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From time to time, modern day character icons on television evoke the spirit of classical literary figures or even biblical ones. It's not hard to imagine Mr. Bill or the Gingerbread man as envisioned in the movie shrek as your modern day Job from the first testament of the Holy Bible.

Like Job, they both have uncanny bad luck, bestowed upon them by a higher power. Like Job, they remain steadfastly firm in their determination to live their lives as best they can. And like Job, our hearts pour out to them.

In many ways, these characters are like Lot from the bible as well. They both have lead and pioneered the way for all manner of other lovable clay animation and computer animated characters. They both are rocks and pillars of their own morality in a world that is unusually cruel to them. Before Mr. Bill there was only Rudolph and various characters on PBS for children. After Mr. Bill, there was an explosion of claymation and rendered characters that adults could enjoy. Without them, we'd never reach the promised land of South Park and PowerPuff girls.

Unlike Lot, they weren't easily made drunk by their own daughters so they could participate in insestuous sex, nor did they give their daughters up for rape to avoid seeing homosexual acts in their house--I mean, cause God didn't consider these two characters to be morally pure enough for that sort of experience, I guess. But I digress, these two characters can NOT be underestimated for their impact on television and pop culture.



On one hand you have Mr. Bill, who started it all. Even the Gingerbread man himself was modelled after Mr. Bill. But like Eddie Murphy using Richard Prior as his model, the new breed icons took it to another level.

Mr. Bill started it--Gingerbread man starred in 3 huge box office smashes.

The verdict is out on who's the best.



I would love our opinion on this.





[Edited 4/13/08 6:57am]

Gingerbread man, no question. He's been hardened by 400 degrees of mean oven street heat.

Gingy

JerseyKRS said:

I don't know about that. I've seen folks rockin' Mr. Bill's outfit at G-Bar. That's pretty intense.

Don't forget Gingy did have those series of Wal-Mart commercials. He was making some serious bank.

JuliePurplehead said:

I'm starting to sense you think Gingy wins this showdown

Imago said:

and I bet they get fucked. I rest my case.

Imago said:

JerseyKRS said:

Well then go ahead and rock those purple gum drop shirt buttons and tell me what the results are.



[Edited 4/13/08 7:15am]

Gingy hands down -- he knows the Muffin Man.

you new school cats!

Fortunately cyberspace is limitless and...

Screw it. You're fucked.

Lambchop would sling dick in both of them bitches....

Imago said:

roodboi said:

gross!

Imago said:

Mr.Bill has some really long arms, though...
[Edited 4/13/08 11:29am]

You know, not even the psychic asparagus lady could have predicted the dismal outcome of this thread.

AlexdeParis said:

Who lives on Drewry(sp?) lane?

Imago said:

That's the one. (I think it's "Drury" Lane.)

Of course, he's not to be confused with Strawberry Shortcake's nemesis:

The Purple Pie Man.

AlexdeParis said:

OMG, I remember how excited I used to get when they would play back-to-back specials of Strawberry Shortcake and Raggedy Ann and Andy movies. Those were the days.

Imago said:

btw - I've never read the bible so I've no idea what you're going on about up there.

CarrieMpls said:

YOu don't know about the story of Lot? From Sodom and Gargantia or whatever?


Men visited his house and he accepted them in. They wanted to have sex with his son (or was it brother/nephew ) and instead of that, he offered up his two daughters to them to do as they wished. Because fucking the shit out of two lowly women is better than sex with men you see.
So when Lot and his daughters escaped Sodom (his wife at this point had already turned to a pillar of salt/ash/whatever by looking back on God's fury as he was killing all of the sinners at Sodom), they escaped to a cave or some shit. His daughters then got their father drunk so that they could have sex with him--remember, these folks were the deemed moral by God--Sodom's only pure family in his eyes. It's a hilarious story when you're not infuriated by it.
I really should read it again as I hate getting the little facts wrong. I guess the moral of the story is that if you even think you're having the tinniest bit of a 'gay moment' rape somebody's daughter or something like that.



Carrie, this has nothing to do with Mr. Bill though.


And whats so funny about my Raggedy Ann/Andy comment?
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Imago said:

rape and drunken incest. the bible rocks.

And it's funny cause I didn't even know Raggedy Ann and Andy had a tv show. I thought they were just dolls.

CarrieMpls said:

They weren't shows!
They were T.V. specials--hour long movies.
They were limited events, and a kid gets excited about shit like that after an hour of watching Hee Haw.

I can't see the Mr. Bill pic (is that like our Mr. Ben? ) so I can't really make an informed decision. I read all the bible shit too.

roodboi said:

hell yeah but in this it's Gingy hands down.

A very hard choice indeed

what the fuck is this thread about

Protege said:

Moms, I guess