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if you have one, time machines are quite useful. you can go back a week and study a little harder for that math test. You can go back 40 years and invest in Apple. you could go back in time and bury a cup of starbucks coffee in the stonehenge construction site and really mess with scientists of the present and future.
Or you could learn, firsthand, about the joys of property rights and the evils of progressive agendas.
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This is how Grandma Gabby prefers to use her time machine: she takes her two grandchildren and her pet (but rather wild) raccoon for a ride.
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emily and ethan tuttle didn’t know their grandmother had a time machine when she first moved to tuttle farm, naturally. oh, they could see that grandma was a little off: the raccoon was proof enough of that. but they didn’t see how unusual it was for a few… hours. Maybe it’s because Emily and Ethan were too preoccupied with their favorite activities at first (science and gummy bears, respectively) to notice.
but soon the three of them (plus the raccoon) are wandering through space and time, from visiting ben franklin (and talking to him about what it means to be an entrepreneur) to taking part in a war with the worms (to learn about the golden rule) to battling space pirates (as they discover the importance of free trade).
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And while they’re at it, the twins must continually outwit their mortal enemy, Karinne, whose sole purpose in life seems to be to give the Tuttles headaches.
Maybe she’s just jealous that she doesn’t have a time machine. Or maybe she has simply fallen prey to the liberal agenda.
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tuttle twins has its own agenda, of course, and it makes no secret of what it is: to counter what its creators see as left-wing propaganda found in schools, city halls, and even children’s programming.
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The series is based on a popular collection of children’s books by Connor Boyack (President of the Libertas Institute, Utah’s free market think tank), also titled The Tuttle Twins. the book series website asks visitors, “our books recognize that the world is full of companies, people, and politicians who want to expose your children to ideas you don’t support. this includes school teachers who see their work as ‘activism’ to spread left-wing ideas and encourage children to think like them.”
The animated TV show, which airs on the Angel Studios app, which also features The Chosen One and which you can download for free, seems to take a less confrontational approach than, at least, the website for the books. While its serious mission still forms the show’s DNA, this cartoon targets both the funny bone and the frontal lobe.
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tonally, tuttle twins feels like a cross between gravity falls and the magic school bus. Created by Daniel Harmon, the series is full of hilarious lines and meta asides, and moves along at a breakneck pace. you know what your core audience likes and you know how to deliver it.
As for his secondary audience, conservative parents, well, he knows them pretty well, too. to some extent.
despite its presence on angel, tuttle twins is not a faith-based show. It contains very little faith content, actually, although the twins visit Gandhi, who gives them an interfaith lecture on the Golden Rule (and praises the principles of nonviolence). but it supports other conservative values that many Christian families espouse along with their faith: property rights, limited government, free-market trade, and so on. those who complain about the “liberal agenda” will find a resourceful ally in the tuttle twins.
but the program comes with some caveats even for like-minded parents.
tuttle twins jokes tend to lean towards the immature, with jokes based on everything from flatulence to body odor. Neither Emily nor Ethan always act as role models for viewers: Ethan’s obsession with sugar runs through most episodes, and even Emily, usually unapologetic, can stray. (“I love morally ambiguous Emily!” Ethan yells as her sister seeks revenge against her enemies.) While the Tuttle Twins books were written by a homeschooling parent, a bit of what we see on the show actually reflects what some homeschooling parents are like. trying to avoid
still, even with those content issues, the tuttle twins are a rare form of activism and entertainment that really entertains, as it teaches a defined and conservative worldview. And for like-minded parents who can navigate their occasional rabbit trails to the bathroom, this show can be fun to watch as a family.
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