In Reply to: True, however, posted by Acheick on December 01, 2002 at 10:17:46:
I've seen a lot of TV shows over the last year end up with an cult episode.
The Fox Cartoon series "King of the Hill" had the young neice join a cult at her school. Everyone in it had to change their name to "Jane", which was the name of the founder. The high form of service was to go to live on Jane's ranch and bake cookies that were sold by the other members on the street. Her Aunt Peggy goes to rescue her and ends up joining the cult as well. When her husband, Hank goes to the gates and asks to talk to his wife Peggy and his niece Lou-Ann, the guard says, "You must be talking about Old-Jane and Blonde-Jane". In the end, he realizes that the girls inside are being deprived of protien, so he brings his propane BBQ to the gate and starts cooking steaks. This, of course, undoes all the brainwashing and everyone lives happily ever after.
On HBO's "Six Feet Under", the mother joins a cult called "The Plan" where you look at your life as a house, and you rebuild that house. She drives her whole family insane with the cult jargon, until she finally decides it is a waste of time. She tells her sponsor, "I no longer wish to discuss my life using metaphores for construction".
I think the Simpsons did a cult thing recently, but I can't remember what the plotline was for that.
I guess everyone is tired of half the people on sitcoms discovering they are gay, so now they have to join a cult. I'm not sure what would be next.
It is interesting to see the idea that Hollywood has about cults. Especially that it is so easy to get in, and get out in an hour or less (counting commercials).