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  • Anvilicious: The presentation of several aesops, especially in the earlier albums, could be painfully heavy-handed, especially when delivered by overacting kids. Later albums tended to have better presentation of their aesops.
  • Awesome Music: Several songs stand out. The medley of spirituals in the Seventh Album, "Pig Out" from the sixth, and the "It's Time to Praise The Lord" opener in the third to name a few.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: This happened in the home video movie version of the fifth Kid's Praise album: after the kids arrive at the campsite, an anthropomorphic blue moose and an anthropomorphic pink squirrel, accompanied by a few trees, dance during a "God is Great" musical number. No one comments on this, and the kids don't find this frightening or odd, but then again, they were led to the campsite by an eight-foot-tall singing hymnal in the first place...
  • Even Better Sequel: The first album had little plot and not really much along the lines of themes to it — whereas, from the third album on, each album had a plot and a theme to it — and the songs and music became more elaborate, and the aesops more complex.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Future One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz (credited as Joy Lenz) made her acting debut in the Direct to Video movie "Psalty's Salvation Celebration: The Movie".
  • Tear Jerker: "Child of the King" in the sixth album, sung by Jimmy, a poverty-stricken boy who Harmony had earlier told not to come to the group's potluck because of his poverty. Despite that, though, Jimmy is The Pollyanna about his situation.
    Though the world may think that I am poor, I am rich 'cause I have You, Lord.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: The 1991 Psalty book Psalty in the Soviet Circus (part of Psalty's Worldwide Adventures series) involves Psalty and his family performing at the Moscow Circus. He eventually gets separated from his family and put into jail but later gets feared from prison. A few months after the book released, the Soviet Union would get dissolved on December 26, 1991.


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