Was he talking to their dead bodies, or was he actually chewing out their ghosts?
Brotherly Love. A gay married couple moves to Rome, but can’t find a place to stay. In time honored sitcom tradition, they masquerade as Franciscan monks so they can live in a Vatican monastery. Will the bishop find out that they’re married? Will the abbot catch the two in the same bed? Rue McClanahan stars as a fiesty old nun determined to set the two newlyweds “straight”.
I have another great title that I need help fleshing out: Enema of the State.
Imagine their dilema when they are given the task of deflowering a new crop of altar boys. Can they remain faitful to each other?
Perhaps about a federal water management agency? Their motto: “Pumping billions down a hole”.
Okay, years ago, my brother, my cousin, and myself played this same game. We came up with several episode descriptions of, not a sitcom, but a drama. (Admittedly a ludicrous ridiculous drama, but that was the point.) You’ll probably be able to tell that we grew up on 60’s and 70’s television.
It was called “Hit and Run”. It was about a man who spent each episode pursuing an unnamed man who had hit the protagonists car and run.
I don’t remember the details, it may have been that the villain had killed the guys wife in the accident, or it may have been that he simply damaged a much loved vehicle. I don’t recall which, but anyway the protagonist was very driven to catch this villain and prove that it was he who had caused the accident.
An important plot point was that our hero had in his possession a piece of the body of the bad guys car which had come off in the accident. If he could show that it fit the gap in the body of the villain’s car then he would finally have justice!
One episode was titled the body shop. It opened with the title on the screen over shots of a red light district with the camera zooming in on a Strip Club (“Body Shop” get it? Hey, we were kids. We thought it was hilarious). As it’s zooming in it suddenly pans over to… dun dun daaa… an auto body shop!
The episode was about the unnamed villain taking his car to a body shop, intending to have it repaired so that the piece won’t fit! OH NO!
Our hero’s task of course would be to somehow prevent this by insinuating himself into the life of the repairman and convincing him or in some other manner preventing him from repairing the car.
Another episode was “The Piece Maker”. In this one the villain went to a man who had the rather shady profession of “Piece Maker”. His plan was to have a piece made that closely, but not exactly, matched the piece of his car possessed by our hero. His plan was to surreptitiously switch it for the real piece and then allow our hero to lead the police to his car. When the piece didn’t fit, the hero would be forever discredited in the eyes of the police. Oh Ho! We didn’t flesh this one out too much but obviously the hero would somehow discover the plot and thwart it in some clever way.
We even had a final, series ending episode. I’m not sure if we ever gave it a name, but what happened was the villain discovered a junkyard that had, scattered throughout it amongst other cars, hundreds of cars of the same year, make, color, and model as the villain’s car. The villain went through the yard breaking off a piece in the same spot as the missing piece in his car. So the series ended with the hero fruitlessly wandering through the junkyard, unsuccessfully trying to fit his piece in the hole each time he came upon a matching car. I don’t recall if he was sobbing out loud or not but that seems like a good touch.