# Create a TV Show!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 18, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046 "2012-09-18T03:34:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/1 "2012-09-18T03:34:47Z")
[This article](http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/09/17/161277400/the-25-magic-words-of-american-television?ft=1&f=100) on the NPR website today lists 25 words that you can pick any TWO of and create a TV show.
In the spirit of the article, I invite you to pick TWO of the following words and tell us about your new program: (Feel free to suggest cast members from a pool of past and present TV and movie stars, living or dead.)
MOB
DOCTOR
LAW
JUSTICE
CUPCAKE
CHICAGO
FORCE
911
STORM
REVOLUTION
HEAT
FOREVER
TEAM
PETS
AMERICA
CELEBRITY
ALASKA
TRUCKER
LOVE
MYSTERY
WARS
COUNTRY
REAL
DINER
FASHION
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/2 "2012-09-18T03:50:05Z")
Jeeze, there was a thread a couple of months back where we created the perfect tv show - anyone remember that one?
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/3 "2012-09-18T04:12:46Z")
CELEBRITY TRUCKER: C-Listers form teams of two and race their big rigs across America.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/4 "2012-09-18T05:30:36Z")
All kidding aside.
I seriously think “Team America” (The series) could do very well on Comedy Central right now.
With the state of the world these days, there’s a goldmine of topical events that writters could have a feild day on.
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/5 "2012-09-18T13:01:45Z")
Thelma Lou,
This thread is a very original and intriguing idea for a thread.
Unfortunately, I have found that when people post threads that are about original and intriguing ideas, very often, almost no one knows how to respond to them.
It must be very disappointing to see that you have only gotten 4 replies in the time it has been posted.
I will try to post one idea and I’m guessing you will see why people have a difficult time coming up with good ideas. My idea will probably be considered a very bad idea. But, let’s see:
I would create a show called “Pet Love”.
It would be about a special squad of police created in modern day NYC (where else?) in response to a number of horrible and disgusting crime scenes that have been discovered recently.
All the crime scenes involve some small pet animals that have been killed and they appear to have been killed in a horrible, disgusting and sexually mutilated way.
The show will be called, “Pet Love” and you may stop reading now because you should be able to figure out what is coming next.
Anyway …
Every week, Biff and Jenna (two undercover cops who work on the squad) start their week with the discovery of some poor (but very cute) pet who has been savaged and sexually mutilated in some despicable way and they will then trace back this crime to the creep who performed this deed.
In the process they discover a secretive underground society of sexual deviants who have a weird bestiality type fetish and can only achieve sexual pleasure through the torture and mutilation of pets.
Rabbits, gerbils, cats and dogs, duck billed platypusses. None are safe. Week after week the Chief of Police calls them into his office for a thorough dressing down and chewing out.
Week after week, they find some new weirdo creep responsible for these despicible crimes that are keeping the children of NYC off the streets and keeping the front pages of the newspapers screaming with demands for vengence.
“Cut Off Their $&^#&'s and See How They Like It!” is a typical headline of one of the papers screaming for revenge.
As the show progresses, Biff and Jenna come closer and closer to discovering the identity of the big creep who is the head of this ring of perverts.
In a surprise twist, the ringleader could be the Mayor or Chief of Police. I havent’ yet decided. A real big bang finish could involve Glenn Close somehow and a company she started to make clothing from the pelts of dead pets.
Oh well, I warned you this would be a creepy post. I was right, wasn’t I?
But I was so sad seeing that no one would reply to your thread and I figured I really should give it a shot.
Hopefully, my post will explain to you why so few people have replied to your thread.
In some states (most notably Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas) they can put people in jail forever just for posting such ideas. That may be another reason why so few people have replied. But, fortunately, I am out of range of the long arm of the law from those states.
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### Author:  [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/6 "2012-09-18T13:19:15Z")
Mob Doctor would be interesting: He’s saving the lives of people who are going out and killing people.
Doctor Cupcake sounds like a great idea for an anime.
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### Author:  [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/7 "2012-09-18T13:27:15Z")
[The Mob Doctor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mob_Doctor) already exists and premiered last night.
I would be interested in the show ‘Mob Cupcake’ where a rehabilitated mafia don goes into the boutique cupcake business, but a sinister cadre of pastry chefs show him the sweets business is dirtier than Jersey Hazardous Waste contracts, and with the threat to his life and livelihood, he finds himself in a slow descent to the hell of his old ways, occasionally punctuated by some really fancy cupcake recipes that will appeal to hipsters.
It’s like printing your own money, I tell ya!
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### Author:  [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/8 "2012-09-18T13:28:25Z")
Justice Law: Like Judge Dredd
Chicago cupcake maker
911 Force: Defending our country against terrorists
Heat Storm Revolution Forever: Heavy metal band
Team Pets: Sequel to Krypto the SuperDog
Love Mystery Wars sounds great but I can’t think of an idea
Real Country Diner: Reality show
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/9 "2012-09-18T13:57:13Z")
DOCTOR LAW
In the not too distant future, where medical costs have skyrocketed beyond the means of average people, expensive treatment is rationed. Sick people competing for the same expensive medical procedures are given one day to make their case before the medical tribunal, headed by Doctor Law (a judge, not a medical doctor - his parents just named him ‘Doctor’. Don’t ask me! Ask Judge Reinhold ffs!) as to why they should be given the treatment instead of the others. only one person can win.
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### Author:  [@Hallucinex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hallucinex)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/10 "2012-09-18T14:20:43Z")
Celebrity Justice: Basically Judge Judy, but instead of Judy you have various celebrities adjudicating disputes.
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/11 "2012-09-18T15:14:42Z")
> [@Hallucinex](#):
>
> Celebrity Justice: Basically Judge Judy, but instead of Judy you have various celebrities adjudicating disputes.
Celebrity Justice sounds like a winner to me. I’d watch it.
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/12 "2012-09-18T15:17:30Z")
> [@Lazlo Hapsburg](#):
>
> Thelma Lou,
>
> This thread is a very original and intriguing idea for a thread.
>
> Unfortunately, I have found that when people post threads that are about original and intriguing ideas, very often, almost no one knows how to respond to them.
>
> It must be very disappointing to see that you have only gotten 4 replies in the 10 hours since you originally posted it.
>
> I will try to post one idea and I’m guessing you will see why people have a difficult time coming up with good ideas. My idea will probably be considered a very bad idea. But, let’s see:
>
> I would create a show called “Pet Love”.
>
> It would be about a special squad of police created in modern day NYC (where else?) in response to a number of horrible and disgusting crime scenes that have been discovered recently.
>
> All the crime scenes involve some small pet animals that have been killed and they appear to have been killed in a horrible, disgusting and sexually mutilated way.
>
> The show will be called, “Pet Love” and you may stop reading now because you should be able to figure out what is coming next.
>
> Anyway …
>
> Every week, Biff and Jenna (two undercover cops who work on the squad) start their week with the discovery of some poor (but very cute) pet who has been savaged and sexually mutilated in some despicable way and they will then trace back this crime to the creep who performed this deed.
>
> In the process they discover a secretive underground society of sexual deviants who have a weird bestiality type fetish and can only achieve sexual pleasure through the torture and mutilation of pets.
>
> Rabbits, gerbils, cats and dogs, duck billed platypusses. None are safe. Week after week the Chief of Police calls them into his office for a thorough dressing down and chewing out.
>
> Week after week, they find some new weirdo creep responsible for these despicible crimes that are keeping the children of NYC off the streets and keeping the front pages of the newspapers screaming with demands for vengence.
>
> “Cut Off Their $&^#&'s and See How They Like It!” is a typical headline of one of the papers screaming for revenge.
>
> As the show progresses, Biff and Jenna come closer and closer to discovering the identity of the big creep who is the head of this ring of perverts.
>
> In a surprise twist, the ringleader could be the Mayor or Chief of Police. I havent’ yet decided. A real big bang finish could involve Glenn Close somehow and a company she started to make clothing from the pelts of dead pets.
>
> Oh well, I warned you this would be a creepy post. I was right, wasn’t I?
>
> But I was so sad seeing that no one would reply to your thread and I figured I really should give it a shot.
>
> Hopefully, my post will explain to you why so few people have replied to your thread.
>
> In some states (most notably Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas) they can put people in jail forever just for posting such ideas. That may be another reason why so few people have replied. But, fortunately, I am out of range of the long arm of the law from those states.
P.S. I just want you should know that I spelled “Platypusses” that way to try and make a joke. It sounds funny to me. I know it’s the plural of Playpus is not really “Platypusses”.
Oh My Gosh! I edited this post some two hours after making it. What is going on? Normally, in this forum, one can only edit posts for a few minutes after they are first made.
Oh. I see. I quoted my original post by mistake instead of trying to edit it. Hmmm … Interesting.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/13 "2012-09-18T15:30:49Z")
> [@furryman](#):
>
> …Doctor Cupcake sounds like a great idea for an anime.
My first thought was _Cupcake Doctor_, a baker who comes to the rescue in emergency pastry situations.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/14 "2012-09-18T15:37:23Z")
_Mystery Diner_
“What the heck do you think is in this meatloaf?”
“I dunno. But I hear they were originally going to call this show _Real Pets_.”
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/15 "2012-09-18T15:37:47Z")
> [@wevets](#):
>
> I would be interested in the show ‘Mob Cupcake’ where a rehabilitated mafia don goes into the boutique cupcake business, but a sinister cadre of pastry chefs show him the sweets business is dirtier than Jersey Hazardous Waste contracts, and with the threat to his life and livelihood, he finds himself in a slow descent to the hell of his old ways, occasionally punctuated by some really fancy cupcake recipes that will appeal to hipsters.
There was a Simpsons episode where Fat Tony’s son eliminated Tony’s mob competitors with poisoned desserts. Close enough for me!
> [@Hallucinex](#):
>
> Celebrity Justice: Basically Judge Judy, but instead of Judy you have various celebrities adjudicating disputes.
I also love this idea!
For my contribution, **Trucker Love** , all about relationships among the 18-wheeler set.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/16 "2012-09-18T15:43:18Z")
DOCTOR STORM
Americanized (i.e., amped-up violence and sex) version of Doctor Who telling the story of the end of the war between the Daleks and the Time Lords.
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### Author:  [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/17 "2012-09-18T15:57:44Z")
**Cupcake Justice** - Two very capable but very cute female cops in St. Louis go out and solve cases, even though their fellow cops keep trying to demean them by calling them “Cupcake!”
**Forever Team** - A group of agents travel through time correcting history, in conflict with another group who want to achieve their own goals. (Yes, I have read this before, several times.)
**Love Trucker** - ( **Zyada** ’s idea) Movie about a driver whose truck full of Valentine candy breaks down in a small town, and must be repaired by the town’s only mechanic, a hot single mom.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/18 "2012-09-18T18:43:27Z")
Alaska 911. Starring Wilfred Brimley as Police Chief Doctor Cupcake.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/19 "2012-09-18T18:50:18Z")
REAL WARS
Basically, just re-airing all the content of The History Channel from it’s sign-on until the pawn shop and aliens crap took over.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/20 "2012-09-18T19:16:32Z")
**Chicago, Alaska** - Expatriate fans of Da Bearss gather at this bar for $15 Polish saasages flown in daily from Vienna Beef HQ. Featuring a cheese fry booth with a moose head on it.
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