Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Some TV show pitches for your consideration:

Reverse Intervention
We start off with the everyman - let’s call him Bill - going about his day-to-day life. Bill works as a technician in a hospital. His hobbies include bowling and hunting with his dad. He’s neither outgoing nor amusing. So his friends, having noticed what a boring shit Bill is, stage an intervention. They cry about his stagnant life and how he can’t find a girlfriend because he’s a little pudgy. But mostly they insist that unless things change, they’ll be forced to cut off Bill. “We’re going be interesting whether you’re interesting or not,” the blubbering intervenors announce. So what must Bill do to keep his friends? Meth. He’ll trim right down - hello, ladies - thanks to his new, more glamorous hobby. He might even lose his drab job and end up wandering the streets, pulling out his teeth and throwing them at kids. All in all, he’ll be a fuck of a lot more fun.

Extreme Couponing: After the Shop
What happens after you’ve compiled a garage-size stockpile of sundry items for $2.47? This show. You got 108 safety razors for free. Congratulations. Now “After the Shop” is giving you one month in which to use them. Do all your normal shaving. Then shave the kids. Then your friends. Then your kids’ friends. Then the pets. Then the other neighborhood pets. Then go to the pound, adopt all of its dogs and shave them too. Hit the zoo to see if anyone will allow you to shave an elephant. This is of course happening in conjunction with your efforts to consume 86 jars of peanut butter. Heroic cost-cutters or pre-hoarders? You be the judge.

The Queen
Why does the British royal family have to be so standoffish? Really, when you think about it, they don’t have the right to be since they live off government handouts, and when you sponge off the system transparency is a must. So let’s get the cameras in to follow the Queen, Prince Phillip, and the younger generation as they go about their daily business. Guaranteed to be in the first season: Prince Harry’s dick; Charles wondering aloud just when the fuck his mom will have the decency to die; Kate Middleton vomiting; Prince Phillip calling his black subjects “those damn coloreds”; the Queen calling David Cameron queer. I got a million more of these,