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I too like the fact that God looks like Jerry Garcia, and that the Devil has a British accent (just like they taught me in catechism). I had never seen it but took a shot at paying $30 for the DVD with all 13 episodes. It is as was said before: the first four episodes had their moments but were weak overall; the remaining unviewed nine were on average much better, indicating the writers had found their footing and knew where they wanted to take it, at least good enough to justify a second season. But alas, the humorless religious freaks just would not let that happen.

The only reason this show got yanked off the air is because a lot of BS churches got together to have it banned. Im a christian and i thought the show was great. I think it kind of got rendunent though. Family Guy didnt become a hit until it was sent to adult swim on cartoon network.

Never jumped. Never had a chance. Lasted only 3 episodes in my area. If I recall correctly, this show was pitted up against "Friends" at its peak popularity and "Family Guy" at it's creative peak (3rd season). Never stood a chance.

Not a great show, but had lots of potential. Made me giggle a bit.

This show was doomed from day one, for one simple reason: it had the absolute butt-ugliest animation ever allowed on television. All the characters seemed creepy and soulless. And God just looked like a talking stork.

I think the show had a good premise, but it was a bit to... I dunno... gentle.

And I think I'd put the blame on the 'and Bob' part myself. Bob was just plain to nice a guy. He was an everyman, but the problem is that your average everyman is really a good person at heart, and so was Bob.

I think it'd have worked better if Bob had been more like a sort of an adult Calvin. Trying really hard (and often completely failing) to be good, largely against his will. They sort of tried on occassion, but kind of half-heartedly. Because Bob was just designed as being to kind deep down. More of a character to root for and identify with, then one to laugh at.

Still the show had its moments. I mean... the Devil as a right-wing radio talk-show host was great. And I also liked how he was a somewhat effiminate british-voiced fellow who got up in tears because God forgot his birthday. It just sorta worked in my view.

No way did this show jump! James Garner as Jerry God-cia, and Alan Cummings as the Devil had great chemistry together. Garner has the perfect sense of benign neglect that allows morons to be elected as President who wouldn't know a "Zoo-Nammy" from a Texas sandstorm. Then, Bob shows up. Frankly, if the show has an Achilles heel, it has to be this imbecilic character that freezes everything to a halt whenever he appears. (Hmm, Hell freezing over?)The main attraction is the relationship between God and the Devil - that's its saving grace. And thanks to TRIO for finally running the series in order (yes, there were more than three episodes made). If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have seen the hilarious episode where the Devil goes up to heaven to raise a little hell (pun intended), and gets bogged down in paperwork. Then, Nixon shows up. "No," says the Devil. "I don't want him in Hell! It's not fair to my other guests!" "Oh, sure!" Nixon retorts. "You'd take JFK in a minute! Everybody loves Kennedy! You know he still getting women up here? The angels think it's charming! But I ask for one extra dessert and 'there's greedy Dick Nixon stuffing his face with apple brown betty!' Where you going?" DEVIL: "Ah, nowhere, ah, oh, look! A Communist!" NIXON: "WHERE?" The Devil vanishes quickly. Only Matt Groening and crowd gives Nixon better lines (isn't his head President on Futurama?). Then, there's "The Devil's Birthday" episode (which NBC did air). The Devil's annoyed that God's forgotten his birthday (again!) and decides to return to Hell to make it a showpiece for the ages. But he needs some special help - to his assistant: "Get me Martha Stewart!" "Sir!?" "She's on the speed dial!" Of course she is.... (fans of Ms. Stewart should not watch - her rep gets a major beating and this is BEFORE she went to jail!) Thank god someone convinced Viacom (Hell's Tenth Circle) to release the series on DVD in a couple of months. It'll make up for the fact that my cable company charges $60.00 a month before they'll even consider adding TRIO! I really missed this one - great show!

God, the Devil and Bob was a great show. I wish that I could find it somewhere so that I could watch it again. That show had so much potential. I mean, C'mon Bob got cursed with bowls. That is what I call funny. I'm thinking that it would've jumped when its potential whittled out but it didn't have time to jump.

Jumped at the OPENING CREDITS of the PILOT EPISODE. It begins with elder-hippie cartoon God saying, "So I was all set to destroy the world and then I thought..." Does this disturb anyone else? The producers of the show never bothered to explain WHY God was set to destroy the world! What a hilarious premise! Yet another "hip" animated prime-time show that rips off The Simpsons so mercilessly they should sue. Bob is a beer-swilling every guy! And we see his butt crack! And there are dream sequences and fantasy jokes! Not to mention the mind-numbing monotone of James Garner's AWFUL AWFUL voice. This pathetic overhyped show died about as quickly as expected.

Never jumped, the religious people couldn't stand the fact that the show was funny. Its like many shows on TV, its to good a show and people enjoy it, so we must destroy it! Just because the crazy religious fanatics didn't think it was funny since it was something they believed in, that was being made fun of, the network took it off the air. Those religious people need to get a sense of humor.

Any show that acknowledges the existence of a supreme being and life after death based on FAITH is obviously more intelligent than pseudo-intellectual assholes like the person who posted the message immediately above.

Any show that caters to the ignorant masses by asserting the existence of a supreme being and life after death is bound to jump the minute it airs.

Contrary to some of the earlier comments it wasn't complaints from the "Christian" right that doomed this show so much as it was lack of viewership. That's too bad because God, the Devil and Bob was actually a very good animated series. The concept of God appearing as an Jerry Garcia-ish character voiced by James Garner was hilarious in and of itself. I thought it was much funnier than The Simpsons and almost as funny as Family Guy. Thanks to the cable network Trio, GTDAB survives and is appreciated by viewers of clever satire everywhere.

If I understand the concept of JTS, I guess this show never got a chance to jump. I'm a Christian, and my only real complaint was that it was a BORING show. One shining moment was in the first episode, in the bar, when Bob demands that God prove He is who He says He is. The splitting floor, the giant God, all that was just ok, but when the bear rode by in mid-air around "God's" waist on a tricycle or bike or whatever with a banner reading, "It's really Him!" I nearly choked I was laughing so hard. Never got that funny or even close after that.

I think this show jumped when it wasn't blasphemous enough. There's the trivial (God looks like Jerry Garcia) but they didn't seem willing to give the Devil plausible-sounding arguments against God and religion and all. In a lawyer show, you try to make the opposing lawyers convincing, even if they lose at the end; the Devil should have been the same.

I only saw four episodes of this great show because some religious people can't laugh at themselves. I'm Christian, and I liked what little of the series I saw. The third episode, where Bob's son discovered God, was a little weak, but the rest were great. I heard they made 13 episodes and they were all going to be shown in Europe, the lucky people! I will find all 13 episodes! Thank you, you overly-serious people, for ruining a great show! Remember, even Jesus has a sense of humor (he made politicians, after all).