Davey & Goliath

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 8:13pm

Has anyone else ever been curiously fascinated by this little Claymation Bible show?

Some of it has that retro "mental hygiene" feel of those old industrial films (of which I participated in quite a few as a youngun!).

I love Davey's "plop plop fizz fizz" voice (he was the also the voice of Speedy Alka-Selzter).

I record it on my DVR and fast-forward through most of it because my partner remembers the Easter show, when "Grandma dies."

We finally saw that episode... and it completely made me cry.

(I'm a wuss.)

I guess my point is that sometimes this show was very effective. Even with it's "golly," "gosh" and "gee" (which were Davey's kinder/gentler way of saying WTF?!?).

I actually enjoy watching a little of each episode, finding out the basic plots, and then jumping to the finish line to see what Davey learned. They usually go on way too long, and the goofy part is that they're only 15 minutes long (most of them). They would do 2 episodes in a half hour.

And those retro clay sets and costumes are a hoot! Seriously, it's Leave It To Beaver by Rankin Bass.

I have to say that organized religion creeps me out more often than not, but the teachings... I dig those... once in a while.

If we could only take the brainwashing, control freaks, money and contradictory idiots out of religion... I think they might be on to something.

Nah, it's never gonna happen. Too many "holier than thou" types.

Updated On: 9/14/08 at 08:13 PM

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 8:45pm

It always creeped me out, even as a kid. But I still watched it...religiously.

[elphiesmagic]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 8:47pm

I haven't seen it since I was a kid but I always loved it! And I agree about the episode where Grandma dies. A tearjerker, every year!

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 8:50pm

LOVED watching it when I was a kid. A friend gave me a DVD with some episodes, but I never got around to watching it. Must remedy that soon.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 8:59pm

Oh, Miss Penny, LOL!

bdwaygirl---They haven't released the Easter show on DVD yet, so you probably just have a bunch of the retro-creepy ones.

But take a chance... and be "at the ready" with your fast-forward button.

Some of it's not half bad.

The rest of it is half bad.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 9:05pm

Daaa-vey.

I'm now hearing that in my head.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 9:09pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaDxcVPxB3g

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 9:18pm

LOL, I love it, romantico!

I found one even freakier.

Davey & Goliath do "Pet Cemetary" om MadTV...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaQ2O9_XlM0

[Marianne2]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 10:46pm

I remember seeing a few episodes in my sunday school class when I was younger. I can't remember them off the top of my head. Okay, I sort of remember a Halloween episode where Goliath was dressed as a ghost or something, but that's all I remember from that.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 10:50pm

I saw it in Kansas in the 70's. I remember hoping that it would get more interesting.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 11:47pm

I always recall the episode where Davey gets locked in a train car and keeps hearing the sound of the speeding train as a big, booming voice that says, "All alone! All alone! All alone!" over and over again. It was nightmarish!

Why did we watch this show when it scared the sh!t out of us?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 11:49pm

Why? So we would be ready 25 laters for the coming of PALIN!!!!

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 11:57pm

It still didn't numb me enough for THAT, brdlyr.

I saw it growing up in Kansas too! And I kept waiting for it to get better back then.

I think this Godly show was on at some un-Godly hour like 5AM, which is why I seldom ever watched it. And when I did, I usually changed the channel.

It's only because my partner wanted to see that Easter episode (he pretty much didn't care for any of the others) that I started recording it on my DVR.

He still won't watch it, but I like to check it out every now and then... check for the Easter episode, and then delete them.

It's a bit of a guilty pleasure. More guilt than pleasure though. And some of it IS sweet... usually followed by a whole bunch o' creepy, though.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:04am

I should show it to the kids and see what they think.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:07am

I'm not showing it to MY kids. There are laws against that, brdy!

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:11am

Awww, Miss Penny...

Just think of it as Rankin-Bass!

...with Jesus.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:12am

Do not worry, C10 would see a few minutes and demand Family Guy!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:19am

Remember that my kids think Jesus is a guy who wore a white dress and could fly while a "mysterious hat" floated above him.

Where they got this idea, I have no clue, but why spoil it?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:26am

C14 at 3 would look at a church and call it a fairy castle!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:31am

Ah, yes, see what that Catholic upbringing did for us, brdy?

[Marianne2]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 2:30am

Okay, I am now officially creeped out by this. I'll admit, I don't remember loving or hating this show when I was younger because I really don't remember too much about it. Besides the Halloween episode, I think there was one where they take a boat out during a storm or something. Anyway, I was thinking how it had almost the same sort of creep factor as Gumby. That was one show I couldn't stand at all, but they put it in reruns on Nickelodeon. And it turns out, it was made by the same person who did Davey and Goliath. Talk about creepy.

[winston89]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 5:59am

I can't watch this without thinking of The Simpsons. They went to an animation convention and you see the Flanders watching Davey and Goliath.

Goliath: Whatcha doin Davey?

Davey: I'm making a pipe bomb to blow up planned parenthood.

Goliath: I don't think that's a good idea Davey

Davey: shut up. (Davey puts pipe bomb in Goliath's mouth and lights it)

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:23am

I saw these when I was a kid, like a lot of folks, when they were broadcast on Sunday mornings. Pretty bland easy messages, for the most part.

I remember one, though, where Davey gets a little lecture in bicycle safety from the local cop, who I think was named Officer Bob or something like that. Davey, being Davey, disobeys the bicycle safety lecture, and is consumed with guilt when Officer Bob is injured in a completely utterly unrelated event: Davey is convinced that his disobeying of the rules had something to do with Officer Bob's injury. There's a little scene in the hospital where Davey visits Officer Bob to apologize for disobeying the rules, and Officer Bob does the unforgiveable: he absolutely rubs the kid's guilt in even deeper rather than telling the boy to lighten up, that his little bike adventure had nothing to do with his injury.

Ick.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:33am

I think that's why I zap through them on my DVR now.

Sort of a "This would be cute if I lived in the Twilight Zone" factor.

It's almost like a David Lynch show for kiddies who like Jesus.

And I just stare at it... like a cute little car accident.

But I do find some of it cute!

...I also find a whole lotta "car accident," though.

[Sandy in Sable]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 3:47pm

I used to watch this Saturday mornings on TBN, I can still hear those blaring horns playing the Lutheran fight song, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.

Dick Beals provided the voice of Davey, he's a little guy up in his 80s by now. I've always gotten a kick out of his inimitable voice in his many cartoon roles.