The House pilot was made with the working title Shithead, M.D.
*JAG *was originally Top Gun: The Series
I’ve always wondered if ‘Cheers’ would be such a beloved sitcom if it had kept the more honest title ‘Drunkards’.
A Metaphorical Exploration of the Troubles of Growing Up In Modern America
…or as it was later renamed to:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Navy Recruiting Commercial became Top Gun
Air Force Recruiting Commercial: The Series became Stargate: SG1
We Just Did A Lot of Drugs And Started Making A Cartoon. becomes FLCL
A case of a great show name being renamed to something goofy, just for some variety here:
Batman became… The Big O
How about “A group of very boring people who I would avoid like the plague in real life are put together to pretend to argue and generally play up to the cameras in a house to satisfy the unnatural voyeristic fantasies of people who aren’t really mentally very healthy”?
A hell of a lot better then Big Brother IMO.
I thought you were doing a reprise of Friends 
And I thought he was talking about Seinfeld.
Surely you’re confused; the original working title of “Rome” was The Difference Between Lawful Neutral and Chaotic Good.
Ha! You have that one exactly right.