# Sketches that became series? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 5, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738 "2022-10-05T01:55:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738/41 "2022-10-06T16:45:42Z")
Originally, Miss Peterson was going to do the character closer to Sharon Tate with diaphanous gowns and blonde hair but that didn’t sell, so she went to Vampira’s source, Morticia (New Yorker comic, of course) and built it around that. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738/42 "2022-10-06T16:54:37Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Beavis and Butthead started out as characters in a Mike Judge short called Frog Baseball. Just one appearance before their series. What I recall was that “Frog Baseball” was a B&B short as part of a show called “Liquid Television”, and that there was actually a second one where they go to a monster truck rally and encounter the Roman god of feces. _Office Space_ also rose out of Liquid TV; Mike Judge’s “Milton” shorts were first shown there in the early 1990s. It’s not a series, but a full movie. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738/43 "2022-10-06T17:56:28Z")
> [@bump](#): > > What I recall was that “Frog Baseball” was a B&B short as part of a show called “Liquid Television”, and that there was actually a second one where they go to a monster truck rally and encounter the Roman god of feces. The second B&B short was “Peace, Love, and Understanding.” They weren’t originally made for _Liquid Television_ - They both premiered in Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation first, and were shown on Liquid Television after MTV bought the rights, but before they started the full series. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738/44 "2022-10-07T13:12:52Z")
Okay… ‘first broadcast on Liquid TV’ then? And FWIW, “Peace, Love and Understanding” _is_ the one with the monster trucks, porta-potties and Roman god of feces. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738/45 "2022-10-07T14:54:42Z")
It’s my impression _The Key & Peele Show_ is essentially their spit balling future projects. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738/46 "2022-10-07T15:10:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Love and the Happy Days” (originally “Love and the Television Set”) from _Love American Style_ became _Happy Days_ Another _Love American Style_ vignette, “Love and the Old-Fashioned Father”, was the episode that became _Wait Till Your Father Gets Home_. The animated sitcom provided Tom Bosley three years worth of paychecks to supplement the pittance he was getting as Howard Cunningham on _Happy Days_. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738/47 "2022-10-07T16:09:31Z")
> [@bump](#): > > And FWIW, “Peace, Love and Understanding” _is_ the one with the monster trucks, porta-potties and Roman god of feces. Right, I wasn’t correcting you, just elaborating. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738/48 "2022-10-07T18:02:05Z")
_Family Dog_ was a sketch on _Amazing Stories_ that became an awful animated series several years later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketches-that-became-series/972738.md?page=2)