``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting,
scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy
out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»
The Milwaukee jury's refusal to accept his argument that he was only exercising his artistic freedom simply highlighted the hypocrisy of the damned human race that so appalled Twain's Satan and such of his epigones as the late Lenny Bruce — whose
scatological humor, as the late Ralph Gleason once pointed
out in Rolling Stone, «challenged society at its very roots.»
Here's further proof that
scatological humor is not a comic evil unto itself, and that it can work if the setup (a hypochondriac) and focus (said hypochondriac's reaction) serve something more than just grossing
out the audience.
Gulp, however, with its singular focus on the ins and
outs of the digestive tract, is Roach's opportunity to indulge in high - brow
scatological humor and dive into research about methane, chewing, and laxatives.