‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Mocks: Church Is Like Costco

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By Alexa Moutevelis Coombs | November 30, 2016 | 2:34 AM EST

ABC seemed intent on taking down organized religion on Tuesday night. In the Fresh Off the Boat episode “WWJD: What Would Jessica Do?” Jessica (Constance Wu) is terrified she will lose her youngest son Evan (Ian Chen) to God.

Sundays are special Mommy and Evan days when they spend hours shopping at Costco together, but one day, Evan decides he wants to go to church with his friend instead. Jessica does not approve because the Huang family is “mostly lapsed Buddhists who believe in some Chinese superstition, but also like Christmas, but in a festive, not-religious way.” Instead of allowing her son the freedom to explore religion on his own like a normal parent, she tries to stop it.

Jessica is bizarrely jealous of Evan’s relationship with God and becomes competitive – “God's got nothing on Mommy.” She doesn’t like him praying – “What conversation does he need to be having with God that he can't have with his own mother?” She discounts the stories from the Bible. Jonah surviving in the belly of a whale? “Impossible.” Noah’s Ark? “You're telling me a man had the chance to let all the snakes drown, and instead, he put two of them on a boat? No, that's not real.” She even pretends to be the voice of God to tell Evan to stop going to church.