YMMV / The Scathing Atheist

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • One example was when they brought on the hosts of the Cognitive Dissonance Podcast in episode 128, where they listed jokes about the controversy regarding fetuses and Planned Parenthood.
  • One week Noah made a passing joke of making a top ten list of analogies involving puppy rape. Guess what was in the show the following week?
  • A recent running gag involves Eli loudly declaring that he wants to fuck a child. Funnily enough, their (now former) lawyer Andrew says that the more times that Eli makes this joke that is so absurdly beyond the pale, the less likely they will be successfully sued, since it's clear that everything within the context of the show is for comedy purposes.
  • On God Awful Movies episode 57 - "The Unexpected Bar Mitzvah" at the Breakfast Club Close outtro Eli sings a song about and then states he's going to create his new business "Holocaust Bagel Store" and no one should dare to steal his idea. A minute later after BCC when everyone is now singing, "Holocaust Bagel Store", Eli adds a tagline "Holocaust Bagels, they're all burned!"
  • Their annual charity, Vulgarity for Charity, includes their friends Tom and Cecil of Cognitive Dissonance. Tom is a salesman and a poet, and his roasts go dark. So dark that everyone is appalled and enthused by the depths and heights he's willing to sink and rise to in order to [checking notes] raise money for charity. Tom's not vulgar. His is a nonstop Existential Horror of a roast.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: The results of their ‘Vulgarity for Charity’ drives, with them raising nearly $300,000 in 2019. It took them more than a year to successfully do all of the requested roasts.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: The crew's assessment of Rock: It's Your Decision, which is a film against rock music that makes its point by putting fun music throughout the film that's actually pretty exciting. It's also (according to Eli, anyway) a fairly accurate view of Eli's life, but without the main character waking up with a pug sitting on his face and a girlfriend playing ukelele at four in the morning.
• Genius Bonus: It helps to be knowledgeable in world politics, science, literature, the English language, films, and pop culture to get all the jokes. Keep this in mind when Noah compliments a patron's penis by stating that it has Lagrange Points.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The hosts freely admit that, after more than a decade making these podcasts, they've all learned and grown as people and comedians, and a lot of the jokes they made in the early days they would never do now.
  • The crew was excited for their 100th episode. Unfortunately, the Charlie Hebdo Massacre occurred the week before the episode posted, resulting in a more solemn episode than usual.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In Episode 48, the hosts talked about an Adventist Pastor named Ryan Bell, who decided to "Try Atheism for a Year", with them being tongue-in-cheek about his sincerity. About a year and a half later, he is a figure in the atheist movement, and is interviewed in the show.
• Periphery Demographic: It turns out that some GAM fans are Christians themselves who just really hate the terrible religious movies their loved ones forced them to watch growing up.
• Strawman Has a Point: Common in Christian films, who have the artistic freedom to represent the antagonists as poorly as they want, yet a lot of good points against theism are still raised (and practically never addressed).