# Invent your own movie based on an 80's sitcom **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045 "2010-06-30T10:30:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/21 "2010-07-01T08:23:05Z")
From Pixar studios comes a heartwarming story of life and love at a local watering hole in the Serengeti. Sam the lion runs the place with the help of an absent-minded warthog called Coach and a mongoose named Carla. Sam is constantly chasing after the graceful gazelle, Diane, but she is wary of his advances and takes up with the wise owl, Frasier. Norm the hippopotamus is a regular at the watering hole and he and his know-it-all pal, Cliff the stork, are always around to crack wise about the situation. Featuring the voice talents of: Matthew Fox as Sam Zoe Saldana as Diane Craig T. Nelson as Coach Carla Gugino as Carla David Hyde Pierce as Frasier John Goodman as Norm and John Ratzenberger as Cliff. This summer, you want to be where everybody knows your _mane_… _ **Cheers** _ \*in 3D at selected theaters. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/22 "2010-07-01T08:47:12Z")
You’re invited into a day in the life of a teenage girl and the same sex couple she lives with. Experience their happy moments, their sad moments, and the bigotry they sometimes have to endure. Staring: Abigail Breslin as Marcy Bradford Sean Hayes as Michael Taylor and David Hyde Pierce as Joey Harris in **My Two Dads** ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/23 "2010-07-02T08:01:47Z")
What? to controversial? :dubious: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/24 "2010-07-02T08:58:50Z")
I don’t have to do anything, it’s already in the lyrics. Man moves into a random house and abuses/brain-washes the family into believing they want to obey him. "New boy in the neighborhood Lives downstairs and it is understood. He’s there just to take good care of me, Like he’s one of the family. Charles in Charge Of our days and our nights Charles in Charge Of our wrongs and our rights And I sing, I want, I want Charge in Charge of me." I see Rufus Sewell starring as Charles and Alan Tudyk as his even creepier best friend “Buddy.” ---
**Author:** ![davey77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/25 "2010-07-02T19:12:18Z")
::voiceover:: “You take the GOOD…” ::titles:: Jessica Alba as Blair “You take the BAD…” Megan Fox as Jo “You take them BOTH…” Introducing Rihanna as Tootie “And there you have…” Kirstie Allie as Natalie The Facts of Life :💥: Summer 2012 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/26 "2010-07-02T19:15:29Z")
> [@davey77](#): > > ::voiceover:: “You take the GOOD…” > > ::titles:: Jessica Alba as Blair > > “You take the BAD…” > > Megan Fox as Jo > > “You take them BOTH…” > > Introducing Rihanna as Tootie > > “And there you have…” > > Kirstie Allie as Natalie > > The Facts of Life > > :💥: > > Summer 2012 Kirstie Alley as Mrs. Garrett, I’ll buy. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/27 "2010-07-02T19:15:36Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > From Pixar studios comes a heartwarming story of life and love at a local watering hole in the Serengeti. Sam the lion runs the place with the help of an absent-minded warthog called Coach and a mongoose named Carla. Sam is constantly chasing after the graceful gazelle, Diane, but she is wary of his advances and takes up with the wise owl, Frasier. Norm the hippopotamus is a regular at the watering hole and he and his know-it-all pal, Cliff the stork, are always around to crack wise about the situation. > > Featuring the voice talents of: > > Matthew Fox as Sam > Zoe Saldana as Diane > Craig T. Nelson as Coach > Carla Gugino as Carla > David Hyde Pierce as Frasier > John Goodman as Norm > > and John Ratzenberger as Cliff. > > This summer, you want to be where everybody knows your _mane_… _ **Cheers** _ > > \*in 3D at selected theaters. THIS is just SO right and a work of freakin’ GENIUS! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/28 "2010-07-02T19:31:31Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > _snip_ > > David Hyde Pierce as Frasier > > _snip_ This is brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/29 "2010-07-02T20:41:17Z")
🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/30 "2010-07-02T20:54:49Z")
A girl who fled from her small hometown and has spent the last 28 years living a live of sexual promiscuity and complete self absorption and fashionista hedonism is forced to contend with the demons that drove her from Weemawee High School to begin with in _SQUARE **PEGS IN THE CITY** _. When an 85 year old redhead in a maid’s uniform arrives at a house in South Central Los Angeles, asks to be taken to “Mr. Jackson”, and upon seeing him merely says “You’re next…” and slips him a piece of paper with a single black spot smeared, a middle aged black man with seemingly no past must finally explain to his friends why he never speaks of his childhood, why he’s so concerned with the death of a bitter middle aged man in Utah, why he still wakes screaming saying “They’re coming to get me!”, and why the family tragedies and the greatly varied ‘brain attacks’ that have befallen a 90 year old white mega-millionaire in Manhattan so obsess him in **DIFFERENT STROKES**. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/31 "2010-07-02T21:00:55Z")
En route to a better life for herself and her son, a widowed wanna be singer (Helena Bonham Carter) arrives in a desert where she becomes a singing waitress at a greasy spoon run by a madman (Johnny Depp) for years and years and years… never quite catching on that centuries have passed and it’s still a big deal when she gets to sing at Vinnie’s House of Veal, and somehow not noticing when celebrities Art Carney and George Burns drop by that they in fact died many years ago. Mostly she doesn’t realize that she had a wreck on the N.J. Turnpike while fleeing the scene from where she killed her abusive husband and the diner isn’t really in Arizona… it’s Purgatory. ALI[FONT=“Franklin Gothic Medium”]CE[/FONT] She Doesn’t Live\* Anywhere \*Any More A film by Tim Burton ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/32 "2010-07-02T22:44:00Z")
Dr. Harry Weston’s (Paul Michael Glaser) wife recently died. Two of his daughters, Carol (Sandrah Bullock) a recent divorcée, and Barbara (Jennifer Garner) an undercover cop move back in. Shortly after moving back in however, Barbara finds the circumstances of her mother’s death suspicious and soon, everyone is a suspect. Who did it? Was it their neighbor Charley, a cruise ship employee? Doctor Weston’s assistant LaVerne? (David Leisure and Park Overall revise their roles). Or was the killer her own sister, or even her own father? Everyone seems to have motive, and if she digs too deep she might be next. **EMPTY NEST** **the motion picture** ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/33 "2010-07-02T22:53:11Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Dr. Harry Weston’s (Paul Michael Glaser) wife recently died. Two of his daughters, Carol (Sandrah Bullock) a recent divorcée, and Barbara (Jennifer Garner) an undercover cop move back in. Shortly after moving back in however, Barbara finds the circumstances of her mother’s death suspicious and soon, everyone is a suspect. > > Who did it? Was it their neighbor Charley, a cruise ship employee? Doctor Weston’s assistant LaVerne? (David Leisure and Park Overall revise their roles). Or was the killer her own sister, or even her own father? > > Everyone seems to have motive, and if she digs too deep she might be next. > > **EMPTY NEST** **the motion picture** It was actually the four elderly women who live next door, who are actually…three zombies and their voodoo priestess mistress! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/34 "2010-07-02T22:55:52Z")
A woman is reawakened to her sensual side as she embarks on a dangerously erotic love affair. A must see exploration of sex and obsession. The most talked about movie of the year. _ **Joanie Loves Chachie** _ rated NC-17 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/35 "2010-07-02T23:01:33Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > A woman is reawakened to her sensual side as she embarks on a dangerously erotic love affair. A must see exploration of sex and obsession. The most talked about movie of the year. > _ **Joanie Loves Chachie** _ > > rated NC-17 What nobody knows until they see the movie is that the described scenes are between Ellen Travolta and Al Molinaro. It’s kind of like _Last Tango In Paris_, with more butter. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/36 "2010-07-02T23:31:02Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It was actually the four elderly women who live next door, who are actually…three zombies and their voodoo priestess mistress! 😃 Actually, I should have expanded on the reasons for family suspicion. Harry’s wife was last seen alive on Charley’s cruise ship. Harry’s assistant LaVerne might have wanted Harry for herself. Harry had recently insured his wife for a large sum of money. I’m not sure about Carol though. Maybe she blamed her divorce on her mother. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/37 "2010-07-03T00:33:28Z")
I would have a sitcom about a mother with three kids and a grandfather that lives with them. And even though two of the three kids are old enough to take care of themselves and the grandfather is capable of looking after them, for some reason they hire a college kid to look after them. Oh wait…Darn…it was done. OK I’d get a sitcom about a guy who invents a human-like robot. For some reason instead of going commercial with this and making a billion dollars he decides to keep it a secret. And to cover up this secret, he dresses the robot in a very conspicuous outfit and makes her talk in a blank monotone. Oh wait…Darn…it was done. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/38 "2010-07-03T00:50:29Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > OK I’d get a sitcom about a guy who invents a human-like robot. For some reason instead of going commercial with this and making a billion dollars he decides to keep it a secret. And to cover up this secret, he dresses the robot in a very conspicuous outfit and makes her talk in a blank monotone. **Oh wait…Darn..it was done.** In the second post of this thread, actually. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/39 "2010-07-03T01:39:56Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > This is brilliant. You didn’t notice the “Craig T Nelson as Coach” joke? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-80s-sitcom/545045/40 "2010-07-04T09:52:36Z")
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