The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend features a mentally off-balance liberal woman named Rebecca as the main character and the December 8 mid-season finale, titled “Getting Over Jeff,” made sure to incorporate the usual conservative targets that often randomly land in the show’s dialogue, including calling the Bible science-fiction.
Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) travels back to Buffalo with her best friend and colleague, Paula (Donna Lynne Champlin), to care for Paula’s father while her mother is out of town. Paula’s father, Bob (Eddie Pepitone), is a vodka-swilling gun owner who watches conservative news on television. Rebecca establishes a friendship with Bob and they hang out while Paula goes about tying up loose ends with her high school sweetheart.
As the screenshot shows, Bob is enjoying shots of vodka and talks Rebecca into joining him. She has been abstaining because she’s in therapy. They watch television and Rebecca notes that she has never watched “conservative news” (i.e. Fox News) before and doesn't believe that he could actually agree with it. Shocker, I know. They disrespectfully joke about the blonde female anchors. Rude. Rebecca is shocked to learn Bob is a gun owner and she even manages to take a swipe at the Bible, too. Sigh.
Rebecca: I’ve never watched conservative news before. All the women look exactly the same, like they're old, blonde Miss USAs. Why is that?
Bob: Well, if we put 'em on the news, then we don't have to send 'em out to the glue factory.
Rebecca: Bob, that's terrible. Eh... Bob, be real. You don't agree with all this stuff, right? I mean, you don't think everyone should own a gun?
Bob: Oh, no. They should own two guns: One for animals, one for people.
Rebecca: Bob!
Bob: God. Of course. Here you go.
Rebecca: Oh, ah... I don't know if I can. Sorry. I honestly don't know what my book says about alcohol.
Bob: Your book? You mean like a Bible?
Rebecca: Uh, kinda, but less sci-fi. Um... Oh... Okay, but alcohol's not really my trigger.
Bob: "Trigger." Now you're speaking my language. Let's get sauced. Let's do some shots. Come on.
Rebecca: Okay.
Bob: The news is great on shots.
So, Rebecca works in a trifecta against conservatives in that one conversation – she bashes female conservative news anchors, guns and the Bible. And she enjoys Bob’s misogynist crack that as women age, they should be sent off to a glue factory, like a horse.
The show won’t be back on until January so we’ll get a little break from the standard banter. Maybe it will give the writers a little time to come up with something more original and entertaining.
