My Incredible Sitcom Idea

[ssampier]

My sitcom idea involves a group of young, attractive, successful singles living in New York City. They will all live in large, spacious apartments within walking distance of a hip hangout joint. The cast will include such characters as a quirky goofball, a geeky but likable guy, a somewhat neurotic new age woman, and a token gay/lesbian character who is primarily there to show everybody how tolerant we are. I'm going to sell the idea to NBC, because I'm willing to bet that they'd take a chance on an original idea like this one.

It shall be called "Just Shoot Me Because I'm Mad About Sex in the Spin City and being Friends with Seinfeld."

I love it. If they sometimes show an office environment it must have a whiny, man-child assistant.

 

[mojo1701]

I love it. If they sometimes show an office environment it must have a whiny, man-child assistant.

Or an effeminate, completely incompetent one who is never fired because of threat of lawsuit.

 

[ssampier]

Or an effeminate, completely incompetent one who is never fired because of threat of lawsuit.

We may be talking about the same character. I was thinking of the Matthew character on NewsRadio. I cannot stand Andy Dick, but it's nice how he's a foil to Dave (unless Jimmy James is the foil to Dave, hmmm).

I am not sure who else you're referring to, you may have to "clue" me in.

 

[mojo1701]

We may be talking about the same character. I was thinking of the Matthew character on NewsRadio. I cannot stand Andy Dick, but it's nice how he's a foil to Dave (unless Jimmy James is the foil to Dave, hmmm).

I am not sure who else you're referring to, you may have to "clue" me in.

He wasn't effeminate. Just weird. And he WAS fired, but everyone lobbied for him to come back.

Anyway, I was referring to Barry Zuckerkorn's secretary in a few episodes of "Arrested Development," who had successfully sued Barry for being called... well, I'm not sure that these types of remarks are appreciated on the boards.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

We're never going to get the network on the charts with that non-teamwork attitude. Let's get out of the box and start innovating!

C'mon! Team...team?

OK, here's one for you: An airplane crashes in an area cut off from civilzation by massive storms. The survivors are all seemingly nice people but all with dark secrets who get a second chance to redeem themselves by investigating strange occurrences and stopping unusual lifeforms that appear from nowhere and are bent on taking over the world. We can call it Lost on the Surface of the Invasion Threshold.

 

[Umbran]

I dunno if any of these are really Emmy Award material...

However, if you take any one of them, make it a musical, then you'd have a shot at a Tony award...

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I dunno if any of these are really Emmy Award material...

However, if you take any one of them, make it a musical, then you'd have a shot at a Tony award...

That is a brilliant idea, but personally I'm not as into the awards as I am about the DVD sales. Twelve seasons, each released on DVD, followed by the Collector's Edition Boxed Set, then the Director's Cut and finally the piece de resistance: The commercial and product placement-free edition.

A single Tony-award winning musical can't compete.