ext_5918 ([identity profile] stagemanager.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] bloodyrosemccoy 2010-09-23 12:20 am (UTC)

Those Wheel of Morality bumps at the ends of kids’ TV shows—Knowing Is Half The Battle, And Now A Message From The POWER RANGERS!—have a distant ancestor in medieval theater, when people would perform stupid farces in churches and conclude with a sudden random promo for Christianity. “And so the shepherds found out their friend had stolen the sheep and pretended it was his son, and they all had a good laugh, in conclusion Christ Child.”

Truly fascinating; I had no idea.

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