History Main / SuspiciouslySpecificSermon

* Shows up a fair amount in ''Series/{{7th Heaven}}'', as usually the Issue Of The Week([[TradeSnark tm]]) would tie directly into Eric's sermon.

* Shows up a fair amount in ''{{7th Heaven}}'', as usually the Issue Of The Week([[TradeSnark tm]]) would tie directly into Eric's sermon.

* Shows up a fair amount in ''7thHeaven'', as usually the Issue Of The Week([[TradeSnark tm]]) would tie directly into Eric's sermon.

Compare CoincidentalBroadcast, where a TV broadcast just happens to be related to the plot, and ChekhovsClassroom, where key information is framed in an academic lesson rather than a spiritual one. Could be a literal form of DeusExMachina.

Compare CoincidentalBroadcast, where a TV broadcast just happens to be related to the plot. Could be a literal form of DeusExMachina.

* In the ''BabylonFive'' episode [[MeaningfulName "And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place"]], one scene is intercut between a sermon about how people need to resist speciesism and anti-alien sentiment because "that hate will turn on you, and [[LaserGuidedKarma that same hate will destroy you]]", and [[AssholeVictim Lord Refa]] being beaten to death by a bunch of Narns for his myriad crimes against their species.

* ''TheSimpsons'' will occasionally have episodes where Reverend Lovejoy or Ned Flanders ties in faith to the plot.

* There were a couple of occasions where priests saying mass for King Richard the Lionheart would take as their topic "The sin of Sodom", to the point of almost being a laser-guided sermon directed at the King.[[hottip:*:Richard I had rumors swirling around him of being bisexual -- we know he has at least one illegitimate child, but historians are divided on whether or not he also had Philip Augustus, king of France, as a lover.]]

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* ''TheEnglishmanWhoWentUpAHillButCameDownAMountain'' features a sermon that encourages the townsfolk to continue building the mound that transforms the hill into a mountain on a Sunday. (This is very deliberate, though he is encouraged to do it by what page of his bible opens at.

* ''The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain'' features a sermon that encourages the towns folk to continue building the mound that transforms the hill into a mountain on a Sunday. (This is very deliberate, though he is encouraged to do it by what page of his bible opens at.

* ''TheWestWing'' - Toby's at temple on Friday evening, listening to his Rabbi say "Vengeance is not Jewish". He gets a phone call from Sam, who asks "By any chance, is your Rabbi giving a sermon on the death penalty?" Toby listens to another sonorous phrase demonizing the death penalty. "... yes?" This is not an accident.
* In the ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Far beyond the stars", a [[AndYouWereThere dream character played by the actor who plays Sisko's father]] gives some very specific advice to Sisko while giving a street sermon.

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** I think that scene was meant to take place later (perhaps even after) the sequence of events in the movie, in which case the speech wasn't coincidental, but a result of the VigilanteMan activities of the protagonists.

* In the ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Far beyond the stars", a dream character played by the actor who plays Sisko's father gives some very specific advice to Sisko while giving a street sermon.

* In ''{{Dogma}}'', the revamp of Catholicism centers on renewed forgiveness at one church, which is exactly what two fallen angels need to get back into heaven. [[spoiler: this was invoked on both parts by a third party seeking to have them thus disprove God and erase all existence.]]