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 In many episodes of the television show South Park, Satan appears. Hell in the series is an overpopulated place where several famous people as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lady Diana and Mahatma Gandhi seem to live next to more obvious people as Adolf Hitler. Only Mormons seem to go to Heaven. |
The most imaginative and famous depiction of hell can be viewed in several paintings by medieval Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch.
What Dreams May Come, a 1998 movie that won an Academy Award for its depiction of heaven and hell as the subjective creations of the individual, was an essentially new age model of heaven, hell and reincarnation. It was based on the eponymous novel by Richard Matheson.
In the film Big Trouble in Little China, there are continuous references to the Chinese version(s) of Hell. The specific references are interspersed throughout the movie ("Chinese have a lot of hells," "Hell of boiling oil," "Hell of the upside-down sinners," "Hell where people are skinned alive," etc.).
The BBC Radio 4 comedy series Old Harry´s Game is set in Hell. It was written by Andy Hamilton who also stars as Satan.
Matt Groening´s comic strip Life in Hell shows a satirical look on our society, based on all the bad things that can happen, thus the title. Groening claimed his move to Los Angeles inspired the title.
In The Simpsons Hell is depicted numerous times. In Bart Gets Hit by a Car Bart enters Hell due to a car accident. The Hieronymus Bosch painting Garden of Earthly Delights is parodied. Satan seems to have a computer on which he can view details about everyone who enters Hell.
Bart´s arrival is, however, too early, so the Devil sends him back to Earth, advising him to continue to "lie, cheat, steal and listen to heavy metal." In Treehouse of Horror XI Homer ends up in Hell, being bullied by Satan. He makes so much noise that he wakes up John Wayne.
 In the television show Futurama, the characters go to Robot Hell on occasion, where the Robot Devil and other evil robots reside. In "Hell is Other Robots" Bender was put in there to be tormented in a series of ironic punishments such as being rolled into a giant cigar for smoking.
In "The Devil´s Hands Are Idle Playthings" Fry and Bender go to hell to make a deal for Fry to get robot hands so he can play the holophonor. The robot whose hands Fry will get is determined by a large wheel with every robot on it. Fry winds up with the Robot Devil´s hands (I just put my name on there as a show of good faith to the other robots). The Robot Devil proceeds to use a "circuitous plan" involving Bender and Leela to convince Fry to trade hands back.
 In the Family Guy movie Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, Stewie Griffin is being a bad boy, so when a lifeguard chair collapsed and "killed" him, he wakes up in "Hell" - a bedroom with a headboard sign that said "Welcome to Hell".
Steve Allen greets him and takes off his shirt in an apparent sexual advance, scaring Stewie back into life. Allen then puts his shirt back on, wondering why Stewie would be frightened at a request to fix a button on it. Allen then turns on the TV, curious as to what´s on TV in Hell; the opening theme from Who´s The Boss? begins playing, and when he tries to change the channel, the TV won´t respond.
In the episode "Holy Crap" Peter Griffin imagines him being Hell when he was depressed after having his father say what a failure he is to him; imagining criminals like Al Capone, Adolf Hitler, John Wilkes Booth and Superman. When Peter asks what he´s doing in Hell, Superman responds that he killed a hooker for making a joke about him being "faster than a speeding bullet".
 In many episodes of the television show South Park, Satan appears. On many occasions he is accompanied by his homosexual lover Saddam Hussein, who ironically seems to be even more malicious than Satan himself.
Hell in the series is an overpopulated place where several famous people as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lady Diana and Mahatma Gandhi seem to live next to more obvious people as Adolf Hitler. Only Mormons seem to go to Heaven.
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