Yeah, that didn’t faze him. What’s really hell for Homer is pineapple in the coleslaw:
The Simpsons have been mentioned, but not Life In Hell.
My first thought was the hell depicted in the Southpark movie. I love struck Satan pining for Saddam Hussein can’t be all bad, can he?
I came here to mention this. I fucking love that show. I can’t stop watching it.
And having to listen to “Lady”:
I agree. His version of Hell in The Screwtape Letters is good, too, as are the several things hinted at by Charles Williams, such the antipodes of Camelot, where
“Inarticulate always on an inarticulate sea
beyond P’o-lu the headless Emperor moves,
the octopuses round him;”
or the rope that Lawrence Wentworth must climb down into nothingness.
Don’t tempt Me
Don’t Tempt Me (2/9) Movie CLIP - Operations Manager For Hell (2001) HD - YouTube
Then there’s Highway to Hell, where everyone drives an air cooled Volkswagen and the road is paved with good intentions.
Highway To Hell - Volkswagons - YouTube
Highway To Hell- Road of Good Intentions and Hoffa’s - YouTube
Who here has read The Devil’s Storybook by Natalie Babbitt?
A collection of ten cute short stories about the antics of the Devil. In one, a gardener dies and goes to Hell (God only knows why), where he stubbornly insists on tending a garden. This pisses off the Devil, who refuses to allow flowers in Hell. Then end of making a compromise, in which the gardener can grow a garden of thistles.
In “The Imp In The Basket”, a preacher finds a half-human-half-devil abandoned baby on the doorstep of the church, and decides he will try to raise it in the ways of goodness. When the congregation learns of this, they rebel.
In the final story, a depraved individual has a life-long ambition to go to Hell when he dies and become a Demon there, tormenting the other lost souls. Toward this end, he spends his life being as evil as he possibly can. When he dies, sure enough he goes to Hell and becomes a Demon, assigned the task of tormenting the other lost souls. But he finds out too late, there’s a catch . . . A catch that will be with him for all eternity.
It’s not exactly a depiction of Hell, but if I thought I was headed to Hell, I can’t think of a better way to get there than on “That Hell Bound Train”
They used an illustration of that story for the cover of the paperback edition of The Best of Robert Bloch
Heres another:
Ah, most notably The Psychotic Boss-Monster From Hell:
There’s a short story called Confidence Trick, by John Wyndham, the English SF writer who wrote Day of the Triffids, where a group of train passengers are involved in a crash and end up supposedly in Hell. They notice a woman coming towards them dressed in a beautiful mink coat - but she seems very unhappy. The escorting demon explains: “Live minks. Very sharp teeth.”
Speaking of Radio 4 comedy, there’s also Old Harry’s Game, where Andy Hamilton plays Satan as a put-upon bureaucrat constantly, er, firefighting problems.
If you haven’t already, check out The Pyramid (2014) for an interesting enactment of this. Actually, anyone who liked As Above So Below should also give it a go.
As for the OP, I think mine might be the Stephen King short story “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French.”
It was a big enough hit to last for four seasons, and the end of the first season is the one that was spoiled.
YM(O)V
I agree it’s way too early to be casual with spoilers about the show, but it was a pretty big success, averaging around 10 million viewers an episode, including streaming.
For atypical depictions of hell, there’s Job: A Comedy of Justice, by Robert Heinlein.
I’ve really enjoyed the Sandman Slim series of books and its depiction of Hell.
I remember those books! The main character explains that everyone perceives hell in his or her own way. So in his case it is a shittier version of Los Angeles 