Mr Show With Bob and David: "The Limits of Science"

"Mr Show With Bob and David" 1995-1998. David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, Home Box Office (HBO). Youtube 10.07.06

Mr Show was a sketch comedy show starring Bob Odenkirk and David Cross inthe mid to late 1990s. The show featured sketches based on absurd premises often dealing with religion, politics and relatively taboo topics. In the clip below, the show makes fun of religious beliefs of the past by showing how ridiculous they were. As people of the 21st century we can look at this and laugh, wondering how people could possibly believe the things they did, because in the clip, as in real life back then, people really did believe these things and other similar ideas. This clip not only makes fun of beliefs from the past, but it can also be transposed as an observation on today's spiritual and religious beliefs. Granted science has come a long way since the middle ages, but there are still those (many people) who hold on to beliefs. As a documentary made during the middle ages (an absurd idea in itself) people watching it at the time would have believed what it said. Viewers now look at it and scoff. Which makes us wonder, what present day documentaries about science or religion will people hundreds or thousands of years from now watch and view as being absurd? This sketch works on the level of making fun of religion and it also comments that science is an ever moving forward process and it is important to always be skeptical.