New on TV: Pain-in-the-ass cartoon liberals

The comedy here isn't character-driven so much as theme-driven -- relentlessly so...

There is a loose plot underneath all those p.c.-baiting jokes, formed around Helen's misguided desire to make her daughter, Bliss, talk to her openly about sex. Bliss responds by insisting on attending a creepy pro-abstinence father-daughter dance, where, in something closely resembling a wedding ceremony, fathers give their daughters "abstinence rings" symbolizing their virginity. Liberals may be unnervingly touchy-feely, Bliss learns, but conservatives can be downright twisted.

[From Mike Judge's pain-in-the-ass cartoon liberals | Salon Arts & Entertainment]