this is so funny to reread once you know they were dating at this point bc there are two options:
nobody twigged they were dating bc they both act Like That and they genuinely thought cd was just saddled with prowl against his will despite them being in. a long term relationship.
they did in fact know and just insulted chromedome's taste in men to his face
honestly the first one might even be the funnier option. everyone watching these two like 'damn, sucks for you tumbler' with no idea they've been dating for five thousand years. prowl does not correct them
actually breaking down the 'optimus prime is jesus' joke in detail is really funny if you think about g1. imagine if jesus died for our sins and then was resurrected, but the gap between these two events was really long, so an interim messiah was found to bridge the gap. the interim messiah is an impulsive twenty one year old with no experience and immediately becomes kind of depressed because this is so much pressure. before jesus resurrects properly, he is briefly a zombie