
always hated that question growing up.
@Christa Simon heh. and totally incompetent
She's got to obey her husband, but her husband is feckless with his ideas, so she's got to hope that Cubejesus will tell him this is a bad idea.
But on the other hand I didn't expext this to be as progressive as having a christian man asking his wife for her opinion....
“I don’t even live here!” from the friend as they’re being forced to eat cucumbers is a pretty great line. 😂
The fact that they don't even show the actual charity part of actually giving the cubecumbers to the hungry homeless people just accentuates what they think Christian charity should be. It's not about helping people, it's about feeling good doing it (and it this case, solve a *personal* problem first)
Right, the followup video is all the homeless people going, "what the hell is this, if you don't want 100 cucumbers per person, why do you think I would?"
There’s very little nourishment in cucumbers. They’re mainly water and those homeless will soon start to feel hungry again.
@@kellydalstok8900 Better than nothing
@@kingexplosionmurderfuckoff9376 say that to the people that grow up eating mud cookies. Literally room temp butter kneed together with mud from outside and baked. They literally only eat it to stop their stomach from eating itself and to stop the hunger pains. Never mind that those kids all grow up with severe health issues, well beyond stunted growth, as a result of extreme malnutrition their entire lives. This family clearly has the means to give something of substance but instead just pass along their problems to those that have little choice but to accept because they have so little to begin with. Honestly in those situations, sometimes actual nothing would be better then a long time of something that is made up of nothing.
Charity is only charity if I can talk about it on the news and make a big production and it doesn't actually matter about helping them.
Looking at the butterfly effect of this episode: Don't follow instructions = too much food = able to help the homeless. Therefore the moral teaching to always follow instructions = just food for you = only pray for the homeless because there's nothing in it for you to help. Great lesson for kids.
Agreed, it's insane
Okay, but when they close their eyes to pray, it's not their eye-hole windows that close. Their irises and pupils squinch down into little slits instead! I can't unsee it, help me!
This is what H. P. Lovecraft was thinking about when he talked about horrors so intense they would drive you mad just by seeing them. Every day we stray further from Cthulhu's light.
The irises squishing down instead of their eyes properly closing is a cursed image.
@@tjenadonn6158 It's what I'm going to see in my nightmares tonight - all the people I know and love just staring at me, blinking with their eyeballs instead of their eyelids.
Do you think if I make a sacrifice to
Cthulhu right now, tell him how awesome he is and that everything good that's ever happened to me is because of him and not as the result of my own or others' efforts, while also acknowledging that everything bad that's ever happened to me is my own damn fault because I must have done something shameful that took me out of Cthulhu's light so I clearly deserve all of the terrible things that I have experienced (including, but not limited to, chronic illness, poor mental health, loss of work leading to financial difficulties and seeing this video) ... well, do you think Cthulhu would let me forget about the whole eyeball thing?
Also, does the sacrifice have to be human? I have some nice leftover pork chops in the fridge and half a packet of oreos. (If I'd known I was going to have to save my soul and sanity from demonic cube people, I would have used all the willpower I possess to not open the packet of oreos.)
@@SakkaraKirax The best he can offer is that when the Old Ones return you will be among the first to be eaten, thus sparing you from the horrors to come. On the bright side the whole human sacrifice deal has been way overblown by the tabloids; he'll take just about anything as long as it's not from Chick-fil-A. He may be an eldritch abomination, but he's not a monster.
the eyeholewindow raising and lowering at the top to denote eyebrow motion, rendering the brows themselves to vestigial forehead markings, is the part i cant unsee
There was a case here in Australia after bushfires where one of the Christian charities wouldn't give support to anyone not Christian. Even though they said they were going to help everyone with the donations people gave.
christians don't consider non-christians to be "people" in the same way that christians are, so to them "everyone" just means "everyone who is a Good Saved Christian Person, and not those Evil Worldly Subhuman Sinners"
How very christian of them
Never heard of that one. There was the fundraiser which was meant to be for national relief but the proceeds ended up being purloined by NSW due to a technicality.
That's quite an extraordinary claim. I didn't see it mentioned anywhere at the time and cannot find any trace of that happening online. Are you sure this actually happened or are you just remembering something someone told you?
I have a very low view of Christians but that sounds very unlikely.
That would turn into a legal case, would it not? (I'm a Yank I don't know Aussie law.)Resulting in no more support via public partnership with that entity? If it could be proven that this was official within this organization and not just some members going off the rails...
I really don't understand how it took them so long to arrive at the "send the homeless people the cubecumbers" idea. The INSTANT they mentioned a disaster I was like "Oh, they're gonna send the cubecumbers to the homeless, okay" and then they just... continued.... to NOT do that.... for a REALLY long time.
Seems realistic., look how many people are going hungry., and Christians just pray for them around their big dinner..
You missed the point. They only came up with that idea after praying and going to church. If it wasn't for Cube-Jesus, all those people/cubes would have starved TO DEATH!!!
You'd probably get some Christian counterargument where they'd say that he didn't follow directions because the lord knew there were hungry people and eventually when he got around to it he'd give divine inspiration to feed the homeless. Because you need to be told, obviously. You can't think for yourself.
@@drdave8607 So I guess prayers never work until you go to church?
I mean this would be an example of God just needing to whisper a hint. About the only form of prayer that looks at all like it might be plausibly granted.
@@stevewebber707 Well, yeah, according to this. If some random, atheist cube walked by their house, saw all of those cubecumbers, and then suggested they donate them, that'd be nothing. But if they prayed for help first and went to church to really drive the prayer home....then it's an act of Cube-Jesus of course! Proof even!
This makes me want to get my friends together and do some Heathen Charity. Most of the gods probably wouldn't give a shit, but if Loki is out there, he'll probably love the chaos created when Christians hear a bunch of filthy witches are doing more selfless charity work than they are.
I might be an ex-witch, but I have a thousand percent more respect for Wiccan beliefs/customs than this bankrupt cartoon. If you ever start it up, lemme know, Ill join 👍
Can I join? I'm not Wiccan or anything (though I have read some on it because I do find it interesting,) and I'm sure an athiest will piss them off just as much. (The number of christains I know that think atheism is worse than straight up stereotypical media portrayal of Satanists, because at least they "believe in something"...)
@@indigopines blessed be.
Best four words I eva lerned.
Considering what Christianity did to their followers, I do think the gods would find that funny
*PAGAN PRIDE PROJECT does this.* The Web and Farcebook. Local chapters everywhere. Festival and Pagan Pride Day in a public space near you - food and booths and a ritual. Eclectic.
*Charity fundraising, too! One human charity and one animal welfare charity.* Autumn Equinox weekend! LAST WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER if it rains on the one closest to the Equinox
A Christian: "So Emma, as an atheist, what DO you believe? Where do you get your morals, your purpose, your love? Deep in the depths of your soul, what do you truly believe?"
Emma: "Cucumber and carrot batons, they purely exist as an edible spoon for eating hummus. That's what I believe."
Also, tater tots only exist because it is socially unacceptable for me to drink Sriracha straight from the bottle.
Are you serious Tom? You don't need to submit to a book of myths that endorses rape, murder, slavery, genocide, bigotry and hatred. There is centuries of law starting with pre christian civilizations and reinforced by empathy and love is natural to humans, no god needed.
@@tjenadonn6158 In cubeland, ALL potatoes are tots. That might be enough to make me change religions.
@@nmappraiser9926 Tots with windshield eyes that have irises and pupils that shrink to horizontal lines to enable them to blink? [shudder]
@@tjenadonn6158 reminds me of a friend of mine who always used to say that chicken wings were edible spoons for ranch.
It was kind of amazing seeing the family hear about the people directly described as "hungry", sat among their sea of cube-cumbers like
"Oh-no! Hungry Cubes! What can we do?
IDK, guess we'll have to pray about it."
What got me about that prayer was when he asked God to help him care as much as his wife does about the cubes. Like, "Can I have help caring about these hungry, homeless cubes? Because right now I just... don't..."
Few things irritate me more than "Christians" who can't even tie their shoes without praying first.
Like, holy sh*t at least try to take SOME initiative in your life.
The cubecumbers popping out of the plants like big floppy wangs killed me.
If that resembles your "wang" see a doctor.
if they had kept them cylinders instead of cubes, it may have been too obvious and looked like thousands of green dicks
Two things I gotta say:
1. Cool shirt!
2. Never thought I would see a “Christian Minecraft cartoon” ever.
Yeah, I was thinking minecraft too.
My dad has some obsession with growing potatoes and grows far more than he and mom can possibly eat. When I saw the mountains of cucumbers it reminded me of him. One big difference however. He has long donated his overabundance of potatoes to the local food bank and never once did he need to "pray about it" to get the idea nor did he ever mention any religious motivation. He just didn't want them to go to waste and it made him feel good to help those in need. Interesting that when the cube parents prayed at home (twice) they never bothered to "wait on the Lord" for a revelatory answer. It never once occurred to them that they could donate their overage to the homeless hungry cubes (until the family friend came up with the idea from the practical notes he had been taking). It seems like the family's focus was on capitalistic and self-serving goals. Their "thoughts and prayers" yielded no results apart from making them "feel holy" without really accomplishing anything. If Finn hadn't been paying attention to the practical needs of his community and making the logical humanitarian connection, the family would not have been helpful in any practical way. Odd considering the bible verses instructing farmers not to harvest every last crop, rather to leave some for the poor to pick from the field. (Leviticus 19:9-10, Leviticus 23:22) It seems like a missed opportunity for the producers to include biblical verses directly related to the topic, but then again modern Christians tend to disdain, avoid and forget any bible verses that may "support socialism".
Outside of a few fringe remnants (my sister and brother-in-law are bisexual Christian anarcho-socialists a la Leo Tolstoy) Christianity is just the youth indoctrination wing of the political far right. The Bible is never their source material, only ever their excuse.
An overabundance of potatoes, or using the ones not fit for human consumption and destined for cattle feed, can also be "upcycled" to Wodka 😉
This is how a distillery of a friend started, following the tradition of farmers 🥃
Yep, my parents have two grapefruit trees and some orange trees that just produce more fruit than the family and immediate neighbors could ever eat.
For the past 30-ish years they’ve been taking boxes and boxes of fruit to their church where volunteers add them to boxes of food that go out to needy families.
In years where the orange trees go crazy, a couple of the ladies at the church take about half of them (usually the ugliest ones), make orange marmalade, and add the little jars of homemade marmalade to the special Christmas food boxes.
I’m atheist so church wouldn’t be my first idea of where to donate all that stuff, but they go to a little church that’s big on donations and volunteering so at least there’s that.
And when they first moved in and were drowning in citrus fruits it didn’t even cross their minds to try and sell them or throw them away. Their first thought was “who do we donate them to?”
No prayer necessary. No need to wait for their kids to figure it out. Just “how do we get this to hungry people?”
Yeah, okay, but we all know there's only a few verses in Leviticus that are actually relevant. You cannot be sexually immoral or have tattoos, but all the other stuff is kinda outdated, right?
My ex-wife's grandparents had an entire garage that was FILLED floor to ceiling with sweet potatoes.
25:16 i really hate the "i forgive you, son" because it's got the implication that he did something that is worth "forgiving", also has the implication of being judged for a mistake (which BTW you can't just go "hey don't do this thing" without explaining why _not_ to do that thing, and then blame it on the person for doing the thing), rather than like "hey, we all make mistakes, it's okay"
Well it wasn't a mistake, he was explicitly asked to follow the instructions, to which he agreed, and he didn't. This story could play out in a non christian setting as well.
The only good moment was "their purpose is cuteness, and they serve cuteness" and then later it's taken back for no reason.
It's not even a good message about charity, it's a case of "hey, we have an excess of awful shit we can't even give away, let's dump it on the poor"
There's something borderline obscene about the way the cubecumbers sprout, and they keep showing it over and over and over again.
Wobbling tumescent cucumbers is not something I thought I would see in an animated Christian kids' show today.
That bit had me in tears. They were so phallic.
At least they weren't eggplants/aubergines.
Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that 🤣
23:44 it's over here if somebody needs it ... Christians are so out of touch
I didn't think it was possible for me to dislike this show concept and the art style any further.
But then she started to sing.
Was the purpose of the turtles not to be "cute"?... And then she prays for a purpose for the turtles? Okay...
I hate the jittery mo-cap movement on those characters as well. Makes it feel even "cheaper".
To be fair, being cute is not a good purpose either. Pets are members of your family that you should care for, not toys you can throw out whenever you get tired of them.
@@blackbloom8552 I don't really see how "being cute" as an owner chosen purpose for the pet excludes the pet from being a family member, or means that they are just a play thing. 🤔
I personally think that it is self-explanatory that animals are not toys and can not be treated like objects.
Buying a pet is a decision that needs to be very well considered, since most pets (cats and dogs) will be around for at least 15 years, in good conditions.
The pet will have biological (food, water and environment), mental (a playing partner or other forms of stimulus) and genetically coded needs (like cats need a scratch tree, high observation points and lil cozy caves to hide and sleep in, or dogs really like long walks to simulate the pack being on a hunt or patrolling the turf).
Can you imagine being homeless and hungry, and then getting a mountain of cucumbers? Then a bunch of Christians are patting themselves on the back for the saintly deed they did, and they’re getting all this praise and publicity for it? I mean, it’s better than nothing, but a diet of just cucumbers sounds pretty horrible, especially if you’re homeless on top of it. Thanks god. I mean, they even had a blues song breakdown in the middle of the show to lament how they hated cubecumbers and didn’t want to eat them anymore, so now they just pass it off to the homeless like “the Poors will be happy to have anything, even if it’s something that is distressing to us. glory to his name, we’re the goodest for being so kind”.
When homeless were in Cubic land, Let My Cucumbers Grow!
Especially when the characters said how they were sick to death of eating cucumbers. "We can't stand this food, so make the homeless cubes eat it!"
It's as effective as one day of popcorn and pizza. But, ya know, cucumbers don't provide protein.
@@roonilwazlib9877 haha, exactly!
YES! "We don't want it, so the Poors can have it." Very charitable, I don't think.
I'm starting to think the reason they're cubecumbers is because the producers thought that many protruding, popping up cucumbers would be too phallic for christian kids and might open the show up to ridicule... they failed
If the show were realistic, Kip would have simply dumped the leftover cucumbers in a ditch while the homeless cubes starved. Like real life farms in America do when they can't sell all of their produce because free food drives down market value.
BuT tHeY aRe ChRiStiAn!
The farms would gladly sell them if stores would buy them. And actually a LOT of farmers DO buy the "misfit" fruits and veggies. They're turned into cow feed. Honestly that food going to waste is purely on the shoulders of retailers and consumers. To farmers, not selling it is a loss on money so if anything selling it is far more beneficial to them. They would prefer to sell it over trashing it or just dumping it all in the compost bins.
"Let's just watch Cubekins"
Sounds like something one would say in a horror movie, right before something terrible happens.
Up there with "I'm thinking about going on a day trip to Innsmouth."
The "something terrible" in this case is that you'll have to watch Cubekins.
Nope, you're exactly right about how "wunderkind" is actually pronounced. It always bugs me when people say that wrong.
It's like when Americans make an attempt at 'lingerie', which doesn't mean what they think it does anyway.
Christian white trash had no formal schooling and that's the result. Emma's pronunciation is the correct one
It baffles me how long it took them to realize they could give away cucumbers
One kid estimated it as 50 days. Longer than Jesus fasted, longer than Noah floated, longer than God rained down plagues of locusts and frogs and turtles and cucumbers upon the head of Pharoah. Just sayin', the mom and dad cubes of every household better watch their firstborn cubes' asses real close tonight.
Same, I thought that would come almost immediately after seeing the news report. I guess they really just absorbed that as "this is terrible, oh well"...
The 'Training Turtles' song was insufferable but the blues harmonica playing later on was pretty sweet.
The windows flickering is called Z-fighting. It's caused by rounding errors when you put two objects way too close together. It's an issue that needs to be worked around and can't really be fixed on a technical level. But in this case it looks like they put multiple window parts over each other instead of putting in properly sized pieces of window. However the proper way to do a window is just to put a plane there and texture it.
Actually Z fighting occurs when the Gfx card can't decide which of two texture layers to display first because they both have the same world coordinates, whether because one model has intersecting faces or because two models have been placed with overlapping faces. It is not a feature of normal workflow and is very easy to avoid. If you see Z-fighting, somebody made a rookie mistake :)
@@LadyMoonweb and it can't decide exactly because of rounding errors :P
but yes i agree that it's pretty simple to avoid (and hell if you want something to be at exactly the same space you can still get cheeky and save it via shaders :P)
@@robertwiesner6825 Most of the time Z-fighting occurs it's because people have duplicate faces in the exact same space... no rounding errors needed for explanation if the values are exactly the same 😉
It's called z-fighting because two things are fighting over the same spot on the z-axis (the one going toward / away from the camera, as opposed to the horizontal x-axis or the vertical y-axis).
@@Torthrodhel so do y-fighting and x-fighting also exist?
I wondered how long it would take for anyone to suggest giving their massive surplus of food to the homeless fire survivors. This story has the "Christian family" praying for them instantly but taking *days* to even think of actually doing something, and even then it's as a solution to one of *their* problems.
And this is put forward as an example of charity.
this was so morally bankrupt child labor, child endangerment, negligence. Then questioning things like having pets just to have pets they did not need a purpose yet here they wound up as work animals, to be adopted out to people who would put them to work?. praying for homeless people who needed food while taking literal days to come to the conclusion that they could actually help them and they only thought to help because they had no other use for the food.
Also, re-enforcing that kids should hate vegetables, and antisocial bratty behavior is totally acceptable.
The dad contributed pretty much nothing apart from coming up with the idea and selling the cubecumbers, leaving it to his son and friend to do all the donkey work.
Something very accurately christian about drowning in excess food and praying for god to help a bunch of hungry people going "oh wow don't know how to help them"
The "moral" of most Christian kid shows generally comes down to "Always Follow Directions!", because obedient little droids is what Christian parents want. Kids gotta be brought up to obey pointless rules, because that's what a religion basically is.
I don't think the little girl owns the turtles --- it's established she is raising them for the pet shop, I think.
"Liberals fall in love, Republican's fall in line".
That's I got about the turtles. It seems like she's raising them *for* the pet shop. She's super concerned with how they'll think about how good of a job she does with them. It almost seems like she's an employee on a trial basis.
Because raising turtles for a pet shop is a totally reasonable amount of labor for a kid, of course.
The ridiculous number of pointless rules makes me think that religious rulers in the past were having a bit of (narcissistic) fun trying to find out just how far they could go before the sheep stopped obeying them.
The "moral" of all secular show comes down to...
Do whatever you want, when you want, because it is all about you and how your actions affect others is irrelevant.
That's the driving force behind secular politics, education, media, etc ..
I can’t even. So many Christians I’ve met have been so shocked I’m atheist because I’m so active volunteering in my community. It seems to astonish them that people volunteer because they care not because it’s their duty/obligation or to promote faith through action.
I wouldn't be surprised. I'm Christian and I my Atheist sister does it too. And I don't care what she believes.
The lesson is also only give to the needy if it’s someone you also needed to get rid of for your own convince.
Throw your trash at the homeless.
The Modern Church: “Why is it we have so much trouble getting critical thinkers to join our church…?”
Moral of their own movie: “Follow directions because thinking for yourself is dangerous.”
Older sister; “Turtles don’t need a purpose, they are cute. That is the purpose of turtles!”
Also the older sister; “God, help me find a purpose for these turtles.”
The moral of the story for all of us who are actually paying attention? Religious groups are absolutely consistent about wanting an outcome they actively discourage creating.
The two smart Christians I know had to start watching livestreams of a church in California because they couldn't find any within driving distance that actually treated them like adults and respected their intelligence. We live in central New York State, what used to be the heart of the Burned Over District: not exactly an area that's short on people or diversity in terms of options for the choosy Christian. The fact that there's seemingly only one Protestant church in the country that doesn't treat its members like children who need parental controls turned on 24/7 really does say it all.
@@tjenadonn6158 I work with quite a few Christians that make the belief system look pretty good. They’re generally good people, who don’t judge others, and are shockingly intelligent… But I have to point out that the overwhelming majority joined the church as adults, they did not grow up in it. It’s also telling that their own children are receiving secular educations, or private ones that they themselves have a very direct hand in. It seems like they just straight up don’t trust their fellow Christians to teach their children…
@@Onyx-qd9tl In my case it's that both of them were raised some sort of Christian and came to radically different understandings of the religion than the ones they were raised with. One of them, my sister, was like me raised Catholic in a family with a grandmother who was more Catholic than the Pope and tried to disown our mother for marrying our Christian Universalist and First Nations father instead of someone who was just as white, Irish, and Catholic as the rest of the family. The other one, my brother in law, was raised by a narcissistic hell-mom who kicked him to the curb when he came out as trans at 16. After two long and complicated stories that involved a stint in the military for him, a stint in the psych ward for her, and a stint in evangelicalism for them both they're now hard and fast Christian socialists in the vein of people like Leo Tolstoy, with my sister recently coming out as anarcho-communist. So yeah, even though they're devout Christians practicing Christianity they'd stick out like a bacon cheeseburger on the menu of a kosher restaurant if they started talking about their beliefs among most Christians.
@@tjenadonn6158 holy 💩… How is that not it’s own video? You’ve got a few videos on here but nothing too recent. A story like that would justify a full episode of explanation. At the very least it’s interesting enough to be worth sharing, something to think about…
Christianity has like a whole community network so many get echo chambered. If you watch or read a documentary on the creators of veggie tales you can see some of it.
For said communities they tend to view church teaching as reaffirming what they know is right. There is also a social value of being more "Christian" then others. Basically for some they follow the rules faithfully to prove they are better then others.
There's many reasons why follow the rules blindly is so valued. Christian revivals have people that came to Christ after going through absolute hell, education and income varies wildly with the church being a big force to prevent crime or hopelessness, and the storied examples of great Christians normally believed when all else was lost.
I don't necessarily believe that devotion rules out critical thinking. I also get why people follow the rules, especially when your in some bad straights. The only real conflict is how much of it is for show rather then personal spiritual fulfillment.
Man, at least Veggie Tales had a good excuse for the less than stellar animation quality. They were limited by the technology available back then and I'd say that Veggie Tales STILL looks better than Sponge Cube Square Kid over here. Don't tell me they didn't choose to make the main kid yellow and make him look like SpongeBob for no reason at all. I literally though that this was gonna be a sort of land animal SpongeBob rip off when I first saw the thumbnail lol. The voice actor kinda plays Kip with the same pitch of voice as SpongeBob, too. He can't do a decent impression though which is why he just keeps the pitch and tries as best to get the tone of SpongeBob's voice as he can.
I mean for the time it was good quality Pixar was asking them advice on 3d modeling
VeggieTales didn't just have "an excuse" for less-than-stellar animation quality. VeggieTales was the first major 3D-animated production and absolutely revolutionized the industry.
Lord of the Beans was awesome
They might have looked rough by today's standards, but it wasn't cheap and easily outdone by almost random animator on UA-cam (for their time).
There's a nice snippet from the Tales of Hasidim about religious charity and praying that others receive help:
"Why Did God Create Atheists?
There is a famous story told in Hasidic literature that addresses this very question. The Master teaches the student that God created everything in the world to be appreciated, since everything is here to teach us a lesson. One clever student asks “What lesson can we learn from atheists? Why did God create them?”
The Master responds “God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all - the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that god commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his acts are based on an inner sense of morality. And look at the kindness he can bestow upon others simply because he feels it to be right.”
“This means,” the Master continued “that when someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say ‘I pray that God will help you.’ Instead for the moment, you should become an atheist, imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.'” If there is redemption in religion, I believe it is when people come to understand this story.
~Tales of Hasidim vol. 2"
Its overall one of the nicer take on atheist but it still commit the mistake of treating people as props for the character development of Christians. The worst part is that basiquelly imply that god create people that will be doomed for hell just to teach you to be a good person.
Edit: This may or may not apply as much to the hasids jews which have a different concept of salvation.
@@blackbloom8552 Uh, Hasids are ultra Orthodox Jews. Not only does the original post have nothing to do with Christianity, it’s based on an entirely different worldview and belief system. (I mean, there are significant issues to be found with the ultra orthodox, but it’s way different than Christianity.)
@UCAsk_57wGjGPugxqqJscyCQ Judaism and Christianity are completely different religions with very different beliefs and social systems. I mean, this is a huge topic; it’s like asking “how are Buddhists and Christians different” or “what’s the difference between democracy and authoritarianism?” Just two completely different systems. (For one example , it’s entirely possible to be a “good Jew” and not actually believe in the existence of God-though I don’t know as Hasids would agree!)
"Why Did God Create Atheists?" Just bonkers.
I'm sorry but "I gotta go wash my spreadsheets" made me laugh so hard!
They call me the king of the spreadsheets.
Got 'em all printed out on my bedsheets.
Instructions for parenting young children:
Step 1) do not give them tractors
Step 2) do not allow them to enslave turtles
Bonus step: don’t enslave the children.
It's remarkable how frequently Christians need to be reminded not to enslave children. That sort of thing comes naturally to most non-broken people.
“She’s going to adopt them out…. Thank god!”
Looks like the show worked on Emma 😁
Inverted normals: Check
Materials completely lacking normal maps data: check
Inconsistent smoothing of model faces: check
Freshman quality lighting solution with inappropriate self-shading and hard edges: check
Z-fighting: check
Warped faces and materials instead of proper animation: check
Built in the modelling program instead of a proper engine: check
Fastest possible production quality: check
Accuracy and impact of the episode message: ambiguous and lost in the rest of the mess.
Understandable in entirety by target audience: not really.
In all very, very bad.
Also, Finn reminds me of Pugsley Addams and is probably the only decent thing in it.
Also, did anyone else notice that the dad is the only character with a subtle divine glow to make him special and superior to everyone else? I wonder what the purpose of _that_ could be... Oh and the Cube Jesus picture looking over the dad's shoulder. Subtle!
I hate the deforming of the irises and pupils. It's literally making my eyes water.
@@rainbowkrampus It's really not something a trained individual would do. It was done like this because the animator didn't know how to actually animate and moved model edges or UVW coordinates inappropriately. In a way it's endearing, that somebody made this who really had no idea what they were doing.
For much of the episode, I thought Kip was supposed to have braces or something, but the metal brackets were weirdly in *between* his teeth.
I finally figured out that something about the lighting program caused the front of his teeth to be in shadow and appear grey, but the beveled sides of his teeth to be bright white and almost shine or glow. So as he talked, those beveled edges looked like silver metal.
The lighting was just SO janky.
Oh, and to the point about the dad glowing slightly (kinda): you could tell they were trying to push gender norms just by looking at the character design. The male characters had natural-for-a-human hair colors, but the mom and sister had to have pink hair.
It just felt like girls/women aren’t as human as boys/men and girls definitely can’t do boy things (like drive that digger).
And Finn is less rough-and-tumble, so we have to make it obvious he has a crush on the sister so no one thinks he’s gay.
Why do 5-year-olds need to have a crush on anyone?
It’s all just to reinforce gender norms in the little children watching.
Hi! Don’t know if this will get seen or not, but I’m actually the animator that worked on this.
I promise I’m not here to defend or argue anything, because most of it boils down to either it being a kids show, or a difference in faith versus secular.
I did want to address the animation though! Because I definitely made a lot of mistakes. Makes me cringe to see a lot of scenes where I just completely neglected something I should have fixed. Usually the eyes specifically. Most of it all was done with face/motion capture, and my job was to translate it to the characters and clean it all up. Though I did hand animate other parts! And while I’m still not perfect, I’ve definitely learned a lot since we did this.
Although it wasn’t well received, I’m glad you checked it out! Feedback definitely helps.
Also glad you liked Cube Jesus haha. I made that as a joke, but they liked it so much they put it in.
hey man i wish you well in your animation career sometimes you just gotta take a gig and not everything is your best work!! you learn from every piece you make (say this as one artist to another) and mad props for commenting
@@hadalzonemicrobe7206 I completely agree. I've do my best to push myself to specifically learn something new with every personal project I do now. It's opened me up to so many more skillsets that I didn't think I could have. Thank you for your well wishes! I don't really get to do too much animation these days, but I'm hoping that one day that'll change. Hope you have a great day!
So, Cubedad prayed for his new buisness: didn't get a single advice from Cubejesus (a headsup about not letting his kid do things without supervision would have been great).
Then Cubedad and Cubemom prayed about the homeless people: we didn't hear any news about the situtation getting better.
Finally, the whole Cubefamilly prayed about, well, everything: nothing happens.
At last, the Cubekids use their brain (for once apparently) and choose to give their cubecumber to homeless cubepeople and... exploit the cube tortoises..? And somehow it's "Thanks to the Cubelord"? Is that a parody meant to show that prayers don't do shit but people do, while the clergy attribute people's hard work to Cubegod?
Because let me get this straight: the cubecumber catastrophy happened _before_ the homelessness situation. So either Cubegod guide Cubedumbkid into not following the instructions so they'll have cubecumbers for the future homeless cubepeople (so, kids: don't bother following instructions, that's the lesson), either Cubegod made Cubepeople homeless so Cubechrstianfamily could get rid of cubecumbers and cubeturtles, because f*ck all those 50 miscreants maybe. Or... all of this happened without the intervention of Cubegod.
Correction: "Cubecumber CUBEtastrophe" lololol (please know I'm teasing and all of this show is ridiculous and I loved your comment)
@@starlabradshaw2969 I tried hard to overload my comment with cubes, but now I realise it was not enough.... :D
I mean, this is how I was taught that God intervenes and influences your life. Maybe God “inspired” Finn to make notes about the news story. Or maybe God inspired him to look back at his notes in that moment. Maybe God knew the fire was going to happen so he encouraged Kip to be obstinate and spill the fertilizer, thus helping the fire victims *and* teaching Kip a lesson about following directions (somehow).
This was how things were always explained to me. God might “inspire” little things or send you signs (and omg, some people see “signs” everywhere) therefore he deserves the credit when things go right because he probably is behind it.
I was around 12 when I figured it was bullshit and thought, at first, if there’s a god, there’s no way he/she/it meddles in individual lives like that.
@@Annie_Annie__ You figured it out way earlier than me. :)
"I hate that Cubekins exist in this kind of capitalist dystopia where we have to rely on charity when people are made homeless through a fire"
Do you men the United States of America?
Because giving things to others for free , even if you don't need it, is communism (in their eyes). Thats why Catholic church supported every frickin right wing dictator against those annoying hungry workers masses. Just like Jesus would do.
"eww, I hate these vegetables. Someone homeless should have to eat them instead and then I can feel better about myself"
Those cute turtles were the highlight of this and I felt sorry for them being used as beasts of burden. The rest of the animation looked pretty iffy. It was more fun watching your reactions than the actual show itself.
And their Cubic Heavenly Father didst hear the pitiful cubecumber prayer. Lo, it did come to pass that he didst answer. And, he did instruct them to make pickles.
Vinegar from heaven?
After the comment about "draining" turtles, I'm surprised Emma didn't notice the phallic way the cucumber's sprouted.
"Have you prayed about it?" It sounds jarring, but this is literally how my closest Christian friends talk and think. One is moving out of state, and when deciding where to move to, was advised by his brother and friends to pray and to see if God was calling him to San Antonio, Texas, or to Chicago, Illinois.
I was staggered to hear that these sorts of decisions are apparently also part of God's grand plan.
Yeah, that's annoyed me for years. I've never been able to figure out why people think God micromanages their lives.
@@Flammifleure Yet fails to be of any use when people are starving or children die from cancer.
I had an aunt tell me once to pray when I had spelt oil on my shirt. Children are being abused all over the world but God is supposed to take time away from that to clean my shirt.
In some cases it's possibly more like a meditation, or thinking deeply about something.
@@Cheepchipsable That is true. I don't have a problem with praying before making a decision as such. The problem is in the idea that you need to get God's permission to live your life -- or as the OP says, whether God wants you to move to this state or that. God wants you to be _happy_ and He left it to you to pursue that happiness in your own way.
Watching this cartoon is a risk to sanity, and needs a surgeon general warning- you're a brave person, Emma!
Judging from the weird one continuous eye, I can only imagine this species of cube people will eventually evolve into Sonic the Hedgehog.
That or they evolve into Kirby. This would also give us the upgrade of them losing the ability to talk.
Ah, yes, like the Pixar Theory of Everything. Where do the Veggie Tales fit into this?
Planning Meeting: Producer: So, uh, what shape is easy to animate really cheaply? Animator: I dunno... Cubes? Producer: Done.
"How did no one in the family think of this yet?"
Because the lesson is to wait to god to think for you.
As if said god couldn't just insert the idea into your head without waiting days, a la the story of Samuel. Or Joseph the dream prophet, even, in some cases, where you get the idea before there was any reason why you should have thought of it.
They’re literally the “swindle” family? I love it.
Is it just me, or do their eyes look like they are in pain? Like they are silently screaming inside? I think it has something to do with the way the eye-window turns down at the corners.
Oh yeah. Total agree.
I think it's because their eye windows never close, their Iris&pupil just expand and contract instead.
Of course they are screaming inside. If they fail in their faith they are going to burn in a lake of fire for ETERNITY!!!
OK, the worst/most disturbing thing about the animation is when the characters blink. Yes, their eye window does close slightly, but the pupil and iris completely collapse as well. It's gross and weird.
Giving away something that you don't want that inconveniences you doesn't seem like charity to me; it's using others to benefit yourself. Kind of like handing off your flowers to an older lady for the benefit of your Tiktok video rather than her happiness. Corinthians 13:3 has something to say about this. And I think the whole last 5 minutes of the show was the exact opposite of Matthew 6:2 ! Emma - do you agree ?
Expecting present day Christians to read the Bible beyond the parts they can use to justify being the biggest bigoted bastards on the planet is akin to expecting an amoeba to build a moon lander.
Well you could just bin them and give them to nobody. Probably the same amount of effort involved.
The sister praying for her turtles to not be so f`in useless was the best part of the whole show.
Emma: " I need a portrait of cube Jesus ". Cut to me with pencil and paper in hand and searching for my watercolors. ME TOO!!!!!
I've just discovered your channel today and I'm really enjoying binging your videos. Funny, sharp and insightful all the way.
"Cube Jesus is always watching" needs to replace the WWJD bracelets. Also, a FitBit is basically a Cube Jesus.
Did anyone notice the pastor is no other than Cube Thanos?
And if you're mormon, it's CTR (Choose The Right) rings
Over fertilizing plants results in nitrogen burn which will damage the roots. In severe cases it renders the roots unable to absorb anything, including water.
Can we talk about how this show promotes child slave labor?
Also, I drank too much. I need to drain my turtle.
I couldn't get past the image of CubeJesus on the wall in the background. I howled and rolled on the floor. Emma, you're right to call attention to this absurdist masterpiece. I want one, too!!!
I see a big contradiction in the moral. It's said that the kid should have follow the instruction and he made a problem because of this, but this problem turned to solve a huge problem. So he was right not to follow the instruction, but he was wrong not to follow the instruction.
Tell me if I missed something because I don't understand
And inside that cube - a cubic cat which is both dead and alive! God solves Schrodinger's dilemma and slices the Gordian knot, all while microwaving a burrito so hot he can't eat it!
It's about how god can use one misfortune to solve another! Instead of, ya know, preventing both misfortunes! His ways. So mysterious. Next time I do something assholeish I'm just going to claim that I'm being mysterious.
@@Explodington it’s mysterious WAYS, but yeah
You did not get it right - result if the work is sideproduct, the main goal is OBEDIENCE.
16:38 i'd imagine over-fertilizing plants would just result in plant-death
It does. Emma googled it after the fertilizer accident
the flickering of the windows was because the differently colored glass parts were overlapping and the surfaces were on the same plane, so the rendering software couldnt know which one it should render which means for each frame one part was picked at random to render
Z-fighting. I'm working on an illusion that puts z-fighting on surfaces in the real world.
No horror movie in the horror genre tops ‘Jesus camp’
Terrifying film.
The dad's voice acting is just super unsettling to me, there's no emotion in his voice and his dialogue sounds like an alien trying to masquerade as human lol
The turtles are cute though and that backing track with the harmonica goes kinda hard
That baby was by far the best at praying, not self serving at all like the others.
I can't decide what's funnier, Emma's commentary or the comments section. I laughed way harder than I should have at Emma's concern over the cube turtles! I would love to see more reactions to cringey Christian kid content.
Ah, prayer: the easiest way to feel like you're doing something to help someone else without exerting any real effort or making any sacrifices
The child slavery is real. Also they didn’t decide to just give the food to the now homeless ppl? They prayed instead.
Kinda relates to the lack of gun control and the thoughts and prayers instead of above.
Well, at least my church goes on mission trips to Tanzania to give homeless people food, water, clothes, and medicine. People should know that praying does not make wishes come true.
I’m constantly drowning in cubecumbers, thank god this cartoon exists to help me deal with it
Have you ever considered covering media you like? Especially things that you think are underrated or relatively unknown? I just noticed you cover a lot of cringe or cursed media and would be curious to see the flip side.
This!!!
Yes! This stuff is fun but I also love seeing people talk about things they enjoy and think are cool.
@K There's just as much technical information to learn from good media as there is from bad. Maybe more?
"we are covered in cucumbers, father" 🤣
I'm sure it's somebody's kink
If he had followed the rules, wouldn't the homeless cubes have gone hungry?
Precisely! Loved that little bit of inherent hypocrisy/confusion in what the actual message/lesson of this episode was actually even supposed to be. 😂Cheers!!
I think the idea there was supposed to be that God can turn a disaster into something good. They just kinda neglected to actually say it.
Well, ideally somebody else would have helped them and gotten them actually varied and nutritious food. Not that the show would see it that way.
Supply side cube Jesus! Props for the low key child slave labour.
Jesus saves, all others can't afford to do that cause they're living paycheck-to-paycheck.
The worst part of all of this is that none of them are actually even close to being cube-shaped!
Training an animal is about teach the animal to follow instructions.
The over fertilization wasn't directly because of not following instructions, it's because of fight.
So, they can just block the road and build statues ?
"Have you prayed about it?" Wow! Brainwashing already!
yes, gotta brainwash em' young
I can't stand it when I see a surgeon come out and tell parents, " after a very complicated 14 hour brain surgery, your 8 year old boy will be ok" and their reply is " oh thank you god, oh sweet jesus, thank you so much", I'd be pissed if I was that surgeon
Emma - Thanks for the nightmare fuel. It was hard enough living my life with the big G watching. But now, knowing that Cube-Jesus is watching too, good lord!
Anyways, another great video Emma (I guess?). And BTW, I'm one of those two people who enjoys a good Foley critique, so thanks for that.
"drain my turtles" - had me in stitches! Thankyou!
I loved how quickly you detected the 'imposter' catapult asset! I'd never have spotted that!
Thank you Emma, you made that far more entertaining then I expected it could possibly be. I'm off to pray for some tzatziki 😋
Maybe they used Blender to make the show and instead of deleting the default cube they said to themselves: "Hey, why not bevel the edges a bit and make a character out of it?" Also, if for some reason anyone is curious about the flickering at 28:20, that usually happens when two overlapping planes are placed on top of each other with the distance being lower than the rounding error that occurs during rendering.
I have never laughed so hard at any video as much as this one! Your comments were so spot on, I was crying laughing!!! Love it! This is now one of my favorite videos ever! Nice job Emma!
What a great message for kids: You can’t help people who have lost literally everything unless you’re completely inundated with stuff you don’t want or have any use for. Otherwise…. thoughts and prayers guys
I think the "background noise" is just another example of how cheap this show is. Listening to their voices, they all sound like they recorded their lines in a garage with beginner microphones.
Are these cubecumber plants immortal? Is there anything stopping them from just uprooting some plants until they have a manageable output?
I guess if they just prayed harder Jesus would have done it for them.
They probably see that as a waste.
I think the moral of the story is that if you rely on a prayer instead of using your brain, you are a m0r0n and bad things will happen.
Background-art cube-jesus has me in shambles lmao.
I think Emma is just confused about USA culture, we grow cube cumbers it’s why we have English cucumbers those are the roundish ones, kids drive tractors it’s part of their school curriculum along with how to hopefully survive a mass shooting, turtles need to be trained otherwise the pet store will recall them. It’s just an American thing
Speaking of which, cube watermelons can be grown.
You jest about the tractors, but in the area of the US where I grew up, there was a high-school vocational school where teens would learn professional farming. So yes, we did have children driving tractors as part of their school curriculum. XD
@@chainsawtotheheart thats pretty cool actually. :)
Yes, plenty of kids on farms would drive tractors, rtvs etc.
I thought the girl was going to train and resell them.
@@chainsawtotheheart Having supervised both teens and 4-7 year olds, I can say with some authority that teens have better judgement and decision making skills than 4-7 year olds. Granted if I had to choose between an unsupervised 6 year old and a 14 year old that had two friends egging them on I might give the tractor to the 6 year old...
"Do not make Jesus a vegetable"
Advice the creator of veggie tales received from his grandmother and the creator of cubekins desperately, desperately needed
It's refreshing that people from other countries think the idea that people need charity to get through a catastrophe rather than relying on the government is ridiculous... because as an American I didn't even blink at that.
The German comedian Henning Wehn had a line when he was doing his first American tour to the effect of "We Germans don't give to charity, we just pay our taxes."
Because if victims have to wait until people have prayed, prayed again, and gone to church before it finally dawns on them they could help, more people than necessary will have died. Imagine if the crews of lifeboats, ambulances, or fire brigades wasted time praying before coming to the rescue.
That cube dad IS draq Queen.
Wearing loose sleeves and tank top 😃😃😃
I asked my very conservative mom if I could cut bangs when I was 14 and she said “….hmmm have you prayed about it?”
Really?? No one thought to pickle the cubecumbers??