Was this show funny? (not bashing, just curious)

Yes, the first two seasons were more funny in that while twisted it did it in a "lighthearted" entirely screwed up way so you would get a laugh out of it. It wasn't until parts one and two of Nature that the show took such a darker, serious turn.

I.E.... In the episode Charity Orel gives money to a crack dealer as a good act. When given the drug in return he remembers a good Christian never wastes anything and thus proceeds to smoke it. Of course he builds an addiction and goes frantic asking for allowance and doing menial jobs in the local store so that he can help out the "poor" man even more.


And yes, in Alone they did just what you think. Before Nurse Bendy was shown to be used sexually without any emotion at all for it, so that episode showed us how deep down just how frightened and emotionally scarred she is from the things that happen to her.

"If you should need me, tap this staff three times on a wall."
"Magic?"
"No, it's just loud."

It was never really funny. The entire premise is pretty cliche. Making fun of Christianity and religion is simple; most kids in junior-high can come up with the same themes. It was certainly dark, often twisted, and there was some keen intellect at work at times in the writing, but then you still come back around to the fact that all it's doing is ranting angrily at Christianity, along with trying too hard to shock.

In other words, it's a stop motion animation version of the same kind of thing you've been seeing for a few decades.

I would love for Adult Swim to replace it (and, for god's sake, the Oblongs) in the early morning hours. And, no, I'm neither Christian nor even religious, I'm an agnostic atheist. This sort of content is just cliche at this point.

Its subtle humour, unlike the other shows you mentioned, which are pretty blatant (and no† very good). Also could depend on your age, depending on how old you are.

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