There was a big debate in Germany for the last couple of weeks about MTV's plan to show a cartoon series called Popetown. Accompanied by an advertising campaign (examples on Werbeblogger: "Laugh, don't hang around!" or "God sees everything. Except Popetown) which was perceived being offensive and blasphemic by the Roman-Catholic and the Lutheran churches, it started a huge controversy here in Germany even before the first episode was broadcasted. The Roman-Catholic Church sent MTV cease-and-desist letters and sued them for indecency prone to break the peace. Bavarian politicians of the Christian Social Union, which is the strongest political party in Bavaria, once again called for stronger laws agains blasphemy (thus trying to cut down freedom of art and freedom of expressing an opinion, which is guaranteed by the German constitution.) Even MTV offering that it will transmit only one episode, accompanied by a panel of experts discussing the conflict was not enough. The Roman-Catholic Church and the CSU demanded that even this single episode won't be shown.
Thank God they weren't successful. The episode was broadcasted yesterday.
Unfortunately, they generated so much publicity that I watched it. What a pile of unfunny, lame, childish, terrible rubbish. I cannot believe I wasted 20 minutes of my life for this. Yes, the episode is insulting. But not by harming the religious feelings of someone. It is insulting due to its mediocre animation, terribly uninspired writing, poor timing and even poorer attempts of being funny and provocative.
Thank you MTV and Roman-Catholic Church for wasting my time.
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