You know how if you take elements from a couple of shows or movies and mash them up you can come up with a “new” angle? Well I am going for the conjunction of two popular recent themes - CSI shows and psychic shows. I foresee a big hit would be a show about a forensic specialist whose psychic powers allow him to divine details about crimes from excreta.
The title: The Turd Whisperer.
Got a better one?
CSI: Survivor.
Every week one of the contestants is killed by the producers, and the remaining ones have to figure out how it was done. Immunity is highly desirable. I’d watch.
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House: SVU. It is discovered that Gregory House is a serial rapist and killer. Nobody is surprised.
I heard about thisgenerator on the Stephanie Miller show and it is too funny:
A talking polar bear with an all-or-nothing attitude lives with a mercenary who wants to be a rock star. Stars Ben Stein and Tiki Barber. Genre: Movie of the Week
Law and Order: SUV. Investigates crimes committed in trailer parks and on the road (but never off-road). Sponsored by GM.
BBC Parliament and Big Brother.
Every week a public vote evicts MPs who fall asleep during debates.
Stuck in St. Louis due to snow, travellers from each coast share a hotel room and have an orgy. Lily, Robin, Penny and Barney participate while Sheldon and Raj watch. I call it How I Met Your Big Bang.
A womanizing character comes out of the closet and moves in with a gay lawyer–Will & Barney.
A stereotypical slacker gains superpowers and has to fight villains each week. (Chuck/Heroes)
A comedian, a scheming fat balding guy, a superficial female and a wacky neighbor guy that gets broken out of the insane asylum every week are running from the law for a crime they didn’t commit. They drive around in a van watching crimes being committed but not really caring enough to help. (Seinfeld / The A-Team)
Y’know, this may be the first time that a post with the phrase “serial rapist and killer” has made me laugh out loud.
My entry:
Dora the Lost Explorer - A young Hispanic girl is marooned on a mysterious island with only her backpack, her map, and a variety of talking animals.
She shouts a lot.
RR
Sopranos 90210
Pretty much self explanatory.
House’s Full House–When James Wilson’s ex-wife dies leaving their three daughters orphans, he buys a house and moves in with them and his other best friend, a struggling rock star. House decides to move in with the group, and hilarity ensues.
Jerry Seinfeld, Where Are You? Jerry, George, Elaine and George travel around in a van, not solving crimes.
An obnoxious but funny party animal and an equally obnoxious whiner team up to take care of an adolescent boy. Laverne and Shirley and a Half-Man
A dedicated team of police and district attorneys apprehend criminals and bring them to trial only to lose to the defense attorney every time. Law & Orer & Perry Mason
A bitter shoe salesman and his lazy slob wife hide a wisecracking alien. Married with ALF
I’d watch that!
Actually the show Unhappily Ever After was a bit like that, except instead of a wisecracking alien there was a wisecracking stuffed bunny that only the father could hear.
Big Brother: Galactica
A group of telegenic but vapid twentysomethings are locked in an interstellar starship after an apocalyptic invasion by a race of evolved robots destroys the human race. (Well, not really, but given the I.Q. level of most ‘Big Brother’ contestants, I’m sure some smooth-talking television execs can convince them that the Earth has been destroyed.) The ‘survivors’ are then sent on a quest for a mythical distant world that may be the home of other humans. To spice things up, some of the contestants will turn out to be members of the evolved robotic race who are secretly sabotaging the contestants from the inside, while the more obviously robotic enemies pursue them in massive warships.
Will any of the Big Brother contestants survive and be able to “save” the human race?