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* God appears inside ''[[Herman's Head]]'' once, taking the form of Leslie Nielsen to better meet Herman's expectations.

* In the first season finale of ''[[The Sarah Silverman Program]]'', the titular character meets, is saved by, sleeps with, and then dumps the Morgan Freemanesque entity which she refers to as "Black God." When God makes his first appearance, she asks him, consistent with her character's casual racism, "Are you God's black friend?" A later episode has them reconciling and briefly dating, and God is portrayed as clingy, emotionally insecure, and prone to coming on too strong.

* The re-imagined ''[[~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' is fairly explicit about God's existence in-universe, and while He doesn't exactly show up, we do learn some things about Him, like the fact that He is very much like the Jewish/Christian/Muslim God in that he is omnipotent and omniscient, but unlike the Jewish/Christian/Muslim God in that He doesn't much care for smiting and [[Do Not Call Me Paul|doesn't like being called "God."]]

* The re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' is fairly explicit about God's existence in-universe, and while He doesn't exactly show up, we do learn some things about Him, like the fact that He is very much like the Jewish/Christian/Muslim God in that he is omnipotent and omniscient, but unlike the Jewish/Christian/Muslim God in that He doesn't much care for smiting and [[Do Not Call Me Paul|doesn't like being called "God."]]

* Season 4 of ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'' brought us Judeo-Christian mythology (with some amount of Islamic mythology added in regards to Lucifer's history), with the appearance of Castiel (an angel), who insisted that God did exist. At the beginning of season 5, {{spoiler|Sam and Dean were mysteriously transported onto an airplane, and Castiel was brought back from the dead, both of which he attributed to an act of God.}}

{{quote| '''Castiel''': There is someone besides Michael strong enough to take on Lucifer. Strong enough to stop the apocalypse.<br />

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* God has appeared twice in ''[[Something Positive]]''.

** Like almost everybody else in the strip, God is portrayed as a [[Jerkass]] who especially hates Davan and Mike and ignores prayers to Him in lieu of watching shit happen to them.

** He also made up the whole "Homosexuality angers God" business so that [[Girl On Girl Is Hot|He could watch lesbian couples having sex with each other]] to spite Him. It's not made clear if the spite is needed in order to invoke His name so that He is allowed to watch, if invoking His name merely alerts him to the location the act is taking place, or if the spite is just part of His [[All Men Are Perverts|kink]].

** He also made up the whole "Homosexuality angers God" business so that [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|He could watch lesbian couples having sex with each other]] to spite Him. It's not made clear if the spite is needed in order to invoke His name so that He is allowed to watch, if invoking His name merely alerts him to the location the act is taking place, or if the spite is just part of His [[All Men Are Perverts|kink]].

* God pops up rather frequently in ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' strips, in which He is depicted as a large yellow disk/sphere; basically, a halo from classical depictions of saints and Biblical figures. [http://zs1.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100708after.gif "Why do you look like a golden pizza?"]

* Although he doesn't appear directly, God is an indirect presence behind the scenes in ''[[Misfile]]'', depicted as an all-knowing entity that lets his [[Celestial Bureaucracy|angelic bureaucracy]] handle the actual work...or does he?

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** God is also depicted as every other stereotypical male; drunk, hits on the women, and loves to party.

* In ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'', also by MacFarlane, God is depicted as... [[Angelina Jolie]]. Though it should be noted this was just a form taken to keep Steve's (limited) attention. Looking into the "rack of infinite wisdom" turned Steve into a prophet, who had a solution to all conflict in the Middle East. In a later episode God is depicted as... well, he looks a bit more like [[Sean Connery]].<ref>Probably the most believable portrayal of God in all of fiction</ref>

* In the ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' episode "Godfellas", Bender has an encounter with a galaxy-sized being that appears to be God (though, in a [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'', Bender theorizes that it's the remains of a satellite that collided with God). It seems to care about living creatures, but espouses a "light touch" philosophy to keep them from dependency. God also has a cameo in [[The Movie]] ''Bender's Big Score'', wherein he makes a sound of surprise and coughs up a [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] in response to the speaking of the universal time code.

* In the ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' episode "Godfellas", Bender has an encounter with a galaxy-sized being that appears to be God (though, in a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'', Bender theorizes that it's the remains of a satellite that collided with God). It seems to care about living creatures, but espouses a "light touch" philosophy to keep them from dependency. God also has a cameo in [[The Movie]] ''Bender's Big Score'', wherein he makes a sound of surprise and coughs up a [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] in response to the speaking of the universal time code.

* As said, God has shown up in ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]''. He's the only character with [[Four-Fingered Hands|five fingers]]. {{spoiler|As well as [[Mind Screw|five thighs.]]}}

* God doesn't actually show up, but in an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', Hawkgirl and Diana are fighting monsters/demons in Tartarus/Hell and all of a sudden the demons back off and Hawkgirl realizes why.

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