THE VEALS
Meet the Veals
The Veal family is where most of the religion in the show comes from. They are a devout evangelical Christian family, who are often the comdeic foils to the Bluth family. The Veal who gets the most airtime throughout the show is Ann Veal, who is a love interest to both George-Michael Bluth and G.O.B. It is through Ann that the Veals become the Flanders to the Bluth's Simpsons.
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The Veal family is portrayed as being the stereotypical evangelical family. Which makes the Bluth's uncomfortable, particularly George-Michael who has trouble understanding Ann's family given his family is areligious and have almost no morals or ethics. But the Veal's are nontheless presented as having strange rituals and one member in particular that believes that judgement day is coming, and generally makes George-Michael, at that point a teenage boy, very uncomfortable.
The Veal's are intended to come across as incredibly gullible and passive towards the Bluth's, much in the same way Ned Flanders was gullible and passive towards Homer Simpson, and that is acoomplished. When G.O.B. unintentionally proposes to Ann in the fourth season, her entire family comes out of bed in the middle of the night to celebrate her engagement to a significantly older man, hugging them both because that's what stereotypical evangelical families do.
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In the fourth season, the show satirizes televangelism with Ann's father, Pastor Terry Veal as one of the hosts, along with father Marsala. With a comedically long and awkward title that makes light of Christianity's tendancy to have rather awkward phrasing. It is a humorous exaggeration of the medium.
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