I remember in that movie about Bob Crane, a Jewish TV exec said contemptuously, “Oh, so this show will be about the funny Nazis?”
What Were They Thinking? – shows based on an absolutely insane premise
Scorch – About a dragon that awakes after a hundred-year nap, crashes ito a unassuming person’s house, who then poses as a ventriloquist (using the ‘real’ dragon as his dummy) to host a TV weather show. It featured a ventriloquist’s puppet … but not the ventriloquist himself.
Heil Honey I’m Home! - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun’s wacky misadventures with their Jewish neighbors
The Knights of Prosperity - A janitor enlists a group of non-criminals to help him rob Mick Jagger’s apartment.
My Mother the Car - Say no more!
Hogan’s Heroes - ‘60s sitcom based in a German POW camp during WWII that managed to stay on the air for 6 seasons. Gestapo with a laugh track!
Fantasy Island - Fly to some remote island run by a tall Latino smoothy and a tiny little French guy, and all your dreams will come true? Next!
These are, unfortunately, all for real. “Heil Honey, I’m Home” ran on the British channel ‘Galaxy’ (which was a part of British Satellite Broadcasting) in 1990. Only a single episode was aired (it’s available to be viewed on YouTube, however), and it was immediately cancelled when SkyTV bought BSB. “Scorch” aired in the US on CBS in 1992. It managed to last for three episodes. “The Knights of Prosperity” was a sit-com that ran on ABC in 2007. Thirteen episodes were made, of which eleven aired.
The others mentioned to this point are all a little better known.
What Were They Thinking? – shows based on an absolutely insane premise
Scorch – About a dragon that awakes after a hundred-year nap, crashes ito a unassuming person’s house, who then poses as a ventriloquist (using the ‘real’ dragon as his dummy) to host a TV weather show. It featured a ventriloquist’s puppet … but not the ventriloquist himself.
Heil Honey I’m Home! - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun’s wacky misadventures with their Jewish neighbors
The Knights of Prosperity - A janitor enlists a group of non-criminals to help him rob Mick Jagger’s apartment.
My Mother the Car - Say no more!
Hogan’s Heroes - ‘60s sitcom based in a German POW camp during WWII that managed to stay on the air for 6 seasons. Gestapo with a laugh track!
Fantasy Island - Fly to some remote island run by a tall Latino smoothy and a tiny little French guy, and all your dreams will come true? Next!
$1.98 Beauty Show – Basically The Gong Show parodies beauty pageants, with all the insight and subtlety that implies
What Were They Thinking? – shows based on an absolutely insane premise
Scorch – About a dragon that awakes after a hundred-year nap, crashes ito a unassuming person’s house, who then poses as a ventriloquist (using the ‘real’ dragon as his dummy) to host a TV weather show. It featured a ventriloquist’s puppet … but not the ventriloquist himself.
Heil Honey I’m Home! - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun’s wacky misadventures with their Jewish neighbors
The Knights of Prosperity - A janitor enlists a group of non-criminals to help him rob Mick Jagger’s apartment.
My Mother the Car - Say no more!
Hogan’s Heroes - ‘60s sitcom based in a German POW camp during WWII that managed to stay on the air for 6 seasons. Gestapo with a laugh track!
Fantasy Island - Fly to some remote island run by a tall Latino smoothy and a tiny little French guy, and all your dreams will come true? Next!
$1.98 Beauty Show – Basically The Gong Show parodies beauty pageants, with all the insight and subtlety that implies
There’s Something About Miriam - a 2004 British dating show where six men tried to woo a model who was revealed to be transgender in the final episode.
But after the “big reveal,” the contestants filed a lawsuit for psychological and personal damage. The program was (obviously) met with outrage from viewers, reviewers, and transgender groups.
What Were They Thinking? – shows based on an absolutely insane premise
Scorch – About a dragon that awakes after a hundred-year nap, crashes ito a unassuming person’s house, who then poses as a ventriloquist (using the ‘real’ dragon as his dummy) to host a TV weather show. It featured a ventriloquist’s puppet … but not the ventriloquist himself.
Heil Honey I’m Home! - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun’s wacky misadventures with their Jewish neighbors
The Knights of Prosperity - A janitor enlists a group of non-criminals to help him rob Mick Jagger’s apartment.
My Mother the Car - Say no more!
Hogan’s Heroes - ‘60s sitcom based in a German POW camp during WWII that managed to stay on the air for 6 seasons. Gestapo with a laugh track!
Fantasy Island - Fly to some remote island run by a tall Latino smoothy and a tiny little French guy, and all your dreams will come true? Next!
$1.98 Beauty Show – Basically The Gong Show parodies beauty pageants, with all the insight and subtlety that implies
There’s Something About Miriam - a 2004 British dating show where six men tried to woo a model who was revealed to be transgender in the final episode.
The Flying Nun - Sally Field is a little nun who gets airborne and saves the day on the windy cliffs near the convent while trying to remember her vows around the handsome governor.
What Were They Thinking? – shows based on an absolutely insane premise
Scorch – About a dragon that awakes after a hundred-year nap, crashes ito a unassuming person’s house, who then poses as a ventriloquist (using the ‘real’ dragon as his dummy) to host a TV weather show. It featured a ventriloquist’s puppet … but not the ventriloquist himself.
Heil Honey I’m Home! - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun’s wacky misadventures with their Jewish neighbors
The Knights of Prosperity - A janitor enlists a group of non-criminals to help him rob Mick Jagger’s apartment.
My Mother the Car - Say no more!
Hogan’s Heroes - ‘60s sitcom based in a German POW camp during WWII that managed to stay on the air for 6 seasons. Gestapo with a laugh track!
Fantasy Island - Fly to some remote island run by a tall Latino smoothy and a tiny little French guy, and all your dreams will come true? Next!
$1.98 Beauty Show – Basically The Gong Show parodies beauty pageants, with all the insight and subtlety that implies
There’s Something About Miriam - a 2004 British dating show where six men tried to woo a model who was revealed to be transgender in the final episode.
The Flying Nun - Sally Field is a little nun who gets airborne and saves the day on the windy cliffs near the convent while trying to remember her vows around the handsome governor.
Dexter - forensic scientist moonlights as a serial killer
The Merv Griffith Show - Seinfeld (Kramer recreates the set in his apartment)
Seinfeld - Big Mouth (the kids recreate a Seinfeld diner scene)
Captain Video and His Video Rangers - The Honeymooners (Norton is a fan and watches while wearing a space helmet)
Batman - The Big Bang Theory (Sheldon always refers to Adam West as TV’s Batman.)
Star Trek - Farscape - Crichton and the Scorpius neural clone reference Star Trek and Captain Kirk.
Stargate SG1 - Farscape - In the 200th episode, the leads pitch a TV series based on their adventures using Farscape as a model, in which Ben Crowder and Claudia Black previously starred.
The Merv Griffith Show - Seinfeld (Kramer recreates the set in his apartment)
Seinfeld - Big Mouth (the kids recreate a Seinfeld diner scene)
Captain Video and His Video Rangers - The Honeymooners (Norton is a fan and watches while wearing a space helmet)
Batman - The Big Bang Theory (Sheldon always refers to Adam West as TV’s Batman.)
Star Trek - Farscape - Crichton and the Scorpius neural clone reference Star Trek and Captain Kirk.
Stargate SG1 - Farscape - In the 200th episode, the leads pitch a TV series based on their adventures using Farscape as a model, in which Ben Crowder and Claudia Black previously starred.
Firefly - Several references on Castle, including the title character dressing like the actor Nathan Fillion’s Firefly character and calling himself a space cowboy
The Merv Griffith Show - Seinfeld (Kramer recreates the set in his apartment)
Seinfeld - Big Mouth (the kids recreate a Seinfeld diner scene)
Captain Video and His Video Rangers - The Honeymooners (Norton is a fan and watches while wearing a space helmet)
Batman - The Big Bang Theory (Sheldon always refers to Adam West as TV’s Batman.)
Star Trek - Farscape - Crichton and the Scorpius neural clone reference Star Trek and Captain Kirk.
Stargate SG1 - Farscape - In the 200th episode, the leads pitch a TV series based on their adventures using Farscape as a model, in which Ben Crowder and Claudia Black previously starred.
Firefly - Several references on Castle, including the title character dressing like the actor Nathan Fillion’s Firefly character and calling himself a space cowboy
The Bob Newhart Show - Newhart (the series finale of Newhartshows that the whole series was a dream of Bob’s character from his first series.)
The Merv Griffith Show - Seinfeld (Kramer recreates the set in his apartment)
Seinfeld - Big Mouth (the kids recreate a Seinfeld diner scene)
Captain Video and His Video Rangers - The Honeymooners (Norton is a fan and watches while wearing a space helmet)
Batman - The Big Bang Theory (Sheldon always refers to Adam West as TV’s Batman.)
Star Trek - Farscape - Crichton and the Scorpius neural clone reference Star Trek and Captain Kirk.
Stargate SG1 - Farscape - In the 200th episode, the leads pitch a TV series based on their adventures using Farscape as a model, in which Ben Crowder and Claudia Black previously starred.
Firefly - Several references on Castle, including the title character dressing like the actor Nathan Fillion’s Firefly character and calling himself a space cowboy
The Bob Newhart Show - Newhart (the series finale of Newhartshows that the whole series was a dream of Bob’s character from his first series.)
Stargate SG-1 - actor Richard Dean Anderson’s character had a line in one episode where they were unsuccessfully trying to fix something and his line was “who do I look like, MacGyver?”
The Merv Griffith Show - Seinfeld (Kramer recreates the set in his apartment)
Seinfeld - Big Mouth (the kids recreate a Seinfeld diner scene)
Captain Video and His Video Rangers - The Honeymooners (Norton is a fan and watches while wearing a space helmet)
Batman - The Big Bang Theory (Sheldon always refers to Adam West as TV’s Batman.)
Star Trek - Farscape - Crichton and the Scorpius neural clone reference Star Trek and Captain Kirk.
Stargate SG1 - Farscape - In the 200th episode, the leads pitch a TV series based on their adventures using Farscape as a model, in which Ben Crowder and Claudia Black previously starred.
Firefly - Several references on Castle, including the title character dressing like the actor Nathan Fillion’s Firefly character and calling himself a space cowboy
The Bob Newhart Show - Newhart (the series finale of Newhartshows that the whole series was a dream of Bob’s character from his first series.)
Stargate SG-1 - actor Richard Dean Anderson’s character had a line in one episode where they were unsuccessfully trying to fix something and his line was “who do I look like, MacGyver?”
The Office (UK) - Lost - In flashback, Charlie asks a rich girl where her father is and she says “He’s purchasing a paper company in Slough.”
Numbers in the title
Eight is Enough
(Yes, I considered saying the show Numbers but felt that would be dumb)