TV Shows I Never Would'a Expected

[Revoltingest]

I'm watching a show I find interesting...Monsters Inside Me.
It occurs to me that this would be a difficult premise to sell to a network.
The pitch:
"Hey, I have a great idea for a TV show. It will be about people who have some
horrible & gross symptoms...you know....bloody stool, racked with agonizing pain,
swelling oozing pustules, bugs moving underneath their skin, puking their guts out.
The sufferers will be miserable & hopeless until they find the right doctor, who
diagnoses some bizarre grisly parasite infesting their nether regions. So whaddaya
think? Ya got fun, drama, & studly doctors."

 

[Wirey]

Breaking Bad

"So he's a high school teacher who loves his family and blows up drug dealers in old folks homes. Plus, he gets one of his old students beat up pretty much semi-constantly. Did I mention he drives an Aztec?"

 

[Brinne]

Naked and Afraid

"It's just like Man vs. Wild expect we scrap Bear Grylls and get self-proclaimed male and female survivalists off the streets. Oh and we make them naked."

 

[Revoltingest]

I actually watched this show back in the 60s....
The pitch:
"A guy shops for a used car....I know, it's hilarious already! Anyway, he buys a really old crappy car. <guffaw> <snicker> But there's more! The car's radio starts talking to him, & get this....it's his dead mother! Some kind of karma thingie had her reincarnated as a 1928 Porter touring car. Now comes the hilarious conflict....the family hates the car! <chortle> And it gets even better....a greedy car collector desperately wants to own it, but the guy won't sell it!"

Too bad they didn't have an Aztec, Gremlin, or Pacer back then.

Epitaph:
"My Mother The Car" is widely considered the worst TV show of all time.
It even ranked lower than, "Oh, That Hitler!".

 

[Wirey]

America's Got Talent

"We get talentless slugs with acts no one in their right mind would pay to see, and we have them judged by talentless hacks no one in their right mind would pay to see! Then we send them to Vegas so that when their dream dies they can get right into low-budget porn! And we make sure the studio audience has a collective IQ of about 30!"

 

[Revoltingest]

Clutch Cargo

The pitch:
"It'll be the world's cheapest cartoon ever made! The characters are just stationary drawings,
the writing will be done illiterate prison inmates. And here's the best part....we'll use live
action effects! The mouths on the speaking characters are actors' mouths superimposed on
the faces in the drawings. Too hi tech & expensive? No, no...we'll use the same inmates.
Anything which costs too much to draw will just be filmed live & then patched in. Now, you're
wondering who would watch such crap, eh? All along the border with Canuckistan, Sunday
mornings on TV are nothing but church services & curling matches. Kids will eat it up!"

 

[Parsimony]

I'm watching a show I find interesting...Monsters Inside Me.
It occurs to me that this would be a difficult premise to sell to a network.
The pitch:
"Hey, I have a great idea for a TV show. It will be about people who have some
horrible & gross symptoms...you know....bloody stool, racked with agonizing pain,
swelling oozing pustules, bugs moving underneath their skin, puking their guts out.
The sufferers will be miserable & hopeless until they find the right doctor, who
diagnoses some bizarre grisly parasite infesting their nether regions. So whaddaya
think? Ya got fun, drama, & studly doctors."

I do actually like that show, though.

Honey Boo Boo, on the other hand, has confused me with its popularity...

 

[Alt Thinker]

How about a nun whose strangely shaped hat enables her to fly? And it will feature Sally Fields, but always fully clothed, never in a bathing suit.

 

[Vinayaka]

I loved My Mother the Car. But then I was about 7 years old. Maybe now I'd see it differently. Think of the spinoffs ... My Brother the Tree, My Grandfather the Rock,

 

[Revoltingest]

...My Grandfather the Rock,

I can see it now....

 

[Twilight Hue]

Worlds dumbest.

Who would of thought. ...

Tonya Harding. ...Lief Garret. ...Todd Bridges......Gary Busey. ....Danny Bonadeuce ...

All under one roof!

Er..Show.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

House:
"It's a show about a doctor who diagnosis puzzling ailments and conditions in his patients, but only the ones who interest him; he is a pill addict who hates the world, who disregards every notion of morality and ethics to do it his way and get the job done, he frequently makes racist and sexist remarks, he is constantly telling people how stupid they are, he is always degrading those around him-even his only real friend-he is occasionally blasphemous and sacrilegious but he is really good at it all."

 

[Me Myself]

The cleveland show....

And I ve kind of enjoyed a couple of eps too >_>