re: Dave season 3

Man I really hate being the contrarian but I guess that's my role for this episode. Full disclosure: I'm not saying my thoughts on the episode are right and everyone else is wrong. I'm not asking anyoen to agree with me. I FULLY realize that I'm the oddball here but that's ok with me.

I didn't care for this one at all and the majority of why is because it paints Christian as well as southerners in such a retarded light. They had episodes earlier set in Georgia and Texas and both were perfectly fine. I guess to get nitpicky you say the dudes at the texas house party were weirdos but whatever. Now in Misssippi the 2 main takeaways we have are 1) people are total assholes as evidenced by booing the fat girl off the stage (I know it's part of the plot but that seemed pretty unlikely anyway?) and 2) this family is a backwards stodgy religious creepy people that shouldn't be taken serious.

First of all I don't know of anywebhre outside of backwoods, tent revival, snake handling, fake tounges speaking hillbilly type places where dancing or hugging is forbidden. They make it out liek Christians forbid anythign whatsoever other than sitting in silence and praying. Then they attack this family's worldview as being backwards, outdated, and wrong. It's a punchlin that's meant to be made fun of. But when you actually look at it...what has this family actually done in reality? 1) They welcomed in a group of strangers to their home during inclement weaether. 2) While this group is supposedly some old school backwards charicature, the group of strangers they take in consists of a rapper, a dreaded-up black dude, his hispanic sidepiece, and an asian. Doesn't matter one iota to this family and all are welcomed. 3) They invite them to their table and share dinner with them 4) When gata's girl runs off mad, the mom asks if he'd liek to make a to-go plate for her. this family which is the butt of jokes for the whole episode in reality is nothing but kind, open, and hospitable to this group that feels from the very start that they are better and above them.

Maybe I'm overthinking it. I'm sure I probably am. I guess just in today's modern culture of 2023 it seems there is a constant attack on normal, everyday, white, Christian, conservative, America-loving folks and this episode just kind of perpetuated that. How many people watching this show coast to coast have ever spent more than 24 hours in Mississippi? Probably not many, but now that's how they view the south.