- Title: Putting The Fun In Fundamental: Kicking The Devil's Balls
- Date: 7th December 2004
- Summary: Presenter and playful inquisitor Elliott Gerner throws himself into the religious firing line. From Candomblé to Catholicism and Evangelism, Brazil's big three religions often use football to bring in the punters, much to the delight of football-mad Elliott. Set to the beat of the spectacular drums of Carnival, this film looks at the increasingly uneasy relationship between Brazil's religions both on and off the pitch. Along the way Elliott picks up a beautiful ex-model, has his fortunes (very accurately) read by a drunken Candomblé priest, visits a 60-million-dollar Catholic theme park, gets his football shirt blessed, and is pushed around and has his tapes confiscated by bouncers at the country's largest Evangelical Church. But all is made good when Elliott scores a hat-trick against a team of World Cup-winning Born Again Evangelical footballers...
- Description:Elliott and Andy bring a humorous and dark eye to the outer fringes of the religious world. This five part series consists of five individual films which they film and present as themselves. Subjects range from meeting the Bollywood B movie actress who is now seen as a Goddess with around a 100 Hindu temples that use her fictional Goddess film role in their worship to understand the rapture movement in the U.S.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Stampede Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 3
- Transmission Date:07/12/2004
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 2000s