Great Moments in Blasphemy: The Hail Satan Network
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been considering a “Great Moments in Blasphemy” feature. To welcome the visitors from Pharyngula (as a result of my blogwhoring), here’s the first installment.
I was fortunate enough to get hip to HBO’s Mr. Show while it was still on the air. I was able to record every season on VHS when they ran marathons, so the wait for the DVD releases wasn’t as painful for me as it was for others. From episode one of Season three, here are two classic clips: “The Limits of Science” and “The Hail Satan Network”. If you want to skip straight to the blasphemy, you needn’t watch “The Limits of Science”; I only included it because it leads into “The Hail Satan Network”.
In case you didn’t already know, that’s Tom Kenny, the voice of Spongebob Squarepants, as the evangelist.
Clips are below the fold. Enjoy!
The Limits of Science
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The Hail Satan Network
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January 15th, 2008 at 12:37 am
My blasphemist tradition is to watch “Life Of Brain” on Easter.
For some reason while watching The Hail Satan Network, I thought about one of the first satanic rock bands, Covenant. They were best know for their hit, “One Tin Soldier” in the late Sixties. Funny thing, in elementary school in the mid Seventies, my music teacher had my class sing this song. Years later, I wonder if she was trying to corrupt us.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Life of Brian is great, but I guess my family is a bit more traditional… we still watch The Ten Commandments, but we root for Yul Brenner. Bad(der) Santa has become a Christmas tradition, though.
btw, you’re thinking of “Coven”, not Covenant. I have a soft spot for one-hit wonders from the 70s, and “One Tin Soldier” is one of my guilty pleasures. I’ve often wondered if the original Billy Jack movie used a different band to do “One Tin Soldier” for the soundtrack because of Coven’s overt paganism/Satanism.