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== Literature ==
* Members of the Reformed Church of Om in the ''[[Discworld]]'' universe. Said religion used to smite all those who didn't believe in Om, but He has mellowed somewhat since ''[[
** His days off consist of his trying to convert people with a fellow Omnian, Smite-the-Unbeliever-with-Cunning-Arguments. Entire bars full of people duck under tables and turn off the lights until they're safely past.
* In ''[[The Eyre Affair]]'', set in a world where classic literature is [[Serious Business]], there's a scene where the protagonist answers the door to somebody who's Witnessing for the proposition that Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's plays, and it plays out with all the tropes usually attached to a fictional JW visit.
== Live
* Played with on ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]''. When the Solomons moved to get away from a reporter, they left a note on their door telling Jehovah's Witnesses where to find them. (The reporter, of course, read the note instead.)
** Another episode showed them talking to the Witnesses and being very confused about this "God" person. (He's always with you? Is he waiting in the car?)
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* In an episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', a woman assumes the duo wearing a suit and knocking at her door are Jehovah's Witnesses. They're FBI agents.
== Recorded and Stand
* Swedish comedian Johan Glans has mentioned wanting to find out where a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses live, knocking on their door and saying: "Hi! I'm from the Ordinary People."
* German comedian Michael Mittermeier likes to scare Witness by acting as a exorcist-like possessed man complete with scare music and pea soup as fake vomit.
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