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* GospelRevivalNumber: "God is Great" from the fifth album.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: Psalty's catchphrase is "Praise the Lord" when he gets extremely excited, happy, or upbeat. In one Dutch live show, he says "Halleujah" which is the original Hebrew word for it.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: Psalty's catchphrase is "Praise the Lord" when he gets extremely excited, happy, or upbeat. In one Dutch live show, he says "Halleujah" CampingEpisode: The fifth album, which is has the original Hebrew word for it.title "Psalty's Camping Adventure".
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** The video version of "Psalty's Salvation Celebration" has Risky reprise this gambit by posing as a talent agent named Ricky Rasmussen[[note]]the audio version had Risky pretending to be the conductor on the train Psalty and his team were on for their whistle stop tour[[/note]] in an attempt to dupe Shelly Barnes into signing with him.
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* {{Foil}}: Harmony and Jimmy. The second time Harmony spun the globe, Jimmy showed up -- and the second time Jimmy spun the globe, Harmony showed up.
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* {{Foil}}: Harmony [[ItsAllAboutMe Harmony]] and Jimmy. [[JoblessParentDrama Jimmy]]. The second time Harmony spun the globe, Jimmy showed up due to his need for food -- and the second time Jimmy spun the globe, Harmony showed up.up due to her need for a [[CharacterDevelopment change of heart]].
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* JoblessParentDrama: The sixth album has a child whose father lost his job, and his family was having difficulty affording food.
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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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The first album was released in 1980, 1980 by Maranatha! Music, and spawned nine numbered sequels, multiple other special albums, live stage productions, and several released-to-home-video movies.
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* Foil: Harmony and Jimmy. The second time Harmony spun the globe, Jimmy showed up -- and the second time Jimmy spun the globe, Harmony showed up.
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* MusicalThemeNaming: Psalty's "booklet" triplets: Harmony, Melody, and Rhythm.
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* MagicalRealism: The world mostly resembles ours -- aside from the existence of sentient books, anthropomorphic rodents, and a [[SpeechImpairedAnimal speech-impaired dog]].
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* StartMyOwn: In the BaseballEpisode (album number 8), two of the Kids Praise kids try out for a baseball team called The Bulldogs, but don't make the team. When they tell Psalty their woes, Psalty's answer is to start his own baseball team, called, of all things, The Psalters.
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* BaseballEpisode: The eighth album is a pretty typical cliche baseball plot from TheEighties, where a couple of the Kid's Praise kids fail to make a team, so Psalty encourage them to [[StartMyOwn create their own team]] called "The Psalters". They lose so spectacularly in their first game, it's hard to believe, but win by a single run in a rematch for reasons that aren't really explained.
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* MadeASlave: Charity Churchmouse has a nightmare where she gets tricked into signing a contract that essentially enslaves her to Risky Rat.
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* SmoothTalkingTalentAgent: Risky Rat, in his first appearance, is essentially this crossed with being a ConMan: he smooth-talks Charity Churchmouse into signing a contract that ''literally'' traps her and has her MadeASlave. Good thing that was AllJustADream!
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* KickTheDog: In the sixth album, Harmony told a poor boy that he wasn't allowed to come to a potluck because his family couldn't afford to send him in with any food. She was promptly [[WhatTheHellHero called out on this behavior]] by her father, Psalty, and he sent Rhythm and another boy to go bring him over.
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* {{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.
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* {{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.
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-->On days when trials come\\
And my heart goes '''clippity-ping'''\\
I’m glad for Jesus Christ\\
And that He taught me how to sing
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* CounterpointDuet: The 6th album's "[[EarWorm Pig Out]]" song finishes as this, with Harmony singing about pigging out and [[ItsAllAboutMe not caring about others]] simultaneously with Psalty [[WhatTheHellHero calling his daughter out on her attitude and behavior]] in the last chorus.
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* CounterpointDuet: The 6th album's "[[EarWorm Pig Out]]" "Pig Out" song finishes as this, with Harmony singing about pigging out and [[ItsAllAboutMe not caring about others]] simultaneously with Psalty [[WhatTheHellHero calling his daughter out on her attitude and behavior]] in the last chorus.
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* BookEnds: ''Psalty's Christmas Calamity'' begins with a performance of "Joy To The World", and ends with a reprise of the same song.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Psalty the Singing Songbook.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Harmony makes a pig of herself at the potluck in the sixth 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 [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic duet]].
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* WhatTheHellHero: Harmony makes a pig of herself at the potluck in the sixth 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 [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic duet]].duet.
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--> '''Psalty:''' Harmony, I'm surprised at you. You didn't even wait till we blessed the food! You and I need to have a little ''talk.''
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* 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.
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* EpicFail: The eighth album is a typical 90s 80s baseball story, except that the kids' first game has them lose to their rivals by over 40 points without scoring a single run, themselves.
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* 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.
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* 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.duet of the hymn "Take My Life and Let It Be".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in the sixth album, the kids express confusion when Psalty's newly-invented Psaltyscope (a globe that shows live images of people across the globe) shows a local boy whose family is in poverty, under their reasoning that he's not from the other side of the world. Psalty then explains that there are people with needs who live as close as their own neighborhood, or even in their own homes. [[spoiler:At the very end of the album, the Psaltyscope shows an image of Psalty's own daughter Harmony, who's in need of a change of heart and mindset]].
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* BigEater: Psalty's daughter Harmony in the sixth album has almost an entire song about this, during which she ravishes the potluck table without allowing anyone else to get a share of the food (and she even talks about drinking all the punch so she can use the punch-bowl as a plate for all the food). [[WhatTheHellHero Psalty is]] ''[[WhatTheHellHero not]]'' [[WhatTheHellHero amused]], especially considering Harmony's revelation that [[KickTheDog she'd earlier told one poverty-stricken kid not to come to the potluck]] simply because he couldn't afford to contribute a dish to the party.
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* ThunderEqualsDownpour: In the second album, the kids get caught in the rain with next to no warning, with thunder immediately followed by rain. This cues the Arky Arky number.
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* 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!
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** 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 firstplace!place!
** During the TimeTravel plot of the seventh album, Psalty and the kids appear in a few places and times where having a bunch of singing kids and a supernatural OneManBand like Psalty would actually be ''helpful''! These include a tent meeting where the musicians never showed up, a music printer who just modified a song and wanted to see how it sounded, and meeting Psalty himself when he was a child.
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** During the TimeTravel plot of the seventh album, Psalty and the kids appear in a few places and times where having a bunch of singing kids and a supernatural OneManBand like Psalty would actually be ''helpful''! These include a tent meeting where the musicians never showed up, a music printer who just modified a song and wanted to see how it sounded, and meeting Psalty himself when he was a child.
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* 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!
* 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:
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Psalty tried to invent a machine that stretches time, and instead invented a machine that travels through time...and did this ''by accident''!
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Psalty tried to invent a machine that stretches time, and instead invented a machine that travels through time...and did this ''by accident''!
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--> '''Psalty:''' I was so nervous, my stomach gurgled, and my voice cracked!
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* 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.
* HappilyMarried: Psalty finds a wife by the third album, and they are quite happy together and had triplets.
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* JabbaTableManners: One of the [[SugarWiki/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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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In the third album[[note]]the one that introduces Psalty's family[[/note]], Rhythm has a habit of getting carried away playing drum solos...''between songs'' rather than during them. If Psalty weren't asking his son to turn it down, you might not guess that those solos weren't intended to be one of the songs.
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* 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.
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* 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 his harp, and the dedication of Solomon's Temple.
