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