History WesternAnimation / DorbeesMakingDecisions

** Jack and Mary Jane: The "right" decision is supposed to be for them to stay in school, but considering the teacher was giving them factually incorrect lessons [[WritersCannotDoMath (he says the sum of the sides of a triangle is 90 degrees; in reality, the sum of the ''angles'' is ''180'' degrees)]] and the school's security system flat out tries to kill them as soon as they step out of the classroom (nothing is done to establish that this system could tell the difference between kids intending to leave school and kids leaving the class for a legitimate reason, like to go to the nurse, the bathroom or being checked out), getting out of such a school seems like the much better decision. The fact Jack is EasilyForgiven for his escapade by his dad only cements this.

** The measures used by the school to try to keep Jack and Mary-Jane from leaving are way excessive, including [[DeathCourse a variety of traps like a pitfall, turret guns, and a giant boulder]]. However, given the MindScrew nature of the special, it's unclear if this is actually the case, or an exaggeration on Jack and Mary-Jane's part.

* FramingDevice: Delta narrates both of the stories to the viewer. [[RecursiveCanon However,]] each segment also ends with an overweight Dorbee on a couch watching them on TV before changing the channel.

* NoSympathy: The newscaster, after learning that Jack and Mary-Jane were injured in the haunted house, says they deserved it for skipping school.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Jack and Mary Jane are more impressed by a floating "astro-ball" than finding Music/{{Elvis|Presley}} or [[StockUnsolvedMysteries Jimmy Hoffa]] in the old mansion.

* ArtShift: ''Mr. Poe and Yogul'' employs CelShading to give the short a comic book-like appearance.

** The measures used by the school to try to keep Jack and Mary-Jane from leaving are way excessive, including [[DeathCourse a variety of traps like a pitfall, turret guns, and a giant boulder]].
** The newscaster believes Jack deserves to get injured and stuck in the haunted house just because he skipped school.

** Jack and Mary Jane: The "right" decision is supposed to be for them to stay in school, but considering the teacher was giving them factually incorrect lessons [[WritersCannotDoMath (he says the sum of the sides of a triangle is 90 degrees; in reality, the sum of the ''angles'' is ''180'' degrees)]] and the school's security system flat out tries to kill them as soon as they step out of the classroom (nothing is done to establish that this system could tell the difference between kids intending to leave school and kids leaving the class for a legitimate reason, like to go to the nurse, the bathroom or being checked out), getting out of such a school seems like the much better decision.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The newscaster believes Jack deserves to get injured and stuck in the haunted house just because he skipped school.

** At one point while ditching school Jack and Mary-Jane have to flee from [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk a rolling boulder]].

''Dorbees: Making Decisions'' is an obscure 1998 Christian DirectToVideo [[AllCgiCartoon computer animated film]] created by Benjy Gaither and the Gaither Vocal Band, and produced by Benjy's studio Creator/LiveBaitProductions. It mainly centers on 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 vaguely Scandinavian immigrant named [[TheAhnold Otto]] trying to fit in with "the common folk" by going to a clothing store run by a 70s-obsessed Dorbee named "Dig". A third short revolving around a superhero duo named "Mr. Poe and Yogul" appears in-between the two.

''Dorbees'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was intended to become a full series]] of tongue-in-cheek Christian cartoons in a similar vein to ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', but only one other installment began production before the whole concept was lost to [[DevelopmentHell Development Hel-er… Heaven]]. However, the film's legacy was carried on somewhat by ''WesternAnimation/GaithersPond'', a similar direct-to-video Christian CGI cartoon series that first debuted the previous year and was also a Live Bait production.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[MadnessMantra "Dorbees, everywhere I look I see Dorbees..."]]]]

* DerangedAnimation: Even for its time, the animation and modeling on display look quite creepy, and even basic ToonPhysics are ignored with characters clipping into each other or the scenery constantly.

* NoSympathy: The newscaster, after learning that Jack and Mary-Jane were injured in the haunted house, says they deserved it for skipping school. Harsh.

* PunnyName: The name of Walter Concrete Dorbee, the newscaster for Dorbee Channel 2.3 Live-Action News, is a pun on ''CBS Evening News'' anchorman [[Creator/WalterCronkite]] and "concrete".

* WritersCannotDoMath: The teacher says that the sum of all sides of a triangle is 90 degrees. Firstly, sides of a polygon are not measured in degrees, angles are. Secondly, in a triangle, the angles add up to 180 degrees.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Jack and Mary Jane are more impressed by a floating "astro-ball" than finding [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] or [[StockUnsolvedMysteries Jimmy Hoffa]] in the old mansion.

* AllCGICartoon: One of the earlier, more ambitious examples not to have come from a major studio. As for the quality, well, you be the judge…
* AmbiguouslyRelated: The last name of every Dorbee whose full name is given is literally [[ADogNamedDog "Dorbee"]] despite no obvious familial relation.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: All of Flec's appearances last about 30 seconds each, and yet he somehow manages to change his train of thought about '''10 different times!'''
** Also applies to Delta, as when telling the stories of the kids and Otto, he frequently blathers on about completely unrelated {{Noodle Incident}}s that each tale reminds him of (an encounter at the music store where the school now sits and a one-armed drummer, respectively) as the real stories FadeIn.

** Otto and Dig: The "right" decision is supposed to be for Dig to be honest, which he ultimately does...by telling Otto that he can't possibly make someone as ugly as him look good (despite being in charge of the best clothing shop in town) and that Otto would be better off sticking to Scandinavian clothes rather than trying to integrate into the local fashion. Jeez. There's being honest, and then there's just being unnecessarily mean about how people look.

* {{Cephalothorax}}: All of the Dorbees are malformed spherical heads with small limbs attached and no visible torso or neck.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Flec, a hillbilly Dorbee who Delta describes as "crazy" for his apparent MotorMouth and [[TalkativeLoon constant incoherent babbling that jumps from subject to subject with zero connection.]]

* FramingDevice: Delta narrates both of the stories to the viewer (or at least he tries to before getting side-tracked and rambling about some completely unrelated anecdote as the story [[FadeIn fades in]]). [[RecursiveCanon Somewhat confusingly,]] each segment also ends with an overweight Dorbee on a couch watching them on TV before changing the channel.

* HammerSpace: All Dorbees seem to be capable of pulling various random objects out of their bodies, usually accompanied by a [[FridgeHorror fleshy squishing sound.]]
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: During the "I Wanna Be Grown-Up" sequence, Mary-Jane at one point jumps up towards the camera. When the camera changes, she can briefly be seen hanging onto a large video camera suspended in midair.
** At the end of the segment, fake artist, album, and label information can be seen at the bottom as though it was a music video for an actual song.
* NoodleIncident: Several:

* PunnyName: [[Creator/WalterCronkite Walter Concrete Dorbee]], the newscaster for Dorbee Channel 2.3 Live-Action News.

* RunningGag: Flec shows up at complete random (usually breaking the laws of physics in the process), and goes on a long rant about something he found at the general store for 59 cents, but somehow got for free.

** One of the outfits that Otto tries on is a (poorly-rendered) Franchise/{{Batman}} costume.

** A brief still image in the ''Mr. Poe & Yogul'' intro shows Poe facing off against several monsters. Two of these are clearly stock 3D models of Dracula and Frankenstein styled after the Universal Monsters versions.

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->''…Why don't they go awaaaaay?!''
-->-- Good question. Why don't they go away?

''Dorbees: Making Decisions'' is an obscure 1998 Christian DirectToVideo [[AllCgiCartoon computer animated film]] created by Benjy Gaither and the Gaither Vocal Band, and produced by Benjy's studio Creator/LiveBaitProductions. It mainly centers on 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 vaguely Scandinavian immigrant named [[TheAhnold Otto]] trying to fit in with "the common folk" by going to a clothing store run by a 70's-obsessed Dorbee named "Dig". A third short revolving around a superhero duo named "Mr. Poe and Yogul" appears in-between the two.

''Dorbees'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was intended to become a full series]] of tongue-in-cheek Christian cartoons in a similar vein to ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', but only one other installment began production before the whole concept was lost to [[DevelopmentHell Development Hel-er… Heaven]]. However, the film’s legacy was carried on somewhat by ''WesternAnimation/GaithersPond'', a similar direct-to-video Christian CGI cartoon series that first debuted the previous year and was also a Live Bait production.

** Jack and Mary Jane: The “right” decision is supposed to be for them to stay in school, but considering the teacher was giving them factually incorrect lessons [[WritersCannotDoMath (he says the sum of the sides of a triangle is 90 degrees; in reality, the sum of the ''angles'' is ''180'' degrees)]] and the school's security system flat out tries to kill them as soon as they step out of the classroom (nothing is done to establish that this system could tell the difference between kids intending to leave school and kids leaving the class for a legitimate reason, like to go to the nurse, the bathroom or being checked out), getting out of such a school seems like the much better decision.
** Otto and Dig: The “right” decision is supposed to be for Dig to be honest, which he ultimately does...by telling Otto that he can't possibly make someone as ugly as him look good (despite being in charge of the best clothing shop in town) and that Otto would be better off sticking to Scandinavian clothes rather than trying to integrate into the local fashion. Jeez. There's being honest, and then there's just being unnecessarily mean about how people look.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Flec, a hillbilly Dorbee who Delta describes as “crazy” for his apparent MotorMouth and [[TalkativeLoon constant incoherent babbling that jumps from subject to subject with zero connection.]]

* EEqualsMCHammer: Mr. Oliver's lesson on triangles brings up "Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'s theory of gumstick tubing”.

* ReligiousEdutainment: The film was made in collaboration with the Gaither Vocal Band, a [[GospelMusic southern gospel]] group, by the son of one of the members and was marketed alongside other direct-to-video Christian kids’ films of the era like ''WesternAnimation/GaithersPond''[[note]]([[CaptainObvious Which the Gaither family was also involved in]])[[/note]] and ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''. However, the film itself mostly averts this, as three very passing mentions of God are about as overtly religious as it gets.

-->''Why don’t they go away?!''
* ShoutOut:

** Also applies to Delta, as when telling the stories of the kids and Otto, he frequently blathers on about completely unrelated {{Noodle Incident}}s that each tale reminds him of (an encounter at the music store where the school now sits and a one-armed drummer, respectively) as the real stories fade in.

* FramingDevice: Delta narrates both of the stories to the viewer (or at least he tries to before getting side-tracked and rambling about some completely unrelated anecdote as the story fades in). [[RecursiveCanon Somewhat confusingly,]] each segment also ends with an overweight Dorbee on a couch watching them on TV before changing the channel.

* DerangedAnimation: Even for its time, the animation and modeling on display looks like quite creepy, and even basic ToonPhysics are ignored with characters clipping into each other or the scenery constantly.

''Dorbees'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was intended to become a full series]] of tongue-in-cheek Christian cartoons in a similar vein to ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', but only one other installment began production before the whole concept was lost to [[DevelopmentHell Development Hel-er… Heaven]]. However, the film’s legacy was carried on somewhat by ''WesternAnimation/GaithersPond'', a similarly UncannyValley direct-to-video Christian CGI cartoon series that first debuted the previous year and was also a Live Bait production.

* DerangedAnimation: Even for its time, the animation and modeling on display looks like it crawled out of the deepest pits of the UncannyValley, and even basic ToonPhysics are ignored with characters clipping into each other or the scenery constantly.

''Dorbees: Making Decisions'' is an obscure 1998 Christian DirectToVideo [[AllCgiCartoon computer animated film]] created by Benjy Gaither and the Gaither Vocal Band, and produced by Benjy's Creator/LiveBaitProductions. It mainly centers on 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 vaguely Scandinavian immigrant named [[TheAhnold Otto]] trying to fit in with "the common folk" by going to a clothing store run by a 70's-obsessed Dorbee named "Dig". A third short revolving around a superhero duo named "Mr. Poe and Yogul" appears in-between the two.

''Dorbees: Making Decisions'' is an obscure 1998 Christian DirectToVideo [[AllCgiCartoon computer animated film]] created by Benjy Gaither and the Gaither Vocal Band, and produced by Benjy's Creator/LiveProductions. It mainly centers on 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 vaguely Scandinavian immigrant named [[TheAhnold Otto]] trying to fit in with "the common folk" by going to a clothing store run by a 70's-obsessed Dorbee named "Dig". A third short revolving around a superhero duo named "Mr. Poe and Yogul" appears in-between the two.

''Dorbees: Making Decisions'' is an obscure 1998 Christian DirectToVideo [[AllCgiCartoon computer animated film]] created by Benjy Gaither and the Gaither Vocal Band. It mainly centers on 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 vaguely Scandinavian immigrant named [[TheAhnold Otto]] trying to fit in with "the common folk" by going to a clothing store run by a 70's-obsessed Dorbee named "Dig". A third short revolving around a superhero duo named "Mr. Poe and Yogul" appears in-between the two.

''Dorbees'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was intended to become a full series]] of tongue-in-cheek Christian cartoons in a similar vein to ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', but only one other installment began production before the whole concept was lost to [[DevelopmentHell Development Hel-er… Heaven]]. However, the film’s legacy was carried on somewhat by ''WesternAnimation/GaithersPond'', a similarly UncannyValley direct-to-video Christian CGI cartoon series that first debuted the previous year and was created by the same studio.

* AcidTripDimension: The Dorbee world is more or less this; the opening narration states that they live in some kind of parallel realm that seemingly exists at the subatomic scale of our own, and as can plainly be seen over the course of the film, said world is nothing short of bizarre.

* SelfDeprecation: Even theme song seems to lament the existence of the Dorbees:

''Dorbees'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was intended to become a full series]] of tongue-in-cheek Christian cartoons in a similar vein to ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', but the planned next installment only made it partially through production before being lost to [[DevelopmentHell Development Hel-er… Heaven]]. However, the film’s legacy was carried on somewhat by ''WesternAnimation/GaithersPond'', a similarly UncannyValley direct-to-video Christian CGI cartoon series that first debuted the previous year and was created by the same studio.

''Dorbees: Making Decisions'' is an obscure 1998 Christian DirectToVideo [[AllCgiCartoon computer animated film]] created by Benji Gaither and the Gaither Vocal Band. It mainly centers on 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 vaguely Scandinavian immigrant named [[TheAhnold Otto]] trying to fit in with "the common folk" by going to a clothing store run by a 70's-obsessed Dorbee named "Dig". A third short revolving around a superhero duo named "Mr. Poe and Yogul" appears in-between the two.

* ArtShift: ''Mr. Poe and Yogul'' employs CelShading to give the short a comic book-like appearance. [[SpecialEffectsFailure The keyword being "try".]]

* AllCGICartoon: One of the earlier and more ambitious examples of one not to have come from a major studio. As for the quality, well, you be the judge…

* AllCGICartoon: And a ''really'' poorly-animated one to boot.

* ReligiousEdutainment: The film was made in collaboration with the Gaither Vocal Band, a [[GospelMusic southern gospel]] group, by the son of one of the members and was marketed alongside other direct-to-video Christian kids’ films of the era like ''WesternAnimation/GaithersPond''[[note]]([[CaptainObvious Which the Gaither family was also involved in]])[[/note]] and ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''. However, the film itself mostly averts this, as three very passing mentions of God are about as explicitly religious as it gets.

* ReligiousEdutainment: The film was made in collaboration with the Gaither Vocal Band, a [[GospelMusic southern gospel]] group, by the son of one of the members and was marketed alongside other DirectToVideo Christian kids’ films of the era like ''WesternAnimation/GaithersPond''[[note]]([[CaptainObvious Which the Gaither family was also involved in]])[[/note]] and ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''. However, the film itself mostly averts this, as three very passing mentions of God are about as explicitly religious as it gets.

* ReligiousEdutainment: The film was made in collaboration with the Gaither Vocal Band, a southern gospel group, by the son of one of the members and was marketed alongside other DirectToVideo Christian kids’ films of the era like ''WesternAnimation/GaithersPond''[[note]]([[CaptainObvious Which the Gaither family was also involved in]])[[/note]] and ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''. However, the film itself mostly averts this, as three very passing mentions of God are about as explicitly religious as it gets.