Missionary Career

Of course, the missionary career is not what it used to be. In the old days you just went overseas and never really came back or if you did come back it was forty years later and you were venerated and held in awe by the supporters who financed your many years overseas starting churches and training workers, etc. Nowadays, missionaries get no respect. You could end up like Joe Register, a salesman in a furniture store. Well, that is a different story than ours, mostly. But the Registers just could not continue in the missionary world after producing one lousy film every three or four years, not nearly enough to justify tens of thousands of dollars spent on buildings, expensive television and video equipment, soundstage, props and puppets, etc. A sad story, to be sure, but not really surprising given that Joe's daughter Christie was in charge of it all, Christie being sort of funny at puppeteering but not really. Sometimes these comedians are more angry than funny and in fact not really that funny, just weird. But that is what happens when the Registers will not let anyone else run the studio. They just shut the whole thing down.