What's the trope namer? Col. Robert Lee Scott Jr.'s bio or the 1945 film?
Hide / Show RepliesDon't know. At first I thought the title had to do with a line Robin Williams quipped during his appearance in "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" While singing a Gospel song about a pilot (Song Styles?) he something along the lines of "God may be the copilot."
Re: the movie Dogma and the issue of removing 'God' from life support: Actually taking a comatose person off life-support is not contrary to Catholic teaching which forbids taking action to kill a patient but does not demand heroic efforts to maintain life - which full life support is. The writers Did Not Do The Research
Moved this here so someone can figure out what it;'ssupposed to be a subbullet to. It has nothing to do with the Twilight Zone episode it was attached to.
- No doubt it was an instance of Throw It In!. The character of Preston Vogel was an Expy of Owen, probably originally intended as a one-off gag. Owen was The Jeeves, so Preston would be The Jeeves Up To Eleven... but we saw so little of him that if anyone was being Played for Laughs, it was Owen. So the writers probably just created a reason for that.
Would Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die count as a villainous example?