By Karen Townsend
Life News
I sat through all ten episodes of the second season of Netflix’s Big Mouth, an animated adult sitcom, so you don’t have to and all I can say is, that is five hours I’ll never get back. You’re welcome. I honestly don’t know why this series was brought back for another season unless it was to simply appease the liberal universe with their 30-minute ode to Planned Parenthood.
Season two began streaming October 5 and continued inappropriately exploring puberty and sexual themes for its tween characters. Episode 5, titled “The Planned Parenthood,” was the most obnoxious, especially for anyone in the pro-life community. The entire episode was devoted to convincing twelve and thirteen-year-old students on the merits of Planned Parenthood.
Coach Steve (Nick Kroll) is newly sexually active and boasts about it to the sex education class he is teaching. To say that Steve is a bumbling idiot is being kind. When he admits he didn’t wear a condom during his first sexual experience with a woman, even the students were speaking up about the importance of doing so.
As STDs and unwanted pregnancies were brought up, one student suggests that Steve go to a Planned Parenthood for more information. When he asks, “What’s Planned Parenthood?” Jay Bilzerian (Jason Mantzoukas) answers, as many of us would, by saying, “It’s an abortion factory.” He says he was told that by his father, a lawyer who regularly drops his receptionists off there. Ugh. Two of the girls, Missy Foreman-Greenwald (Jenny Slate) and Jessi Glaser (Jessi Klein), gave credence to the standard liberal feminist line that Planned Parenthood provides cancer screening and “they save lives.” Jay’s response is to ironically question, “By killing babies?”
The episode progresses to various sketches promoting Planned Parenthood. Andrew’s (John Mulaney) mother daydreams about her younger days and we follow her hooking up with a one night stand, discovering she’s pregnant, going to Planned Parenthood for an abortion, and getting into a fender bender with the man who turns out to be Andrew’s dad on the way home, all while the upbeat song “Groove Is in the Heart” plays.
The audience is lectured that it is a misconception that Planned Parenthood mostly performs abortions. “Abortions make up only a tiny percentage of what they do,” one of the students parrots the old debunked line, citing other things like breast exams. Actually, Planned Parenthood does less than one percent of all PAP smears in the U.S., less than two percent of all breast exams, but over 30 percent of all abortions.
In another scene, a skit acted out by the class is set in the future, with a Star Wars-like opening reading: “The year is 2126. The evil Lord Bilzerian has declared women’s healthcare ‘gay’ and outlawed all Planned Parenthoods. Luckily, an elite medical team travels the galaxy, helping women in need. Led by Captain Missy Foreman-Greenwald, the are … The Vagilantes.”
