I remember the first time I saw a specific non-Catholic denomination mentioned–it was Family Matters. (I’m giving away my age [or youth] here, I know.) I forget what the setup to the joke was (something like “I’m going to be a veterinarian!”), but the punchline was “I thought we were Methodists!”
Yeah, ha ha. I’m not sure if I remember because I was surprised to hear a specific religious reference on TV, or because even by ABC’s standards the joke stood out as a stinker.
Well her family is a WASP sterotype so I gonna guess she’s either Episcopalian or Presbyterian.
Do fictional religions count? If so then there’s the Bajoran Way of the Prophets of DS9. Nearly every Bajoran either practiced it or was a lapsed Prophetist. Sisko converted. And there’s Battlestar Galactica with it’s Greco-Romanish polytheism. Most major Colonial characters (save Adama) are practicioners. Except Cavil all of the Cylons (& Baltar) are monotheists.
And Springfield was founded by a group of settlers, who, after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible, set out to find their New Sodom. (They schismed over whether they could marry their cousins, the pro-cousin-marriage faction founding Shelbyville.)
The South Park kids are Catholic, except for Kyle (Jewish) and, I think, Kenny (Pentecostal? Baptist? Something distinctively redneck-Southern, anyway).
Old, old American joke:
An Episopalian is a Presbyterian with a trust fund.
A Presbyterian is a Methodist with a college education.
And a Methodist is a Baptist with shoes.
Variation:
On MASH, Father Mulcahy was Catholic (of course) and Colonel Potter was Methodist. Hawkeye was either an athiest or an agnostic (I think he was an athiest in one episode and I know he was an agnostic in a different episode).
In the O.C the father’s side of the family is Jewish, the mother’s side some Christian faith. I’ve only watched two complete episodes, and in one of them the son celebrated his own special holiday, Christmakkah, so everyone would feel involved.
[OT]Does Paisley really consider himself Irish?[/OT]
The Simpsons belong to a generic Protestant sect. They’re not Episcopalian since one of the running gags in recent years has been Rev. Lovejoy’s open jealousy of the Episcopalian church in Springfield.