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* ItsAllAboutMe: In the sixth album, Harmony has this attitude--even having a borderline VillainSong about it! She gets thoroughly called out on it and eventually [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of it]].
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* HumansAreFlawed: It's not uncommon for characters (even Psalty himself!) to display flaws, such as selfishness, lack of empathy, or not having their priorities straight. How they and those around them deal with those flaws is a common recurring theme.
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* TimeTravellersAreSpies: The seventh album involves two brief AdventuresInTheBible: one visit to King David while he was still a shepherd boy, and another to the dedication of Solomon's Temple. Both times, the kids are mistaken for enemy spies, either requiring Psalty to explain, or requiring them to time-travel ''out of there'' before being attacked!
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* JabbaTableManners: One of the [[AwesomeMusic catchiest]] songs in the whole series is a non-praise, plot-related song bordering on a VillainSong where Psalty's daughter Harmony makes an absolute ''pig'' of herself at a potluck to the tune of Tarantella Napoletana.
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* ChristmasEpisode: This series actually has two of them: ''Psalty's Christmas Calamity'' and ''Psalty's Family Christmas Singalong''.
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* LargeHam: It's clear there were real child voice actors, and they tended to overact in some of the earlier albums, especially when they're supposed to be excited about something.
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* CounterpointDuet: The 6th album's "[[EarWorm Pig Out]]" song finishes as this.
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* EvilIsHammy: Risky Rat easily fits the trope in his appearances.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: 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...
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* EccentricArtist: Psalty and the kids are mistaken for this while time-travelling:
--> '''Brother Fred''': What're we gonna do, Brother Ted? The musicians haven't shown up yet!
--> '''Brother Ted''': I don't know, Brother Fred, but there are five hundred people in that tent, waiting for the service to start!
--> (Time-travellers appear)
--> '''Brother Fred''': What's ''that?!''
--> '''Brother Ted''': I don't know! They're ''very'' different-looking...
--> '''Brother Fred''': Then they ''must'' be the musicians! Hurry up! Hurry up, now, you're late!
--> '''Brother Fred''': What're we gonna do, Brother Ted? The musicians haven't shown up yet!
--> '''Brother Ted''': I don't know, Brother Fred, but there are five hundred people in that tent, waiting for the service to start!
--> (Time-travellers appear)
--> '''Brother Fred''': What's ''that?!''
--> '''Brother Ted''': I don't know! They're ''very'' different-looking...
--> '''Brother Fred''': Then they ''must'' be the musicians! Hurry up! Hurry up, now, you're late!
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* MistakenForSpecialGuest: In the seventh album, Psalty time-travels himself and the kids to an 1820 tent meeting. The tent meeting's organizers were expecting musicians, but the musicians never showed up; instead, when Psalty and the kids appeared, the organizers thought ''they'' were the musicians!
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** Risky Rat, the go-to villain for the series, also appears to be this. In his visual appearances, he's covered in fur and has a tail.
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* FunWithHomophones: It takes them until the ninth album to do this, but they finally make a pun about Psalty tasting terrible because he's got too much salt. The context is that there are [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext cannibals who only eat books]] who want to eat Psalty.
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* ConMan: Risky Rat is characterized this way, and even describes himself as one in his VillainSong. His first appearance has him trying to enslave Charity Churchmouse, with the implication that it's to make money off her singing.
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* TheBarnum: Risky Rat is characterized as a ConMan, and even describes himself as one in his VillainSong. He fits this subtrope because in his first appearance, he was appealing to Charity Churchmouse's ambition to try to enslave her, with the implication that it's to make money off her singing.
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* PlotTechnology: Psalty manages to invent surveillance equipment that allows the kids to see people in need (spiritual or physical) and invents a time machine ''by accident''. In the ninth album, a SuperPrototype plane that the U.S. Air Force helps him put together is also at his disposal!
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* OneManBand: In a supernatural way, Psalty the Singing Songbook himself qualifies, as musical song accompaniments spontaneously start around him when kids near him praise The Lord. A straighter example of this is his Songmobile, a vehicle ''made of'' musical instruments, but [[{{Magitek}} even that still requires]] the user to be praising God for it to work, and interestingly, Psalty said the Songmobile was designed primarily to help ''write'' songs; actually performing them is a secondary purpose.
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* LampshadeHanging: Probably because the target audience was young children, the series didn't really indulge in this much until later installments: in the ninth album, Psalty's ''[[SpeechImpairedAnimal pet dog]]'' is piloting the plane they're flying in. At first, Psalty was horrified, until he was reminded that he'd trusted [[FunnyAnimal Charity Churchmouse]] to pilot the plane before that...
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* JabbaTableManners: One of the [[AwesomeMusic catchiest]] songs in the whole series is a non-praise, plot-related song bordering on a VillainSong where Psalty's daughter Harmony makes an absolute ''pig'' of herself at a potluck to the tune of Tarantella Napoletana.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The seventh album begins with two separate instances of this trope in action:
** First, Psalty agreed to a history-of-hymns project that would take weeks of research, and would be due in ''two days''. He even admits that he agreed without realizing how long it would take.
** Second, he tries to invent a machine that stretches time to allow himself and the kids to do those weeks of research in under 24 hours. However, he shows it to the kids ''before'' he tests it, and [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo kids]] [[TimeMachine will be]] [[TrappedInThePast kids]]...
** First, Psalty agreed to a history-of-hymns project that would take weeks of research, and would be due in ''two days''. He even admits that he agreed without realizing how long it would take.
** Second, he tries to invent a machine that stretches time to allow himself and the kids to do those weeks of research in under 24 hours. However, he shows it to the kids ''before'' he tests it, and [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo kids]] [[TimeMachine will be]] [[TrappedInThePast kids]]...
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* TimeMachine: Psalty managed to invent a Time Machine ''by accident'' in the seventh album. He'd ''wanted'' to invent a machine that stretches time, to give the kids the time they needed to perform weeks of research for a project that was due the following day. He showed his "Take Your Time Machine" to the kids without testing it first, which [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo led to]] AdventuresInTheBible.
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* CreditsGag: The credits for the DirectToDVD ''Psalty's Salvation Celebration'' includes a recipe for chocolate chip cookies, apropos of nothing.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Rhonda from the DirectToVideo special ''Psalty's Salvation Celebration'' is like this in her first scene, sounding like she stuck her dialogue into an internet thesaurus translator. Thankfully, this is toned down in all her following scenes.
-->"We'll be villaging with our father over the summer respite."
-->"We'll be villaging with our father over the summer respite."
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* RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue: Again, Psalty's wife, Psaltina, provides us with this from the third album:
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-->Violets are blue
-->Until I met Psalty
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-->Roses are red
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-->Until I met Psalty
-->I was blue, too!
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* ClipShow: The series had a clip album: ''Psalty's Singalongathon Maranatha Marathon Hallelujah Jubilee,'' set up as a TV special where viewers at home could phone in their votes for their favorite songs from the previous albums, which Psalty and the Kids would then perform.
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* VisualPun: In ''Psalty's Singalongathon Maranatha Marathon Hallelujah Jubilee'', Psalty's wife trips on a bucket that was left on stage. The bucket's purpose: helping the kids carry a tune.
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* FunnyAnimal: Charity Churchmouse is simultaneously a mouse and a gospel singer. She lampshades this at one point:
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* WhoIsDriving: Psalty and the kids are on a plane, trying to find Risky Rat, and Charity Churchmouse tells them she's pinpointed the rat's exact location. After hearing where he is, Psalty realizes that Charity was the one flying the plane. But Charity assures him it's all right, since Blooper, Psalty's pet dog, took over.
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* CannibalTribe: Discussed in the ninth album; while adventuring in Africa, one of the kids voices a concern that they might run into some, but Psalty tries to assure them that there aren't many cannibals left in modern times. [[OhCrap Then they meet a tribe that only eats books.]]
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* YouDirtyRat: Risky Rat is, you guessed it, an anthropomorphic rat, a self-described ConMan, and the series' go-to antagonist.
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* YouWontLikeHowITaste: In the 9th album, Psalty and the kids encounter a tribe of [[CannibalTribe bookibals]] who plan on eating the main character. One of the kids tries to dissuade them by pointing out Psalty's name is indicative of how he'll taste.
* YouWontLikeHowITaste: In the 9th album, Psalty and the kids encounter a tribe of [[CannibalTribe bookibals]] who plan on eating the main character. One of the kids tries to dissuade them by pointing out Psalty's name is indicative of how he'll taste.
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* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Said word-for-word when a little girl named Hanna is checking out a machine Psalty invented that was supposed to stretch time. Turns out the machine travels through time instead.
* WhatTheHellHero: Harmony makes a pig of herself at the potluck in the fifth album, pushing the other kids aside while she does so and also telling a poor boy whose family couldn't afford to send him with any food [[KickTheDog that he couldn't come]] to the potluck. Psalty doesn't wait for her song to be over; he kicks off the second verse calling her out on her behavior, and the final chorus turns into a [[AwesomeMusic duet]].
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In the 1970s, two Christian praise leaders named Debbie Kerner and Ernie Rettino were making albums of praise music, and decided to try putting an album together specifically for kids. They made it appealing by mixing in some cartoonish sounds with children's church music, creating a cartoon mascot called Psalty the Singing Songbook, and by giving each album a narrative.
The first album was released in 1980, and spawned nine numbered sequels, multiple other special albums, live stage productions, and several released-to-home-video movies.
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!! Kid's Praise contains examples of:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Psalty tried to invent a machine that stretches time, and instead invented a machine that travels through time...and did this ''by accident''!
* {{Adorkable}}: Psalty's description of how he met the anthropomorphic poetry book that would later become his wife makes it sound like he came across this way at the time he met her:
--> '''Psalty:''' I was so nervous, my stomach gurgled, and my voice cracked!
* AdventuresInTheBible: The 7th album involves time travel while the kids learn about how praise songs have been written over the centuries, and the first two stops are in Bible times: King David while he was still a shepherd boy playing is harp, and the dedication of Solomon's Temple.
* AllJustADream: In the fourth album, an ambitious gospel singer falls asleep while trying to write a song, and has a dream that a conman tricks her into signing a contract that quite ''literally'' traps her! She wakes up screaming her lungs out.
* AmazingFreakingGrace: They actually get to listen to the pastor who wrote Amazing Grace preach in the seventh album, which is a time travel plot.
* AnAesop: Being a Christian work aimed at kids, these are inevitable. The arc aesop of the whole thing is that you have to actually mean it when you're praising God, but numerous other ones appear about determination, problem-solving, kindness, empathy, patience, praying for guidance before making big decisions...the list goes on.
* AnachronicOrder: This is perhaps the most bizarre example of this trope in existence, and applies simultaneously on a meta level ''and'' PlayedForDrama in-universe. Hold on to your hats, folks:
** In real life, the tenth Kid's Praise album was released before the ninth, and this was intentional.
** The ninth album was actually a prop and a plot point in the tenth album: Risky Rat stole every copy of the ninth album, and this even happened ''in'' the tenth album as a cliffhanger. It was stated during the tenth album that the aesops in the ninth album were about helping kids grow as Christians.
** When the ninth album was released, the overall plot of the ninth album was chasing Risky Rat to recover...[[MindScrew the ninth album]]. During this adventure, there are songs and lessons about how to grow as a Christian.
** [[spoiler: Risky Rat succeeded in destroying every copy of the ninth album [[MindScrew during the ninth album]]. However, it turns out Rhythm was using a tape recorder to record the whole adventure, including the songs and lessons about growing as a Christian that happened during tha adventure, and everything that Rhythm recorded functioned as a ''replacement for'' the ninth album!]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: This was likely done just for rhyming, but Risky Rat's VillainSong in the tenth album has him describing himself as, and we quote: ''clever, conniving, a spiritual gangster, a trickster, a charmer, a conman, a [[PokeThePoodle prankster]]''!
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Again, being a Christian work aimed at kids, Bible quotes are expected to crop up. One song is even a series of Bible quotes, listed in alphabetical order!
* BatmanGambit: In the ninth album, Risky Rat tricks the protagonists into believing certain apparently-natural events are signs from God, such as all the pillars in some jungle ruins falling in the same direction after an earthquake. [[spoiler: In reality, this was special effects ''simulating'' an earthquake in an abandoned movie set that happened to be in the general area of Africa where Risky was hiding.]]
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: 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...
* ButNowIMustGo: The end of the second album has Psalty tell the kids that he needs to go visit other kids, but that he'll see them again.
* CardCarryingVillain: Risky Rat's VillainSong cements his status this way: he describes himself as a conman, a spiritual gangster, and he's clearly proud of it!
* ChasteToons: Averted: in the TimeSkip between the second and third albums, Psalty's managed to get married and have triplets.
* ConMan: Risky Rat is characterized this way, and even describes himself as one in his VillainSong. His first appearance has him trying to enslave Charity Churchmouse, with the implication that it's to make money off her singing.
* ContinuityNod: In the 10th album, Risky Rat reappears. Charity recognizes him, though it takes her a little while to realize exactly who he is.
* EpicFail: The eighth album is a typical 90s baseball story, except that the kids' first game has them lose to their rivals by over 40 points without scoring a single run, themselves.
* ForTheEvulz: Risky Rat's motivations seem to decay into this over time; while he still describes himelf as a ConMan in later albums, he seems to want to keep kids from knowing or praising God...simply ''because''.
* FunnyAnimal: Charity Churchmouse is simultaneously a mouse and a gospel singer. She lampshades this at one point:
--> '''Psalty:''' My ''dog'' is flying the plane?!
--> '''Charity:''' I'm a mouse. What's the difference?
** Risky Rat, the go-to villain for the series, also appears to be this. In his visual appearances, he's covered in fur and has a tail.
* FurryReminder: Technically it's for an anthropomorphic ''book'' and not an anthropomorphic animal, but there are numerous reminders in the albums that Psalty and his family are books, e.g. talking about book covers instead of about clothes, turning Psalty's pages in preparation for a song, etc.
* GadgeteerGenius: Psalty is an inventor as well as a praise leader, having invented a vehicle made of musical instruments, surveillance equipment that shows people in spiritual need, and even managing to invent a time machine ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance by accident]]''!
* GodIsGood: Par for the course in a Christian work, but whenever God makes an appearance and speaks to Psalty directly, He's invariably understanding and kind.
* GodWasMyCoPilot: God appears in one Christmas album and explicitly tells Psalty that the apparently-magical music that accompanies his songs is actually God's own doing.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: This is ''subtly'' implied, given the aversion of ChasteToons above.
* HappilyMarried: Psalty finds a wife by the third album, and they are quite happy together and had triplets.
* HelpingWouldBeKillStealing: At one point in the fifth album (i.e. the camping trip), two boys have difficulty putting their tent up, and ask Psalty to do it for them. Psalty tells the kids that the challenge is their opportunity to grow, but he does give them some general problem-solving strategy tips.
* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: The last stop Psalty and the kids make before getting back to the present is in the 1950s when Psalty was himself young. The adult Psalty helps to inspire him, and they share a duet.
* HorribleCampingTrip: From the kids' perspective, this is subverted in the 5th album. They get tired and hot from all the uphill hiking, and two kids get lost at night, but it's really only their attitude that gets in the way of having fun, and Psalty's well aware of this and keeps encouraging the kids so that they will have fun and grow from the experience.
* ImpossibleThief: Risky Rat, the series' go-to villain, managed to steal every copy of the ninth album. Psalty called the churches and bookstores to see if any copies were anywhere, but there were absolutely ''none left'': somehow Risky got them ''all'' in a very short time.
* InelegantBlubbering: Psalty himself tends to fall into this when kids pretend to praise God without really meaning it.
* InMysteriousWays: In some albums, God directly intervenes or speaks to Psalty when Psalty is at a particularly low point, but in the ninth album, God [[spoiler: provides a means of replacing the missing album that Risky Rat stole]], which only happened because of the ninth album's adventure in the first place!
* KidsWildernessEpic: The fifth album has shades of this; the kids are hiking up a mountain to go camping, and throughout the narrative, the kids have a lot of difficulties: tents are hard to set up, hiking is hot, sweaty work, and when it gets dark, two of the kids get lost when they disobey Psalty's instructions to stay on the trail.
* {{Magitek}}: Psalty's Songmobile invention from the fourth album is a vehicle made of musical instruments, and since it only works properly if its user is praising God from his or her heart and makes ugly noises if it the user isn't, it's implied that the vehicle is a theurgistic variant of this.
* MindScrew: See the AnachronicOrder entry.
* NiceMice: The anthropomorphic variety of this appears in the fourth album: there are a few churchmice forming a church's choir, and Charity Churchmouse becomes a recurring character.
* NoAntagonist: More albums than not have no actual villain---often there are characters who need to learn a lesson or two, but no actively malicious characters. When they need an antagonist, Risky Rat fills in.
* {{Pun}}: It takes them until the ninth album to do this, but they finally make a pun about Psalty tasting terrible because he's got too much salt. The context is that there are [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext cannibals who only eat books]] who want to eat Psalty.
* RealAfterAll: The series' only villain is a con-artist called Risky Rat. He first appears in a dream where he offers Charity Churchmouse a contract allegedy to make her a star, but that actually makes her a slave, but then later he appears as a real character outside of anyone's dream. No one really comments on the fact that he first appeared in a dream, though.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Psalty himself whenever he acts as an authority. In one of the Li'l Praisers videos, it begins raining outisde, and Psalty uses that as a [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong song cue]] for the song about the Wise Man and the Foolish Man, and he has the kids put on their raincoats. One kid points out that they're indoors, and while other adults might scold the kid for questioning orders, Psalty just explains that they're costumes.
** {{God}} as well: at times, even Psalty makes mistakes, but every time God intervenes, He's understanding and forgiving.
* RhymesOnADime: Psalty's wife, Psaltina, has the infrequently-used ability to do this on-demand. Probably because she's an anthropomorphic poetry book.
* SiblingRivalry: Melody and Harmony, two of Psalty's triplets, argue a bit in the third album about whose musical part is more difficult.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Blooper is Psalty's pet dog, and is a lot like Scooby-Doo, to the point where his barks at times are intelligible speech to the other characters.
* StableTimeLoop: During a time travel plot in the seventh album, he meets himself as a child and helps inspire him a little to become the praise leader he is as an adult!
* {{Technobabble}}: The time machine in the seventh album inevitably brought this on, with Psalty talking about an "over-under-inside-out power drive" at one point.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: This being a musical album, numerous praise songs are cued this way: Arky Arky or the Wise Man and the Foolish Man when it begins to rain, or a prayer thanking God triggering The Butterfly Song are just a few examples.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: In the ninth album, Risky Rat manages to reach a volcano in Africa and hurl every copy of the stolen album in before Psalty and the kids can catch up to him and stop him. Subverted when they accidentally manage to record songs and experiences they went through while trying to catch Risky that provide the same kind of lessons that were on the album that Risky stole, providing a replacement for the stolen album!]]
* ThemeNaming: The anthropomorphic mouse choir from the fourth album are all named after different kinds of cheese.
* TimeSkip: Apparently at least a few years were between the second an third albums, given that Psalty both got married and had triplets who had become more than old enough to speak in the intervening time. The third album begins with the kids decorating a barn for a welcome back party for Psalty.
* TrappedInThePast: In the seventh album, the time machine runs out of energy, threatening this outcome. [[spoiler: It's narrowly averted with a solar watch.]]
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Averted. Psalty's baseball team in the eighth album loses spectacularly in their first game, though after more practice they manage to win by a single run in a (much more believable) rematch.
* VillainSong: Most of the songs are praising God, a few have nothing to do with God or religion and are simply plot-related, and a couple are actually sung by the villain, Risky Rat.
* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Said word-for-word when a little girl named Hanna is checking out a machine Psalty invented that was supposed to stretch time. Turns out the machine travels through time instead.
* WhatTheHellHero: Harmony makes a pig of herself at the potluck in the fifth album, pushing the other kids aside while she does so and also telling a poor boy whose family couldn't afford to send him with any food [[KickTheDog that he couldn't come]] to the potluck. Psalty doesn't wait for her song to be over; he kicks off the second verse calling her out on her behavior, and the final chorus turns into a [[AwesomeMusic duet]].
* YouDirtyRat: Risky Rat is, you guessed it, an anthropomorphic rat, a self-described ConMan, and the series' go-to antagonist.
The first album was released in 1980, and spawned nine numbered sequels, multiple other special albums, live stage productions, and several released-to-home-video movies.
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!! Kid's Praise contains examples of:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Psalty tried to invent a machine that stretches time, and instead invented a machine that travels through time...and did this ''by accident''!
* {{Adorkable}}: Psalty's description of how he met the anthropomorphic poetry book that would later become his wife makes it sound like he came across this way at the time he met her:
--> '''Psalty:''' I was so nervous, my stomach gurgled, and my voice cracked!
* AdventuresInTheBible: The 7th album involves time travel while the kids learn about how praise songs have been written over the centuries, and the first two stops are in Bible times: King David while he was still a shepherd boy playing is harp, and the dedication of Solomon's Temple.
* AllJustADream: In the fourth album, an ambitious gospel singer falls asleep while trying to write a song, and has a dream that a conman tricks her into signing a contract that quite ''literally'' traps her! She wakes up screaming her lungs out.
* AmazingFreakingGrace: They actually get to listen to the pastor who wrote Amazing Grace preach in the seventh album, which is a time travel plot.
* AnAesop: Being a Christian work aimed at kids, these are inevitable. The arc aesop of the whole thing is that you have to actually mean it when you're praising God, but numerous other ones appear about determination, problem-solving, kindness, empathy, patience, praying for guidance before making big decisions...the list goes on.
* AnachronicOrder: This is perhaps the most bizarre example of this trope in existence, and applies simultaneously on a meta level ''and'' PlayedForDrama in-universe. Hold on to your hats, folks:
** In real life, the tenth Kid's Praise album was released before the ninth, and this was intentional.
** The ninth album was actually a prop and a plot point in the tenth album: Risky Rat stole every copy of the ninth album, and this even happened ''in'' the tenth album as a cliffhanger. It was stated during the tenth album that the aesops in the ninth album were about helping kids grow as Christians.
** When the ninth album was released, the overall plot of the ninth album was chasing Risky Rat to recover...[[MindScrew the ninth album]]. During this adventure, there are songs and lessons about how to grow as a Christian.
** [[spoiler: Risky Rat succeeded in destroying every copy of the ninth album [[MindScrew during the ninth album]]. However, it turns out Rhythm was using a tape recorder to record the whole adventure, including the songs and lessons about growing as a Christian that happened during tha adventure, and everything that Rhythm recorded functioned as a ''replacement for'' the ninth album!]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: This was likely done just for rhyming, but Risky Rat's VillainSong in the tenth album has him describing himself as, and we quote: ''clever, conniving, a spiritual gangster, a trickster, a charmer, a conman, a [[PokeThePoodle prankster]]''!
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Again, being a Christian work aimed at kids, Bible quotes are expected to crop up. One song is even a series of Bible quotes, listed in alphabetical order!
* BatmanGambit: In the ninth album, Risky Rat tricks the protagonists into believing certain apparently-natural events are signs from God, such as all the pillars in some jungle ruins falling in the same direction after an earthquake. [[spoiler: In reality, this was special effects ''simulating'' an earthquake in an abandoned movie set that happened to be in the general area of Africa where Risky was hiding.]]
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: 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...
* ButNowIMustGo: The end of the second album has Psalty tell the kids that he needs to go visit other kids, but that he'll see them again.
* CardCarryingVillain: Risky Rat's VillainSong cements his status this way: he describes himself as a conman, a spiritual gangster, and he's clearly proud of it!
* ChasteToons: Averted: in the TimeSkip between the second and third albums, Psalty's managed to get married and have triplets.
* ConMan: Risky Rat is characterized this way, and even describes himself as one in his VillainSong. His first appearance has him trying to enslave Charity Churchmouse, with the implication that it's to make money off her singing.
* ContinuityNod: In the 10th album, Risky Rat reappears. Charity recognizes him, though it takes her a little while to realize exactly who he is.
* EpicFail: The eighth album is a typical 90s baseball story, except that the kids' first game has them lose to their rivals by over 40 points without scoring a single run, themselves.
* ForTheEvulz: Risky Rat's motivations seem to decay into this over time; while he still describes himelf as a ConMan in later albums, he seems to want to keep kids from knowing or praising God...simply ''because''.
* FunnyAnimal: Charity Churchmouse is simultaneously a mouse and a gospel singer. She lampshades this at one point:
--> '''Psalty:''' My ''dog'' is flying the plane?!
--> '''Charity:''' I'm a mouse. What's the difference?
** Risky Rat, the go-to villain for the series, also appears to be this. In his visual appearances, he's covered in fur and has a tail.
* FurryReminder: Technically it's for an anthropomorphic ''book'' and not an anthropomorphic animal, but there are numerous reminders in the albums that Psalty and his family are books, e.g. talking about book covers instead of about clothes, turning Psalty's pages in preparation for a song, etc.
* GadgeteerGenius: Psalty is an inventor as well as a praise leader, having invented a vehicle made of musical instruments, surveillance equipment that shows people in spiritual need, and even managing to invent a time machine ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance by accident]]''!
* GodIsGood: Par for the course in a Christian work, but whenever God makes an appearance and speaks to Psalty directly, He's invariably understanding and kind.
* GodWasMyCoPilot: God appears in one Christmas album and explicitly tells Psalty that the apparently-magical music that accompanies his songs is actually God's own doing.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: This is ''subtly'' implied, given the aversion of ChasteToons above.
* HappilyMarried: Psalty finds a wife by the third album, and they are quite happy together and had triplets.
* HelpingWouldBeKillStealing: At one point in the fifth album (i.e. the camping trip), two boys have difficulty putting their tent up, and ask Psalty to do it for them. Psalty tells the kids that the challenge is their opportunity to grow, but he does give them some general problem-solving strategy tips.
* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: The last stop Psalty and the kids make before getting back to the present is in the 1950s when Psalty was himself young. The adult Psalty helps to inspire him, and they share a duet.
* HorribleCampingTrip: From the kids' perspective, this is subverted in the 5th album. They get tired and hot from all the uphill hiking, and two kids get lost at night, but it's really only their attitude that gets in the way of having fun, and Psalty's well aware of this and keeps encouraging the kids so that they will have fun and grow from the experience.
* ImpossibleThief: Risky Rat, the series' go-to villain, managed to steal every copy of the ninth album. Psalty called the churches and bookstores to see if any copies were anywhere, but there were absolutely ''none left'': somehow Risky got them ''all'' in a very short time.
* InelegantBlubbering: Psalty himself tends to fall into this when kids pretend to praise God without really meaning it.
* InMysteriousWays: In some albums, God directly intervenes or speaks to Psalty when Psalty is at a particularly low point, but in the ninth album, God [[spoiler: provides a means of replacing the missing album that Risky Rat stole]], which only happened because of the ninth album's adventure in the first place!
* KidsWildernessEpic: The fifth album has shades of this; the kids are hiking up a mountain to go camping, and throughout the narrative, the kids have a lot of difficulties: tents are hard to set up, hiking is hot, sweaty work, and when it gets dark, two of the kids get lost when they disobey Psalty's instructions to stay on the trail.
* {{Magitek}}: Psalty's Songmobile invention from the fourth album is a vehicle made of musical instruments, and since it only works properly if its user is praising God from his or her heart and makes ugly noises if it the user isn't, it's implied that the vehicle is a theurgistic variant of this.
* MindScrew: See the AnachronicOrder entry.
* NiceMice: The anthropomorphic variety of this appears in the fourth album: there are a few churchmice forming a church's choir, and Charity Churchmouse becomes a recurring character.
* NoAntagonist: More albums than not have no actual villain---often there are characters who need to learn a lesson or two, but no actively malicious characters. When they need an antagonist, Risky Rat fills in.
* {{Pun}}: It takes them until the ninth album to do this, but they finally make a pun about Psalty tasting terrible because he's got too much salt. The context is that there are [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext cannibals who only eat books]] who want to eat Psalty.
* RealAfterAll: The series' only villain is a con-artist called Risky Rat. He first appears in a dream where he offers Charity Churchmouse a contract allegedy to make her a star, but that actually makes her a slave, but then later he appears as a real character outside of anyone's dream. No one really comments on the fact that he first appeared in a dream, though.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Psalty himself whenever he acts as an authority. In one of the Li'l Praisers videos, it begins raining outisde, and Psalty uses that as a [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong song cue]] for the song about the Wise Man and the Foolish Man, and he has the kids put on their raincoats. One kid points out that they're indoors, and while other adults might scold the kid for questioning orders, Psalty just explains that they're costumes.
** {{God}} as well: at times, even Psalty makes mistakes, but every time God intervenes, He's understanding and forgiving.
* RhymesOnADime: Psalty's wife, Psaltina, has the infrequently-used ability to do this on-demand. Probably because she's an anthropomorphic poetry book.
* SiblingRivalry: Melody and Harmony, two of Psalty's triplets, argue a bit in the third album about whose musical part is more difficult.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Blooper is Psalty's pet dog, and is a lot like Scooby-Doo, to the point where his barks at times are intelligible speech to the other characters.
* StableTimeLoop: During a time travel plot in the seventh album, he meets himself as a child and helps inspire him a little to become the praise leader he is as an adult!
* {{Technobabble}}: The time machine in the seventh album inevitably brought this on, with Psalty talking about an "over-under-inside-out power drive" at one point.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: This being a musical album, numerous praise songs are cued this way: Arky Arky or the Wise Man and the Foolish Man when it begins to rain, or a prayer thanking God triggering The Butterfly Song are just a few examples.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: In the ninth album, Risky Rat manages to reach a volcano in Africa and hurl every copy of the stolen album in before Psalty and the kids can catch up to him and stop him. Subverted when they accidentally manage to record songs and experiences they went through while trying to catch Risky that provide the same kind of lessons that were on the album that Risky stole, providing a replacement for the stolen album!]]
* ThemeNaming: The anthropomorphic mouse choir from the fourth album are all named after different kinds of cheese.
* TimeSkip: Apparently at least a few years were between the second an third albums, given that Psalty both got married and had triplets who had become more than old enough to speak in the intervening time. The third album begins with the kids decorating a barn for a welcome back party for Psalty.
* TrappedInThePast: In the seventh album, the time machine runs out of energy, threatening this outcome. [[spoiler: It's narrowly averted with a solar watch.]]
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Averted. Psalty's baseball team in the eighth album loses spectacularly in their first game, though after more practice they manage to win by a single run in a (much more believable) rematch.
* VillainSong: Most of the songs are praising God, a few have nothing to do with God or religion and are simply plot-related, and a couple are actually sung by the villain, Risky Rat.
* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Said word-for-word when a little girl named Hanna is checking out a machine Psalty invented that was supposed to stretch time. Turns out the machine travels through time instead.
* WhatTheHellHero: Harmony makes a pig of herself at the potluck in the fifth album, pushing the other kids aside while she does so and also telling a poor boy whose family couldn't afford to send him with any food [[KickTheDog that he couldn't come]] to the potluck. Psalty doesn't wait for her song to be over; he kicks off the second verse calling her out on her behavior, and the final chorus turns into a [[AwesomeMusic duet]].
* YouDirtyRat: Risky Rat is, you guessed it, an anthropomorphic rat, a self-described ConMan, and the series' go-to antagonist.
