J. R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius (Sandy K. Boone 2019)

What started out as an inside joke amongst two self proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for. Frustrated by the rising consumer-driven culture, out of work pals Douglass St. Clair Smith and Steve Wilcox decide to turn their conservative southern ideology on its head and invent a new religion all their own. Spurred on by the overreach of religion and zealous televangelists of the day, the pair concoct religious monikers (Reverend Ivan Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond), a newly minted prophet (J.R. "Bob" Dobbs), and devise a crusade to expose the conspiracy of normalcy by using humor as the ultimate weapon. Directed by Sandy K. Boone.

TRANSCRIPT:

TV Announcer 1: Have you ever wondered about your neighbors? Maybe wondered about the weird thumps and bumps and chants emanating from their apartment?

SubGenius 1: I was once a degenerate! But "Bob" saved me.

TV Announcer 2: It's the Church of the SubGenius. Their prophet's name is "Bob".

SubGenius 2: I found the image of "Bob" 's head in a bedpan!

Rev. Ivan Stang: Praise "Bob" ! Praise "Bob" !

Rev. Ivan Stang: If Jim Jones can talk nine hundred people into killing themselves, we could talk nine hundred people into sending us a dollar.

Rev. Ivan Stang: I grew up a little white boy in the nineteen-fifties in a middle-class home. I really did feel like a weirdo.

Dr. Philo Drummond: We had this sort of an icon we could blame everything on: the Conspiracy of Normalcy.

Dr. Hal: Wouldn't you like revenge on these Mediocretins? These Normals who have made Normality the Norm?

SubGenius 3: We were grasping for this crazy religion to help us see the light.

Rev. Ivan Stang: We tied together every fringe belief you can think of.

LIES: It made perfect sense.

Rev. Ivan Stang: Repent! Quit your job! Slack off!

Rev. Ivan Stang: We offer eternal salvation or triple your money back.

Penn Gillette: The SubGenius was a club, it was a badge.

Nick Offerman: You may think it's funny, we hope you do. We are trying to deliver medicine of a sort.

TV Announcer 3: Y'all are out to put down outrageous cult groups. What does this mean?

Rev. Ivan Stang: No, no, this is an outrageous cult group.

St. Byron Werner: Not everyone in the Church of the SubGenius gets along with one another.

Dr. K'taden Legume: He's a charlatin!

Dr. Philo Drummond: It was a little bit scary. We realized some crazy people are attracted to this.

SubGenius 4: It got a little too far-out for me.

Richard Linklater: It's very effective to slice the world up and pit everyone against each other.

Papa Joe Mama: We believe that, you know, you do need to eliminate and exterminate all the Normals.

Puzzling Evidence: if you want to sell a religion you have to kill the deity, that's how you do it.

Dr. Hal: The Conspiracy constantly grows worse than ever.

Papa Joe Mama: There's always going to be a Conspiracy. It can morph, it can evolve, and so can the Church of the SubGenius.

LIES: We actually are a religion that seems like an art-piece that seems like a religion that seems like performance art that seems like a joke that seems like a religion.

LINKS:

http://subgenius.com/ http://dobbstown.org/film/ http://subgeniusmovie.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H051cMWTsU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fW7FNAvrc