Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff: Difference between revisions

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* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: Played with, a ''lot''.

{{quote| " A ''sea turtle?'' Really?! That's got to be an abomination."}}

* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Lazarus, who has, err, somewhat fragmented in the meanwhile. (This is a [[Shout Out]] to [[The Bible]]: Maggie protests that they should not open the tomb because Lazarus has been dead for four days and the stench will be dreadful.)

* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Lazarus, who has, err, somewhat fragmented in the meanwhile. (This is a [[Shout-Out]] to [[The Bible]]: Maggie protests that they should not open the tomb because Lazarus has been dead for four days and the stench will be dreadful.)

* [[Celibate Hero]]: Josh is commanded by an angel (Raziel) not to "know women." What exactly does ''that'' mean? They mean to ask Raziel the next time he appears...but, as a [[Running Gag]], they never get around to it.

** Biff finds a loophole: ''he'' goes to know some women and then ''tells'' Josh about it.

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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:

** Biff suggests that Joshua's mom (you know, the Virgin Mary) has a touch of this quality about her, which doesn't help the family much. (Of course, Biff finds it [[Charm Point|charming]]...)

** Raziel. To quote Biff: "The angel confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become [[Spider Man]]..."

** Raziel. To quote Biff: "The angel confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become [[Spider-Man]]..."

* [[Continuity Nod]]:

** Catch is the main villain in Christopher Moore's first book, ''Practical Demon Keeping'', in which a man summons the demon and then can't figure out how to get rid of him. There's even a mention that the demon said he'd been to Earth before, but refused to say how he'd been banished.

** Raziel is later an important character in ''[[~~The Stupidest Angel (Literature)|~~The Stupidest Angel]]''

** Raziel is later an important character in ''[[The Stupidest Angel]]''

* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Jesus himself. The scary thing is, in context, it actually makes a lot of sense.

* [[Deconstructor Fleet]] on [[The Bible]] (played more for laughs than anything else)

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* [[Hot Mom]]: This is how Biff sees Mary, whom he plans to marry in case something should happen to her current husband Joseph.

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: A lot of them, but one stand-out is the [[Martial Pacifist]] example below.

* [[Jerk ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold]]: Biff.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Biff.

* [[Jerkass Gods]]: While Josh is cool, his dad's reaction to his pleading for humanity is "Fuck 'em".

* [[Jesus Was Crazy]]: A corner case. Jesus isn't crazy (and in fact is portrayed as closer to [[Crazy Awesome]]) but he's distracted enough by the whole Son of God thing that he comes off as a bit loopy.

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* [[Oh, and X Dies]]: When Biff finally gets the key to open the big scary door... {{spoiler|he has an adorable exchange with one of Balthasar's concubines...and mentions that was the last time he ever saw her in one piece.}}

* [[Offstage Waiting Room]]: Most of the novel takes place during the "lost years" of Ieshua of Nazareth; his actual ministry only takes up the last third or quarter of the book.

* [[Pals ~~With~~ Jesus]]

* [[Pals with Jesus]]

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Basically the whole vibe of the novel, along with...

* [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Rule of Funny]]. The author even invokes it - history will just have to suffer a bit to answer the age-old question of "What if Jesus knew Kung Fu?"

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** Legion himselves show up, to be banished into some pigs and drowned...which causes some unpleasantness.

** The demon Catch.

* [[Two Guys and A Girl]]: Joshua, Biff and Maggie play up some parts of this trope.

* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: Joshua, Biff and Maggie play up some parts of this trope.

* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]/[[Famous Ancestor]]: There's a slight implication that the Emperor of San Francisco from ''[[~~Bloodsucking Fiends (Literature)|~~Bloodsucking Fiends]]'' and ''[[~~A Dirty Job (Literature)|~~A Dirty Job]]'' might be Bartholomew's descendant, considering both are huge, bearded homeless men accompanied by dogs and completely happy with the way they live, not to mention, well... [[Crazy Homeless People|they seem crazy]] (or [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|do they?]]). Or maybe Bart is just an Expy...

* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]/[[Famous Ancestor]]: There's a slight implication that the Emperor of San Francisco from ''[[Bloodsucking Fiends]]'' and ''[[A Dirty Job]]'' might be Bartholomew's descendant, considering both are huge, bearded homeless men accompanied by dogs and completely happy with the way they live, not to mention, well... [[Crazy Homeless People|they seem crazy]] (or [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|do they?]]). Or maybe Bart is just an Expy...

* [[Values Dissonance]]: Invoked - Josh's "drive the demon Legion into the pigs and drown them" miracle doesn't go over so well when the onlookers are a) Gentiles and b) the ''owners'' of said pigs. As it was, [[Torches and Pitchforks]] were involved.

{{quote| '''Joshua:''' What? If they were Jews, it would have gone over great. I'm new at Gentiles.}}