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* In ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables,'' 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 agrees, and 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 [[IJustWantToBePretty good-looking when she's older]] before singing off "Yours Respectfully, Anne Shirley." Marilla nearly faints from the shock.
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* In ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables,'' 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 agrees, and 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 [[IJustWantToBePretty [[IJustWantToBeBeautiful good-looking when she's older]] before singing off "Yours Respectfully, Anne Shirley." Marilla nearly faints from the shock.
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* In ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables,'' 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 agrees, and 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 [[IJustWantToBePretty good-looking when she's older]] before singing off "Yours Respectfully, Anne Shirley." Marilla nearly faints from the shock.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', 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 ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'', 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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-->'''Pharissee:''' "God, I thank you that I am not like other people--robbers, evildoers, adulterers—-or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get!"
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--> "God, I thank you that I am not like other people--robbers, evildoers, adulterers—-or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'': Early's prayer to Squid Jesus in one episode in an attempt to get the Devil out of Rusty:
--> '''Early:''' Dear Jesus I beseech thee, please give me the magic power to shred faces and explode the brains out the neck with a panty-tearing solo power. Amen.
-->'''Squid Jesus:''' (''appears'') No. (''disappears'')
--> '''Early:''' Dear Jesus I beseech thee, please give me the magic power to shred faces and explode the brains out the neck with a panty-tearing solo power. Amen.
-->'''Squid Jesus:''' (''appears'') No. (''disappears'')
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** Early's prayer to Squid Jesus in one episode in an attempt to get the Devil out of Rusty:
--> '''Early:''' Dear Jesus I beseech thee, please give me the magic power to shred faces and explode the brains out the neck with a panty-tearing solo power.Amen.
Amen.
-->(''Squid Jesus appears in front of Early'')
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** Early's prayer to Squid Jesus in one episode in an attempt to get the Devil out of Rusty:
--> '''Early:''' Dear Jesus I beseech thee, please give me the magic power to shred faces and explode the brains out the neck with a panty-tearing solo power.
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** 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:
-->'''Early:''' Dear lord, Please allow this dangerous combination of hairspray, bat slobber, and DOT-4 automatic transmission fluid to excite my mind, occupy my spirit, and enrage my body, provoking me to kick a man or woman in the back of the head regardless of what he or she has or has not done unto me. All my best, Early Cuyler.
-->'''Sheriff clone:''' Amen. (''proceeds to smash the still with an axe'')
-->'''Early:''' Dear lord, Please allow this dangerous combination of hairspray, bat slobber, and DOT-4 automatic transmission fluid to excite my mind, occupy my spirit, and enrage my body, provoking me to kick a man or woman in the back of the head regardless of what he or she has or has not done unto me. All my best, Early Cuyler.
-->'''Sheriff clone:''' Amen. (''proceeds to smash the still with an axe'')
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* ''Film/{{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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** When the family's having DinnerWithTheBoss (on live TV to promote his gubernatorial campaign, no less), Homer makes the mistake of calling on Bart to lead grace.
--->'''Bart:''' Dear God, we paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing.
--->'''Bart:''' Dear God, we paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing.
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* In a strip of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', a dog prays to be able to see colour, along with his family and two other dogs named Rex and Tucker.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': One week long arc has Jason having a nightmare where he is tormented by [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] coming on to him (Jason is still at the GirlsHaveCooties 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:
-->'''Jason:''' It was total nightmare.
-->'''Peter:''' Jason, are you aware of that ''special'', extra prayer I say every night?
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': One week long arc has Jason having a nightmare where he is tormented by [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] coming on to him (Jason is still at the GirlsHaveCooties 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:
-->'''Jason:''' It was total nightmare.
-->'''Peter:''' Jason, are you aware of that ''special'', extra prayer I say every night?
* In a strip of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', a dog prays to be able to see colour, along with his family and two other dogs named Rex and Tucker.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': One week long arc has Jason having a nightmare where he is tormented by [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] coming on to him (Jason is still at the GirlsHaveCooties 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:
-->'''Jason:''' It was total nightmare.
-->'''Peter:''' Jason, are you aware of that ''special'', extra prayer I say every night?
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': One week long arc has Jason having a nightmare where he is tormented by [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] coming on to him (Jason is still at the GirlsHaveCooties 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:
-->'''Jason:''' It was total nightmare.
-->'''Peter:''' Jason, are you aware of that ''special'', extra prayer I say every night?
* Religion on the Literature/{{Discworld}} is a complicated thing. Creator/AAPessimal 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 Music/BlueOysterCult 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.[[/note]]
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* Religion on the Literature/{{Discworld}} is a complicated thing. Creator/AAPessimal 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 Music/BlueOysterCult 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.[[/note]]
* ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'': 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:
--> Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out.
--> Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out.
* ''Film/MeetTheParents'' 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 ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}''
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* ''Film/MeetTheParents'' 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 ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}''
* ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'': 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:
--> Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out.
* ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'': 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:
--> Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out.
* In ''Literature/TheFourGospels'', UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' parable of the [[RightWayWrongWayPair Pharisee and the Tax Collector]] features a religious leader at the temple who absurdly spends his entire prayer [[EgocentricallyReligious bragging to God]] about [[HolierThanThou 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.
* In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', 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 GodsNeedPrayerBadly, but churches need collection money badly, nobody involved seems particularly inclined to say the gods ''don't'' do that.
* The ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' short story "A Ship Named Francis" overlaps this with BlackComedy. 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.
* In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', 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 GodsNeedPrayerBadly, but churches need collection money badly, nobody involved seems particularly inclined to say the gods ''don't'' do that.
* The ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' short story "A Ship Named Francis" overlaps this with BlackComedy. 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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* In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', 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 GodsNeedPrayerBadly, but churches need collection money badly, nobody involved seems particularly inclined to say the gods ''don't'' do that.
* In ''Literature/TheFourGospels'', UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' parable of the [[RightWayWrongWayPair Pharisee and the Tax Collector]] features a religious leader at the temple who absurdly spends his entire prayer [[EgocentricallyReligious bragging to God]] about [[HolierThanThou 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.
* In ''Literature/TheFourGospels'', UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' parable of the [[RightWayWrongWayPair Pharisee and the Tax Collector]] features a religious leader at the temple who absurdly spends his entire prayer [[EgocentricallyReligious bragging to God]] about [[HolierThanThou 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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* The ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' short story "A Ship Named Francis" overlaps this with BlackComedy. 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.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', when Ellen [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-07-25 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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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', when Ellen [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-07-25 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'."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' 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 ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', citing how he has been stuck on Bald Bull for the past four years.
* A secular version occurs in the first ''WesternAnimation/{{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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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' 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 ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', citing how he has been stuck on Bald Bull for the past four years.
* A secular version occurs in the first ''WesternAnimation/{{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."
* A secular version occurs in the first ''WesternAnimation/{{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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* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': One is said by Larry the Croc when he tucks his son into bed.
-->'''Larry:''' Now me lay me down to sleep. Mow dem zeebas down like sheep. Give dem to me nice and dead. Me no happy 'til me fed.
-->'''Larry:''' Now me lay me down to sleep. Mow dem zeebas down like sheep. Give dem to me nice and dead. Me no happy 'til me fed.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Fool's Paradise", [[AnimalLover Lana]] prays for her pets, including her ant farm.
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* In the "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven" episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', as the family prays over their breakfast, Peter asks God for cheat codes to advance further in the game ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', citing how he has been stuck on Bald Bull for the past four years.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven" episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Heaven", as the family prays over their breakfast, Peter asks God for cheat codes to advance further in the game ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', citing how he has been stuck on Bald Bull for the past four years.
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* Spoken: Victor Buono's "The Fat Man's Prayer" begins thusly:
-->Lord, my soul is ripped with riot\\
Incited by my wicked diet,\\
"We are what we eat," said a wise old man\\
And Lord if that's true I'm a garbage can.
-->Lord, my soul is ripped with riot\\
Incited by my wicked diet,\\
"We are what we eat," said a wise old man\\
And Lord if that's true I'm a garbage can.
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* The prayer the Bruce's conduct cuts to the chase:
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* The prayer the Bruce's conduct cuts to the chase:
-->'''Padre Bruce:''' (''rapidly'') O Lord we beseech thee, have mercy on our faculty, amen.\\
'''Bruce #3:''' Amen! Crack the tubes!
-->'''Padre Bruce:''' (''rapidly'') O Lord we beseech thee, have mercy on our faculty, amen.\\
'''Bruce #3:''' Amen! Crack the tubes!
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PrayerOfMalice might overlap if it's played for BlackComedy. Contrast PrayerIsALastResort and SayYourPrayers.
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PrayerOfMalice might overlap if it's played for BlackComedy. Contrast PrayerIsALastResort and SayYourPrayers.
SayYourPrayers. Compare ReflexiveRemarkOfReverence.
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-->'''Cam:''' Forgive us...pass...forgive our passes we commit sometimes on womenfolk with their dresses that are on too tight. Like...baby, that's a nice caboose you got on your... wait, that's not part of it!
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-->'''Cam:''' Forgive us...pass...forgive our passes we commit sometimes on womenfolk with their dresses that are on too tight. Like...baby, that's a nice caboose you got on your... [[DidISayThatOutLoud wait, that's not part of it!it!]]
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* During a debate in ''Film/TheCampaign'', 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.
-->'''Mitch:''' ''mimes passing a football''
-->'''Cam:''' Forgive us...pass...forgive our passes we commit sometimes on womenfolk with their dresses that are on too tight. Like...baby, that's a nice caboose you got on your... wait, that's not part of it!
-->'''Mitch:''' ''starts dancing, first to one side, then the other''
-->'''Cam:''' Forgive our trespassers, and do not lead us to Music/TheTemptations, because we are tired of them and their dancing.
-->'''Mitch:''' ''mimes passing a football''
-->'''Cam:''' Forgive us...pass...forgive our passes we commit sometimes on womenfolk with their dresses that are on too tight. Like...baby, that's a nice caboose you got on your... wait, that's not part of it!
-->'''Mitch:''' ''starts dancing, first to one side, then the other''
-->'''Cam:''' Forgive our trespassers, and do not lead us to Music/TheTemptations, because we are tired of them and their dancing.
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* The ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' short story "A Ship Named Francis" overlaps this with BlackComedy. 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 Janis Joplin song "Mercedes Benz" consists of the singer praying to God for a number of expensive items, starting with the titular luxury car.
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*** This one is a CallBack to "Lost Our Lisa", where Homer makes his famous prayer:
---> I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
---> I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
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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 LongList 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 [[LudicrousGiftRequest rocket launcher]], or maybe it's praying that something crazy doesn't happen (e.g. "Dear God, please don't let me get [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]], 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 [[LudicrousGiftRequest rocket launcher]], or maybe it's praying that something crazy doesn't happen (e.g. "Dear God, please don't let me get [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]], amen.")
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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 LongList 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" 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 [[LudicrousGiftRequest rocket launcher]], or maybe it's praying that something crazy doesn't happen (e.g. "Dear God, please don't let me get [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]],amen.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 [[LudicrousGiftRequest rocket launcher]], or maybe it's praying that something crazy doesn't happen (e.g. "Dear God, please don't let me get [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]],
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*''Series/TrueBlood'': 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:
--> '''Steve Newlin:''' There once was a cock and a hen who gave lunch to a goose in a pen. "Good Lord," said the goose, "bless this food for our use, and us to Thy service." Amen.
--> '''Russell Edgington:''' Charming.
--> '''Steve Newlin:''' There once was a cock and a hen who gave lunch to a goose in a pen. "Good Lord," said the goose, "bless this food for our use, and us to Thy service." Amen.
--> '''Russell Edgington:''' Charming.
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* In one episode of ''Series/TrueBlood'', Jason Stackhouse and Amy Burley say a prayer of thanks for blood that they have taken from the vampire that they kidnapped - Jason ends the prayer by asking for Pluto to be a planet again.
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** When he wrecks chasing Jean Girard and thinks he's on fire, he desperately calls out to [[EmergencyMultifaithPrayer anyone who will listen]], even Creator/TomCruise.
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* Ricky Bobby prays to "Lord Baby Jesus" in ''Film/TalledegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'', thanking him for a "red-hot smokin' wife" and for all the fast food brands he's contractually obligated to sell.
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* Ricky Bobby prays to "Lord Baby Jesus" in ''Film/TalledegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'', ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'', thanking him for a "red-hot smokin' wife" and for all the fast food brands he's contractually obligated to sell.
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* Ricky Bobby prays to "Lord Baby Jesus" in ''Film/TalledegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'', thanking him for a "red-hot smokin' wife" and for all the fast food brands he's contractually obligated to sell.
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* In one episode of ''Series/TrueBlood'', Jason Stackhouse and Amy Burley say a prayer of thanks for blood that they have taken from the vampire that they kidnapped - Jason ends the prayer by asking for Pluto to be a planet again.
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* In one episode ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'': When asked to say grace at the home of ''Series/TrueBlood'', Jason Stackhouse his girlfriend, Frank Jr (who has never done so before) instead recites his father's go-to inspirational story:
--> Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up andAmy Burley say a prayer of thanks for blood drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that they have taken from the vampire eventually he churned that they kidnapped - Jason ends the prayer by asking for Pluto to be a planet again.cream into butter and crawled out.
--> Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and
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* In one episode of ''Series/TrueBlood'', Jason Stackhouse and Amy Burley say a prayer of thanks for blood that they have taken from the vampire that they kidnapped - Jason ends the prayer by asking for Pluto to be a planet again.
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* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': the Salvation Fuzz conducts a prayer to uncover the murderer of the Bishop of Leicester:
-->'''Everyone:''' o Lord, we beseech thee...tell us who croaked Leicester?\\
-->'''Everyone:''' o Lord, we beseech thee...tell us who croaked Leicester?\\
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* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': Detective Parson of the Salvation Fuzz Church Police conducts a prayer to uncover the murderer of the Bishop of Leicester:
-->'''Everyone:'''o O Lord, we beseech thee...tell us who croaked Leicester?\\
-->'''Everyone:'''
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* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': the Salvation Fuzz conducts a prayer to uncover the murderer of the Bishop of Leicester:
-->'''Everyone:''' o Lord, we beseech thee...tell us who croaked Leicester?\\
(''God's hand descends and points to Kraus'')\\
'''Kraus:''' It's a fair cop but society is to blame.
-->'''Everyone:''' o Lord, we beseech thee...tell us who croaked Leicester?\\
(''God's hand descends and points to Kraus'')\\
'''Kraus:''' It's a fair cop but society is to blame.
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* A secular version occurs in the first ''WesternAnimation/{{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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-->And St. Attiler raised the grenade up on high and said "O Lord, bless this thy Holy Hand Grenade for with it thou may blow thine enemies to tiny bits in thy mercy"; and the Lord did grin, and the people feasted upon the lambs, and sloths, and carps, and anchovies, and breakfast cereals, and fruitbats and lar--\\
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-->And St. Attiler raised the grenade up on high and said "O Lord, bless this thy Holy Hand Grenade for with it thou may blow thine enemies to tiny bits in thy mercy"; and the Lord did grin, and the people feasted upon the lambs, and sloths, and carps, and anchovies, and breakfast cereals, and orangutans, and fruitbats and lar--\\
