Here's a new idea I was just thinking about:
The mother of God (played by some curmudgeonly old lady): She lives in a pretty run down little trailer home in north eastern Califonia. She grows weed. She has a cat and a three legged dog simply named Kitums and Pooch. When not at home she is at the local coffee shop or bar to talk about how messed up her son is, but no one believes her they all just think she is crazy.
One day God (played by someone like Jason Lee or David Cross) shows up to steal some of his mom's weed but gets caught and pretends he was there to surprise his mom for dinner. At dinner He asks about who his dad is. That question gets his mom all upset but eventually she tells him that she's not quite sure who his dad is but she has some old photos of who he might be and she decides to help him find God's dad (who will be played by someone like the Dude, Jeff Bridges). God decides to stay in California for a while to search for his dad with his mom.
Within the first few episodes God's dad is found and, as would be expected based on the character of God, his dad is a dead beat as well. Though strangely neither of God's parents have the same magical abilities as God himself except that they live forever and have been around for all eternity, but that doesn't really matter because God is so lethargic, apathetic, and kind of stupid that he never uses his powers wisely or at all.
The show is narrated by God's mother.
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Scenarios such as God getting mad at his dad and flooding the town that he lives in only to find out he accidentally flooded the wrong town that was full of Mormons. God decides he didn't really like Mormons all that much anyway and decides to further dry up Utah, only to make the Mormons richer and more numerous by giving them more salt flats and exposing new oil reserves.
Let's say they choose to live in California over heaven because everyone back up in heaven is so pretentious and holier-than-thou... we'll have to mix in the god character having to take care of "god stuff" which irks him because he's tired of all the miracles people have been asking him to perform for the past few thousand years... he does them begrudgingly and with an attitude.. but his dad helps him rediscover the joy of helping the mortals of earth. Also, Angels have to be complete jerks... so self-impressed with their ability to destroy evil that they've turned into compulsive gamblers, drinkers, and are frequenters of vegas.. hehe.. they are shown throughout the series ultimately being very helpful to people but have their (forgivable) debaucherous vices. St. Peter should have a pretty awesome part in it too...
that last comment was actually an e-mail from Ben.
St. Peter should play the high-strung "responsible" Hardy to God's Laurel. He's the one that's always trying to ge God to figure his life out, and basically holding heaven together. At some point, St. Peter gets fed up, perhaps because God has let another Pedophiliac Priest off the hook because he "repented" (Peter: 'how many get out of hell free cards are you going to give these guys?' God: 'I don't know. Eleven?'). God realizes how much Peter does around Heaven and gets together with Heaven's Janitor: the Archangel Gabriel to get Peter back. Or what if Heaven was like a high school, God is the irresponsible Principal, Jesus is the by the book vice-principal, Peter is the guidance counsellor, satan is the gym teacher-- nevermind actually. That was really gay of me. Sorry.
the high school thing could work actually.. let's not write that off just yet... definitely taking heaven and bringing it down to earth in some form is a great idea.. though I'm sure other movies have tried something similar.. though I can't think of anything off the top of my head ('Defending your life' sort of humanized heaven, but that's still a different beast) and in this day and age where the common folk going to see a movie have the attention span of a three year old and an extremely short memory I think it's okay to take an idea that's been done before just as long as you change a few minor things. Ok.. more on this plot soon...
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