Posted on 04/23/2018 10:12:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thanks for posting.
I remember the Bull episode discussed here, and it was a rare moment where a comedy show basically told a Christian parable of some sort. I’ve been waiting for another such parable but they tend to only occur every twenty years.
Christianity used to be part of the fabric of America. You didn’t have to be part of it — you could choose another path, including no path at all. But shows and songs talked about God because people talked about God.
Then the Left began interpreting the First Amendment as a guarantee of freedom FROM religion and they used it to force an atheistic worldview on everyone whether they liked it or not.
I miss the old days.
I always enjoyed Night Court. It was overtly slapstick, but it could also be witty. Then there were the episodes that went deep. Under appreciated I think.
Then there was Archie on God! Archie: “In the Bible it says God made man in his own image. He made women after!” Gloria: “You mean God’s mistake!” Archie: “Hey, Hey...God don’t make mistakes...that’s how he got to be God!”
...And Larry Bird!
-PJ
They did a good job with that episode.
Yesterday I was watching a station that plays the old shows, and ‘Hazel’ was on.
One of the characters quoted Ecclesiastes ‘To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven’ in order to explain why life wasn’t exactly going the way he’d like.
“Christianity used to be part of the fabric of America”
By the 1840’s.
The Flower of our first two generations, learning the lessons of religious war in Europe and fanatical Puritanism on their own shores, were overwhelmingly and proudly Deists.
I can recall some old sitcoms, such as Brady bunch, or Andy Griffith, in which the characters went to church.
It wasn’t preachy by any means. It simply was matter of factly showing that these people went to church.
I doubt any shows today ever show any character in any religious context.
“Night Court” debuted when I was in my mid teens and I remember watching the first episode in January 1985 when me and my family were living (for a few months) in Sydney, Australia. The sometimes off the wall and quirky, but not malicious in any way, type of humour was very enjoyable and perfect for that time in my life.
I by chance saw the Bull episode just last week.
The interweaving of God acting while not being real but seemingly present was extremely well written and acted by the cast.
Even "The Simpsons" go to church. Bart even does his hair up nice for it.
Well-framed retrospective.
My memories of Night Court are all very fond. And they dealt with some extremely serious situations where morality, law and values were in direct conflict and there was no result that would satisfy the all.
But never lost the common man that was Judge Harry that made him so beloved.
Kaslin,
Thank you for posting this. I remember watching Night Court and enjoyed it. In retrospect, perhaps this is one reason why. & I remember the episode described.
Kaslin
Me, too!
Blue Bloods does.
-PJ
In terms of sitcoms, I'd say that the last sitcom that had going to church as a common plot device was Everybody Loves Raymond.
-PJ
There’s a great episode of ‘Becker’ called ‘Larry Spoke’ in which Becker has a patient who believes he is speaking with GOD:
Boyd only thinks he hears God because the dopamine-receptor system of his brain is malfunctioning.
Well, maybe when God wants to talk to someone, that’s how he does it.
Look, G— God is a concept of man.
You know, Becker, some of us believe that man is a concept of God.
My wife and I watch a lot of the old Western many of which often talk about God. AH... those were the days
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