What was the point of this character?
>>153025259If you were alive in 2003 you would know.
>>153025259to be cringe. There are several times that's literally the entire like A-plot of mid-season episodes... Hank knows certain shit is very cringe and gay and not cool and bobby resists and eventually finds out for himself.
>>153025289This. The whole evangelical push made people go to the churches, but it also meant *those* people come into the picture as well. Before you knew it pretty much every church that didnt answer to the Pope had thier own in house rock band playing "music" every Sunday.
>>153025259Half of the Hank episodes are based around his having to put up with some kind of weird guy that Hank would have beat up back in high school. Normally they are trendy weirdos like the Yoga instructor, Appleseed, or the dog spiritualist. Sometimes they are an annoying little dork with some kind of authority like the Archaeologist, or insurance claims adjuster. Sort of like how every Peggy episode is about Peggy being conned by a salesman or cult leader.
>>153025259To provide conflict for the sake of viewer entertainment.
>>153025259>he genuinely did not live during the "youth pastor" pandemicBet this dude didn't witness the housing collapse of '08 either.
>>153025289>>153025417>>153025823More accurately, I'm not from America and literally can't know everything going on over there.
>>153025259To juxtapose Hank Hill while simultaneously aligning with his principles.
>>153025259Mega churches were trying to court teens in the late 90s by coming up with the hip and trendy youth pastor type. Also helped promote Christian rock bands with a couple like Creed, Jars of Clay, and POD becoming mainstream popular for a while. This guy is a caricature of that type of wannabe cool christian guy that organizes youth event stuff in the early 00s.
AMENNNNN!
>>153026454As Hank put it, "Can't you see you're not making Christianity better, you're just making rock n' roll worse?"
>>153025259Cause "Christian is punk rock actually! Jesus was a badass rebel! He called the Pharisees VIPERS, WOOOAHHH!" was absolutely a trend that happened in the early 2000's and is happening again right now. Fuck, it happened when Jesus was fucking alive, too. His followers so badly wanted him to be this awesome, physically active revolutionary that would fight for them and give these inspiring warrior speeches. They kept having doubts when they just saw a reserved rabbi telling stories, healing people, and getting into arguments. That's why Jesus throwing the tables over is so shocking, precisely because he never acted like that before. And people keep wanting to define him by that moment because they're feeling the exact same way as the disciples so long ago: Kinda disappointed that their Messiah isn't this tough cut warrior.
>>153025259His lecture from his father about not coming between a man and his boy was the only impactful lesson I saw this episode. Hank had very little reason to dislike this form of religious worship, other than the alternative attitude and teenage spirit they did nothing wrong and were a great fellowship for young Christians to see someone not a melvin who could preach the Bible. There was nothing destructive or bastardizing happening here
>>153025259You know why...
https://youtu.be/Sa0EtdtPi8w?si=j79VWBwhmTtvrJub
>>153025259Those tats are TRASH
>You're not making church better you're making rock and roll worse
>>153025259>What was the point of this character?To make Rock and Roll worse
