Problems with Being a Modern Day God

"God Dammit."

- One of the taglines for the series.

**Problems with Being a Modern Day God** is an American animated religious comedy television sitcom created by Average Films. The series centers around the young Goddess of Life Arushia as she sets out on a journey to spearhead a practical religion. The series is rated TV-MA LSV due to numerous swearing, partial nudity, violence, and inappropriate jokes. The series has been banned in numerous countries including many Middle Eastern countries due to the satirical and offensive depictions of many gods. The show was lauded by critics for its smart and witty humor, references to mythology and pop culture, animation, voice acting, and religious commentary.

## Plot

Arushia, the Goddess of Life, is a lowly goddess living in Asgolymheaven, the realm of Gods. In Asgolymheaven, a god's power is amplified depending on the amount of recognition they receive, whether it be cults, churches, or even media such as movies or shows. Arushia, however, has nothing. So she decides to get advice from many other gods who have their own large following, such as Zeus of the Greek myths or Jesus of the Christian religion.

In each episode, Arushia either goes on adventures to help out the gods in exchange for advice, or is forced to deal with the antics of the gods and sometimes the humans that worship them.

## Episode List

Season 1

1. The Goddess of Life: Arushia begins her journey by asking Odin for help.
2. Our Father, Who Art in Asgolymheaven: Arushia goes to Jesus for advice, but then has to deal with Zeus' jealousy.
3. Thunderstruck: Zeus decides to show Arushia around his palace but things don't go quite as expected.
4. Delivery from Across Time: Hermes has an encounter with Cthulhu and is injured, so Arushia volunteers to take his place.
5. Old Heller: Arushia is tasked with taking Cerberus for a walk.
6. Stop, Hammer Time!: Arushia and Thor go on a quest to retrieve the metal that forged Mjolnir from the hands of Hades.
7. Manners Maketh God: Arushia joins the Knights of the Round Table.
8. The Whore of Olympus: Zeus pledges to have sex with every goddess in Asgolymheaven - including Arushia.
9. Piece of De-Nile: After Set splits Osiris into multiple pieces again, Arushia decides to search for them.
10. A Sun and A Daughter: Arushia attempts to help Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi reconcile their eternal rivalry.
11. Arushia Akhbar: Allah introduces Arushia to the Islamic diet.
12. Jingle Hells: Arushia decides to throw a big Christmas celebration for Jesus in Hell, much to the dismay of Hades.
13. Cthulhu Rises: Arushia has been having numerous dreams about a murderous chicken, and suspects Cthulhu to be behind it.
14. Time for a Krossover: Raiden comes to Asgolymheaven to recruit Arushia to save Earthrealm.
15. Ziggurat Scheme: Arushia attempts to change the mind of Kukulkan and the other Mayan gods about human sacrifice.
16. Fried Chicken House: When Baba Yaga's house breaks its leg, Arushia offers to let the witch move in with her temporarily.
17. Friends on the Center: Baron Samedi creates a voodoo doll for Arushia to teach her a lesson about self-care.
18. Inner Peace: Arushia is stunned to find Buddha is allowed in Asgolymheaven despite not being a god.
19. Luck of the Life: Arushia helps the Celtic Gods steal leprechaun gold to make up for overdue taxes.
20. The Power of the Darkseid: Arushia and Zeus must team up to stop an angry Darkseid from destroying Asgolymheaven,
21. Codename: 666: Arushia meets Satan for the first time after he is freed from his 1000 year imprisonment.
22. God Fucking Dammit: Satan threatens to destroy Asgolymheaven with his army of brainwashed gods.

## Characters

* Arushia: The Goddess of Life who's searching for a large following to gain religious stature.
* Zeus: The King of Olympus, with many sexual tendencies and anger issues.
* Odin: The wise Allfather of Asgard.
* Jesus: The omnipotent and omniscent Son of God whose benevolency knows no bounds,
* Cthulhu: The Great Dreamer who drives the minds of those unfortunate enough to cross his path off the brink of sanity.
* Satan: The wisecracking, mischevious, sinister Fallen Angel who seeks revenge on Jesus.
* Hades: The ruler of the Underworld.
* Hermes: A quick-witted, cynical god who delivers packages to gods.
* Kukulkan: A slithery serpent of the winds who loves human sacrifice.
* Arthur Pendragon: The legendary wielder of Excalibur himself.
* Merlin: The magnificent wizard and adviser of Arthur.
* Thor: God of Thunder. Superhero. Multi-time World Ass Saver.
* Baron Samedi: The kind and clever voodoo doctor and party animal.
* Ra: Lord of the Suns and has a tricked out boat.
* Set: Cunning bastard of the Egyptian Gods.
* Osiris: Ruler of the Dead since his asshole relative Set cut him up into pieces.

## Trivia

* The episode names have many references to media.
	+ Episode 3's name is a reference to the AC/DC song Thunderstruck.
	+ Episode 5's name is a reference to the book Old Yeller.
	+ Episode 7's name is a reference to the Kingsman movie franchise.
	+ Episodes 14 and 20 are crossover episodes with gods from fiction, with 14 having Raiden from Mortal Kombat and 20 having Darkseid from DC respectively.
	+ Episode 17's name is a reference to the movie The Princess and The Frog, specifically the character Dr. Facilier, who is based on Samedi.
	+ Episode 21's name is a reference to the classic show Codename: Kids Next Door.
* The idea for the series was given to PGD during a conversation on Discord with his school friends. One of his friends, who will remain unnamed out of respect for his privacy, brought it up by calling it a story about "a small not well-known god who only has a cult-like following and the story is about him having the most practiced religion". He then mentioned how it would be highly controversial, yet interesting. PGD then decided to turn this into a project of his own, but changed drastically to avoid plagiarism, by including already-existing gods, giving the protagonist no following instead of a small one, merging all the heavenly locations of each religion into one aerial utopia, and genderswapping the protagonist.