Take a TV show or movie that you loved, and give an example of the worst possible follow-on to it. For example: Dark Angel in Outer Space- Max is kidnapped by aliens and wanders the galaxy trying to get back to Earth.
AfterMASH*: Follow the wacky adventures of your old friends from the 4077th as they try and adjust to civilain life.
Whazza?
Whattaya mean it’s been done? CBS could never be that stupid.
The Twenty Commandments - God comes back to give Moses ten more rules, including such rules as, ‘thou shalt not sit crosslegged for more than an hour, lest ye cramp’. They were widely regarded to be somewhat of a letdown from the first ten.
Even w/o reading Sam’s quip…
The Manificent Fourteen
and
The Lunch Club.
Fargo 2: Miami Special Victims Unit
Marge and her husband get transferred from Brainerd to sunny Miami Beach! Yuk it up with this wacky fish-out-of-water story as hapless Marge deals with a drug war gone horribly awry!
More Rushmore
Max Fischer’s irrepressible cousin Alvy is the new kid at the prestigious private school! Enjoy this heartwarming coming-of-age story as Alvy woos his hot new teacher (Shannon Elizabeth) and befriends a gruff-but-lovable tycoon (Brian Doyle-Murray). Then sit back for non-stop laughs and action as Alvy leads the kids against a pair of bumbling con-artists out to steal the fortunes of all the kids’ parents!
My Nightcap with Andre
Aliens 3
The sci-fi action-horror series continues with a sequel that completely pisses on everything established in the two films that came before it!
Ferris Bueller: Back to the Grind
STAR TREK Power rangers. The new crew of the Enterprise consists of five teenagers the ship can change shape into a giant robot.
Lethal Weapon 5 - We Really Are Too Old For This Shit. Riggs and Murtaugh ham it up while pushing their walkers on their real last day on the police force (they mean it this time). They will tell us that guns are bad, then procede to shoot anyone who disagrees with them. At ten minute intervals a gun battle/car chase/ building explosion/ kung fu fight will break out for no reason. Villains will say pointless dialogue about some grand scheme to kill our heroes. Other cops will be killed in gushy blood squib explosions on rain soaked LA streets (while it will never rain), but these two old farts will save the day in their usual sweaty, blood-soaked way. Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, and Chris Rock will collect huge paydays for keeping straight faces during their pitiful dialogue. Eric Clapton, David Sanborn, and Michael Kamen will make inarticulate noise on their instruments (again) and call it a soundtrack.
Costanza: George moves in with his parents. The season finale is a thinly-disguised effort to see if he or his father can yell the loudest.
Fourth Blood - John Rambo goes back to Afghanistan and finds the proud noble people who fought off the Soviets are now in serious need of a good ass-kicking. In between monosyllabic speeches about being betrayed in Vietnam, he laments shifting U.S. foreign policy.
Also:
Absolutely the Last Temptation of Christ
(from a Gilbert Gottfried routine)
**WKRP in Cincinnati - A Clearchannel Communications Group Station
Who’se line Was it Anyway? I love the show, and always will, but I can see a point in time where Colin, Wayne, Chip, Drew, and Ryan may get a little too old and amnesic to keep ad libbing all the time. The arthritis alone would keep them from staying with Laura Hall . . .
The Blair Witch 3: Ghosts Gone Wild! More collegiate hijinks, and this time, the ghosts get naked!
Tripler
Yes, I have had my coffee thank you. . .
The Neverending Story, part II
Anything with Dustin Hoffman,The Graduate 2, Little Big Man 2, Marathon Man 2, Kramer vs. Kramer the sequel Tootsie 2, Rain Man 2
Highlander 2 (come on someone had to do that)
The Graduate 2: A Life in Plastics
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 2: The Trip Home
High Afternoon
A Perfect Storm 2: Where Are They Now?
Snow White II: Seven Dwarfs and a Baby
Still The Usual Suspects
Ei8ht
And of course, Up Your Gladiator.
Remember the Titans II: More sappy, crappy singing and momma jokes at a nursing home game of touch football. All looks lost when the star tackle (played by a surprisingly lucid Abe Vigoda) goes down in the shower with a broken hip, but somehow they pull it together to beat the previously undefeated Sunny Dale Retirement Community Devildogs. Andy Griffith plays a coach who’s job is taken by Ozzie Smith (is he even stil alive? If not we can always reanimate his corpse) With cameo’s by Bob Hope, Catherine Hepburn and Don Ameche reprising his role from Cacoon.
For movies I disliked…
You’ve Got Mail II - Meg and Tom get married but soon start new on-line romances via e-mail with two NEW people. Watch the hijinx when we learn they were really just e-mailing each other again.
Look Who’s Talking 3: The Teen Years - Sadly Hollywood missed the point while making this movie.
Almost Famous II: Workin’ at the car wash - William scores a gig writing a short “where are they now” article for Parade Magazine. He tracks down Russell scrubbing tires at the local car wash. Penny Lane makes a brief appearence as the lovable and funny junkie prostitute.
For movies I liked…
Lawrence of Arabia II: - 2045 - The DNA of T.E Lawrence is extracted from a pair of his old underpants and Lawrence is cloned to help Arabs fight off a the evil Volton space fleet.
Field of Dreams II: Parking lot of dreams - Kevin is back but this time he paves over the old baseball field, puts in a parking lot, and is visited by ghosts of NASCAR drivers of the early 70’s.