Oh, God! Book II

Oh, God! Book II (1980, stylised onscreen as Oh, God! book II) is a comedy film and a sequel to the 1977 film, Oh, God! It was followed in 1984 by the third and final installment, Oh, God! You Devil.

Screenplay by Josh Greenfeld, Hal Goldman, Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs, and Melissa Miller; produced and directed by Gilbert Cates.

That's right, I made another movie. You know me, I can't stop creating. (tagline)

God

[looking at Earth] What a mess. Every time I look down there, it gets worse. Maybe I oughta stop looking down. Millions of planets, and that one's always been a problem. Why that one? I know why: people. I had to put people on it. Maybe I oughta go down there and look around. I gotta do something. Let's see, um…[lightning strikes] Please, not now, I'm thinking!
I'm not always on cloud nine.
People remember the miracle and forget why I did it.
I don't take off for spelling.
They gave some of my best people a pretty hard time.
But, Tracy, I don't want you to think I'm bragging, but, let's face it: I'm an original, the one and only. I made my own mould and threw it away.
I say, if you don't set deadlines, nothing happens.
"Bananas." I hate that expression. I make a beautiful fruit, and people use it for "crazy."
Mathematics. That was a mistake. I should have made the whole thing a little easier.
Nobody's perfect.
When I sneeze, there's no one around to bless me.
Honest to me, I didn't.
I need all the help I can get.

God's fortune cookie messages

Meet me in the lounge.
I mean you - Tracy.

Tracy Richards

Oh, Daddy, you and your tricks. You're always trying to pull something on me.
Daddy, just because you can't see spirits doesn't mean they're not there. It's kinda like believing in God: sometimes, you just have to believe in things you can't see.
But—but if You are God, why would You bother with me?
Have you ever felt like you might be dreaming, even though you knew you were awake?
Mom, we know that God has a lot of wonderful qualities, but what would you say are some of His strongest points?
It was some dumb commercial. They're always trying to sell you something.
You know, You're not exactly easy to turn down.
You talk to me like I'm grown up. I like that.
God brought me home on His motorcycle.

Tracy's slogans

How do you spell relief? G-O-D.
- Inspired by a Rolaids ad.^[1]
God is bullish on humanity.
- Inspired by a Merrill Lynch ad.^[2]
You're in good hands with God.
- Inspired by an Allstate ad.^[3]
Let God put you in the driver's seat.
- Inspired by a Hertz ad.^[4]
Buy God, B-U-Y.
Try God!
Good God!
Great God!
Think God!
- Inspiration received when Shingo said to Tracy, "We'll think God tomorrow."

Paula Richards

[to Tracy] Don't watch any horror films, okay? [cuts to a scene of Tracy watching a horror film]

Rosa

No, He never talks to me. Maybe he doesn't understand Spanish so good.

Shingo

Did you get His autograph?
I don't believe a word of what you're saying; spelling always counts.

Shingo's slogan

You can be sure…if it's God.
- Inspired by a Westinghouse ad.^[5]

Dialogue

Tracy Richards: Are you God, sir?

God: Forget the "sir." Just plain "God," the owner of the store, also known as the man upstairs.

Tracy Richards: How old are you?

God: Who knows? After the first two-million years, I stopped counting.

Tracy Richards: Slogans really work. You'll become a household word.

God: A household word. Yeah, that would be nice for a change.

Tracy Richards: God, on The Johnny Carson Show?

God: [on t. v.] Why not? He gets everybody else to replace him.

God: I'll give you another week.

Tracy Richards: Just a week?

God: That's long enough. Look at what I accomplished in a week. And I did it without computers.

Tracy Richards: It's just a gut feeling. (That's an advertising expression.)

Shingo: Well, I gotta gut feeling, too: I'm hungry. Let's go home.

God: Tracy, I really like it.

Tracy Richards: Thank God!

God: I like that one, too, but let's go with "Think God."

Tracy Richards: Who do you pray to?

God: Me? Well, sometimes I talk to myself.

Tagline

That's right, I made another movie. You know me, I can't stop creating.

Main cast

George Burns — God
Louanne — Tracy Richards
Suzanne Pleshette — Paula Richards
David Birney — Don Richards
John Louie — Shingo
Wilfrid Hyde-White — Judge Thomas Miller
Conrad Janis — Charles Benson, School Principal
Hans Conried — Dr. Barnes
Alma Beltran — Rosa, Paula's housekeeper

External links

Encyclopedic article on Oh, God! Book II on Wikipedia
Oh, God! Book II quotes at the Internet Movie Database
Oh, God! Book II at Rotten Tomatoes
Oh, God! Book II at Allmovie

Oh, God! series

Oh, God! · Oh, God! Book II · Oh, God! You Devil