Son: Oh, there it is. Show me the puddin'.
Grandma: Oh, is that my favorite?
Mom: Bread-and-butter pudding. It sure is.
Dad: Oh, Agnes. I thought I was your favorite?
Grandma: Oh, Pat, you're a rascal. Well, Eileen, you have really outdone yourself.
Mom: Oh, thanks, mom. Kenny helped with the dessert.
Grandma: It looks a little dry.
Son: Do you want some sauce, grandma?
Grandma: No, thank you.
Son: You want somebody less saucy to give you sauce?
Grandma: I know you think I'm a silly old woman and you've been mocking me and my beliefs, but even if you don't care what I think, you should care about what god thinks.
Son: I do.
Grandma: No, you don't. God doesn't accept you. He thinks you're broken, and I do, too.
Son: I didn't think anything grandma said could upset me, but I was wrong.
Mom: That's enough, mom. My son is not broken, and if you want to talk about someone who's not accepted by god, you can talk about me. Pat and I are getting a divorce. That's right.
Dad: And it's not her fault, Agnes. It was a mutual decision.
Mom: That's right. So, you can say whatever you want to say now, mom. Whoa.
Son: Are you choking? Is this what we're doing? We're letting god take out grandma?
Grandma: I told you it was dry.
Once again, this relentless garbage-fest of a show is far more concerned about portraying Catholics, as they see them, and far less concerned with actual fact. God sent his only Son down from Heaven to die for sinners.
Therefore the life and death of Christ --upon which all Christianity is based-- is enough to refute this silly tripe. There’s no way a God would put his only Son through one of the worst deaths in recorded human history for the sake of a bunch of people He would never accept. Or, viewed as irrevocably “broken.” What radicals like the writers of this show can’t understand, is not that there’s a God out there who hates and condemns them, but that there’s a God out there so radical in his love that he can love them through all of that.
But, of course, the creators of The Real O’Neals can’t have that. Because then they would have to come to grips with the fact that their lives aren’t nearly as persecuted as they claim. And they would actually have to deal with the Mommy and Daddy issues that are at the core of their “rebellion.”