Plot: God is toying with plans for a new universe, and has gotten caught up in it enough to stand up the Devil for both handball and golf. So inconsiderate. Back in the realm of mortal concerns, Megan is complaining that the family never does anything together. However, Donna's attempts to promote family activities only draw Megan's scorn.
Bob has become convinced that as God's prophet, he is the recipient of good fortune. Like his toast landing butter side up. This belief gains strength when God casually refers to Bob as his special guy while visiting him in the shower. After surviving a mishap at work with a bolt gun and a smelter, Bob is certain he is indestructible. The Devil, dropping by to pump Bob for info on God's plans, pretends that Bob is correct about the position of "God's Favorite".
While a visit to Fun Freddie's Family Fun Center allows Megan and Donna to bond over gory arcade games and a shared hatred of forced family togetherness, it also gives Bob the chance to be extremely fortunate against a would-be mugger. Which convinces him to try skydiving. . . without a parachute. Which is when God finally steps in and helps Bob understand everyone is his "special guy", and Bob better hope the other divers parachutes can handle a hitchhiker.
Quote of the Episode: Bob - 'Wow, beer makes it worse. I don't want to live in a world where beer makes it worse.'
Smeck Smacks: 8 (17 overall). Again with the golf clubs. The Devil spends almost as much time on the golf course as Trump.
Other: So God's first pitch for a new universe is one with just four elements: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and cork. Bob's hung up on cork not being an element, but he has to understand, new universe. Cork can be an element there if it wants to.
His second pitch is a world made entirely of water, which, setting aside the Waterworld joke Bob makes, is the entire universe made of water, or is there only one planet in this entire universe? If he's focusing on just one planet, he probably is getting to caught up in details.
By the third pitch, which he's created a model of the Solar System for, God has eliminated France, and placed marsupials as the dominant species. Mankind is in the food chain somewhere.
The Devil, desperate to prove he should be included in the new universe, pitches Bob the idea of itchy lava as proof of his capacity for good ideas. I guess if he's talking about a universe where the sensations of burning and itching are now the same, he might be on to something.
I never had a party at one of those family fun center, Chuck E. Cheese's, whatever. I may have gone to someone else's party at one once. TV always portrays them as awful places. Garish color schemes and florescent lights, but still strangely dark. Everything is kind of rundown and greasy looking. I've seen some bowling alleys like that, you didn't want to touch anything.
Bob decided to skydive because Andy was inspired to try tightrope walking on the powerlines after Bob's deft disarming of the mugger. By skydiving, Bob was being responsible by doing his stupid risky crap where Andy wouldn't see it, you see. Parent of the Year, obviously.
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Once again, this sounds insane... but in a good way.
I guess golf courses are the Devil's playground in a completely literal way.
Certainly seems like. Heck, I forgot that one of the levels of Hell had turned wound up as a golf course because the Devil hadn't been minding it properly.
I'd never heard them described as the Devil's playground, though. Just that line about golf being a good walk spoiled.
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