# Can Paramount manage to get their shirt off? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2015, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262 "2015-04-22T05:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/21 "2015-04-22T17:21:24Z")
There was already a show. It was called The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer space. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/22 "2015-04-22T19:57:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > But the premise is inside out! And it exploded! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/23 "2015-04-23T03:07:40Z")
A thought occurs; if the fictional adventures of the _Galaxy Quest_ crew are used as a guide for the “real” problems of the _Galaxy Quest_ actors… doesn’t that feel like the Brown Hornet segments on _Fat Albert_? My memories of this are less than fond. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/24 "2015-04-23T05:21:36Z")
Oh, no! Will this proposal survive Bryan Ekers’s disdain‽ And if so, how‽ Tune in next time, for another exciting post about GALAXY QUEST! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/25 "2015-04-23T06:32:17Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Tim Allen is easily getable. Has his other show been cancelled yet? Weaver I could see doing it. She probably wants to do something else beside playing evil corporate bosses in genre movies (Cabin in the Woods, Chappie, etc). > Rickman probably wouldn’t be into it. I think that Sigourney Weaver prefers acting on the stage. She probably ends up doing villains because it’s the only sort of film role where you get reasonably top billing but hardly have to spend any time on set. > [@](#): > > I like the idea of a 30 Rock style behind the scenes show but with the extra layer of the cast getting routinely kidnapped into space to deal with real sci-fi threats. A tweaked version of that would be that the Tim Allen character figures that he can produce a new show cheaply by using alien technology and locations, such that the actors all think that the things they’re encountering are fancy props and sets, but actually are the real thing. Set the actors out to solve real problems, across the universe, and they end up creating plots on their own, with no script. (Probably with the Producer and a couple aliens helping to guide them.) A further tweak would be to allow the characters to get taken out in horrible, gruesome ways every once in a while (off screen), and have a revolving door cast of actors instead of a set cast. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/26 "2015-04-24T00:06:28Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Oh, no! Will this proposal survive Bryan Ekers’s disdain‽ And if so, how‽ Tune in next time, for another exciting post about GALAXY QUEST! Hey, now, I _liked_ Galaxy Quest; this is just speculation on possible problems with adapting the premise to an ongoing series. I can see it working as a dramatic sci-fi series (as presumably the fictional _Galaxy Quest_ was) that deadpan-spoofed _Star Trek_ and other genre sources, and maybe the episodes can be split between the show-within-the-show and what the actors do “offstage”, but it’d take some clever writing to pull it off. On series like _30 Rock_ and _Studio 60_, we almost never actually see the show-within-the-show (and on the latter, the few glimpses we caught actually undercut the conceit that the show was some rich cultural touchstone that was being restored to former glory by Whitford and Perry, because frankly the material kinda sucked). Personally, I’d like to see _Galaxy Quest_ as an almost-entirely sci-fi adventure parody show, with only passing hints that it’s not “real”, i.e. we see a lot of Captain Peter Quincy Taggart, and only occasionally actor Jason Nesmith. If there is going to be more “actor” stuff than “spaceship crew” stuff, I think I’d appreciate a lot of Fred Kwan, the actor (played by Tony Shalhoub) who was utterly unfazed by the Thermians. Anyway, I’ll certainly give the show a shot, two or three episodes at least. It would have to be pretty damn awful for me to stop there. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/27 "2015-04-24T05:15:48Z")
So, what you’re saying is, due to the superior quality of the GALAXY QUEST movie, this proposal magically escaped from your ire, unharmed! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/28 "2015-04-24T05:25:44Z")
Maybe they could do a whole bunch of cross-over quasi-parodies. Like, maybe, running across a nine-mile-long mining ship with dangerously high radiation levels and a mutating race of ferrets in the hold, or a planet-eating ship shaped like a giant ladybug piloted by a dead guy and a lizard woman from the slightly-grey universe, or a family flying around in a saucer trying to figure out where they are. The possibilities are almost endless, but the parody fodder may not be sufficient for a weekly series. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/29 "2015-04-24T13:37:34Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > So, what you’re saying is, due to the superior quality of the GALAXY QUEST movie, this proposal magically escaped from your ire, unharmed! Hey… hey hey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262.md?page=1)