1999 / Video / Interactive Flash black comedy
The God & Devil Show
God and the Devil got an animated web show, and every episode treated divine administration like a terrible office meeting.
The original is off-site. HAHrchives preserves the story and a route back to it.
What happened
The series placed celestial arguments, pop-culture targets, and short black-comedy sketches inside a clickable web-cartoon format.
Where it came from
Mondo Media developed Aubrey Ankrum’s The God & Devil Show as an interactive animated series in 1999, during the company’s early push into web-first Flash comedy.
Why it mattered
The God & Devil Show shows that web animation was already building recurring comedy worlds before video platforms standardized how short online shows looked or traveled.
How it spread
Its episodes circulated through Mondo’s Mini Shows channel and the era’s shared-link Flash culture, leaving a distinct pre-YouTube example of episodic online animation.
Keep going
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