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* ArchEnemy: Myles Morgan, the leader of FI.R.S.T. and trainer of the CRT was let go, due to his refusal of the team's religious approach, but he quickly found out he was being sued at the time. He quickly turned to crime and vengeance, in the following albums, and is largely the main antagonist of the series.
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* ArchEnemy: Myles Morgan, the leader of FI.R.S.T. and trainer of the CRT was let go, due to his refusal of did not accept the team's CRT's religious approach, so they decided to let him go, but not before he quickly found out he was being sued at faced a lawsuit concerning FI.R.S.T and aquired a lot of debt unbeknownst to the time. CRT. He quickly turned to crime and swore vengeance, in the following albums, and is largely the main antagonist of the series.
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Jonathan Park is an action adventure ReligiousEdutainment radio drama, primarily focused on theories of creationism, biblical themes and family values. The series follows the Park and Brenan families, particularly the titular character Jonathan, his father Dr. Kindle Park and Jessie Brenan (Jonathan's best friend), as they travel the world studying science, solving mysteries, surviving natural disasters and fighting occasional {{Crriminals}}
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Jonathan Park is an action adventure ReligiousEdutainment radio drama, primarily focused on theories of creationism, biblical themes and family values. The series follows the Park and Brenan families, particularly the titular character Jonathan, his father Dr. Kindle Park and Jessie Brenan (Jonathan's best friend), as they travel the world studying science, solving mysteries, surviving natural disasters and fighting occasional {{Crriminals}}
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* GadgetWatches: Every member of the CRT has one. Particularly the a "Communicator Watch", a Dick Tracy style device powered by a Satellite/Two way radio network. Though initially just communicators, long distance wrist walkie talkies, they gradually evolved (ironically enough) started being able to do [[EveryDeviceIsASwissArmyKnife basically anything the plot requires,]] including taking pictures of criminals, accessing the internet and emails, GPS, virtual reality (using Z) etc. They are prone to water damage.
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Jonathan Park is an action adventure ReligiousEdutainment radio drama, primarily focused on theories of creationism, biblical themes and family values. The series follows the Park and Brenan families, particularly the titular character Jonathan, his father Dr. Kindle Park and Jessie Brenan (Jonathan's best friend), as they travel the world studying science, solving mysteries, surviving natural disasters and fighting occasional {{Crriminals}}
The series begins when Jonathan and Dr. Park have to take shelter in a cave, after being stranded in a New Mexico flood. Eventually, the Brenans, who happen to own the land the cave is on, happen to be evacuating in the same storm stumble upon the cave, but they quickly become friends, especially Dr. Kindle Park and Jim Brenan. After Jonathan brief fight with a ConMan and his {{Mooks}}, Dr. Park and Jim decide to build a creation museum around the cave.
Several adventures later, after barely surviving a hurricane with a response team called F.I.R.S.T., the two families end up forming the Creation Response Team (CRT) , who although devoted to scientific expeditions, most often end up solving crimes and finding artifacts on an international level. They ended up on TV, went to space, stopped an Egyptian revolution and mysteriously disbanded.
Eventually, the non-prophet parent company behind the series, Vision Forum, ceased production of the series in 2014, after serious reports of sexual abuse from one of their leaders. The rights would eventually be picked up by Wise King Media, a larger for-prophet company, who allowed the series to have a much larger budget and more cinematic tone than the early albums, though with a lot of major changes to the core concepts.
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!!''Jonathan Park'' provides examples of:
* AbortedArc: The fate of the Creation Response Team (CRT), has not yet been mentioned in the newer albums. It is assumed they disbanded, but the reasons why are entirely unknown.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Jonathan is described as this in the newer albums. Dr. Kindle Park shows shades of this, but is actually a Paleontologist.
* AuthorFilibuster: Though it's less the religious beliefs and more long drawn out discussions of how different animals and processes work. Although this usually loops back around to their beliefs in young earth creationism, it will take a little while to get there, making the conversations either really interesting or boring, depending on the audience.
** This was {{Lampshaped|Trope}} in an episode with Simon Adelman, the ConMan with a history with the two families, who knew exactly how their conversations worked.
** It was {{Justified|Trop}} in the Journey Never Taken, due to how solving historical and scientific problems was necessary to continue the plot.
** It's very {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the newer episodes from Wise King Media.
* ArchEnemy: Myles Morgan, the leader of FI.R.S.T. and trainer of the CRT was let go, due to his refusal of the team's religious approach, but he quickly found out he was being sued at the time. He quickly turned to crime and vengeance, in the following albums, and is largely the main antagonist of the series.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: At least a quarter of the dialogue in the series is basically this. It's much more downplayed in the newer albums. They don't even use 1790 KJV anymore.
* CompositeCharacter: In the Vision Forum albums, [[TheProfessor Benjamin Park]] was often accompanied by the neighborhood club known as the Eagles Nest Gang, who were mostly PlayedForLaughs, and played a big role in Jonathan's CharacterDevelopment, but when Wise King Media took over the franchise, they condensed all of the characters into Isaac Brenan (Jessie's cousin), who largely plays the exact same role, especially as the comedic relief.
* EcoTerrorist: The team has to save some whalers from them in one episode.
* {{Expy}}: The AI virtual reality system "Z" is very similar to the Imagination Station from Radio/{{AdventuresInOdyssey}}
* GreenAesop: Conservation efforts do tend to be more antagonistic in the series, but the character do emphasize Biblical commandments of stewardship.
* GadgetWatches: Every member of the CRT has one. Particularly the "Communicator Watch", a Dick Tracy style device powered by a Satellite/Two way radio network. Though initially just communicators, they gradually evolved (ironically enough) to do [[EveryDeviceIsASwissArmyKnife basically anything the plot requires,]] including taking pictures of criminals, accessing the internet and emails, GPS, etc. They are prone to water damage.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Jonathan is usually drawn as having blonde hair, and following the first three albums, is generally depicted as entirely principled, selfless and kind. He was even referred to as captain America by Issacs Brenan.
* HollywoodAtheist: This trope is surprisingly subverted for a series about Creationism. Dr. Park was fired for more business related reasons, Myles Morgan (the ArchEnemy of the CRT) is agonistic and more out for revenge. The ones who do appear are generally very minor, or have another more complicated agenda.
* JungleOpera: Some episodes show shades of this, especially some episodes in the Hunt For Beowulf
* TheMissionary: When they are not helping [[PlayedStraight them]], the CRT basically takes on this role themselves.
* MoonLandingHoax: {{Subverted|Trope}} The CRT's first mission was to expose a fraud promoting the moon landing as a hoax, rather than proving the moon landing itself as a hoax.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: This is one of the more iconic elements of the Vision Forum albums. Due to their non-prophet company and cheap production, most all of the soundtrack comes classical composers.
* TheProfessor: Jonathan's grandfather, Bannerman Park, is pretty explicitly this. He is an inventor, always providing the team with gadgets, including being the one to create the Communicator Watches.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Especially Dr. Park and Jim Brenan. They avoid violence where they can, but are not afraid to put themselves in danger or physically attack an enemy to protect their families.
* RichGenius: Alexander Demarcus is a Captain Nemo {{Expy}} an extremely wealthy ally of the CRT, He even took them to space.
* {{Rewrite}}: Kindle's entire backstory was altered in the newer albums. His original character design was far more compelling, abandoning the faith as a young man, becoming a secular PhD in Paleontology who eventually found too many anomalies in his field, was fired for his anomalous discoveries, read the Bible cover to cover for multiple nights in a row, and finally became a Christian with Jonathan following shortly after, but in the newer continuity, its heavily implied that he has always been a man of faith.
* ScienceHero: The CRT is basically a whole team comprised of this trope. Especially Dr. Park
* SendInTheSearchTeam: Often a plot point in the episodes featuring the Explorer's Society.
* TreasureHuntEpisode: The entirety of the album, The Journey Never Taken, was basically this, as the CRT and some eager competitors, traveled around the world uncovering the history of evolution and biology, with a large treasure at the end.
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Jonathan Park is an action adventure ReligiousEdutainment radio drama, primarily focused on theories of creationism, biblical themes and family values. The series follows the Park and Brenan families, particularly the titular character Jonathan, his father Dr. Kindle Park and Jessie Brenan (Jonathan's best friend), as they travel the world studying science, solving mysteries, surviving natural disasters and fighting occasional {{Crriminals}}
The series begins when Jonathan and Dr. Park have to take shelter in a cave, after being stranded in a New Mexico flood. Eventually, the Brenans, who happen to own the land the cave is on, happen to be evacuating in the same storm stumble upon the cave, but they quickly become friends, especially Dr. Kindle Park and Jim Brenan. After Jonathan brief fight with a ConMan and his {{Mooks}}, Dr. Park and Jim decide to build a creation museum around the cave.
Several adventures later, after barely surviving a hurricane with a response team called F.I.R.S.T., the two families end up forming the Creation Response Team (CRT) , who although devoted to scientific expeditions, most often end up solving crimes and finding artifacts on an international level. They ended up on TV, went to space, stopped an Egyptian revolution and mysteriously disbanded.
Eventually, the non-prophet parent company behind the series, Vision Forum, ceased production of the series in 2014, after serious reports of sexual abuse from one of their leaders. The rights would eventually be picked up by Wise King Media, a larger for-prophet company, who allowed the series to have a much larger budget and more cinematic tone than the early albums, though with a lot of major changes to the core concepts.
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!!''Jonathan Park'' provides examples of:
* AbortedArc: The fate of the Creation Response Team (CRT), has not yet been mentioned in the newer albums. It is assumed they disbanded, but the reasons why are entirely unknown.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Jonathan is described as this in the newer albums. Dr. Kindle Park shows shades of this, but is actually a Paleontologist.
* AuthorFilibuster: Though it's less the religious beliefs and more long drawn out discussions of how different animals and processes work. Although this usually loops back around to their beliefs in young earth creationism, it will take a little while to get there, making the conversations either really interesting or boring, depending on the audience.
** This was {{Lampshaped|Trope}} in an episode with Simon Adelman, the ConMan with a history with the two families, who knew exactly how their conversations worked.
** It was {{Justified|Trop}} in the Journey Never Taken, due to how solving historical and scientific problems was necessary to continue the plot.
** It's very {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the newer episodes from Wise King Media.
* ArchEnemy: Myles Morgan, the leader of FI.R.S.T. and trainer of the CRT was let go, due to his refusal of the team's religious approach, but he quickly found out he was being sued at the time. He quickly turned to crime and vengeance, in the following albums, and is largely the main antagonist of the series.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: At least a quarter of the dialogue in the series is basically this. It's much more downplayed in the newer albums. They don't even use 1790 KJV anymore.
* CompositeCharacter: In the Vision Forum albums, [[TheProfessor Benjamin Park]] was often accompanied by the neighborhood club known as the Eagles Nest Gang, who were mostly PlayedForLaughs, and played a big role in Jonathan's CharacterDevelopment, but when Wise King Media took over the franchise, they condensed all of the characters into Isaac Brenan (Jessie's cousin), who largely plays the exact same role, especially as the comedic relief.
* EcoTerrorist: The team has to save some whalers from them in one episode.
* {{Expy}}: The AI virtual reality system "Z" is very similar to the Imagination Station from Radio/{{AdventuresInOdyssey}}
* GreenAesop: Conservation efforts do tend to be more antagonistic in the series, but the character do emphasize Biblical commandments of stewardship.
* GadgetWatches: Every member of the CRT has one. Particularly the "Communicator Watch", a Dick Tracy style device powered by a Satellite/Two way radio network. Though initially just communicators, they gradually evolved (ironically enough) to do [[EveryDeviceIsASwissArmyKnife basically anything the plot requires,]] including taking pictures of criminals, accessing the internet and emails, GPS, etc. They are prone to water damage.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Jonathan is usually drawn as having blonde hair, and following the first three albums, is generally depicted as entirely principled, selfless and kind. He was even referred to as captain America by Issacs Brenan.
* HollywoodAtheist: This trope is surprisingly subverted for a series about Creationism. Dr. Park was fired for more business related reasons, Myles Morgan (the ArchEnemy of the CRT) is agonistic and more out for revenge. The ones who do appear are generally very minor, or have another more complicated agenda.
* JungleOpera: Some episodes show shades of this, especially some episodes in the Hunt For Beowulf
* TheMissionary: When they are not helping [[PlayedStraight them]], the CRT basically takes on this role themselves.
* MoonLandingHoax: {{Subverted|Trope}} The CRT's first mission was to expose a fraud promoting the moon landing as a hoax, rather than proving the moon landing itself as a hoax.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: This is one of the more iconic elements of the Vision Forum albums. Due to their non-prophet company and cheap production, most all of the soundtrack comes classical composers.
* TheProfessor: Jonathan's grandfather, Bannerman Park, is pretty explicitly this. He is an inventor, always providing the team with gadgets, including being the one to create the Communicator Watches.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Especially Dr. Park and Jim Brenan. They avoid violence where they can, but are not afraid to put themselves in danger or physically attack an enemy to protect their families.
* RichGenius: Alexander Demarcus is a Captain Nemo {{Expy}} an extremely wealthy ally of the CRT, He even took them to space.
* {{Rewrite}}: Kindle's entire backstory was altered in the newer albums. His original character design was far more compelling, abandoning the faith as a young man, becoming a secular PhD in Paleontology who eventually found too many anomalies in his field, was fired for his anomalous discoveries, read the Bible cover to cover for multiple nights in a row, and finally became a Christian with Jonathan following shortly after, but in the newer continuity, its heavily implied that he has always been a man of faith.
* ScienceHero: The CRT is basically a whole team comprised of this trope. Especially Dr. Park
* SendInTheSearchTeam: Often a plot point in the episodes featuring the Explorer's Society.
* TreasureHuntEpisode: The entirety of the album, The Journey Never Taken, was basically this, as the CRT and some eager competitors, traveled around the world uncovering the history of evolution and biology, with a large treasure at the end.
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