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Pot-bellied, hippy Jesus doing TV promos If you want to start a controversy, one good way is to show Jesus Christ as a pot-bellied, whiskey-slugging hippy who weasels his way into a nightclub by turning the bouncers into dwarfs, then turns a couple of ordinary-looking women into busty, half-naked models, and eventually leaves in a stretch Hummer. That’s the plot of a new promo from Plug TV, a youth network in Belgium. The Catholic Church believes the ad “crosses the limits of respectability.” Plug TV says it isn’t blasphemous and in fact contains an inspirational message about a “laid-back Jesus addressing youth.” In any case, Jesus’s excessive behavior is not without consequences. As he’s about to cruise away from the club, he is whisked up to Heaven, where he gets an earful from God, who’s decked out in a “Number one dad” T-shirt. —Posted by Tim Nudd

September 24, 2007 | Permalink

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There was a pot belly in the ad? Hmm, all I saw was th side of a giant breast. Then again, I'm easily distracted:-)

Posted by: Steve Hall | Sep 24, 2007 12:30:36 PM

I'd like to give the girl on the left a pearl necklace.

Posted by: TunaTacoGrande | Sep 24, 2007 7:16:00 PM

The comments here just get more and more sophisticated...

Posted by: David | Sep 25, 2007 1:04:31 AM

Nice to see Steve Hall remains as classy as ever.

Posted by: Stewart | Sep 25, 2007 12:08:20 PM

Oh, no... the Catholic Church took time out of their busy boy f***ing schedule to whine that something "crosses the limits of respectability." Keep up the good work Plug TV! If y'all have any balls at all, your next campaign will feature Muhammad strapping on a bacon flavored condom...

Posted by: Invisible Pink Unicorn | Sep 26, 2007 4:30:33 AM

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