wacky races but every team represents a religious pantheon

they race across an impossible phantasmagoric landscape at the behest of a sinister prime mover

grand prize is the contract for soul harvest (and implicitly, objective reality in human world) for all time

played part for laughs, part as profound metaphysics inspired by ws burroughs' stories about egyptian souls

anubis has a muttley laugh

jesus strangely resembles burt reynolds; john the b just like dom deluise

also i think it's much funnier if anubis is played absolutely straight in every other way, noble and unswerving (literally, it's a damn car race) and utterly terrifying in his motorist gloves and helmet -- but once every 5 or 6 episodes he snickers at something and out comes muttley