Oh, dear. When I thought the series "Californication" couldn't possibly push the

[Cleita]

sex envelope any more, they do. Actually, the anything goes sex was getting boring and that changed with the most recent episode. They have a scene in which Hank's new girlfriend has a dream that she goes to Church in her skimpy Catholic school girl outfit. She kneels before a giant cross of Jesus to pray, and Jesus comes alive. He pops out his nails, comes down from the cross and starts to make out with her. I'm surprised I haven't read any outrage about this yet like there has been with "Girls".

I suppose it was pretty blasphemous if you are believer. However, he's a blond Nordic Jesus, which makes him seem not quite like the real Jesus. However, that should make the redneck fundies cringe. Otherwise, if you just look at the funny side of it, it's hilarious.

[el_bryanto]

1. Is it funny in itself or is it funny because it would piss off fundies? nt

[Cleita]

2. Both, but maybe because you know devoted Christians would

go into shock so maybe more so on that side of the equation.

[el_bryanto]

3. Well most of them won't see it to get pissed off about

seems kind of chintzy to me.

Bryant

[Cleita]

4. You know you couldn't do anything like this except on HBO

which limits the viewership.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. It's not on HBO.

It's on Showtime.

[Cleita]

20. You are right. My mistake, but it's one of the movie channels. I forgot.

They seem all the same to me in their series offerings.

[MineralMan]

5. I didn't even know there was such a series.

I guess I'm backward.

[Upton]

6. That wasn't Jesus, that was Atticus..

[Cleita]

9. It was Atticus playing Jesus. n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

10. It was a dream in which a person from her life appeared AS Jesus

In a dream, the 'characters' are not real, so a dream Atticus is not pretending to be Jesus, the dreamer is creating that image of Atticus. You sound confused about the difference between a character and the actor playing the character as well as about the nature of dreams.

[Cleita]

17. Guess what. It's just fiction and I can be a confused as I like

when interpreting fiction. Regardless, it was funny.

[Broken_Hero]

19. ....

Jesus Loves You.....

[HereSince1628]

7. Isn't that a Madonna video from the mid 1980's?

I hope she got her money for intellectual property being stolen/used

[Cleita]

8. I don't know. I was never a Madonna fan, but I'm not

surprised she would do it. I'm sure they are lawyered up considering how raunchy the series is and she got her money.

[NV Whino]

12. Jesus (no pun intended), is that crappy show still on?

[Cleita]

15. Yep, and I agree, it was getting long in the tooth and I hadn't watched it much,

lately but I did last night and they did this.

[bemildred]

13. Stomping on taboos can be fun, but it does upset people.

[Cleita]

16. Yes, I hadn't thought of it like that but it was stomping on

taboos rather than blatant sex.

[LittleBlue]

14. I love Californication

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

18. Push the envelope? You haven't seen the first scene of the first episode.

It is ten times worse than that. I'm neither Catholic or even christian but it made me cringe.

Californication actually had to get a handle on the sex and nudity after it was picked up my mainstream international broadcast channels.