God, Inc.
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God, Inc. is a comedic web series written and directed by Francis Stokes and produced by Chuck Doble. The series is described by its creator as The Office meets Dead Like Me, meets Lost meets Desperate Housewives. It centers on the office politics inside God's corporate headquarters. Among the featured departments are Product Development, responsible for the creation of plant and animal species, Disaster, Miracles, Population Control and Public Relations ie. religion. The series is currently being developed into a television series that may air on the Sci Fi Channel. The Web series currently consists of six short episodes of various length.
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Episodes
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Episode 1: In the beginning there was paperwork...
Sarah Melody Church (b. June 3, 1976 – November 5, 2006), recently deceased from leukemia is introduced to her new coworkers in the product development department.
Episode 2: The Miracles Department
The two guys in the Miracles Department, Charlie and Austin, can't seem to get anything done and Charlie is fired when they plan to reorganize the department.
Episode 3: Who Stole God's Lunch?
God's lunch is stolen and Paige launches an investigation. Gavin, notorious lunch-stealer is suspected but claims his innocence. Austin wonders if God has a plan. He questions God's design when Disasters has twenty-five employees and expecting decisions while the Miracles dept. is down to 1. Gavin attempts to remake God's lunch after discovering he's the guilty party.
Episode 4: And Give Them An 11 AM Deadline On All Species Submissions
Sarah attempts to print a document but its directed to a printer in another office. Her attempts to find one has her running into Disaster intern training, the Publicity Department, and IT before learning the printer she is seeking is in Customer Relations. She finds her submission among a mess of prayers. She manages to deliver her submission to Piper just before the deadline.
Episode 5: Beating The Muslims (Not Literally)
With Islam, a continuing top seller, Piper tries to motivate the publicity department to gain new converts for their respective religions by having them compete for a box of Angus steaks. While Islam's publicist relaxes, Hinduism, Christianity, and Wicca go to work trying to get ahead. They are all derailed by news of the upsetting Danish cartoon causing a resurgence of Islam. Esther thinks if she can get a Muslim country to invade a Christian one, Really Christians and Sort of Christians, represented by Andy, will move to the top spot. She threatens Andy's stuffed chimp in order to force him to help her. Sarah is excited that her first species, a colorful frog, is approved. Austin thinks he may be about to lose his job as the last guy in the Miracles dept. Esther wins the steaks when she manages to get Pakistan to invade Canada.
Episode 6: Deus Ex Machina
Austin is called into Piper's office to account for his department's purpose. He tries to do away convince her for his usefulness with a tale of his past deed helping the Dodgers win a game. As it turns out, she's a fan of the opposing team. After discovering a miracles submission has fallen through the cracks, it is approved without review. The Aurora Borealis is witnessed over Florida, just as Sarah wished. Austin is fired and gives a piece of his mind to Piper.
Population Control starts their own walk for Breast Cancer after Trish announces her participation in a walk against it. Piper decides to give Austin a second chance after getting a call on the green line. Sarah gives Austin a card thanking him for submitting her miracle.
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