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Boring Religious Service
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Whether it's long sermons about sin and The Day of Reckoning and readings from the Bible or interminable chants, hymns and pipe organ solos, a religious service can be a long and boring affair. Sometimes the pastor's dry, monotone delivery is part of the problem. For some characters, like kids and teens, every activity they're forced to do is deemed to be boring. It may prove to be Nap-Inducing Speak, and family members may need to nudge them awake. Some characters might simply let their mind wander away entirely and have a Delicious Daydream about lunch. May overlap with Only One Finds It Fun, if only one person enjoys or is actually paying attention to the service, like the stern Church Lady in the front. Some older, more conservative characters might feel that it's only fitting that religion proves to be unexciting, given that Good Is Boring. Can also overlap with Forced into Their Sunday Best. Compare Windbag Politician for another authority figure who bores their listeners to death with lengthy speeches. Contrast Inspiring Sermon and Suspiciously Specific Sermon. |
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Cluedo: Lampshaded when the Reverend Green gives a particularly long answer to a question, and Bob Holness says "I wonder how long his sermons last on a Sunday?". | |
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The Vicar of Dibley: The first episode shows how the Reverend Pottle has driven away all the parishioners with his dull sermons, save for the parish council, who all struggle on through the service out of obligation. In the first of the seasonal specials, Geraldine falls into a funk after getting dumped, and it falls to Frank Pickle to be lay preacher. At least two older members of the congregation die of boredom, and another shoots themselves, driving the parish council to get the vicar back ASAP. | |
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The Simpsons: One of the biggest character flaws of Reverend Timothy Lovejoy is that he is The Bore and he delivers this kind of religious service constantly. It is extremely heavily implied that it's because he is uninspired and tired of being a Reverend (you can blame Ned Flanders for this). "In Marge We Trust" opens with Reverend Lovejoy delivering a particularly dull sermon on "The Nine Tenets of Constancy". When his sermon causes the church attendees to fall asleep, Reverend Lovejoy has to resort to playing a loud bird sound to wake them up. Then after the sermon, we see the Simpson family coming home, with everyone except Marge overjoyed that it's over: In "Simpsons Bible Stories", after Homer "contaminates" the Reverend's collection by adding a chocolate bunny to it, the man "holds the entire congregation hostage" by reading them the entirety of the Bible. During the extended "sermon", the Simpsons family begins to daydream they are characters in some biblical stories. |
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Though the Harper family is never actually seen in church in Mama's Family, there are numerous instances of them coming home from services, with the younger members generally complaining about how boring it was. | |
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Mr. Bean: In Act 3 of the self-titled first episode, Mr. Bean attends a church service that is so mind-numbingly dull that he does everything he can to avoid embarrassing himself by dozing off. This is accentuated by the vicar's sermon, which consists entirely of unintelligible mumbling (also voiced by Rowan Atkinson). | |
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Keeping Mum: The Reverend Walter Goodfellow is well-meaning but boring, and presumably gives boring sermons, until he learns to be funnier. When Grace arrives, he says a particularly long prayer, until his wife Gloria interrupts him with "Amen". | |
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In Metalocalypse, Murderface tries to find religion, and after trying out many different religions, eventually winds up at the Church of Satan. However, after sitting through yet another boring ceremony full of dull rituals and chants, he concludes that Satanism is just the same as all the other boring religions and goes back to drinking and partying. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Just before the holy hand grenade scene, there is a long reading by Brother Maynard. John Cleese says in the DVD commentary that this was reminiscent of school assemblies. | |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Chapter V has a sermon given by the minister of the local church. It is so dry, monotonous, and droning that the audience's heads begin to sleepily nod during it. | |
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Scandinavia and the World: In Rise and Shine or go to Hell, Norway wakes up Denmark and Sweden in the middle of the night to drag them to a 3:00 AM mass in celebration of Duke Asbjörn becoming a saint after swallowing a splinter from Jesus Christ's cross (the author's notes state that both the deed and the duke were something she made up). As the priest announces that the service will begin with 150 hymns, 5 preaches, and 3 holy communions, Norway is wearing a starry-eyed expression while Denmark and Sweden get out the beer. | |
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Anne Frank: The Whole Story: Before they go into hiding, we see Anne and her family attend Shabbos dinner at the home of Anne's friend, Hanna. Otto glares at Anne for fidgeting while Hanna's father recites the Kiddush. | |
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Be Prepared: Vera doesn't quite get the Russian Orthodox church liturgies or what she's saying when she recites in church (and once gets caught fidgeting and reprimanded by an elderly woman next to her). She's especially annoyed at outdoor church service at camp, which is held rain or shine. That said, she does love the icons of the church, and has an image of the saint she's named for above her bed at home. | |
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Adrian Mole is occasionally made to go to church by his grandmother. He considers the service to be "dead boring", and throughout the series is convinced that God does not exist anyway, because of wars, famines, and motorway crashes. | |
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The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan has the Mikado propose more humane penalties for social crimes, instead of the usual summary executions. A boring religious service would befall windbags and gossips under these new measures: "All prosy dull society sinners / Who chatter and bleat and bore / Are sent to hear sermons / From mystical Germans / Who preach from 10:00 'til 4:00". | |
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Anya's Ghost: Anya describes Orthodox church as "long, boring and full of Russians", and tries to make excuses not to go whenever she can. However, it's hinted that the real reason she hates church is that the elders always tell her she's too fat "while their ankles are spilling over their orthopedic shoes". | |
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Rome. To become tribune Marc Antony has to take part in a religious rite lasting several hours, causing him to declare I Need a Freaking Drink. | |
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Father Ted: Apparently, the titular protagonist is heavily prone to delivering hours-lasting, boring Mass sermons such as these. Apparently, they're really popular with nuns (which is a problem for Ted when he has to get through a Mass really quick in order to meet a female writer he fancies). In the Christmas special, Ted, suffering from Acquired Situational Narcissism, tries entertaining a party of fellow priests by watching a long Midnight Mass on TV with them, and all of them immediately decide Screw This, I'm Out of Here! (except for Father Todd Unctious). In the series finale, Tedd and Dougal have just come out of church from doing another sermon, when a Grumpy Old Man called Eugene approaches Ted: | |
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The Sopranos (Warner): While Father Ardlui drones on at morning mass, Kylah tries to pass the time by counting the number of tiles in the chapel. | |
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Beetle Bailey has several gags that revolve around Chaplain Stainglass's services being boring. One Sunday strip shows that his speeches in general are so dull that even animals fall asleep. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg finds church services boring, and is annoyed that his parents always bring lots of toys to keep his little brother Manny occupied when they never did that for him at the same age. | |
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South Park: One episode has Cartman stuck in church, complaining that it's already 3 PM and taking up one of his weekend days. He then gripes: | |
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.: Margaret has a Christian mother and Jewish father but was raised without an affiliation to either religion. She attends two Christian services with friends and one Jewish service with her grandmother, but Margaret finds the services boring and hard to follow (as she doesn't know the songs or the meanings of anything) and spends the time counting hats. | |
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