I would be lying if I said I didn't find it entertaining but I would also be lying if I said I didn't find it concerning
This is something I've been meaning to request for this sub for a while since it's the first piece of non-children's media I remember watching. It's some kind of live action Christian comedy movie with a flipbook scene and bookended by tanning bed scenes.
Admittedly I am assuming a lot of things in that summary (i.e. not 100% sure if it was an explicitly Christian movie, or if the scenes I mentioned above were even from the same movie) but they are solid assumptions based on what I remember (my dad pretty much exclusively watched TBN and channels like those back in the day, and I am quite sure each of the scenes I am about to mention starred the same character.)
Luckily the scenes I remember were pretty distinct:
The main one that has stuck in my mind was the flipbook scene, which in the movie was a cutaway gag to when the main character was in school. One of those big easels was used as the flipbook, and before the flipping started, the teacher said something like "Boy hates girl". She then began the animation, where I think the stick figure boy gave the stick figure girl a box of chocolates and the girl refused it in some comical way I'm not remembering. At the end of the scene before the cutaway ended the main character then looked up from his notebook and went "huh?". I really want to rediscover how this fit into the plot of the movie at all lol
The other scenes I remember were the tanning bed scenes. The movie either started with one and ended with one, or they were interspersed throughout the film. I forget what the point of these scenes were but I do remember that one of the final scenes of the movie was the main character getting out of the tanning bed. This is why I feel like it was movie rather than an episode of a TV show or something. I remember it being long, but also the tanning bed scenes serving as a clear bookend.
I remember the general vibe of the moving being quite barren with a lot of scenes where the main character traversed through empty places and streets. Maybe the main character was the only character? Or maybe it took place after some kind of mass-extinction event? idk maybe they were artsy like that