Line #21 Funny/ChickTracts


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2	[[caption-width-right:231: It's the [[NotSoAboveItAll smirking angel]] that really makes it.]]
3	* Part of "This Was Your Life!" features a scene of the man currently being judged sitting in church as part of a review of his life. It's a small moment, but also very relatable:
4	-->'''Pastor:''' "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, for whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life!"
5	-->'''Man:''' ''(thinking)'' ''I wonder who's winning the ball game?''
6	* [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1018/1018_01.asp "This better be good, or I'm going to jump."]] However, the rest of the Tract attempts to be [[DeusAngstMachina very depressing]].
7	* One tract for believers shows a big hulking thug in the most hideous imaginable combination of bondage gear, biker clothing, and Nazi paraphernalia towering over a fairly ordinary-looking Christian guy who's sweating profusely (and whose stomach is shown to be tying itself into a knot) and yelling right in his face "'''[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0900/0900_01.asp Are you calling me a sinner!?]]'''" ([[SarcasmMode Now why would anyone say that?]])
8	** ....and Fang the dog is standing there with them, which is a nice touch.
9	* Satan, dressed in a pumpkin-headed mask for an upcoming Halloween massacre, gloating from a hilltop over the arrival of some teenagers in the woods and then suddenly exclaiming "@!!!☆☆! I forgot my chainsaw!"
10	** While walking his pet snake on a leash.
11	*** And the kid yelling at him after running him off by invoking the name of the Lord.
12	---->'''Satan:''' [''running away''] [[SymbolSwearing @!!!☆☆]]!
13	---->'''Kid:''' [''shakes his fist''] '''''I HATE YOU!''''' AND I HATE YOUR '''''LOUSY''''' BIRTHDAY!
14	----->[[http://chickdissections.blogspot.com/2007/08/this-is-fun-heres-another.html "You know what this panel needs? A chase scene to the tune of Yakety Sax."]]
15	*** Perhaps the funniest part is that in the next panel, it's revealed that ''both Satan and the kid'' are wrong about Halloween being Satan's birthday.
16	*** The presumably-American GoodOlBoy country-fried county sheriff suddenly talking like an antiquated denizen of {{Scotireland}}.
17	---->'''Sheriff:''' ''"RUN! Tis the Devil himself!"''
18	* In [[https://chick.com/products/tract?stk=23&ue=d "Ransom"]], two dim-witted criminals kidnap the wrong target (a rich woman's twin sister), who then leads them to Christ. Funny moments include the wife calling her husband "Poopsie", two not-so-vicious [[AngryGuardDog angry guard dogs]], and the ending when the cops break in and rescue her:
19	-->'''Thief:''' Officer, you need to be ransomed!
20	-->'''Officer:''' '''[[BigWhat WHAT??]]'''
21	** The victim saying "How dare you invade our prayer meeting!" when the SWAT team busts in.
22	** As usual in Chick tracts, it is also full of [[FunnyBackgroundEvent funny background moments]]:
23	*** The thieves' getaway vehicle has a sign on it that says "Support Your Local Police."
24	*** One of the cops is [[DonutMessWithACop munching on a donut]] during the rescue scene.
25	*** The thieves' dog biting an officer on the butt when they rescue her, and two random kids (shown in an earlier panel) also putting their hands up during said scene for no reason, with a couple cops side-eyeing them.
26	* The opening of "The Royal Affair", with the SouthernGentleman [[DirtyOldMan senator]] and his attorney:
27	-->'''Lawyer:''' I'm your attorney. You haven't lied to me, have you senator?
28	-->'''Senator:''' How dare you question my integrity?
29	-->''The prosecutor plays the tape before the court''
30	-->'''Lawyer:''' There goes your integrity, you DirtyOldMan!
31	** The senator's wife choking him and telling him she's filing for divorce in the next panel, while he calls her "poopsy" with the most hilarious look on his face.
32	* [[https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0018 "The Trial"]], or more specifically when the mother realizes she's lost the case, with an OhCrap look on her face and a giant bag of money flying away in a [[ThoughtBubbleSpeech thought bubble.]]
33	* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' panel in [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1069/1069_01.asp this]] tract. Made even better by the fact that Chick can draw Peter and Stewie Griffin 100% accurately and perfectly. Not to mention the Book of Psalms being used as a source on what the world was like [[ArtisticLicenseHistory 50 years ago.]]
34	** Also, the bizarre way Chick uses footnotes [[note]]Jack Chick tends to use footnotes to emphasize or condemn the things he's discussing, as opposed to citing sources for his claims.[[/note]] could lead one to believe that the source for his claim that Stewie Griffin is gay is Leviticus 18:22.
35	* [[http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/0008/0008_04.gif "I'm so glad I haven't sinned for over 20 years!"]]
36	* From "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0021/0021_01.asp Bad Bob]]".
37	-->'''Jail Guard:''' You gentlemen have a visitor, a first-timer, so be nice.
38	-->'''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bad]] [[JerkAss Bob]]''': You saying I'm not nice?
39	-->'''Christian kid:''' Hi, fellas.
40	-->'''Bad Bob:''' Oh no! Look what he brought with him. '''Get that clown out of here. I've had enough of that (SymbolSwearing) crammed down my throat!'''
41	* In "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0092/0092_01.asp Humbug]]", when [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Scrooge]], while [[MisanthropeSupreme declaring his hatred for all of humanity]] to Cratchit, [[JerkassHasAPoint accidentally references a Bible verse]].
42	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk2Pr9jXCr8 The trailer]] for the "Dark Dungeons" adaption perfectly shows that the creators aren't taking it seriously in the slightest. A particular highlight is dramatic music playing over a scene of game die being tossed into fake blood that looks like it was taken from the set of an Eli Roth movie. Then the ending feature this hilariously self-aware stinger:
43	-->(''after a montage of people dying in BloodyHilarious ways'') "WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong?"
44	* At the end of "Crazy Wolf," a strip about the demonic evils of Native American shamanism, the protagonist says he's going to convert to Christianity, leaving us with this amazing line.
45	-->And he did! ''And Satan went'' '''''NUTS!'''''
46	* And in [[http://www.chick.com/m/reading/tracts/readtract.asp?stk=5012 this]] one, a girl named Samantha sets her room on fire. Why? Because IT HAD OCCULT STUFF IN IT!!!
47	--> '''Samantha''': I ''hate'' this stuff now!!!
48	** The panel likely depicts a HUGE bonfire outside but it ''does'' look like she torched her bedroom.
49	* And in the same comic, Uncle Bob is referred to as a [[Literature/HarryPotter Muggle]]. Even better? Chick uses a footnote to explain that this is someone who's incapable of magic.
50	* The evil vampire coven in "First Bite" loses their candidate for the Anti-Christ, despite Satan's claim that he will not fail. It results in [[http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/1047/1047_21.gif these two panels,]] which give the whole affair a slapsticky tone.
51	--> '''Head Vampire:''' Master, why did you tell us that Igor was the ''Promised One?''
52	--> '''Satan:''' I...uh...[[ShrugTake I lied!]] [[AffablyEvil Because that's what I do!]] '''''Get over it!'''''
53	--> '''Head Vampire:''' '''That's it!''' If you can't trust Satan, who '''can''' you trust?
54	--> '''Vampire:''' [[CaptainObvious Jesus?]]
55	--> '''Head Vampire:''' '''''[[BigShutUp Shut up!]]'''''
56	* Most of the [[BumblingHenchmenDuo two goofy devil's]] antics in [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0004/0004_01.asp "A Demon's Nightmare"]]....including the angry elevator-devil in the Hazmat-like heat-protection suit.
57	** In fact those little goofy devils show up in a number of tracts and are generally silly.
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