Yeah, Bob in the books was a spirit of air, that had a whole LOT of magical knowledge crammed into that skull house of his. Very swank inside that skull. But, TV Bob wasn't BAD. Just wasn't book Bob. I wanted perversion, and snarkiness, and how would they have turned TV Bob blue to signal bad things were coming?
Alsoo, they completely cut out Ebenezer, so they couldn't have gotten far into the series without retconning the hell out of the stories. Also, Murphy, no matter what her first name is, was supposed to be a petite, cute faced, blonde cheerleader looking cop, that could akido your butt into the ground while blazing away with a P90 she got from a demonic fling...