History WesternAnimation / GodTheDevilAndBob

* PartingWordsRegret: In "Bob's Father" just before Bob's father dies he tells him to go to Hell. Then he's afraid he damned him to Hell just by saying that.
* PassThePopcorn: Andy and Megan are enjoying a bowl while watching the neighbors having a lovers spat.
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: When the Devil takes all the evil out of the world, God insists Bob visit Hell to talk sense into him. Bob is less than comfortable with this plan. "Oh, for Pete's sake, you've been to Branson, Missouri. It's not that different."
* PlayingAgainstType: In spite of Bob's animation model resembling him, this role is a departure from the kinds of roles French Stewart is best known for.

* PalsWithJesus: Bob is God's Go-To Guy and pops in to talk about stuff or some {{plan}} of his.

** He also point blank refuses to take RichardNixon. "I don't want him in hell! It's not fair to everyone else!"

** Finnily enough the final episode of the series has Bob start his own group of moral guardians which doesn't work out so great, the moral of that story was KevinBacon is a really good dancer.

* JerkassGod: One episode shows God casually talking about restarting the world with marsupals as the dominant species, while humans are 'somewhere on the food chain'. Usually averted, see GodisGood.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The Devil is Creator/AlanCumming, God is James Garner, and Bob is French Stewart. Seems that [[{{Rugrats}} Phil]] is the voice of Bob's son.
** Sarah in the episode "God's Girlfriend" is voiced by ElizabethTaylor (her last role).
** Megan is voiced by [[TheSimpsons Bart]].

* {{Cool Car}}: The Devil's car.

* {{Drunken Montage}}: Subverted - "I never knew neon signs were so interesting."

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: While trying tp tempt Bob into cheating on Donna, Lucifer transforms an old homeless woman into a stunning young blonde in a hot red dress.

* EvilPlan: The Devil wants to tempt Bob into sin so he'll go to hell, just to spite God.

* ThisLoserIsYou: Bob, a dim witted, perverted and bumbling man is supposed to represent all of humanity.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The Devil is AlanCumming, God is James Garner, and Bob is French Stewart. Seems that [[{{Rugrats}} Phil]] is the voice of Bob's son.

* AllThereInTheManual

* BlackBestFriend

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Megan.
* BumblingDad: Bob.
* CardCarryingVillain: The Devil.
* CheerfulChild: Andy.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Apparently the reason why Andy can see God.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint

* CoolShades: God has a pair.
** So does the Devil, occasionally.
* CrapsackWorld: Probably slightly justified in that the episodes generally take place in Detroit.

* EpicFail: The eleventh circle of Hell has been neglected for a while. The result? It's a golf course.
-->'''Smeck:''' That one [[{{Understatement}} got away from me]], sir.

* {{Figure It Out Yourself}}: Inverted: God gives clear instructions most of the time, yet Bob doesn't get the point.
** Sometimes, but often his instructions ''are'' at least somewhat vague. Also, his clear instructions in "Bob Gets Committed" may have been part of a BatmanGambit to get Bob into the insane asylum.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell
** Except for the Fourth Circle, which got turned into a giant golf course when the Devil wasn't paying attention.
* FlamingDevil

* ForgottenBirthday: "The Devil's Birthday." God apparently forgets every year. Which hurts the devil more because God is supposed to be omniscient (know everything about everything everywhere)
* GoAmongMadPeople: "Bob Gets Committed."
* GodIsGood: Of course.

* GodKartingWithBeelzebub: Many episodes begin with the two hanging out together.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: God and the Devil certainly look like this at times.

* {{Humanity On Trial}}

* InvisibleToAdults: God can be seen by "innocents," which includes children like Andy (but not teens like Megan). At least some mental patients also have this trait.
** For what it's worth, Andy apparently could ''not'' see through the Devil's disguise when he imitated Bob, but still realized right away that he was some sort of an impostor.

* TheInternetIsForPorn: Talked about - if people had no porn on the television then they would have to find it on the internet instead.
* JerkassGod: Sort of.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Smeck.
* MoralGuardians: After an assload of blasphemy complaints in the United States, NBC canceled it there after only four episodes, and it was not shown again in the U.S. until a decade later on Creator/AdultSwim. The whole series was aired overseas earlier though.
* MultiCharacterTitle
* NewMediaAreEvil
* NighInvulnerability: Bob thinks he has this, so much that he decides to [[spoiler:wrestle a robber with a gun and skydive without a parachute. God tells him he's not and it's just a fluke and the Devil is pretty vague about it]], but God could be lying, being an in-universe cross between LyingCreator and UnreliableNarrator.

* PlayingAgainstType: In spite of Bob's animation model even resembling him, this role is quite a departure from the kinds of roles French Stewart is best known for.

* PalsWithJesus
* RebelWithoutACause: Megan.

* TakeOurWordForIt: When Bob demands to know why God allows evil to exist, the sound of a train going past prevents the viewer from hearing God's answer.
** Though, in another episode, God reveals that the reason he allows evil to exist is because he believes being good is pointless without evil to balance it out.
* SycophanticServant: Smeck.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Bob, of course.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The Devil is on the receiving end of this more than once. When he hires Martha Stewart to help him redecorate the fourth circle of Hell, he ends up completely pushed aside. When he pretends to be an ordinary teenager to get close to Bob's daughter, he realizes he's forgotten how depressing teenagers can be and abandons the scheme halfway through their date.
** He also point blank refuses to take RichardNixon.

* UglyGuyHotWife
* TheUnreveal: Right when God is about to reveal why he allows evil in the world, a train comes by and its toot censors out everything he says.

* VillainSong

* WellDoneSonGuy: The Devil's animosity toward God stems from this. Yep, Lucifer's Morningstar's fall from grace and subjugation of Hell were all caused by daddy issues.

* {{Drunken Montage}}: Subverted.

EveryoneLovesBlondes: While trying tp tempt Bob into cheating on Donna, Lucifer transforms an old homeless woman into a stunning young blonde in a hot red dress.
* EverythingsBetterWithBob.

** Except for the Fourth Circle, which got turned into a giant golf course when the Devil wasn't paying attention.

The show touched on many family issues, including a family member dying, bullies, and puberty (amongst others); it also caused a good deal of controversy due to its presumed mocking of the Christian faith, a largely inaccurate accusation leveled almost entirely by people who had never actually seen -- and indeed ''refused'' to watch -- the show (see also ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' and ''TheLastTemptationOfChrist''). Ironically, the show's creator was an ordained clergyman with a not-surprisingly favorable attitude towards the faith. It eventually made it to DVD in the US, several overseas markets did air the full series, and in 2011, the show's full run made its way into the AdultSwim lineup.

* MoralGuardians: After an assload of blasphemy complaints in the United States, NBC canceled it there after only four episodes, and it was not shown again in the U.S. until a decade later on AdultSwim. The whole series was aired overseas earlier though.

* TheRenfield: Smeck.

* TwerpSweating: Subverted. Bob comes around to having a small crush on Megan's date himself ("You come around any time! Megan doesn't even have to be here!"), all because the kid shares his interest in hockey. (Her date turns out to be the Devil in disguise.)

* HeyItsThatVoice: The Devil is Alan Cumming, God is James Garner, and Bob is French Stewart. Seems that [[{{Rugrats}} Phil]] is the voice of Bob's son.

The show touched on many family issues, including a family member dying, bullies, and puberty (amongst others); it also caused a good deal of controversy due to its presumed mocking of the Christian faith, a largely inaccurate accusation leveled almost entirely by people who had never actually seen -- and indeed ''refused'' to watch -- the show (see also ''MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' and ''TheLastTemptationOfChrist''). Ironically, the show's creator was an ordained clergyman with a not-surprisingly favorable attitude towards the faith. It eventually made it to DVD in the US, several overseas markets did air the full series, and in 2011, the show's full run made its way into the AdultSwim lineup.

* UnwittingPawn: Again in "Bob Gets Committed", the Devil thinks God's instruction for Bob are {{plan}} aranging to at least 4 moves, so he decides for 5 (he actually just does one, ''the one that mattered''). His action that puts Bob in the looney bin turns out to be part of God's plan.

* UnwittingPawn: Again in "Bob Gets Committed", the Devil thinks God's instruction for Bob are a XanatosGambit ranging to at least 4 moves, so he decides for 5 (he actually just does one, ''the one that mattered''). His action that puts Bob in the looney bin turns out to be part of God's plan.