# Create a TV Show! **URL:** \ **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:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/21 "2012-09-18T19:42:57Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Jeeze, there was a thread a couple of months back where we created the perfect tv show - anyone remember that one? [Let’s create the worst TV show possible](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638752) > [@elfkin477](#): > > I’m thinking a dark comedy set in an inner city abortion clinic. Janeane Garofalo as a wise-cracking abortionist, Dakota Fanning as the earnest oldest of twelve (and counting) children in a quiverful family who pickets the clinic daily, Kevin Dillon shows up at the clinic with a new girlfriend every three episodes, and the theme song shall be “Baby’s On Fire” by Brian Eno. The title was later changed to Just Scrapping By. ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/22 "2012-09-18T20:09:29Z")
HEAT CUPCAKE I’d watch it just to see what the hell it was about. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/23 "2012-09-18T22:31:36Z")
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/24 "2012-09-18T23:36:58Z")
FASHION MYSTERY – a game show where specialists in abnormal psychology watch genuine fashion show runway videos and try to figure out just what the designers were thinking. LAW & JUSTICE – each week a team of NYPD detectives competes with Steven Segal and Jean Claude Van Damme to find criminals. The criminals are either found and given a trial, or found and beaten to death. HEAT FOREVER – a Cinemax series about a hopelessly romantic immortal hot chick who each season gets involved with another man, screws him into a vegetative state, and moves on. FASHION DINER – runway models deliver meals to audience members sitting around the runway. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/25 "2012-09-19T00:05:09Z")
\*\*Team Love \*\* would be sort of like the Bachelorette but with no pressure to make a decision. **Justice Diner** no matter what you order you are served a heaping helping of justice! **Cupcake! Cupcake!** twice as good as the other cupcake shows!! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/26 "2012-09-19T00:19:42Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > **Cupcake! Cupcake!** One cupcake’s long erotic journey from Milan to Minsk. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/27 "2012-09-19T02:40:18Z")
> [@Hallucinex](#): > > Celebrity Justice: Basically Judge Judy, but instead of Judy you have various celebrities adjudicating disputes. I’ve seen this show, but it was a group of 3 celebrities on a jury. The show was called [Jury Duty](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_Duty_%28TV_series%29). I think the more interesting question is which combinations have already been made. I submit: Mob Doctor = The Mob Doctor Alaska Trucker = Ice Road Truckers Chicago 911 Doctors = ER Chicago Loves Cupcakes = Mike & Molly etc. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/28 "2012-09-19T12:26:06Z")
Mystery Cupcake - a panel is given cupcakes made with untraditional ingredients (squid, scallions, millet, pastrami), and they are asked to identify what’s in 'em. (lame, I know.) Doesn’t warrant a whole show, but could be an occasional 2 minute segment on ‘Chopped’. Problem is, combining these words to make new shows - there already are a lot of shows that have been there, done that! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/29 "2012-09-19T16:06:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Let’s create the worst TV show possible](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638752) > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by elfkin477 > > I’m thinking a dark comedy set in an inner city abortion clinic. Janeane Garofalo as a wise-cracking abortionist, Dakota Fanning as the earnest oldest of twelve (and counting) children in a quiverful family who pickets the clinic daily, Kevin Dillon shows up at the clinic with a new girlfriend every three episodes, and the theme song shall be “Baby’s On Fire” by Brian Eno. > > The title was later changed to Just Scrapping By. That’s right - “Just Scraping By” - the best show we have EVER invented! Thanks, **Annie**! I think we had most of the keywords from the OP in it, too. So, does anyone have an email address for someone in tv so we can get this thing on the air? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/30 "2012-09-19T16:58:49Z")
Justice Cupcake: Supercute girl roams the mean streets dealing out justice. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/31 "2012-09-20T03:34:19Z")
> [@Slade](#): > > HEAT CUPCAKE > > I’d watch it just to see what the hell it was about. Turns out it’s not that exciting a show. They just set an oven to 350 every week. I’m really surprised it’s lasted five seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/32 "2012-09-20T03:40:44Z")
Yeah, but they bake a different kind of cupcake each week. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/33 "2012-09-20T13:01:01Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Yeah, but they bake a different kind of cupcake each week. A MYSTERY cupcake! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/34 "2012-09-20T15:22:53Z")
OOOoooooh! Will there be sprinkles? Is there…a filling? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/35 "2012-09-20T16:16:41Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > I’ve seen this show, but it was a group of 3 celebrities on a jury. The show was called [Jury Duty](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_Duty_%28TV_series%29). I think the more interesting question is which combinations have already been made. I submit: > > Mob Doctor = The Mob Doctor > Alaska Trucker = Ice Road Truckers > Chicago 911 Doctors = ER > Chicago Loves Cupcakes = Mike & Molly > etc. Alaska 911 = [Alaska State Troopers](http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/alaska-state-troopers/) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/36 "2012-09-20T16:19:42Z")
Chicago Storm: the trials and tribulations of a ([somewhat fictional](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Storm)) professional soccer team. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/37 "2012-09-20T17:36:42Z")
**PETS 911** sounds like some real shows, _Animal Cops Philadelphia_ and _Animal Cops Miami_. Don’t seem to have done _Chicago_ yet. We could make **FORCE WARS** – every week, various bloggers and message-board-posters have at each other over their differing interpretations of _Star Wars_ universe canon. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/38 "2012-09-20T17:40:33Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > \ > We could make **FORCE WARS** – every week, various bloggers and message-board-posters have at each other over their differing interpretations of _Star Wars_ universe canon. We already have that - it’s called The Internet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046/39 "2012-09-20T17:42:32Z")
Cupcake Force: Jack Bauer must deliver cupcakes in 30 minutes OR MILLIONS WILL DIE. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-a-tv-show/635046.md?page=1)