Talk:Latter Day Saints in popular culture

South Park
I recall seeing a South Park episode that was pretty critical of Mormonism, is there anybody who knows about it that could add it to this article?Gregmitch 19:16, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * From the original version of the page:
 * "There was an entire episode, All About Mormons, about Joseph Smith and the origins of the Church. There was the Super Best Friends episode featured Joseph Smith as a superhero."
 * &mdash; Scm83x hook 'em 20:13, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The South Park episode, while definitely poking fun at Mormonism at times, also makes pro-Mormon comments (well, at least, fairness to all religions), and since this article seems rather biased in its content, that episode would probably not fit in well with it. --ba 23:16, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * What this article is is sourced in its content. Nothing should go in unless it is accompanied by a cited source.  There's nothing wrong with discussing South Park here, and indeed the 21st century section could benefit from expansion, but only if you can point to some TV critic who has actually analysed the portrayal of Mormons and Mormonism in South Park.  If there's no such analysis to cite, South Park cannot be mentioned.  Wikipedia is not for the personal analyses of television shows by its editors, per our No original research policy. Uncle G 23:57, 23 August 2006 (UTC)


 * This section seems overtly biased, misinterpreting the use of Mormons in the show, particularly "In South Park it is only the Mormons who "got it right" and who go to Heaven after death," which A) is of little consequence, and B) could very well be considered to be satirical or sarcastic. Moonty 15:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Cold Case
I changed this a bit because Hicks indicated the show was a bit more offensive than this was implying. He states it had a serial killer who directly was inspired by Mormonism and that Mormon characters in it were all "oddballs." That said Cold Case, even though I enjoy it at times, is just in general a show that has problems with religion. In one episode a boy dies and it's found out he was on a Little League team ran by a Catholic priest. On learning this they instantly say something akin to "Oh we know what that means" and even though the priest is innocent the "Priests are all pedophiles" assumption is not really questioned or apologized for.--T. Anthony 00:19, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Mormon films
What about the portrayal of Mormons in Mormon media, like The Singles Ward, etc.? The Jade Knight 08:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * See also LDS cinema Cool Hand Luke 08:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Angels in America?
Does anybody know anything about the general Mormon reaction to the portrayal of Mormons in Tony Kushner's "Angels In America"? (Specifically in the HBO series, because I figure the play doesn't count as "popular media" so much.)

I've actually watched this with a girl who was raised Mormon, and she loved it, but also seemed to think that more devout members of her family and church wouldn't be too keen on it.

I'd just be really interested in how it would fare under Mormon scrutiny, because while it's a pretty scathing portrayal at times, there are also some really positive aspects to it...and I think the negative ones are fairly juxtaposed with similarily harsh reflections of Judaism, which is Kushner's own background.

Any thoughts?

Ohmynoti 17:16, 22 September 2007 (UTC)Ohmynoti

NPOV of Further Reading section
I added the npov-section template message to the Further Reading section. At first glance, it appears all of the references in this section are "pro-Mormon" oriented, which tilts the POV of the section significantly. It would be nice if this section had equal weight to so-called "pro" and "anti" material. Better yet would be to have (only) balanced material listed, though I'm not sure if that exists. tedder (talk) 02:48, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm... I wonder if the article on "Portrayals of Jews in popular media" links to anti-Semitic material... 66.75.28.139 (talk) 03:45, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Romanian film
Is The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians too anechdotical to be mentioned? --Error (talk) 01:00, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

LDS as perecutors
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome her persecution by members of her LDS church. Shouldn't that be in the article? --Uncle Ed (talk) 18:37, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Brief/trivial examples?
Is this page meant to list every time Mormons/LDS people have appeared in some work of popular culture (in which case it could probably be considerably expanded), or only those where they've played some significant role? I'd say the latter, in which case the 'brief appearances' in Burn Notice, Psych and The Strangers should be removed. Robofish (talk) 22:56, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with this and a few other trivial examples, which I removed. This isn't the place to say "there was an LDS missionary in this film." That's bordering on original research to collect them here. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 23:17, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

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