History WesternAnimation / DorbeesMakingDecisions

* ReligiousEditainment: At least, that's what they were going for...

** The first clothes store that Otto goes to is called [[VideoGame/DigDug Dig's Duns]].

* The first clothes store that Otto goes to is called [[VideoGame/Dig Dug Dig's Duns]].

Beyond the secret world of the insect,
Beyond the atoms that form the grass they hide behind,
In the infinitesimal pantheon that lurks beneath our feet and beats with hearts anew,
Live...the Dorbees!''

'''''Dorbees: Making Decisions''''' is a obscure 1998 Christian DirectToVideo short film created by the Gaither vocal band. The short film features two loosely-connected stories revolving around the titular "Dorbees": One about two children named Jack and Mary-Jane who ditch school to explore an old abandoned house, and the other about a foreigner named Arto trying to fit in with "the common folk". A third short revolving around a superhero duo named "Mr. Poe and Yogul" appears in-between the two.

* ArtShift: ''Mr. Poe and Yogul'' is rendered in [[CelShading cel-shaded CGI]], unlike the rest of the short. Not that this makes the models any more [[UncannyValley appealing]].

** Delta doesn't really tell the stories of Jac and Mary Jane or Otto and Dig, and instead talks about {{Noodle Incident}}s that each story reminds him of (an encounter at the music store where the school now sits and a one-armed drummer, respectively) as the stories just kinda fade-in.
** The guy watching TV during the scene transitions is pretty indecisive about what channel he wants to watch.
* BrokenAesop: The short's theme is making the right decisions, including staying in school. However, the school in the short is shown to be a terrible place, having teachers give the wrong facts, and trying to kill any students who escape.
** The other two story segments aren't much better at this. Dig makes the choice of telling Otto to go to a clothing store for Swedish men instead of buying clothes from his store so that he'd look better. Otto specifically stated that he wanted American clothing so that he could fit-in better, and not only is Dig hurting his own business by telling his customers to go to a competitor, but he's basically saying "[[UnfortunateImplications You can only look good if you wear your own country's clothing]]".
** Instead of pushing the buttons for world peace or ending world hunger (or pressing all the buttons), Mr. Poe decided to push the button to save the life of a single person.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The newscaster believes Jac deserves to get stuck in a hole in a haunted house because he skipped school.
* EEqualsMCHammer: The teacher tried telling the kids that the ''sides'' of a triangle add up to equal 90 degrees, not to mention he tried relating parallelograms to "Series/MacGyver's theory of gumstick tubing". Maybe it was for the best that Jac and Mary Jane ditched class...
* FramingDevice: Delta serves as a storytelling device. There are random shots of a fat Dorbee watching the events play out on TV, whatever that's supposed to mean.
* FunnyForeigner: Otto, Mr. Poe, Yogul, and Dr. Dairy (and possibly Elvis, if that French flag he was standing on was any indication)
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Elvis tells Jac to close the door because he's "trying to get his heat on".
* LyricalDissonance: An upbeat, 40's-style cabaret song as the opening theme that constantly asks why the titular Dorbees won't go away.

** Dig's 8-track player is currently in a pawnshop.

* RandomEventsPlot: The plot bounces around to the point of incoherence.

* SelfDeprecation: You kind of have to wonder why "Why don't they go away?" was the primary lyric of the theme song.
* ShoutOut: There's a scene where Jac and Mary-Jane flee [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk a rolling boulder]].
** The name of the store that Otto initially goes to for clothes? "[[VideoGame/DigDug Dig's Duds]]"
* SkewedPriorities: Mr. Poe is given the choice of three buttons. One stops world hunger, the other starts world peace and the third frees his sidekick. Guess which one he picks.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Jac" instead of the more common "Jack"
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Jac and Mary Jane are more impressed by a floating "astro-ball" than finding Elvis or [[StockUnsolvedMysteries Jimmy Hoffa]].

->''"Why don't they go away?!"''
-->--'''The theme song''' speaks for us all

'''''Dorbees: Making Decisions''''' is a obscure 1998 Christian DirectToVideo short film created by the Gaither vocal band. It was intended to be the first of an ongoing video series, and follows three mostly unrelated stories. The first involves Jac and Mary-Jane Dorbee skipping school, and going to a haunted house. The second involves a scene where a Swede named Otto tries on clothing to blend in. The third involves a superhero parody called Mr. Poe and Yogul, where they fight an evil cow.

!Tropes used:

->''"Why won't they go away?!"''

* SkewedPriorities: Mr. Poe is given the choice of three buttons. One stops world hunger, the other starts world peace and the third frees his sidekick. Guess which one he picks.

* HiddenDepths: ElvisPresley likes bananas. Who knew?

''Dorbees: Making Decisions'' is a obscure 1998 Christian DirectToVideo short created by the Gaither vocal band. It follows three mostly unrelated stories. The first involves Jack and Mary-Jane Dorbee skipping school, and going to a haunted house. The second involves a scene where a Swede named Otto tries on clothing to blend in. The third involves a superhero parody called Mr. Poe and Yogul, where they fight an evil cow.

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** Delta doesn't really tell the stories of Jac and Mary Jane or Otto and Dig, and instead talks about NoodleIncident 's that each story reminds him of (an encounter at the music store where the school now sits and a one-armed drummer, respectively) as the stories just kinda fade-in.
** The guy watching tv during the scene transitions is pretty indecisive about what channel he wants to watch.

* EEqualsMCHammer: The teacher tried telling the kids that the ''sides'' of a triangle add up to equal 90 degrees, not to mention he tried relating parallelograms to "Series/MacGyver 's theory of gumstick tubing". Maybe it was for the best that Jac and Mary Jane ditched class...

* LyricalDissonance: An upbeat, 40's cabaret song as the opening theme that constantly asks why the titular Dorbees won't go away.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Jac and Mary Jane are more impressed by a floating "astro-ball" than finding Elvis or [[StockUnsolvedMysteries Jimmy Hoffa]] .

** See also UnusuallyUninterestingSight below for another example.

* FramingDevice: Delta serves as a storytelling device.

** See also UnusallyUninterestingSight below for another example.

** Flec somehow managed to get his overalls and a jaw-harp from the general store for free.

* FramingDevice: For some reason, there are two. The first involves Delta telling the story, and another involves a tv watcher switching the channel to different shorts.

* AllCGICartoon

* FunnyForeigner: Otto, Mr. Poe, Yogul, and Dr. Dairy

* ShoutOut: There's a scene where Jack and Mary-Jane flee [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk a rolling boulder]].

* AllCGICartoon: