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''"So what happened to my church was what happened to many churches..."''

'''Bad''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1989|1989]]. It is similar to [[Building A Church]].

== Synopsis ==
A fellow with an East European accent ([[Arthur Miller]]?)  recounts
running a church in his home country.  It had all sorts of social
programs, but when it introduced real religion it was converted to a
public bath and mining camp and he was made a janitor in a factory.

1:30: He ran away by jumping onto a truck.  When it came near
a river, he jumped out, swam to a freighter, ended up on a banana boat
to Indonesia.  The ship got lost, ended up in England.  From there he
got work on a dirigible, flew to Indiana.  From there he skateboarded
to Kentucky, spent 3 days riding around on an amusement park train.
Then he rode a motorbike to Salinas, Oklahoma, got a job at a church,
became pastor, but left.  When Joe asked why, he said it was in
litigation, his lawyers told him not to talk about it.

7:10: A fellow, speaking in a strained, loud voice, tells a nonsense
history of how churches were built, that stained glass was invented by
spilling wine on glass; then of the use of bells on ships and in
churches.<ref>This sounds like the voice Joe uses in [[The Dictator (Part 1) | The Dictator]]</ref>

12:20: Then he explains the invention of tools from stones and animal
teeth.

13:20: An old Jewish man ([[Tim Jerome]]?) visits his son ([[Arthur Miller]]?), 
who tells him that he has converted to Christianity, to his dismay.<ref>abridged from [[Jewish Blues]]</ref>

15:30: The fellow with the loud, strained voice says that Notre Dame
was built only after Victor Hugo's famous novel set there, then a
bogus account of the building of the cathedral at Chartres.  Then he
launches into an extravagant account of Leopold I of Sardinia building
a massive cathedral at Boganville (sp?) beginning in 1215.  When it
was finally complete, in 1815, it collapsed.

21:10: A woman ([[Tess Steincolk]]) tells about her mother getting mad
at her and her younger sister, telling them she was going to sell them
to the Gypsies.  The mother kept this up long enough that they were in
tears at the gas station, when she told them they were going to visitB
their Aunt Margaret, which they did every summer.<ref name=woman>re-used in [[Woman And Bull In Paint Factory]]</ref>

28:20: 'The spirit cannot fail' (Bill Nelson)

30:10: 'I go to church I like to sprinkle two piles of broken glass,
molten ashes, thumbtacks, and carpet tacks on the floor and kneel down
on them for hours...' A masochist tells us what he does in church to
get the attention of Esmeralda.  A fellow reproves him for his
behavior, then asks him to come to his office, he's interested in a
business opportunity.<ref name=woman />

32:50: This fellow becomes the messianic leader of his own cult,
performs miraculous healings: 'deaf become psychiatrists,...  Mutes
ascend podiums, declaim from papal balconies, conduct telethons, and
host talk shows.  The crippled are transformed into decathlon
champions... the dead rise, freshen up, catch up on the latest trends
in music, science, hairstyles, and join the legions of the living.'

36:00: A carload of beautiful young women come to his mansion, have an
orgy with him.

38:20: A naughty yogi falls for hippie girls with 'big boobies'.<ref name=woman />

39:00: Loud, strained voice guy is back with explicit instructions for
offerings to be made to him.

40:20: A guy recounts his bad behavior when he was young: mooching off
his friends, stealing from them, driving over a bag lady, stabbing a
guy in a restaurant so he could use the pay phone first, setting 3 or
4 nurses on fire.  Then he wandered into a church, was uplifted,
wanted to build one.

46:20: A guy explains that the burning of
[https://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno Giordano Bruno]
was a cooking accident.  Then he goes on to say that the apostles fell
into the water when they tried to follow Jesus, and gives a nonsense
discourse on the Enlightenment, Moses and the 10 commandments, the
conversion of churches into secular buildings and other things
(sunglasses, Tupperware, Tiffany lamps...)

51:00: A guy ([[Larry Block]]) closes the show by telling Joe that
he's disappointed with the turn his shows has taken, particularly this
one; he liked only Tess Steincolk's story.  He recommends Joe take a
break, come up with new ideas.<ref name=woman />

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;">
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">

A minister is imprisoned, escapes using every imaginable transportation.  Sounds of construction.  The history of church building, windows, clock bells and time-keeping on ships by counting slowly, the history of tools, screws v/s nails.  A son tells his Jewish father he's converting to Christianity.  Notre Dame was built based on Hugo's description in NDDP.  The cathedral of Chartres was originally a tiny church. A cathedral was built by slaves collapsed 600 years later and plunges the land into chaos. A woman talks about her mother pretending to sell her to gypsies. "This spirit cannot fail you" preacher. Mutilating oneself in church. Becoming the leader of a sect, an orgy in a tent, instructions for making offerings.  The nature of love.  A man takes advantage of everyone, kills people, experiences a conversion. Sounds of church building.  The recycling of churches as secular buildings and consumer goods.  Larry complains about the show, suggests Joe take a vacation.
</div></div>
== Music ==
{{Body Of Light (Bill Nelson)}} [6:05]
{{Kiss Me When I Get Back (Tom Tom Club)}} [12:54]
{{The Spirit Cannot Fail (Bill Nelson)}} [29:30]
{{Ponta De Lança Africano (Umbabarauma) (Jorge Ben)}} [31:10]

== Shared material ==
* [[Building A Church]] 
* [[Woman And Bull In Paint Factory]]
* [[Jewish Blues]]
== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Tim Jerome]], [[Tess Steincolk]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[Larry Block]], [[Paul Mantell]], and Joe Frank. This program was created in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]], and was recorded and mixed by Jerry Summers. Special thanks to Richard Eisner and Nan Lieberman."

== Miscellanea ==
* Contains material from [[Building A Church]] (1988), with music changes.
== Footnotes ==
[[Category:Improv_Actors]]
[[Category:Real_People]]
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Tim Jerome]]
[[Category:Tess Steincolk]]
[[Category:Arthur Miller]]
[[Category:Larry Block]]
[[Category:Paul Mantell]]
[[Category:1989]]
[[Category:Work In Progress]]
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19890005]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1989}}
{{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=[[Tim Jerome]], [[Tess Steincolk]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[Larry Block]], [[Paul Mantell]], Joe Frank}}