There's A Flood Coming, And It's Made Of Psychotic Christian Kids

Ok, here's a game: it's called "CSI: YouTube," and it's where you try to figure out WTF a YouTube video is and why it exists. Like this one, where kids stand in the rain and say weird things like "Waiting in line is the right thing at amusement parks." Okay. What? Then they become more ominous and threatening until they're just literally screaming in unison, and we have no idea what it's about except that it has something to do with Christianity and it's scary. No, I am not ready for the rush. I'm not ready at all:

Okay, so here's what we know from cursory Googling: this was from a late '90s Christian video series called EdgeTV that was meant to be shown at youth group meetings to get kids talking about important issues. The creators of the series call it "slick" and "MTV-like," of course. The clip still doesn't make any sense and is still scary, but

"If you don't do the right thing with white-hot intensity, then by god help us god help us god."

Posted by Lindsay at 3:15 PM in WTF, YouTube?
Tags: Christians

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Judging by those outfits, the rush never came. Zing, obviously.

Posted by: Darren87 at 12/15/08 3:50 PM | Reply
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Dear These Guys,
I am afraid of you.

Posted by: Angelaaaa at 12/15/08 4:01 PM | Reply
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Christian kids don't color inside the lines! So watch out!

Posted by: y at 12/15/08 4:03 PM | Reply
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is this a cologne commercial? do they have superpowers?

Posted by: Becca at 12/15/08 4:30 PM | Reply
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5-4-3-2-1...we are a part of the Right Wing Nation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk7i_EPxTlY

Posted by: potted palms at 12/15/08 4:49 PM | Reply
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Wake up people- Start breaking rules, challenge traditional paradigms, disregard stuffy authority figures and join organized religion!
Why was everyone dressed like Seth Green in 'Can't Hardly Wait'?

Posted by: Dan at 12/15/08 5:35 PM | Reply
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I enjoyed the moment when the swooping camera work did a jump-cut to a hip kid against a graffiti background who said that these kids wouldn't be distracted by shiny things.

Posted by: jim at 12/15/08 7:31 PM | Reply
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Jesus is so excited for these kids he's splooging all over them through out the clip.

Posted by: Jenn at 12/15/08 9:14 PM | Reply
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hey, is that diving bowie?

Posted by: szczur at 12/15/08 9:53 PM | Reply
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Surprisingly good CSI: YouTube work, but did your magic internet box tell you that the EdgeTV tapes come with a little booklet for the youth group pastors buying them? This one features questions for the kids watching:

"What do you care enough about to do... with white-hot intensity?"

Posted by: lucienpsinger at 12/15/08 10:07 PM | Reply
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