In the original context of Strawinsky and the Mysterious House, the Globglogabgalab isn’t simply a random book-loving meme character: he represents the temptation of worldly knowledge and reading outside the film’s Christian worldview. He is a corrupted former elf who has become obsessed with the books in the basement, particularly under the influence of the Rat King, and his grotesque, bloated appearance is meant to reflect how this obsession has consumed and transformed him. His song about being “the yeast of thoughts and minds” is therefore intentionally absurd but thematically about knowledge, books, and intellectual curiosity being treated as a seductive temptation. The joke of the later meme is that the scene looks and sounds like an enthusiastic celebration of books, whereas in the original story it is presented much more negatively.
The moral of the story is:
- You don't need Marx
- You don't need Darwin
- Just read the bible till you die
- knowledge outside of scripture is evil