Big Damn Kiss: Between Tulip and Jesse in the first season finale, as Jesse uses the Word of God to make her do it as a demonstration of Genesis. He succeeds, but gets punched in the nose for it.
Tulip: Never do that again.
Brick Joke: Pedro the Prairie Dog and Chief Red Savage glance at each other while waiting for Jesse.
Cassidy is still trying to convince people that The Big Lebowski is a terrible movie. Cue Tulip asking everyone in a diner if they like the movie and getting a jovial cheer in response.
Twice, about the same thing. When Jesse tries to get Fiore and DeBlanc's phone to work, someone in the church tells Jesse to try shooting its dick off, much to Clyde's unamusement. Later, he asks God to reattach his penis.
"Chief Red Savage" and "Pedro the Prairie Dog" hang themselves from the same tree used by the town of Ratwater to hang numerous dead Native Americans after the reveal of God's absence.
Diegetic Switch: As pandemonium breaks out in the church after the reveal that God has gone missing, Emily sits down at the church organ and starts playing two chords faster and faster, fading into "96 Tears" by ? And The Mysterians.
Driven to Suicide: Pedro and Chief Red Savage finally come to a mutual agreement and hang themselves together.
"Everybody Dies" Ending: Every person who is not Jesse, Cassidy, Tulip, Fiore or the Cowboy has died as of the Season 1 finale.
Go Mad from the Revelation: Discovering God is real but has disappeared is enough to do this to all of Annville, everyone giving into despair of insanity. Quincannon in particular is last seen cradling a child-sized doll made of raw meat that he's dressed up in his dead daughter's clothes.
Hope Spot: Odin asks God if his daughter is in Heaven with Him. God's affirmation brings Odin relief and joy. Unfortunately, the truth comes hard and Odin has completely snapped by the end of the episode.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Cassidy and Tulip sum up Jesse's plans to roam around, get into adventures and meet strange characters. It sounds an awful lot like they're pitching the show's future seasons. Cassidy even enthusiastically states, "I could go for that!"
Mythology Gag: Much like in the comics, the entire population of Annville comes to Jesse's sermon out of curiosity due to recent events and are killed in a massive explosion.
The Plot Reaper: Practically the entire supporting cast is wiped out when Quincannon's methane plant explodes and wipes out Annville.
When Root looks over Cassidy's record via fingerprints, he sees how the man has arrests stretching back to the 1920s. This, combined with the sunglasses and the hat, means Root has to accept the reality of what Cassidy is.
Jesse's first real clue that the being who appears before the congregation isn't God is that at one point he picks his nose. The masquerade quickly starts falling apart when Jesse calls him on it.
Status Quo Is God: Averted and attempted. Emily attempts to assure her children that things will not change despite what had happened. Unfortunately for her, everyone else in town has either gone nuts, killed themselves, or just stopped caring about anything altogether. Then everybody dies in a massive methane explosion.
Stylistic Suck: God on his heavenly throne looks horribly cliche and cheap, and for a good reason: it's an angel pretending to be God, who is missing.
Trash the Set: The townsfolk tear up the interior of the church after finding out about God's absence. Later on, it goes even further when Quincannon's methane power plant explodes, destroying the whole town, with special focus on the All-Saints church.
Wham Episode: God turns out to be missing and Annville is destroyed in the wake of the revelation via giant methane explosion with no survivors.
Wham Line: The end of the first season sets up the main overarching plot for the rest of the series:
Jesse:(while using Genesis to force a truthful answer) Where is God?!
"God": I don't know! Nobody knows! God is missing!
While Rome Burns: Upon discovering the truth about God, the town starts to go straight to Hell. As most of the townsfolk begin tearing apart the church, Emily gets a wicked grin and begins to play "96 Tears" on the organ.
