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Silly Prayer
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It depends on the occasion and the religion, but a lot of prayers are pretty serious. Even most prayers that aren't serious, or are even lighthearted, aren't really meant to be funny. In fiction, however, prayers can be comedy gold. There are many places the humour comes from. Maybe the prayer is ludicrously short (like grace with just the words "thank you") or long (for instance, a Long List of people the character wants God to bless). It could also be humorously casual— maybe it uses words like "hey" or "what's up?" or lacks words like "Dear Lord" or "Amen". Maybe the prayer is for something crazy— maybe it's treating God like a genie or Santa and asking for something like a pizza or a dog or a rocket launcher, or maybe it's praying that something crazy doesn't happen (e.g. "Dear God, please don't let me get abducted by aliens, Amen.") They might be a bit hesitant/unsure what to say since they've never prayed before or are worried that they're "bothering" God, or they might start asking God about His personal life. They might also be praying to someone crazy, like Lady Gaga or the Easter Bunny, possibly as part of an Emergency Multifaith Prayer, which could also qualify as a Silly Prayer if the character is praying to a deity they do not believe in. Sometimes doubles as characterisation for someone who's either very religious (sometimes The Fundamentalist but not necessarily) or who doesn't care that much about religion. Either way, they could also be a joker or even a Cloud Cuckoolander. The prayer could also reveal that the character is Egocentrically Religious or Holier Than Thou. Prayer of Malice might overlap if it's played for Black Comedy. Contrast Prayer Is a Last Resort and Say Your Prayers. Compare Reflexive Remark of Reverence. |
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In a strip of The Far Side, a dog prays to be able to see colour, along with his family and two other dogs named Rex and Tucker. | |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: In one episode, when Ashley is asked to say grace at dinnertime, she raps it instead: | |
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Star Control: The Spathi, Lovable Cowards that they are, have the following daily prayer according to one you find early in the second game: "Oh, God, please don't let me die today? Tomorrow would be so much better!" | |
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The Honor Harrington short story "A Ship Named Francis" overlaps this with Black Comedy. Morning prayers on the Francis S. Mueller consist of the Chaplain imploring God to not let all the various things that theoretically can go wrong on a spaceship and kill the entire crew actually happen. In excruciating detail, for fifteen minutes. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Bart Gets an F", Bart prays for one more day to study and calls himself God's pal. Discussed in the episode "Black-Eyed Please" where Ned Flanders wants to pray for Homer Simpson in the hospital but Homer wants Ned to pray to Superman. Ned refuses. This one is a Call-Back to "Lost Our Lisa", where Homer makes his famous prayer: In "Bart vs. Thanksgiving", after Bart gets sent to his room for ruining Lisa's Thanksgiving centerpiece, a sore Homer leads the rest of family in saying grace at the dinner table. In "The Wife Aquatic", when Homer and Bart go overboard after the fishing boat they were on capsizes in a ferocious storm. One episode features Bart giving this little gem in place of grace before dinner: When the family's having Dinner with the Boss (on live TV to promote his gubernatorial campaign, no less), Homer makes the mistake of calling on Bart to lead grace. Exaggerated in "Pray Anything" as Homer starts praying for every little thing like getting a new kind of food to helping Bart with his homework instead of him. When Marge tells him he can't just expect God to fix every problem he has, Homer bluntly tells her he can and will. Praying works all the time. As more of Homer's prayers are answered he stops asking for help from God and expecting it. Even finishing one prayer with "I command you". His good fortune spins out of control. "Fatzcarraldo": When Homer can't find any restaurant to his liking (as the majority is switching to health-based foods): |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: Reynir, who is not the most assertive person, tries praying for good luck and protection. His initial prayer is clumsy, but to the point, but things go downhill after he adds "bless you" at the end: | |
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Mr. Bean: When Mr Bean goes to church in the first episode, he tries to discreetly retrieve a sweet he has dropped on the floor. After he has bent down a couple of times during a hymn, he makes the sign of the cross just before finally picking it up. | |
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A secular version occurs in the first Madeline special. As their grace before meals, the twelve little girls normally say "We love our bread, we love our butter/But most of all, we love each other." But when Madeline is in the hospital, the other girls are so distracted by missing and worrying about her that they make silly mistakes in their daily routine, and at dinner, they say "But most of all, we love our butter." | |
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There are some joke stickers based on Calvin and Hobbes that usually either feature Calvin peeing on things or praying. One of them combines the two by having Calvin saying, "Lord forgive me for peeing on everything." | |
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Catch Me If You Can: When asked to say grace at the home of his girlfriend, Frank Jr (who has never done so before) instead recites his father's go-to inspirational story: | |
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Religion on the Discworld is a complicated thing. A.A. Pessimal presented worship and prayer in the Church of Blind Io as a combination of the Anglican Church of England's Book of Common Prayer and lyrics from Blue Öyster Cult songs. note Io is a God with blank spaces where his eyes should be — who is served by innumerable detached and independently-moving eyeballs. The BOC song used as prayer and litany is Harvester of Eyes, about a serial murderer with a thing for taking his victims' eyes as souvenirs. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In "Show Me Going", Gina prays like this when she and Amy are trying to fix the broken toilet while Rosa is in an active shooter situation. | |
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In one The Berenstain Bears book, Brother and Sister try to stall going to bed by saying a very long prayer asking to bless a whole lot of people. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail featured the blessing of the Holy Hand Grenade: | |
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In The Big Bang Theory episode "The Rhinitis Revelation", Sheldon's mom Mary takes the gang to church, where they attempt to pray. Mary's prayer starts off as you'd expect, but ends with "...not to coldcock [Sheldon] with my Bible." Penny's prayer goes "Hey God, wazzup? I'm good, but it would be a big help to my family if you could get my brother to stop cooking meth. But no cops, be cool." Leonard asks God to make him taller and for help with his long-distance relationship. Howard skips praying, and Raj needs to drop those last five pounds. | |
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Fire Emblem Fates: Izana has a tendency to start his divinations with "Oh, ancient gods... What's up?" | |
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In a Hetty Feather book, Hetty is asked to say grace, but she's never heard of it, so she literally says the word "grace". | |
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: Aunt Bethany, Clark's aunt who is senile, instead of doing the usual Christmas dinner prayer, instead does the Pledge of Allegiance. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: The episode "Robin Hoek" opens with Ren and Stimpy saying their prayers before going to bed. | |
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In Going Postal, Moist delivers a prayer in the form of a letter to several temples, asking for enough money to repair the Post Office. This is actually just a prelude to collecting the stash from his con tricks, which he claims to have found thanks to "divine guidance". Since this results in a lot of interest in the religions he picked, and not only do Gods Need Prayer Badly, but churches need collection money badly, nobody involved seems particularly inclined to say the gods don't do that. | |
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In The Four Gospels, Jesus' parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector features a religious leader at the temple who absurdly spends his entire prayer bragging to God about how much more righteous he is than other people. The Aesop is that this prayer actually reveals he is less right with God than the tax collector who humbly prays for mercy for his own sins. | |
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Squidbillies: Early's prayer to Squid Jesus in one episode in an attempt to get the Devil out of Rusty: Early's prayer in "A Sober Sunday" when he tries brewing various chemicals together in a still in a desperate attempt to get himself drunk: |
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Bloom County had Milo give a semi-silly Thanksgiving prayer: | |
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Ricky Bobby prays to "Lord Baby Jesus" in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, thanking him for a "red-hot smokin' wife" and for all the fast food brands he's contractually obligated to sell. When he wrecks chasing Jean Girard and thinks he's on fire, he desperately calls out to anyone who will listen, even Tom Cruise. |
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Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: In page 27, "got to church", Sweet Bro notices that Hella Jeff is "PRAYING WRONG", because he's holding his hands too far apart. For the rest of the comic, Sweet Bro struggles to force his friend's hands into the correct position, with no success. | |
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In Peeking Through the Fourth Wall (where characters from The Loud House MST their fanfiction): The episode about One Angry Person has the fanfic version of Lincoln muttering angrily in bed, to which Lucy remarks that it sounds like her nightly prayers. One episode has Lori say that, according to the behaviour of the characters in the fanfiction, Lincoln is Satan. Lana says to Lucy, "Oh, so Lincoln is the person you pray to every night." |
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Father Mulcahy on M*A*S*H does a twist on the children's bedtime prayer in the episode where the personnel are bunking with each other during a cold snap: | |
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Reba: In one episode Van jokingly slips in a request for a convertible when praying for something. He later finds a toy convertible in a box of cereal, which he takes as a good omen. During the episode "Issues", Brock and Barbra Jean videotape themselves in bed, per the suggestion of a doctor, to find out why Brock has been sleep-deprived lately. The footage starts with a long prayer session from Barbra Jean. Brock fast-forwards through the prayer session, during which he loses patience, gets up, and practices on his golf swing briefly. |
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The Cleveland Show: Most of the prayers Reverend Jenkins says are these. An example from "American Prankster": | |
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Discussed in the episode "Black-Eyed Please" where Ned Flanders wants to pray for Homer Simpson in the hospital but Homer wants Ned to pray to Superman. Ned refuses. This one is a Call-Back to "Lost Our Lisa", where Homer makes his famous prayer: |
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In the The Loud House episode "Fool's Paradise", Lana prays for her pets, including her ant farm. | |
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One short strip in Archie Comics had Veronica's young cousin praying to God to make Montreal the capital of Canada. When Veronica asks why he asked for that, he replies because that was what he had answered on his geography test. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: One early episode begins with Sho praying to a poster of Osiris the Sky Dragon for good grades on an upcoming exam. | |
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Meet the Parents Early in the film Jack (the prospective father-in-law) requests that Greg (the prospective son-in-law who is Jewish and implied to be atheist) say grace for the evening meal. What begins as a modest attempt at a prayer slowly and uncomfortably devolves into lyrics from Godspell | |
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In Despicable Me, Edith prays not to have bugs crawl into her ears and lay eggs in her brain at night, then Agnes prays to be adopted by a family with a pet unicorn. | |
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In The Fast and the Furious, the team has a barbecue and the duty of saying grace falls on Jesse for being the first to grab some food. It goes something like this: | |
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In the "Part II: Growth and Learning" part of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, the Chaplain at a British Boy's Academy leads the student body into prayer which can only be described as mindless flattery. After the prayer is done, the Dean tells everyone not to rub linseed oil into the school cormorant (it Makes Just as Much Sense in Context) and tells a student that their mother died before the Chaplain leads the students into a psalm begging God not to cook them all in various ways in Hell. | |
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Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension: When she runs out of ideas on how to bring Candace back home, Stacy resorts to building a shrine and praying to the "Mysterious Force": Later, when Candace returns to Earth: |
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In Serenity, Mal stealthily announces his presence to Inara by coming to the convent she's in, slipping up next to her as she kneels in front of a Buddha, and asking it for things, ala a child's letter to Santa Claus: | |
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During a debate in The Campaign, after Cam Brady brags about his Christian living, his opponent Marty Huggins challenges him to recite The Lord's Prayer. Cam doesn't actually know it, and so watches his campaign manager Mitch perform charades, getting most of it wrong. | |
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One sketch of Saturday Night Live involves a very religious woman (played by Rachel Dratch) who constantly prays to God to help her with things through the day — and that is pray for her husband's safety when he's driving, giving God a step-by-step breakdown of the man's route, and pray for her rice to not get stuck, among other similar persnickety requests. It's become so annoying to to the people upstairs that Jesus arrives to the woman's house to ask her to stop, but his angry ranting leaves the woman in hysterics and Jesus has to calm her down and take it back before erasing her memory and leaving. The sketch ends with her praying for her favorite talk show to start on time. | |
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Hook does the childish "saying grace by literally saying the word 'grace'" version when the Lost Boys all sit down to eat, although Peter does try actually saying a prayer at the time. | |
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FoxTrot: One week long arc has Jason having a nightmare where he is tormented by Lara Croft coming on to him (Jason is still at the Girls Have Cooties stage). The last strip of the arc has him explaining this to his 16 year-old brother Peter: telling him how she kept tackling him, pinning him to ground, kissing, and generally acting she wanted him to be her boyfriend. Peter, meanwhile, is looking like he is about have a stroke and/or strangle his brother: | |
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Left 4 Dead 2: has Coach's prayer in the campaign "Dead Center". | |
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Anne of Green Gables: Anne arrives at Green Gables neglected in all aspects of her life, including spiritually. Marilla is horrified to find she has never been taught to say her prayers, and firmly tells her that she will pray as long as she lives there. Anne is initially reluctant, because she's holding a grudge against God for making her hair red, but eventually agrees. When asked what she should say, Marilla encourages her to say her own prayer. Anne does, using all the flowery language she can think of to make it sound appropriately reverent, and then ends it with a plea to be good-looking when she's older before singing off "Yours Respectfully, Anne Shirley." Marilla nearly faints from the shock. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, when Ellen prays before copying Nanase's guardian form (because the characters aren't sure whether it's a gift from God), she starts "God? It's me El— wait, you're God. You know who the hell this is. Sorry for thinking 'hell'." | |
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An episode of Doctor Who begins with Amelia "Amy" Pond as a child, praying to Santa to fix a crack in her bedroom wall. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: Detective Parson of the Church Police conducts a prayer to uncover the murderer of the Bishop of Leicester: The prayer the Bruces conduct cuts to the chase: |
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Pearls Before Swine: One is said by Larry the Croc when he tucks his son into bed. | |
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This one is a Call-Back to "Lost Our Lisa", where Homer makes his famous prayer: | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: When Greg's grandmother can't find something, she prays to find it, and apparently it works every time. When Greg owes his friend's dad money, he prays for him to be hit on the head so he forgets about the money, and also to be able to beat a video game. He then ends his prayer with "Amen, and thank you in advance." |
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True Blood: In Season 5, when religious extremists take over the Authority and start up a human trafficking ring, there's a scene where the Chancellors in the Authority have a human man tied up and naked before them. Before they feed on him, Russell sarcastically asks if they should say grace, and Steve mockingly recites this prayer: | |
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In The Iron Giant, Hogarth says grace but tries to hide his commands to the giant robot's hand in his prayer, which makes his prayer seem rather strange. | |
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The Mill on the Floss: Tom Tulliver, unhappy at Mr Stelling's school, adds to his prayer the following: "And please to make me always remember my Latin." He pauses a little to consider how he should pray about Euclid and geometry, and then adds: "And make Mr Stelling say I sha'n't do Euclid any more. Amen." | |
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In Spaceballs, Barf begins to recite The Lord's Prayer as fast as he can when the Winnebago crashes on Vega's moon, much to Lone Starr's annoyance. See, Lone Starr had asked for a "reading," meaning from the ships instruments. | |
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In Jennifer's Body, Needy gives a surprisingly serious (but still darkly comic) one as she sees Jennifer eating Chip and prepares to kill her for real this time. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", as the family prays over their breakfast, Peter asks God for cheat codes to advance further in the game Punch-Out!!, citing how he has been stuck on Bald Bull for the past four years. | |
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In School of Rock, Dewey and the kids have a group prayer before their Battle of the Bands performance. | |
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In one episode of How I Met Your Mother, when Barney goes to church after hearing he may have gotten one of his one-night stands pregnant: | |
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Never Have I Ever has this in the very first scene. Among other things, she greets the gods with: "Hey gods, it's Devi Vishwakumar, your favorite Hindu girl in the San Fernando valley. What's popping?" She also asks for the opportunity to turn down drugs (but not actually take any, just turn them down); a mega hot boyfriend (brains not required, she's happy with a Brainless Beauty); and thinner arm hair. | |
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