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Music There was a cartoon when I was a kid that aired on Saturday mornings.

It was on Fox.

Fox back then was a UHF station.

So you had to use the second dial on your TV to get Fox to come in. I loved it because it was an adaptation of my favorite comic book, The Uncanny X-Men.

And this cartoon stood out from all the other cartoons because it was so adult. I just mean the

themes were heavy. And as a kid, I don't think

I understood why I appreciated it, but that show took huge swings with the goofiest cheeseballist

animation and line deliveries. I don't know. It worked for me. In one episode, there's this demon kind of

looking character who's actually a good guy named Nightcrawler. He's a German Christian in the

tradition of Martin Luther. And he's got a buddy who's this little ball of rage superhero named

Wolverine. And in the episode, Nightcrawler talks about

forgiveness and the forgiveness of God. And through that, he evangelizes Wolverine and Wolverine

becomes a Christian. In a Saturday morning cartoon in the 90s, are you kidding me? Well, there's this one other episode

there that I think it's pretty early on. It starts out and there's some protesters out in

the street and they don't like the superheroes. The superheroes are called mutants. They're

holding signs to say things like humans, yes, mutants, no. Get it? That was the protest. And then you cut inside and one of the superheroes

is talking with some concerned parents whose kid is turning out to be a superhero. And he's

explaining that people fear what they don't understand. And he uses that phrase against a backdrop

of people being very upset and not getting

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