In Clue one pops up after a few of the other unannounced guests to the mansion have died.They even came prepared with some copies of The Watchtower magazine, and accurately described Witness belief in their brief exchange with the Coneheads. In Coneheads it is averted and played for laughs when Michael McKean and David Spade impersonate Jehovah's Witnesses in order to get into Dan Aykroyd's house in the film.Averted in A Perfect World, where it's really only mentioned that they don't celebrate birthdays or Halloween.The title actually comes from the fact it's about a cop protecting an Amish boy who's the only witness to a murder. ![]() In truth, the film was going to be titled Called Home and was pretty wise up on Amish practices. There's an Urban Legend that Witness was named for the writer confusing the Amish with Jehovah's Witnesses.Thanks to his powers, anyone who looks at the Mansion will read that it is the "Westchester Chapter of the Jehovah's Witnesses", and not a mutant safe haven. A thinly-veiled Shallow Parody of the Jehovah's Witnesses shows up in Ninja Nuns, with their "God" being an anthropomorphic door phone.On a later occasion, we have a Jehovah's Witness knock on Rat-Man's door, and we're treated to his own way to scare them away. The first story has the titular 'hero' being mistaken for one when he knocks on the door of the Buffoon's lair and presents himself as "I'm Rat-Man! I bring justice among those who walk on the wrong path!", prompting the Mooks to grab the knives to 'make him disappear'. not voting, not joining the army, not working in government jobs, and generally not acknowledging the existence of the nation-state).Īlso, it's grammatically incorrect to say "a Jehovah's Witness." The phrase "one of Jehovah's Witnesses" is more correct and is more commonly used by actual Witnesses. However, the real life ones have committees trained to point out the alternatives to blood transfusion, even having had heart surgery performed without transfusions without lowering survival rates - but that wouldn't make for such an interesting moral dilemma in Medical Drama. They do indeed believe that blood is sacred and thus they reject blood tranfusions. Now those guys do believe that only 144,000 will go to heaven, yes (technically, rule heaven alongside Jesus), but that's not what most of them are aiming for: other good people will rebuild earth into a paradise and live there for a thousand years before the final Judgment Day. Yeah, there happens to be this other Real Life religion with a similar name but they've got all this extra junk about the true nature of Christ, the method of Salvation, organizational structure and all those other things that you can't fit into a 42-minute hour. May also believe in not having jobs/not believe in the Bible/not believe in Jesus/not believe in having any medicine at all, depending on how much the particular writer skimped on research.Cue Very Special Episode about respecting beliefs or not so special episode about respecting life more, the shocking revelation that the Littlest Cancer Patient isn't getting that life saving treatment because their parents are Jehovah's Witnesses and legal wrangling to overrule them. ![]()
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