Or more likely, “comedy.”
I’ll admit that as commercials go, they aren’t the worst. However, how much mileage can really be squeezed from such a stupid premise? Ugh.
Well I love the commercials, but it does seem like a rather limiting premise. On the other hand, I think almost any premise can fly if the writers are good. And it’s not the worst premise ever; that honor would have to go to an entire sitcom about a talking horse. :rolleyes:
I love the commercials, but I’m a little skeptical about this. Like lowbrass says, if the writers are good, it’ll probably be hilarious, but that’s not always a given. It seems to me in the same vein as SNL movies: take a premise that’s developed enough for a few skits and try to stretch it into a movie. That only ever really worked for Wayne’s World. I can see the same thing happening here; what was funny as a few 30-second commercials will just completely lose the humor as 30-minute shows.
Question is, will they run Geico commercials during the show?
Is this the first commercial to get a show?
I remember some years back that there was talk about turning some Tasters Choice commercials into a series, but nothing ever came of it.
Fortunately, someone erased your memory of Baby Bob.
I think I hear a fish out of water.
Yes that’s what I hear.
flop…flop…flop…flop…flop…flop…flop.
I dunno. The Odd Couple ran for years and years.
Did it jump out of the cement pond?
Home Improvement was based on a stand-up routine that was probably 5 minutes max, and it ran for years. Of course, it was a stinking pile of feces the entire time. What’s really sad is that the original stand-up bit was hilarious.
It doesn’t even have the cast from the commercials! Ya know just went I think the suits in Follywood can’t get any dumber, they go and do something like this.
So it’s sort of like ‘Third Rock from the Sun,’ only without the wit and charm of French Stewart.
I love the fact that there’s a Geico ad on the page.
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned It’s About Time, a very bad Sherwood Schwartz sitcom BUT, unlike most very bad Sherwood Schwartz sitcoms, it bombed. For the first few episodes, two astronauts wind up back in time and are befriended by caveman Gronk (played by Joe E. Ross, bka as Officer “Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!” Toody from Car 54) and his wife, Shadd (Imogene Coca, bk4 Sid Caesar or Family Vacation). When the show immediately had trouble the format was changed so that they fixed the spacecraft and returned to their own time but with Shadd and Gronk in tow. Usually ranks up there with My Mother the Car and Hee-Haw Honeys in worst sitcom of all time lists.
Then of course Phil Hartman had a recurring “Caveman Lawyer” character on SNL who always ended every summation in John Edwards sleazy emotional manipulation style. “I am just a caveman… a Neanderthal… I understand nothing of your world and society…” and always won. I’m surprised that never was made into a movie.
I agree. It’s the main actor’s delivery that makes the commercials so funny.
Hey, what fun! A full half hour commercial from one of the worst Insurance companies all around. Now we need the Cap1 barbarians to do a half hour show for one of the worst CC companies. Perfect! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
What about The Blues Brothers? 
The Belushi-less sequel, not so much, but the original film is a true classic.
Anyway, while I think the commercials are clever (better than the Gecko ones, anyway), I don’t see this as sitcom material at all. Like someone mentioned above, remember Baby Bob. Oh, the horror. An entire series based on a one-note joke that may be okay in short doses, but generally doesn’t work over a whole half hour. Sitcoms based on gimmicks (like, say, space aliens on earth or magicians of some sort) have to have tight writing and good acting or else they fall flat rapidly. Shows like Third Rock From the Sun didn’t magically stay on the air because people love aliens. It worked because obviously some talent was involved somewhere in there. If you want to milk a concept, be prepared to do it right.
I don’t think that the Blues Brothers were ever a comedy sketch, but rather a musical guest.
I wonder if the Gecko will make a cameo appearance?
Well, they WERE fictional characters that were wholly creations of the SNL staff…and, when you think about it, basing an entire movie on characters that weren’t even involved in skit-style sketches seems like an even weaker premise, because you have to start from scratch with their personalities, backgrounds, and details of their everyday lives, which could have been gleaned in part from skits if they existed. This seems like a task that would have been doomed to failure in the hands of the wrong people.