Opinion of the Family Guy episode about Jesus losing his virginity

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I just saw it on Netflix. I thought it was terrible.

It was not the premise that offended me and honestly a lot of the cutaways were pretty funny as was the Brian and Stewie B-plot, but the portrayal of Jesus was horribly offensive. Basically Peter and Lois met Jesus again at the mall and invited him to the Drunken Clam. There Jesus claimed to be a virgin (hence the title "The 2000 Year Old Virgin", so Peter and the guys started plotting to get him laid especially as Christmas was coming up (his birthday.) Nothing worked, until Lois talked to him and gave him some advice. Jesus then told Peter that he decided Lois would be the perfect woman to lose his virginity too, and Lois wanted to, so Peter ended up agreeing to it. Then at the Clam Peter heard from some other guys there that Jesus had claimed to be a virgin and slept with their wives and it's just something he does to get easy sex from married women. So Peter showed up, and talked Lois out of it, and Jesus pretended this was in fact some test and lesson he was trying to teach them even though he was obviously kidding about it, even though Peter and Lois bought it. Jesus walks off, the end.

What I really disliked wasn't even the idea of the plot but the big reveal that Jesus was in fact some scam artist trying to manipulate women into sex and lying. That was the problem and the offensive part. At least up until this episode the character Jesus on Family Guy was portrayed as a pretty good and likable guy.

So basically there are two Family Guy episodes that suck and have actually offended me (the other obviously being "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven")

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The other episode I watched today about Meg being a foot fetish model was far better.

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I don't give a sh*t since Family Guy sucks (normal, sane).

How many episodes have you even seen?

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I don't give a sh*t since Family Guy sucks (normal, sane).

How many episodes have you even seen?

More than 0, ie more than enough.

Oh yes, you can totally judge an entire TV show based on one episode.

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As someone who enjoys the show, and has seen every single episode (thanks Netflix and Hulu). It will offend everyone, no matter what. I didn't think the episode was funny, but it didn't offend me.

It doesn't offend me usually. Like I love it when it makes fun of conservatives. And when it makes fun of other religions, sure I don't care. But I HATE it whenever something makes fun of liberals or Christianity.

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And when it makes fun of other religions, sure I don't care. But I HATE it whenever something makes fun of liberals or Christianity.

What goes around comes around

Um, everyone is more offended by things they like being made fun of.

Like you said you never saw the show, but I'm willing to bet that you'd be more offended by this or this than the aforementioned episode.

Although to be fair I've learned that a lot of Hmong seem to like it partially BECAUSE of the racist jokes about Asians, not in spite of them.

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Although I do remember when that veteran flipped his sh[inks] when I posted that clip with the Vietnam War Memorial joke.

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other:  haven't seen it.  (The show has gone downhill though)

Jesus had claimed to be a virgin and slept with their wives and it's just something he does to get easy sex from married women.

sly dawg!  

Peter showed up, and talked Lois out of it, and Jesus pretended this was in fact some test and lesson he was trying to teach them even ...

It's a bit irreverent, but the God of Abraham himself has a very sick sense of humor.  See, for example, Genesis 22:1-12.  We like to talk about how weird and sick the Greeks and the Aztecs were, but the Jews were pretty twisted as well.  Christians too, since they're basically Jews2.0.  Also, Jesus did have a thing for prostitutes.  (Luke 7, Matthew 26, etc.)

Get your panties out of a wad.  The episode may have been poorly done, and after all that isn't surprising because they can only get so many reasonably fresh seasons out of their central conceit, but don't get offended at making fun of the mythology of the Christ.  Otherwise, you're no better than the fanatics who gun down editorial cartoon writers.

Bottom line:  Jesus of Nazareth is famous, and he has lots of followers.  If you're famous, people are going to take a cheap shot at you once in a while.  The real Jesus wouldn't get so offended as you are getting right now, so if you're his follower, then why should you get so bent out of shape?

I came up with a better episode involving Jesus: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=208881.0

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Although I do remember when that veteran flipped his sh[inks] when I posted that clip with the Vietnam War Memorial joke.

On f#cking Memorial Day, he brings it up.

Funny you mention that...
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/5517/memorial-day
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/202/memorial-day

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Although I do remember when that veteran flipped his sh[inks] when I posted that clip with the Vietnam War Memorial joke.

On f#cking Memorial Day, he brings it up.

Funny you mention that...
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/5517/memorial-day
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/202/memorial-day

Didn't you support the Libya intervention?

What does that have to do with Vietnam?

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Although I do remember when that veteran flipped his sh[inks] when I posted that clip with the Vietnam War Memorial joke.

On f#cking Memorial Day, he brings it up.

Funny you mention that...
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/5517/memorial-day
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/202/memorial-day

Didn't you support the Libya intervention?

What does that have to do with Vietnam?

Well you clearly don't have a problem with certain forms of jingoism, or when undertaken by certain people. Should we laugh about those who've died in the Middle East since 2001 as well?

If someone made a joke about a tribute to killed Syrian Army soldiers or separatist rebels in Ukraine or Russian soldiers in Chechnya or members of the IRA, I wouldn't be offended.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Although I do remember when that veteran flipped his sh[inks] when I posted that clip with the Vietnam War Memorial joke.

On f#cking Memorial Day, he brings it up.

Funny you mention that...
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/5517/memorial-day
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/202/memorial-day

Didn't you support the Libya intervention?

What does that have to do with Vietnam?

Well you clearly don't have a problem with certain forms of jingoism, or when undertaken by certain people. Should we laugh about those who've died in the Middle East since 2001 as well?

If someone made a joke about a tribute to killed Syrian Army soldiers or separatist rebels in Ukraine or Russian soldiers in Chechnya or members of the IRA, I wouldn't be offended.

Are you implying that, at least in the case of the US from 1965-1973, you would be happy with seeing men come home in coffins? I know you have absolutely no connection to this country, but that is depraved. Many arguments against the war had little to do with denouncing our own (drafted) troops as worthy of death.

Of course not. Like with Iraq, they should've never been sent there in the first place. (They were mostly not draftees though.) I like the video not because it's making fun of death, but because it's attacking the Vietnam War.

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It's rubbing the US's failure in Vietnam in its face instead of throwing in some jingoinistical justification of it.

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Anyway if I ran a show here'd be my rules:

No making fun of Christianity
No making fun of liberalism

Making fun of certain types of Christianity is fine though. Like anti-Catholic or anti-fundamentalist jokes.

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The other episode I watched today about Meg being a foot fetish model was far better.

LOL I just watched this one again. It's good although it gets kind of dumb at the end.