The Book Of Mormon: "Making Things Up Again"

[NewImperade]

Oh god... BLRRRRSSSSGSHHHHH MORDOR!

[greenapplenightsky]

I want to marry the black guy in 2:48 to 2:52

[MrNoodlegirl]

"You're taking the holy word and adding fiction." Ohhh the irony....

[AlexielSnape]

This is why I like to be a story teller.

And not Mormon.

[MrROTD]

As soon as there's Space Mormons I'm joining

[BrokenHeartxox]

Just got tickets for this in chicago at the end of december. Going to be so worth it :)

[VulcanFleet]

Now on my Bucket List: Write a holy book that says not to rape anybody, mutilate anybody, give anybody AIDS, or bad shit like that, so that religious people of the future have something to cite and don't have to ad lib it.

[bluexrhapsody81]

6 people have maggots in their scrotums

[RocketeerAndRoll]

This is literally one of the funniest things ever written. I laugh so hard to these songs, the first time I had tears streaming down my face.

[KoKoJazz99]

Uh, 'Behold', the Lord said to the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, 'You shall not have sex with that infant..!'

LO! Joseph said, 'Why not Lord? Huh? Why not?'

And the Lord said, 'If you lay with that infant you shall...Pghwwwww!...burn in the fiery pits of Mordor!!"

......

LMAO!! XD

[coffeeandfeather]

I want to hug Arnold... he's so helpful...

[GenNormanSheiskoph]

Very funny in a jaded, cynical, kinda screwy way. Good laffs. Kind of sad too. The death of childhood innocence and the ability to believe. Brilliantly done though. I shan't sic my troops on you. - General "Stormin Norman" Sheiskoph.

[Jessica1017Leigh]

Ohhhhhh, so blowjob? 

[thomashester2]

@Jessica1017Leigh you have to listen for the subtext haha

[Drakethatsme]

I wish my conscience sang to me in three part harmony.

[rozasupreme]

Raping a baby takes me to Mordor? I'm going to the maternity ward fro a moment....

>.>

<.<

[RawrRiza]

Psh, clearly the creators have never read the Bible. All this stuff is totally in it. ;)

[OddBallent]

5 people are going to go and rape a baby.

[akibubba1]

"Your making things up a-gain Ar-nold"-very catchy--kinda' got a 60's flavor to it...ohhh,dat Jo-sef Smeeth, he be all up n' da' hoood like that -- his mind always on the future, this one...never on where he is or what he is doing--no,no,no-he is too old to train to be a Jedi..."But wasn't I the same way,master ?"......"Yoda!?" - Lord Vader, we have located the rebels on the ice planet Toth - shall we coordinate the attack on thier base ? (WTF-what happened to the Mormons ??) 

[nosubstituteforyou]

who is the one who said "up again, making things you are"?

[ruddor32]

@nosubstituteforyou Yoda from Star Wars, it is!

[arizonabay6]

'You're recklessly warping the word of Jesus.' For some reason that line makes me crack up the most. Must be the way its sung.

[dchallenger86]

"Christ never said nothing about no clitoris"

Arnold- "YES!!!! YES HE DID!!!!"

[AmmonIsTheWhat]

This makes being a mormon funny as hell lol i hate seeing tight ass mormons being a holes about not watching movies rated anything over pg 13 its rediculis and this is funny as hell

[ChristinaShea98]

Up again, making things you are!

[rtardbox]

@CentristFiasco yeah, sure, and the Negro collision of America along with the NAACP praised the Mormon Church as the greatest church on earth and proclaimed the Book of Mormon to be true

see, we can all make up lies!

[2leftarms]

@rtardbox He's right. Their official statement basically said it was entertaining, just that it shouldn't be taken seriously.

[rtardbox]

@2leftarms talk is cheap... let's see the link as to this "official lds church statement"

[2leftarms]

@rtardbox Aren't you on the internet? Do you not know how to use google?

[14ocie]

@DoctorHalabastard hey...take it easy.

[battyangel]

lol "the firey pits of Mordor!"

[rtardbox]

this is way more anti-christian than anti-mormon

[mimmar3891]

@rtardbox How do you figure that? Yes, many of their jokes could apply to Christians as well, but it's very specifically targeting Mormons as the butt of the jokes. "I Believe" is all about all the more bizarre aspects of the faith, and the whole plotline is centered around the 2 year mission, which is a Mormon thing. Today's fundamentalists don't even acknowledge Mormons as Christians, although Mormons themselves do identify as a form of Christianity. In any case, it's hilarious and I love it!

[DeJay14]

your making things up again...darwin

[cwood4ever]

I'm sure this play is funny and Trey and Matt think they are trying to ruffle some feathers. But if they really want to show they got nuts make a play of Mohamed. They would be dead within a year.

[centerfold8]

I am a Christian , but i kno ppl believe what they are willing. btw his intentions weren't to lead them astray

[j4c300]

@Asgard314 You can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that some religions (lds for example) are false using empirical evidence. (but I won't go into that) And if our conciousness does end after death, I'd rather live a happier life because I didn't waste 1/7 of it for church. If you were to assume there was a god (I wouldn't, but hypotheticaly) you would probably chosen the wrong god out of the thousands from history and today.

[InfinitePlaylist909]

It doesn't say no where about no Cl!tori$! YEEEEEEEEES! YES HE DID!

[rodneysiev]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! YES HE DIIIIIIIIIIIIIID!

[CalmBlue]

I'm actually fine with the Cessation of Existence version of the afterlife. It's nowhere I haven't been.

[watchmatic8]

@CalmBlue Better then hanging out with mormons.

[CalmBlue]

@watchmatic8 Zing!

[antejenn]

@redredrosesleep I was just starting a debate to help get that message across, but I forgot here is where snark and sarcasm and one-upmanship rule with an iron fist. So I'll gtfo kthxbai

[segaface3]

I'm going to go and rape a baby...

[perciusmandate]

I love the incredibly determined way that guy says "I'm going to go and rape a baby" lol

[olgap35]

Star Wars and Lord of the Rings references in a musical about Mormon missionaries in Africa. This is the best musical ever created.

[bmncmustburninhell]

4 PEOPLE FUCK FROGS

[cbrme97]

GO HOBBITS!!

[CameronWasmund]

Anyone else find "Clitoris" at 3:00 hilarious for some reason?

[antejenn]

Wait -- what is Arnold doing that's any different than Joseph Smith did? According to the others, he's making things up to supplement an existing religion. Just what Joseph Smith did. It's in the religion to make things up to add to the existing dogma. Mormons have done this since the religion started by calling their leaders "prophets" and allowing them to add whatever they liked and deeming it "holy."

[Asgard314]

@antejenn That's kinda the point of the song. :P

But really, we can't prove whether or not anything said in any religion is false. It's a Devils Proof, we weren't present when it was said to have happened, we only have the writings of the "Prophets" of all of the religions. Every religion might be true, we don't know and won't know until we die. And if none of them are true, then I guess we wouldn't really care at that point considering the fact that our conciousness wouldn't exist.

[antejenn]

@Asgard314 Your comment points out the importance of empirical knowledge. And who is to say that if none of the religions are true, consciousness ends at death? You call it "fact," but we should only call something a "fact" if we have proof of it, and there's no proving consciousness ceases to exist upon death.

[Asgard314]

@antejenn If heaven and Hell doesn't exist, if our lives are nothing from the point we start living to where we die, if everything we are is only stored by our brain and our souls don't exist, then wouldn't that mean our contiousness is gone? Maybe it's just turned off, but if our bodies decay to the point that the brain itself rots away, wouldn't that mean our contiousness is lost forever? (That is, assuming that heaven and hell doesn't exist, which I believe they do.)

[DeJay14]

@antejenn its true



[Darby969]

"I'm going to go rape a baby-"

"WHATOYMYGAWYOUCAN'T DO THAT! NO!"

[SpartanOnFire]

Josh Gad should have won the Tony.

[Bookman230]

"I know you're really depressed, what with all your AIDS and shit."

[sebastianrc]

mordor... hahaha

[mumbogumbo144]

"Joseph Smith?"

[josh0sborn]

"Come on, hobbits!"

[AlaskanWolf16]

'You're taking the holy word and adding fiction."

Best part here.

[strawberryicemint]

This reminds me of Avenue Q.

[Mrrussd10]

@strawberryicemint Well, one of the guys who wrote this musical, Robert Lopez, also created Avenue Q. And when Trey Parker and Matt Stone went to see Avenue Q, that's how they met.

[eyescandeceive]

@frungus2 but right before they did, Jesus had Boba Fett turn them into FROGS

[CandyApple410]

@eyescandeceive ....... Frogs? You mean like the frog that got f*cked by Joseph Smith?

[MmazingGirl123]

"Christ never said nothin' 'bout no clitoris."

[kristi5207]

"The clitoris is holy amongst all things"

(continues with song)"Your making things up again arnold..."

LOLOL

[PJ8596]

Don't Mormons in general recklessly warp the words of Jesus?

[rogermwilcox]

@PJ8596 Yes -- like the lyrics go, they're "taking the holy word and adding fiction" by adding the Book of Mormon onto the end of the New Testament.

But then again, the Christians did the very same thing when they added the New Testament onto the end of the Old Testament.

[Sabertoothy12]

This is one of my favorite song :)

[ayeletkessel]

Oh my god, this is hilarious every time I'm watching it. This is like the fifth time TODAY. "YYYYYYYESSS, YESS HE DIDDDD"

[Zhen13579]

I could totally geek out with Arnold Cunningham.

[radadamsable]

I saw the show a week ago, and it was honestly one of the best things I have ever witnessed. It's extremely funny, and of course has that raunchy South Park humor, but it also has the deep social commentary that South Park also has. It deserved every Tony Award and every 4 star rating it got. If you have the chance to see it, GO SEE IT. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. I've been trying to find videos of this, but all I can settle for is the soundtrack, and replaying it in my head. IT'S THAT GOOD

[eyescandeceive]

@radadamsable there is one video of Rannells performing I Believe on the Tony Awards. That is the only one that has been allowed on YouTube so far. Go to SophiaBPuentes channel for the best version.

[McNugget06]

Hahaha, irony at it's best. Joseph Smith telling HIM about making things up, hahaha.

[TheDJDent]

"And the Lord said, 'If you lay with that infant, you shall... BURN IN THE FIERY PITS OF /MORDOR!/"

Fucking win.

[dancing0twilight0fan]

Dear 2 dislikers,

YOU SHALL BURN IN THE FIREY PITS OF MORDOR.

Love the other 48

[Americangal18]

@dancing0twilight0fan hahahahaha.... Mordor.

[linkx37284]

This is hilarious, but he's nto a very good missionary x.x He could have talked about how you may only lay with your spouse, and it's a sin to do otherwise. But the frog thing works too.

[acuteAnglerfish]

"Where in that book of yours does it say anything about sleeping with a baby?"

So true... hahaha

[CandyApple410]

STARWARS REFFRENSE!!!!!!!!!!

[CandyApple410]

LORD OF THE RINGS REFRENSE YAY MORADOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tredlow]

"Why not, lord, huh? Why not?"

[calicocal]

The meaning of the musical is that it isn't religion that helps people, its the kindness of people.

[ojj75]

Did I hear Yoda on this song? Near the end? lol :D

[loqutor]

I'm a Mormon, and I've heard most of the songs from this musical. Yes, a couple of them were offensive and, to me, downright blasphemous, but I honestly didn't sense any malice in them. All in all, the message that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are trying to send, as far as I can tell, is that religion is capable of doing great good, even if it's downright silly or possibly false. That message is certainly one that I can stand by, given what the gospel of Jesus Christ has done for me in my life.

[ripdog7]

@loqutor You mean all the good work that Mormons have done such as using its front-group, THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE, who coordinated and financed along with the help of hundreds of thousands of Mormons all over the US who funneled 30 million Mormon dollars into California coffers to purchase the passage of California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8. Is that what you mean by "doing great good"?



[loqutor]

@ripdog7 Yes, I'd say protecting separation of Church and State is a pretty good thing.

[lbmixpro]

@ripdog7 The NOFM is also funded by Catholics and other religions as well. It just happens to be that LDS members are mostly rich, and take their definition of marriage and family VERY seriously. (look up why it is, starting with "Proclamation to the World"). To them, marriage is the authority to procreate naturally; something same sex couples cannot do. They don't care what anybody else thinks, as long as it doesn't legally get in the way of their definition, and it has in the past.

[ripdog7]

@lbmixpro Humor (even The Book of Mormon play!) is an effective technique to introduce and desensitize the populace to a new or otherwise strange idea that might at first be rejected. Mormons “serve” in disproportionate numbers in many important areas of government (Homeland Security, FBI etc.). They have always promoted the idea of a Theocracy (more recently manipulatively repackaged as “Theo-Democracy”- nonsense). There are more serious issues with this cult than Magic Underware .

[loqutor]

@ripdog7 Could I borrow that tinfoil helmet when you're done with it?

[artvandelayist]

Cunningham reminds me of that guy from Clerks II. You know the guy with Pussy Troll problem.

[awishfulthought]

1 person will burn in the fiery pit of Mordor XDDD

[hummingbird899]

WHAT OH MY NO YOU CANT DO THAT, NO!!

[paolo2012]

OH COME ON HOBBITS!



[nomdesouris]

Elder Cunningham is one of the most ADORABLE characters in all musicals. So much bless!

[BellatrixNellieLovet]

@nomdesouris as he did EVERYTHING i was like "yeah....he was totally barf in spelling bee" hahahha

[doggonruby]

'up again making things you are' haha I love it!!!!!!

[xshortiexx]

"MORDORRR!"

"C'mon hobbits!"

[LisaMarieButch]

But chopping off the foreskin is god's will?

[nomdesouris]

@LisaMarieButch I'm going to go out on a limb and say that were there actually an omniscient, omnipotent being running the Universe, said being would not have included extraneous bits of genitalia that had to be sliced off human babies of either gender. I'm going to say no to genital mutilation of any stripe, and I feel pretty confident that God would be with me on that one.

[mawehe63]

where in that book of yours does it say anything about sleeping with a baby, ehh? nowwhere

[edolder]

If the Mormons believe that Blacks are worth something ($ to the church) since 1970's, how many are in the highest leadersip in Salt Lake City, Utah?

[tredlow]

Did the book of Mormon really said "BCHEEEUUUU..!"?

[bmncmustburninhell]

@tredlow lol

[RavenHairedMommy]

Hmmm... so what this show tells us is that if the Africans follow Mormonism, there would be no more rape of young virgins or female circumcision and essentially the spread of AIDS would go down remarkably. Interesting.

[lucinator92]

hahaha Modor :P

[XxxBOOKWORMx2012xxX]

...really??

uuuuhhhhhhuuuhhh UhhhHHUUUUUUHHH!



[ritsfata]

Mordor. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.

[abbetsill]

Ah Mormonism, a real Man's religion. Made by men for men.

[failedrenegade]

I am going to go rape a baby

[PeaceLove4N6]

I'm making this up again.... kind of?

[MrJohook12]

You mean like the frog that got fcked by Joseph Smith??

[iCharltonApp]

@MrJohook12 *DUNDUNDUN* Right... RIGHTTTTTTT Like those frogs!

[MrDieselWolf]

Up again making thing you are........Arnold.

Love it !

[Fendertastic]

Christ neva said nuttin bout no clitoris.

[mclineohio]

@Fendertastic YESSSSSS! YEESSSSSS HE DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDD!

[hsmithtv]

@Fendertastic YYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSS YYYYYAAAASSSS HEEEE DDDDIIIIDDDDDD

[13altrockmusic]

@Fendertastic YESS!!!! YES HE DID!!!!

[loqutor]

@Fendertastic Yeeeeeeeesss!  Yes he did!

[jascar111]

@Fendertastic YES HE DID!

[PeaceLove4N6]

Elder Cunningham is the best... ever. 'nuff said.