I’ve never been a big fan of “The Big Bang Theory.” I’ve watched a decent amount of episodes and have laughed here and there, but it’s never been a go-to show for me. Something about it has always irritated me. This only reinforces that.
In the closing credits for Thursday’s episode, show creator Chuck Lorre decided to display this “Vanity Card.” In it, he “prays” to God about our “fascist, hate-filled, fear-mongering, demagogic, truth-shattering, autocratic golf cheater” of a president. Yes, really.
Here’s the whole thing:
God, (I call you that even though I suspect thou art well beyond names and words and might actually be some sort of ineffable quantum situation), I humbly beseech thee to make thy presence known on November 6th. Demonstrate your omnipotence through us as we make ink marks on little circles in curtained booths. Of course if you, in your divine wisdom, believe a fascist, hate-filled, fear-mongering, demagogic, truth-shattering, autocratic golf cheater is what we need right now, then, you know, thy will be done. But if thou art inclined to more freedom, more love, more compassion, and just more of the good stuff thou hath been promoting in our hearts or our parietal lobes – either one, doesn’t really matter – I submissively ask that thy encourage voter turnout in that general direction. Also God, please help Bob Mueller. Guide him and make him strong, brave, wise and true. And yes, I know there must be thousands of guys named Bob Mueller, so why not help them all, just to be on the safe side. Amen.
Oh, almost forgot, remind those who collaborate with the darkness that thou art the light, and the light is not above whipping out a little Old Testament wrath. Amen again.
Gross, man. Freaking gross.
Just so you know, this isn’t the first time Lorre has used “vanity cards” to mock Trump.
October 25 was not the first time Lorre used the show to spout off against Trump in the vanity cards, although not by name. In vanity card #541 from November 3, 2016, Lorre mocked the “Make America Great Again” slogan as “a bumper sticker for victimhood” and said “Big Daddy can’t save us. Our salvation lies within ourselves,” adding more irony to how in the more recent vanity card, he would call upon God.
Lorre’s vanity card #559 from May 4, 2017 mocked The Apprentice’s ratings, as if television ratings had anything to do with foreign policy achievements. “Defeat terrorism and crazy dictators? He couldn’t even defeat Two and a Half Men,” the vanity card read, appearing alongside a chart of that week’s ratings.
There was also vanity card #551 from February 9, 2017, a mock executive order, which claimed Trump regards the truth as “what I say it is, or need it to be,” and also mentioned “mean tweet[s]” and “fake news.”
Get a life, dude.
Thanks for continuing to taint otherwise decent shows.
h/t Newsbusters