So, I was thinking yesterday about the sitcom they’re making out of the GEICO “cavemen” ad campaign, and how the general consensus on the SDMB seems to be that it’s a shockingly stupid idea. (By the way, I heard a sneak preview snippet of the pilot episode on the radio this morning, and it’s worse than I could have possibly imagined. It was painful to listen to.)
Anyway, what TV (or other) ad campaigns would you like to see made into a sitcom or drama?
Me, I’d tune in to watch The Big New Adventures of Enzyte Bob, a farcical sitcom set in a vaguely 50s-ish suburban utopia, where the running gags are:
Bob achieving things (golf swing, increased profits at the office) that serve as thinly-veiled allusions to his massive new rhinoceros-sized cock
Bob’s pants coming down at inopportune times, leaving the neighborhood speechless at his gargantuan manhood
Bob’s wife simpering around with a smile on her face the size of…well, you know
…I could squeeze two seasons out of that premise. You guys got anything else?
I really do think that they’d get a lot of watchers if they ever turned that series of instant coffee commercials that ran circa 10 years ago into a regular primetime soap opera.
The identity-theft credit card series, where you’d have the visuals of the person whose card got stolen, and the voiceover of the thief. (I continue to throw “My girl robot” into conversations at random intervals.)
What was that car commercial a while back, that showed the car (high fuel efficiency; was it a Toyota?) in the garage at night, attacking small gasoline powered implements like the weed whacker?
If I could remember what make and model of car it was, I think it would make a good sci-fi series, with various small engines in danger from this vehicle. The car’s foil could be a 10-year-old Army-issue Humvee.
Can’t remember the product or service, but the commercial where the smiling guy shows off his new riding lawn mower, his new car, his house, and so on, only to state “I’m in debt up to my eyeballs” just before the announcer cuts in and tells us about the credit card/bank/financial service this guy should be using.
Here’s a guy who knows he’s a spendaholic, but can’t stop buying things he can’t afford. And he seems to be happy about it! There must be at least one season’s worth of possibilities here–make him live next door to a penny-pinching miser, perhaps.
What about the little kid talking to his grandfather about an upcoming cholesterol test and how Cheerios will help him get a 190 (instead of 100, which the kid thought was the goal)? Kid/adult misperceptions (since it’s never been done before) could carry this one far – at least 5 episodes.
Those two Sonic bozos, plus the dork with his less-dorky wife. If anything, always being in a fast food line has got to be somewhat limiting. In a series you could take them in so many other directions.
As long as you got in my favorite one, Mr. Really Bad Toupee Wearer, I’d be riveted. “The only way it could look any more fake is if it had a chin strap.” I’ve never laughed that loud at my radio in my life.
