Plot: There are three storylines. The main one is that Andy has been telling all his friends at school that his dad is God's Prophet, and the kids tell him to prove it. God is busy, and Bob's attempt at smoke and mirrors fails miserably. So Andy runs to Canada, and Bob has to go and retrieve him. Assuming he can get past the aggressively polite border guards, and an angry moose.
The second story is that the Devil takes God's advice, and tries to improve Smeck's job performance with positive reinforcement. Like taking him to the carnival. Which freaks Smeck out, and he asks the Devil to stop.
The third story is that Donna is taking classes at college again, and Megan falls for the college guy Donna brings home to help her study. Which doesn't really go much of anywhere, other than Megan's sad attempts to spend time alone with Steve. And eventually she loses interest.
Quote of the Episode: Bob - 'Now the reason I lied is because I was scared of the moose.'
Smeck Smacks: 5 (7 overall). There are two of them I could count as one. Smeck is ordered to step into a snare trap, which flings him into jackals. That could be one, but I counted it as separate examples.
Other: So in Andy's room is a poster of him standing in front of a roadster. The roadster is an actual picture of a roadster, but then Andy is a drawn figure placed in front of the roadster in the picture. Which is just bizarre. Why not just draw a car for the picture? It's not as though they're going for a particularly complicated or detailed style here. Was relying on the Internet circa 2000 to find a picture of a car to put in, the add an image of Andy over it really that much faster?
The border guard tells Bob 'mindless belligerence' is one of the things they watch for as a sign of someone who they should look at more closely before allowing him in the country. I can't see that working when you share a border with the United States. We're all mindlessly belligerent here, you'd have to stop to search every car.
God shows up in Bob's living room while Bob is in the middle of watching Red Shoe Diaries. Which is both embarrassing for Bob and reminded me that show was a thing that existed, which was a memory I'd mostly buried. David Duchovny playing a guy everyone sends their stories that got rejected by the Playboy letters column.
God also claims he can't appear for Andy's friends because there is a crisis in Africa. The "crisis" seems to involve bird-watching and camping, while the Devil grumbles over paperwork. Turns out Hell stiffed the guy who unleashed the plague back in the Middle Ages.
Considering the Devil so often tries making people fall by tempting them with things, I'd have expected him to be better at positive reinforcement. Being encouraging and friendly, even if he didn't mean it. And I don't see why he's so mad at Smeck for afflicting Bob with bowls rather than boils. What's Bob going to do with all those bowls? They're blocking everything in the bedroom, he's gonna have to find boxes to pack them into to move them, they seem to break easily, so it isn't even as though he got quality dinnerware.
At the very end, Andy's back home and playing kickball at school, which he is terrible at. As Bob looks on, God shows up, and Andy kicks the ball into space. Where it hits the MIR space station, and probably knocked it out of orbit. Everyone made jokes about MIR back then, another of those things I'd forgotten.
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I have absolutely NO idea what this even is... but it sounds oddly fascinating.
Sally, it was only on NBC for like three months in the spring of 2000. Then it got canceled. So it was a real "blink and you'll miss it".
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