And if you want to read the books, what's stopping you? It'll ruin the series for you, possibly, but that's a more than fair trade.
Read the series, and then you'll understand what people are complaining about. When 2D hand drawn pictures have more characterization and believability than flesh and blood actors, we got a serious problem.
...Jesus Christ. Matt, do yourself a favor, and Netflix The Best of Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Mike Meyers, etc and then facepalm yourself for considering that video post-worthy.
We learned about Tesla in the 4th grade in my Alaskan school.