Someone please give me a job as a junior VP of development at NBC.



Dirk and I played TV Pilots today at work. I'm pretty sure I won. If you've never played before, the object is simple: come up with the worst, most predicable pilot outlines for as many network television shows as possible. It's a game of subtlety and cunning, requiring an extensive knowledge of pop culture and a war chest stuffed with has-beens and never-weres. You should start playing it at your job as well. Play it on long car trips, or maybe while having your nails done. Anytime really.

I thought of these:

-Brendan Fraser as a gay southern art dealer whose down-on-his-luck redneck brother is forced to move in with him. Their two very different worlds collide when their respective friends just can't seem to get along! [Sitcom]

-Tom Seleck as a failed NASCAR driver turned commentator who moves back to his hometown after his father dies. Seleck is then forced to manage his father's failing Ice Plant (the town's main employer) while he sets about fixing his dilapidated family home. [In the second season he runs for mayor]. [Sitcom]

-Jamie Kennedy as an out-of-work actor (no stretch there) on his way to visit his parents in Montana. His car breaks down in Dillon, MT, and while waiting for it to be fixed, he reads an article in the local paper saying that the local high school principal had died of a heart attack. Kennedy makes up a fake resume and cons his way into the vacated job. He immediately falls in love with the mous-ily beautiful and brilliant town librarian, who he then attempts to woo. He spends all of his free time trying to win her over by pretending to be intelligent, and over the course of the season, actually becomes a smarter better person, and eventually a decent principal. [Hour long filmed dramadey]

-Johnathan Taylor Thomas as a struggling songwriter in Taos who dreams of moving to LA while working as a ski instructor at a ritzy lodge. [Sitcom]

-Tom Arnold as an unscrupulous used car salesman in middle America. He uses his psychic powers to upsell customers, sleep with women and cheat at poker. He constantly finds himself at odds with his chosen low-rent lifestyle when he inadvertently stumbles into mysteries and is forced to use his powers for good to help solve them. [Hour long filmed adventure-comedy]


I have some more, but I haven't decided on actors for them yet.
Please post your sitcom ideas in the comments.
- posted by Mason @ 6:04 PM