# make a sit-com into a drama **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606 "2012-11-20T11:45:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606/61 "2012-11-27T01:23:03Z")
A recently divorced man and his son move in with the man’s brother. The brother, tortured by an unhappy childhood, absent father and emotionally abusive mother, is a serial killer who uses his hedonistic lifestyle as cover to meet his young, female targets. The brother slowly connects the number of women killed with his brothers absences and trips out of town. He must gather evidence while protecting his son from the brothers’ descent into madness. _Two and a half men_ ---
**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:** [November 27, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606/62 "2012-11-27T21:28:59Z")
A New Reality TV Show: A millionaire who has led a hermit’s life and never been photographed finds out death is near. Six other people are gathered, and the seven are put on an uncharted, deserted isle owned by the millionaire. There are no modern conveniences, and the seven must make do as best they can. The first person to discover and kill the millionaire without killing any other person will inherit the wealth. However, the millionaire is looking to kill the six other people, figuring they have nothing to lose. The seven people are a skipper and a first mate of a small boat, a older, retired couple, a has-been movie actress, a college professor and a small town girl. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606/63 "2012-11-27T21:50:50Z")
**Annie-Xmas** : So the Millionaire and the millionaire are not the same person?😕😛 ---
**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:** [November 28, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606/64 "2012-11-28T21:08:58Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > **Annie-Xmas** : So the Millionaire and the millionaire are not the same person?😕😛 Could be. Could not be. That’s the whole point of the shwo. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606/65 "2012-11-28T23:37:14Z")
_The Big Bang Theory_ A brilliant scientist with Asperger’s Syndrome tries valiantly to cope in the world around him, usually failing. His roommate is a man of equal genius, but he’s so tragically unsure of himself that he fails to maintain normal relationships as well. Their only friends are a meek foreigner, a sickly Jew with no boundaries (and Mommy issues), and a destitute merchant. Eventually the scientists pair up with women with equal emotional baggage- a failed, alcoholic actress with Daddy issues, a neurologist who was severely bullied as a child, and microbiologist raised by anti-Semitic parents (she winds up with the Jew, obviously). OK, so I basically just described the show as it is, but only in less-happy terms. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606/66 "2012-11-29T00:09:35Z")
A dirt-poor, white trash couple - a pool guy and his maid wife - try to take care of the wife’s aging grandmother with Alzheimer’s. Their ne’er-do-well son, who lives with them, becomes a single father to a baby whose mother is in prison for multiple homicides. Hilarity ensues. . . . . . . . _Raising Hope_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606/67 "2012-11-29T05:49:08Z")
A group of teenagers learn about life and love in the mid-to-late 1970s. Plots typically revolve around the mundanity of high school and the drama of adolescent relationships; though the teens also have to deal with such topics as parents splitting up and divorcing, the difficulties a family faces when the breadwinner loses his job, and dealing with the temptations of drugs. _That 70s Show_. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606/68 "2012-12-09T17:00:24Z")
Not a sit-com, as such… A group of disaffected philosophers, poets, musicians and social commentarists give their counter-culture opinions on current events in the late 1960s: _Roy Rowan and Martin Heidegger’s “Locke-In”_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-a-sit-com-into-a-drama/641606.md?page=3)