# Let's Make Up Some Prequels **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521 "2001-10-30T14:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![blackmonday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/53a042/32.png) [@blackmonday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blackmonday)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/41 "2001-10-31T18:51:59Z")
_Awkward Acquaintances_ prequel to Friends _Diane Annoys Her Poetry Class_ prequel to Cheers _The Early Evening Show_ prequel to The Tonight Show ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/42 "2001-10-31T19:06:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\ ***Leave it to Wally** > > Things really start getting interesting when June brings Ward his slippers and suddenly drops the bomb.\*\* June: “Ward, don’t you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?” ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/43 "2001-10-31T20:32:06Z")
😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 You, sir or madame, deservedly earned Lib’s famed (and oh so very rare) 5-Laughie Award. What a fantastic line! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/44 "2001-10-31T21:02:52Z")
_Prince of the Hill_: Cotton Hill tries to raise his son Hank right in Cold War-era Texas. _Barney and Scientists_: A group of scientists brings a stuffed dinosaur to life. Instead of acting like a real dinosaur, it sings and dances. The scientists attempt to find various places to hide their failed experiment each week. In the last episode, the scientists bury what they call “Barney” underneath a school being constructed. Tagline: “And you just thought it was in your imagination.” _Utonium_: A show about a younger Professor Utonium as he first sets up shop in the city of Townsville, hoping not only to create something that will make him famous, but to have children as well. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/45 "2001-10-31T21:22:31Z")
**Kinky Dope** - Follow the adventures of a free lovin’ pot smokin’ Cecil Adams in 1969 Chicago. Watch as his stoned groupies ask him question like “Why is the sky blue?” And then later that afternoon “Why is the sky blue?” Watch as for 4 years he fights his call to duty to fight ignorance, yet eventually comes to realize he has no choice. Watch as he casts aside pot and goes straight. Watch as he marches into the Chicago Reader and demands their assistance in this fight against ignorance. Watch as they throw his butt out. Watch as he and his teeming dozens storm the reader and demand he be installed as commander of _cue impressive music_ **The Straight Dope**. ---
**Author:** ![MJH2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@MJH2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJH2)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/46 "2001-10-31T21:31:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > \*\*… Watch as he and his teeming dozens storm the reader and demand he be installed as commander of _cue impressive music_ **The Straight Dope**. \*\* And the irony is that _The Straight Dope_, not to mention these message boards, are quite addictive. Really, I can stop anytime I want to… but just one more post! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/47 "2001-11-01T01:14:25Z")
**Rugrats: Conception and Before!** - The lives of Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil- In utero! Show not aired because of a lawsuit brought up by the makers of “Look Who’s Talking.” **Me and My Monkey** - Before creating the Powerpuff Girls, watch as Professor Utonium tries to get the Mayor to loan him money for a grant, get Miss Bellum to go out with him, and is all tangled up with his simian lab assistant, Mojo. **Outside the Actor’s Studio** - In his teen years, film connoisseur and all around freak James Lipton hires starving actors and derelicts to stand around outside a TV studio, filming on his home studios- before they let him go inside. Some say this show is responsible for the favirote curse portion of the show. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/48 "2001-11-01T03:24:30Z")
The Land _Before_ The Land Before Time The Story (Prequel to the Never Ending Story…which oddly had a sequel… set BEFORE they realized this thing was going to last a while) The Fifth Sense- A thrilling drama about a boy who can taste sour milk. How the Grinch Borrowed Arbor Day Pretty Teenager- Before she was rescued by Edward Morris, Julia Roberts gives handjobs to creepy middle aged fat men with hairy shoulders in the backseat of their 1978 Ford Pintos. ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/49 "2001-11-01T05:43:34Z")
**The Adventures of an American Queer** (or maybe instead **Young and Gay in New York** ): The story of Jack McFarland’s (from **Will and Grace** ) teenage years. ---
**Author:** ![dtaylor404](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@dtaylor404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtaylor404)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/50 "2001-11-01T10:48:09Z")
The Clampetts Richard Kimble, M.D. Charlie, P.I. My So-Called Birth Twenty-Something (Oh, wait, they did that, it’s called “Friends”) Everybody Loves Mindy The Smothers Mother’s Comedy Hour ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/51 "2001-11-01T10:56:45Z")
**John Arbuckle** - A clutzy and unlucky farmboy moves to the suburbs. Not much happens. Perhaps his life is missing something. and now one that could probably win emmys or oscars if done right, even though I think its main demographic would be women. **Cyrano** - A drama about the young boy with a long nose and his best friend and cousin Roxane, who he’s hopelessly in love with. But can never tell her. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Second\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Echo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/52 "2001-11-01T11:08:33Z")
How about: _Three Men_:Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson stand around an apartment with not much to do. _Mystery Science Theater 1000_:Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow crack wise as Dr. Forrester and TV’s Frank force them to watch a zoetrope. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/53 "2001-11-01T12:24:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Second Echo \* > \*\*_Mystery Science Theater 1000_:Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow crack wise as Dr. Forrester and TV’s Frank force them to watch a zoetrope. \*\* or how 'bout: **Mystery Science Janitor 3000** : The wacky misadventures of janitor Joel as he does a good job cleaning up Gizmonics Institute. Watch as he irritates Dr. Forrester and Dr. Erherdt(sp) while he studies robotics in his spare time! Fenris ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/54 "2001-11-01T12:27:42Z")
**The Good-Looking Girl and the Cub** High Schooler Catherine goes through her life, unaware of the trials in store for her, while Vincent the Dog-Faced Boy grows up in the sewers. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/55 "2001-11-01T13:17:15Z")
_My So-Called Ally:_ 250-pound teenager Ally McBeal is the most unpopular and miserable girl in school, but she dreams of being a lawyer one day. And to try to fit in, she laughs along with the others when the bullies pick on nerdy stutterer John Cage. _Space: 1988:_ For John Koenig, getting Moonbase Alpha built on time and under budget is a never-ending battle – with Teamsters. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/56 "2001-11-01T13:25:53Z")
**Who Wants to Make Twenty Bucks?**. Twenty-something Regis Philbin tries to score with the ladies. (Comedy) ---
**Author:** ![Darqangelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darqangelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darqangelle)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/57 "2001-11-01T22:11:07Z")
**Humping and the Suburb:** 4 parallel stories of teenage girls and their budding sexuality: We meet Sam, the boy-chasing cheerleader who refuses to go to third base with any boy because of stories her catholic parents told her regarding sex. We meet a young bookworm in Miranda, who’s idea of pubescent boys is that they exist only for amusement (from afar). We meet Charlotte, the young romantic who’s overly-protected chilhood has led her to believe that a “hot date” at 16 years old consists of a Disney flick followed by pizza by candlelight, and who’s sex education consisted of her parents planting her in front of the TV while “Cinderella” plays in the top-loading VHS. We meet Carrie, the school paper editor who’s insightful columns cover the gossip of who’s seeing who and what’s really in Thursday’s beef stew… until a young student teacher named Big arrives to stir something within her that feels kinda good, actually. **Jock** or **Houston:** Young banker John Ross ‘Jock’ Ewing and his wife Eleanor try to make ends meet while they try and save money to buy a plot of land outside of Dallas which John is SURE to have oil. Meanwhile, young John Ross Jr. (who they affectionately call J.R.) is developing signs of cunning resourcefulness and selfishness… **Freak:** Gomez Addams, trying to make it through high school as best he can with his brother looks like a bald monk. What’s a kid to do? Dress impeccably and light another cigar. **I’ve Got It Beat:** Detective Barney Miller just trying to make it day-to-day despite the idiot crooks he has to pull in time and time again. **The Chimps:** A record producer comes up with an idea, “Let’s CREATE a band!” And thus history begins as they find four young boys who have no idea how to spell ‘music’ much less play it are trained to become the predecesors to such names as New Kids On The Block and N\*SYN-- no, wait, that’s too easy. **Sonny Days:** Before deciding to change his career forever and become a cop, Sonny Crockett was a promising Florida College football star. He had it all, cars, chicks, clothes… but wherever he went, a mystery always seemed to pop up. …no, wait, I think I just described “Nash Bridges”… or was it “The Hardy Boys”- ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/58 "2001-11-02T03:56:03Z")
The Last Days of Krypton: About why Jor-El wasn’t believed, featuring the most famous orgy in the history of the universe. The Farmer Girl: about Gabrielle’s long, boring days before Xena comes into her life. The Poor Fat Rich Boy: The ruthless secrets of Richard Rich, Sr’s rise to immense wealth revealed at last!!! Tanto the Eagle: Tanto’s adventures with his tribe, before he met his kemosabe. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/59 "2001-11-03T18:17:46Z")
I want to see the “prequel” if you will, of “Survivor”. You know…The part where these blood drinking, larvae eating, stab-each-other-in-the-back fools come home and tell the husbands, wives, and children! That weird guy who hosts, could hang around their living rooms like that commercial he does for the hotel. * * * ~Could it be that hard? Never mind the rent and you quit your job… -Better Than Ezra ---
**Author:** ![pezwookiee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@pezwookiee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezwookiee)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521/60 "2001-11-03T19:54:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by furryman \* > \*\*Batboy: The bathetic story of a young Bruce Wayne being brought up by his butler, Alfred. For some reason his favorite halloween costume is Dracula. > \*\* A _Batman_ prequel series has actually been in the works for a while now according to [www.cinescape.com](http://www.cinescape.com). It was going to be called _Bruce Wayne_ and would have been about Bruce after his parents died, but before he became Batman. I wonder if they’ll still do it now that _Smallville_ is out? (Imagine the cross-over potential!!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-some-prequels/90521.md?page=4)