Holy Hippies

They get away with things in comedy shows that are funny precisely because they hit on something that everybody notices but nobody dares to say. On Family Guy, Death finally got a date and, as in the movie “10,” his infatuation with the girl’s physical beauty collapsed the first time she opened her mouth:

GIRL: “Only humans make war.”

DEATH: “What are you talking about? Animals kill each other all the time.”

GIRL: “Not with nuclear arms. You can’t hug your children with nuclear arms.”

DEATH: “Oh, for God’s sake!”

This is funny for two reasons. First, nobody has ever heard a hippie say ANYTHING. When I refer to saying anything, I am not referring to emitting vocal sounds. A parrot talks but he never really SAYS anything. If you are masochistic, you could listen to an hour’s diatribe from an old hippie of yesterday, but if you wait for him to say anything original or even interesting you will wait till Judgment Day.

The reason this was demonstrated in a comedy is because everybody knows it but nobody can SAY it. Those two facts made it funny.

Remember that our established religion is Political Correctness. Imagine a gathering of devout Catholics at a university. The name “Dracula” is mentioned and one elderly nun crosses herself. Not one good Catholic there is going to laugh at her, however superstitious the gesture strikes them. It is sign of naïve Faith, and no one in a church or a seminary laughs at a sincere expression of the Faith.

By exactly the same token, no one at a university, NO ONE is allowed to LAUGH at a hippie. He is reciting the words of the Faith. No one who wants to prove they are “educated,” which tens of millions of people try desperately to do all the time, dares to laugh at hippie repetition of the most tiresome clichés.

Hippies are not referred to as being mindless. They are ALWAYS praised for being “idealistic.”

No one on TV is EVER going to tell a black man that he said something that was just plain stupid. They are not going to a say a hippie bores them into a coma any more than the devout Catholics are going to laugh at the old nun crossing herself when “Dracula” is mentioned. But what if the old nun crosses herself and recites a prayer ALL THE TIME? All through the conference everybody must stop when they mention ANYTHING she has not heard in the convent and wait RESPECTFULLY while she crossed herself and says a Prayer Against Evil. About the fortieth time that happened, even the most understanding in the Faith might get a bit tired of it.

But they can’t say so.

Which is exactly why Death, who knows all about war, actually SAYING that the hippie girl on Family Guy was an idiot was so funny. Tens of millions of Desperately Seeking “Educated” suburbanites who watch The Family Guy have sat through hippies endlessly droning the same old crap day after day, party after party. Every time the hippie spoke up the entire conversation was thrown off track as everybody had to listen, reverently, to some words about Love and Peace that they knew the hippie was going to say.

Again.

But they can NEVER say WHY it’s funny, any more than the Catholics could criticize the old nun.

So every now and then you see things like that used in comedy when they could NEVER be said anywhere ELSE. And the room explodes in laughter.

Though nobody will DARE say WHY.