The show was funny but I only had one (outside the head) laugh.  At the college campus when the father "Gerald" found out his wife and daughter were there and his colleague pointed out that they were by the Sex Education booth "next to... the condom, I guess".

For those that didn't see it the "condom" was a large advertising baloon that car lots use.  The giant tube attached to the fan that flops around.

I think I'm over-explaining this.  I think you get the idea.  Anyway it was funny.

Carry on.

 When a liberal speaks, the truth is busy elsewhere.

Wife and I thought it was pretty good.  Helen's solution to having forgotten her re-usable shopping bags:  don't use any bag, just stack the stuff in her arms while loudly stating that the re-usable bags are made in sweat-shops, making the other shoppers feel guilty.

Lee T / USN(ret) / Oregon City, OR

Be careful -- the U.S. Department of Homeland Security thinks I'm dangerous because
1. I'm a U.S. military veteran.
2. I'm not in favor of the government spending money it doesn't have (and won't have for generations)
3. I believe free speech is for everyone.

Anything mocking the left is going to be funny.  Heck, people on the left do it to themselves all the time without realizing it.

When the people fear the government it's called tyranny, when the government fears the people it's called liberty!

Another good scene is when the husband, who is a professor at the local community college, is speaking with the dean and says, “You know dean, in order to achieve full racial diversity we need hire 3 more minorities on the faculty.”  The dean replies, “Or we could just get rid of 3 of the white guys.”  Good stuff – and much the same approach universities have taken to men’s sports under Title IX.

The show had some good moments and may take a little time to hit its stride.  I hope ABC gives it a chance.  I’m amazed it got on the network at all.  It will also be fun to watch if hyper sensitive liberals start attacking the show and dismissing it as inconsequential.  Then we will know Judge has truly hit a nerve.   

but I still saw the obligatory shot at Christians when the father/daughter went to the dance other than that it wasn't too bad.

It reminds me too much of those bad King of the Hill episodes where the jokes weren't apart of the story  but what they believed. (ie Season 1). Love Mike Judge and I hope the show can stay on the air long enough to evolve into what KOTH became.

This pokes fun at the vegan-liberal-selfhating-wholefoodsshopping-hybrid-etc types but went over the line when describing Christians and the abstinence pledges by virgins and their fathers. They need to stick to bashing liberal demwits and not Christians.

No wonder brainwashing is so EFFECTIVE. People who are lauding this as a send up of "liberalism" need their heads examined. The only "values" that were "sent up" in this piece were the ones YOU profess, you of the conservative ilk, that is. 

You went for the window dressing. Sure they'll throw in a couple of "digs" at the ultra liberal morons who are easy targets. They poked fun at their "extremists", the morons like the singer who wanted to wipe her butt with one piece of toilet paper. But the VALUES of liberalism were ultimately RE-INFORCED in the last act. 

I realize that most of you don't have a clue as to what actually happens when you watch something, other than your enjoyment or lack therof, of course. Programs have either (+) or (-) values. In a written work for t.v or film, the keeper of those values is what we in the writing game call the "GUARDIAN CHARACTER", this character is usually NOT the "main" character, though it can be. The "guardian" has the answer to the main characters "dilemma". The interesting thing about the guardian character is that it is BEYOND JUDGEMENT. Psychologically.  Think "Star Wars" if you will. Most writing schools use this model as a teaching aid. Luke is the main character whose dilemma is the need to become a jedi-knight. Obi-wan Kenobi is the keeper or "guardian" of this knowledge. The guardian is always opposed by the "Antagonist", who always wants to stop the main character from achieving the solution to it's "dilemma". Darth Vader is not the antagonist, he is the CONtagonist, a character whose purpose is to "Hinder" the Main Characters progress. But remember Vader was fine with Luke mastering the "force" as long as he came over to the dark side. The Emperor, the real Antagonist wants Luke and the Rebels DEAD. Period.  The Antagonist doesn't have to want the good guy "dead" of course, a movie about a spelling bee, will have someone who doesn't want someone who can really spell,  to spell something, get it?

Well Hollywood has been very EFFECTIVE in moving the opinion of the public in certain directions by placing the character with the opinions they want to seem "normative", in the Guardian role. Effectively, without you noticing it, this characters opinions become the "voice" of the piece. This is done for good as well as bad. In the past placing African American actors in the guardian role effectively elevated them in the eyes of much of white America. A good thing to be sure. EVEN in roles that by today's standards might be considered demeaning, the guardian character has done it's work. Think Rothschilde on the "Jack Benny" show, while a servant, he was the conscience of the show and Benny's confidante and moral guide! In later years an effectively written Guardian Character would actually win Morgan Freeman an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy". 

The placement of negative messages within a guardian character, will effectively poison the minds of the viewers if the guardian's perversion is seen as "normative" to the film. This device is now being used overtime in children's books like "Heather Has Two Mommies".

By normative, I mean that the G.C. NORMALIZES the thought processes of the Main Character and thereby the audience. Think "My Best Friends Wedding". The Weinstein's promise GLAD more positive homosexual role models at a dinner and out comes this work where the confidante, the guardian is flaming homosexual Rupert Everett who teaches Julia Roberts HOW TO GET A MAN. As if someone who looks like Julia has ever, in the history of history, had trouble getting a man! 

Through the show the audience has a healthy dose of Everett's gayness all being cloaked in the guise of wisdom. This trend continued with Madonna's movie "The Next Best Thing". Most recently you've been seeing the previews for a movie with Drew Barrymore called "He's Just Not That In To You". In it, she expresses joy upon discovering that a man she likes has contacted her on My Space. Then not one but TWO, flaming homosexuals, proceed to educate her to the supposed fact that a My Space contact is the new "Booty Call". The clip and the movie are very funny by the way but that's not the point.

In the "Goode Family" the Mother is the extremist who the show is essentially about. The Father is the Guardian character in that HE mitigates the behavior of the MOTHER. Think about the scene where he inadvertently causes her to apologize to her daughter. This was particularly brilliant writing because he wasn't trying to influence her yet ended up doing it anyway!

The father is the "voice" of the show and while he thinks that his wife's excesses are just that, he loves her FOR her values and hates YOU for yours. 

The point of the Goode Family, while "sending up" excessive liberalism along the way, is the UTTER REJECTION OF CHRISTIAN VALUES. That my friends is the point of the show. The father and daughter where HIDING FROM CHRISTIANS in the dance hall which featured a huge cross! Do they have to hit you people over the head with a sledge hammer? Or do messages that say "we are anti Christ" have to be flashed throughout like a strobe light?!

The scene includes the lie that a promise of virginity is like the girl getting "married" to her father. Nothing in the explanation given remotely suggested that. Girls with their fathers, pledge to remain virgins and "under their fathers moral authority" until he gives that authority to the young man she will later marry. That's been the basis for marriage for thousands of years. And are Christians the only ones who preach abstinence? Muslims do too, as well as real Jewish people!

For any of you to take some kind of a "pat on the back" for your values away from this show is laughable and SAD at the same time. The METHODOLOGY of liberalism was mocked in this show, not LIBERALISM itself. CHRISTIANITY itself was REJECTED in this show, not just the "methodology" of the supposed extremists at the dance!

Perhaps no better line summed it up than when the daughter concludes that her mother was RIGHT.

 "MOM YOU WERE RIGHT, I DON'T BELONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE." 

Those people with actual values, the one's who didn't want to whore their daughters out to the highest bidder at the first opportunity. Those who didn't want to help their daughters become whores.  The people who worship that big ol' cross they had hanging in the middle of the scary room that we had to HIDE from. 

P.S For those that think that this admittedly tedious method of "peeling the grape" as we call it, or examining a written work for it's message both overt and hidden, or I'm too serious and it's all in fun, think again.

Bill Cosby had Psychologist Alvin Pouisantte (sic) review EVERY script after the writers finished because he was aware of their practice of apparently saying one thing in a script while subconsciously upholding values to the contrary. Cos wanted to know that the hidden messages in the piece were those with which he was in accord. And he frequently found it necessary to fire writers on the spot and even a director or two because of this practice. I know, I was there. God bless.

Yeah, the abstinence marriage thing was creepy, but I have to say this show is funny and have some potential.  You can catch the whole episode on Hulu.  I just hope they don't go down the road to bashing conseravtives.  There's enough of that on Family Guy.

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”

Samuel Adams

I'm sorry to have to say this but, even as a Conservative, I found the premire episode of this show to be extremely unfunny and just plain stupid and full of cliches.