• Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 9, 2000
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 22
  2. Negative: 3 out of 22

Critic Reviews

  1. Cleveland Plain Dealer
    Reviewed by: Mark Dawidziak
    Nov 27, 2019
    60
    A terrific vehicle for commenting on the state of the world? It should be. God, the Devil and Bob, however, is rarely as funny or as insightful as it should be. [9 March 2000, p.4E]
  2. Reviewed by: Terry Kelleher
    Nov 27, 2019
    60
    Not divine but blessed with a sense of humor.
  3. Reviewed by: John Leonard
    Nov 27, 2019
    60
    It's less offensive to organized religion than your average Christmas-sale shopping mall and a distinct improvement on your average televangelist.
  4. Houston Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ann Hodges
    Nov 27, 2019
    58
    God, the Devil and Bob is irreverent, but it's not offensive. It's just not as good or as funny as it should be. [9 March 2000]
  5. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    Nov 27, 2019
    50
    The mirth is lower key, often generating smiles rather than laughs. [9 March 2000, p.1G]
  6. The Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    Nov 27, 2019
    50
    Despite a distinguished voice cast, the new animated comedy is hurt by uneven and unsure writing. [9 March 2000]
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Bianculli
    Nov 27, 2019
    50
    The problem with NBC's new animated comedy series, "God, the Devil and Bob," isn't that it's too irreverent, or not irreverent enough. Despite its rich premise and wonderful cast, the problem with TV's newest prime-time cartoon is that it just isn't funny enough. [7 March 2000]
  8. Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    Nov 27, 2019
    50
    Sure, it's irreverent. But is it funny? Sadly, when the question concerns "God, the Devil and Bob," the answer is not particularly.
  9. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: John Levesque
    Nov 27, 2019
    42
    May be remembered as the dullest example of irreverence since Sister Maurice jabbed me in the nose during my altar-boy days and I bled like an "ER" goner all over my white surplice. [9 March 2000]
  10. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Nov 27, 2019
    40
    Based on a thin concept that has God and the Devil competing for the soul of a Detroit auto worker over and over again, it doesn't have enough fresh wit to rise above its good-vs.-evil redundancies. [9 March 2000]
  11. Reviewed by: Caryn James
    Nov 27, 2019
    40
    The real issue is that even for a sunny sitcom, the humor is tired.