# Who is your favorite Supreme Being in films, and what is his or her best line? Skald, get in here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878 "2011-12-12T04:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/1 "2011-12-12T04:01:12Z")
Only because Groucho Mark never played God, mine is Sir Ralph Richardson from [The Time Bandits](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/) as The Supreme Being. Kid: Is he God? Time Bandit: Well, we don’t really know him that well. We just work for him. His best line: “I think Evile turned out rather well, don’t you?” regarding the charred remains of what he just blasted. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/2 "2011-12-12T04:10:20Z")
No. no. the Supreme Being’s best line was “_Whose are these?_”, while holding up a pair of underwear! ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/3 "2011-12-12T04:16:59Z")
“Well, I _am_ the Supreme Being. I’m not entirely dim.” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/4 "2011-12-12T04:20:34Z")
No great lines, but the 5th Element is pretty hot. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/5 "2011-12-12T04:30:41Z")
Have to go with _Time Bandits_ but George Burns is up there as well. “So help me, Me.” ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/6 "2011-12-12T05:00:41Z")
I was going to say Sir Ralph Richardson too, but since that’s covered, I’ll go with the Lord as portrayed in Monty Python’s Holy Grail. “Good idea, Lord.” “OF COURSE it’s a good idea!” ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/7 "2011-12-12T05:01:16Z")
I’m going to have to split my vote between: [\*Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic \*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1191138/)with Rishi Kapoor as God. Not a great movie, but nice to see that God can dance. and: Alanis Morissette as God in Kevin Smith’s _[Dogma](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/)_. [after meeting God] Jay: You want to hear something sick? I got half a stock when she kissed me. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/8 "2011-12-12T06:00:40Z")
The original poster is incorrect. Groucho Marx did play God. This was in the 1968 film SKIDOO. Groucho places a mobster named God. In this Otto Preminger salute to youth culture and LSD, star Jackie Gleason is ordered by Groucho to go undercover to prison to kill Mickey Rooney. Also apprearing are Carol Channing, Peter Lawford, Frankie Avalon, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith and Frank Gorshin. (That’s right, four Batman villains are associated with this film. The sequence where Gleason licks envelopes laced with LSD and goes on a trip must be seen to be believed. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/9 "2011-12-12T06:17:45Z")
> [@audit1](#): > > The original poster is incorrect. Groucho Marx did play God. This was in the 1968 film SKIDOO. Groucho places a mobster named God. In this Otto Preminger salute to youth culture and LSD, star Jackie Gleason is ordered by Groucho to go undercover to prison to kill Mickey Rooney. Also apprearing are Carol Channing, Peter Lawford, Frankie Avalon, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith and Frank Gorshin. One way or another, how is this not a classic? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/10 "2011-12-12T06:55:49Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > “Well, I _am_ the Supreme Being. I’m not entirely dim.” “Oh, I _hate_ having to appear like that [after appearing as the glowing, floating head]. Really is a dreadfully noisy manifestation. Still, rather expected of one, I suppose.” “Right! Back to creation…they’ll think I’ve lost control again and put it all down to evolution!” > [@audit1](#): > > The original poster is incorrect. Groucho Marx did play God. This was in the 1968 film SKIDOO. Groucho places a mobster named God. In this Otto Preminger salute to youth culture and LSD, star Jackie Gleason is ordered by Groucho to go undercover to prison to kill Mickey Rooney. Also apprearing are Carol Channing, Peter Lawford, Frankie Avalon, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith and Frank Gorshin. (That’s right, four Batman villains are associated with this film. The sequence where Gleason licks envelopes laced with LSD and goes on a trip must be seen to be believed. I caught this on the revival-house circuit back in the eighties. I would swear I got a taste of Gleason’s envelope myself… Wow. One has to wonder about the film executives seeing this and saying “Did we spend actual money on this?” ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/11 "2011-12-12T07:12:12Z")
George Burns in the 1979 movie “Oh God” **Jerry Landers** : If you’re God, how can You permit all the suffering that goes on in the world? **God** : I don’t permit the suffering - you do. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/12 "2011-12-12T07:36:52Z")
(Month Python Holy Grail) God to Arthur: “Of _course_ it’s a good idea!” . ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/13 "2011-12-12T07:49:05Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > George Burns in the 1979 movie “Oh God” > > **Jerry Landers** : If you’re God, how can You permit all the suffering that goes on in the world? > **God** : I don’t permit the suffering - you do. Jerry Landers is responsible for cancer? That jerk! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/14 "2011-12-12T08:26:15Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Jerry Landers is responsible for cancer? Well, he was played by John Denver, and it’s medically proven that men listening to his music in 2011 have no balls. Testicular cancer is a tragic thing. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/15 "2011-12-12T17:06:10Z")
I loved Morgan Freeman’s “Naw” line in Bruce Almighty: Bruce: [being overwhelmed with hearing prayers] Give me a break! [Bruce is instantly transported to meet with God] God: Really something, isn’t it? Bruce: Is this heaven? God: No, this is Mount Everest. You should flip on the Discovery Channel from time to time. But I guess you can’t now, being dead and all. [pause] Bruce: I’m _dead_? God: Naw, I’m just messing with ya. Bruce: That’s not funny, Man! That is _not_ funny. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/16 "2011-12-12T17:10:47Z")
Summoned by name I must appear, but I’m not the best person to ask the question of; I don’t like most movies. The only two movies I can remember seeing with God as a character are _Bruce Almighty_ and _Dogma_, and while I prefer the latter to the former, I don’t think Alanis Morissette has any lines as God. So I’ll go with _The Fifth Element_, on account of Mila Jovovich being who she is. The line will be “Chicken!” from which she makes a roast chicken in the high-tech replicator thingie. And yes, “thingie” is the appropriate term. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/17 "2011-12-12T17:11:54Z")
> [@sitnam](#): > > no great lines, but the 5th element is pretty hot. “multi-pass” Wow – so the board won’t let me captilise all letters in a word? How ridiculous – I’m leaving it as all-lowercase then as protest. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/18 "2011-12-12T18:10:27Z")
> [@infinitii](#): > > “multi-pass” > > Wow – so the board won’t let me captilise all letters in a word? How ridiculous – I’m leaving it as all-lowercase then as protest. (Actually it just won’t let you have a post that’s all caps. You could’ve cheated and used a lower-case ‘l’ as the upper-case ‘I’ though.) For me probably Alanis Morissette in Dogma. I think the best ‘line’ is her doing cartwheels through the flowers. Or the nose-boop (did she actually make a noise there or am I misremembering?) ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/19 "2011-12-12T18:12:20Z")
Did James Mason ever play God, or was that just one of Eddie Izzard’s impersonations? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878/20 "2011-12-12T19:38:25Z")
“Steambath” (1973) Jose Perez (God) Best line: “… and give Debbie Reynolds an earache.” . [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-supreme-being-in-films-and-what-is-his-or-her-best-line-skald-get-in-here/605878.md?page=2)