HGTV has several shows based on the formula person needs a house/condo/rental apartment, host shows them 3 places, they weight the pros & cons, and select one at the end. Sometimes it’s their first time buying, sometimes they just want a rental, sometimes it’s a vacation home, etc. Here’s my idea for a new show. Keep the formula more or less as is, but every property will have something off or downright bizarre. All the houses would look normal outside.
For example a couple would be shown a completly normally looking house. A rather nice one at that. While inside they’d notice that it had no hallways (all the rooms would just open off eachother). The host would act like this was just a minor thing justified by the price. The houses could get progressively weirder. Maybe the next house has a really strange and nonsensical floorplan (kitchen upstairs, living/dining room in the basement, bedrooms all over the place, bathrooms in the attic). Or it would either be missing an important room (like a kitchen) or have way too many (like a house with 4 kitchens). Or each bedroom would have a toilet (just a toilet) out in the open. Or a master bedroom with it’s own stove.
The key is that the prospective buyer is not in on the joke. They really belive this is a normal show and they’re expected to select one of the houses. The entertainment value would be from their reactions. Or maybe instead of having buyers looking for a new home local real estage agens (also not in on the joke) would be brought in to value the home. Or even Trading Spaces like show were some unspecting person has this done to their own home. I realise that these ideas would be almost impossible do in real life. Even if the network execs approved the concept there’s still the little matter of all the remodeling that would need to be done to the houses (which the production company would need to actually buy).
