The Reverend Bill Bob Proverb is a television evangelist, preaching the gospel to millions via satellite TV from his IGG (In God's Glory) church. His message is that he has martyred himself on the "cross of luxury" because nobody wants to see the old-fashioned raggedy-butt preacher anymore, so he wears fancy silk suits, owns million-dollar homes, all paid for by donations from his viewers. His wife, Leona, is a singer and performs various spiritual music on the show, but she is also a drug addict and her arrest by Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs sends Proverb into action, denouncing the Organized Crime Bureau on his show, then claiming a vendetta against his ministry (and when Tubbs was under suspicion of raping one of Proverb's "angels", Faye Nell, his wife then raised the false claim Tubb