Great minds think alike. I had had the same thought. Like, almost every cop show has scenes where the cops are in strip clubs, but the strippers are all fully clothed. Simply having the strippers be naked would add a great deal to the scene’s credibility. Plus, naked women dancing. But it wouldn’t improve the show greatly: Law and Order would still be Law and Order and CSI would still be CSI and the same would apply to all their clones and imitators.
So I confined my thoughts to shows that would be GREATLY improved with violence, nudity and/or sex. (And BTW, I didn’t explain “Charlie’s Angels” – it just seemed that a show that depends so heavily on T&A tease might be more interesting if it occasionally delivered. There’s a reason the slots in Vegas occasionally pay off.)
I’ll second the earlier mention of The A-Team. They became a comic parody of themselves, having a dozen guys standing behind barrels and cardboard boxes, wildly spraying machine guns like they were painting the room, and no one ever got hit.
More violence? I’m pretty sure this is already one of the most violent shows on a primetime basic channel. I’m not sure how much more gore I can take, frankly. Sam losing a fingernail and the guy coughing up razor blades was kinda my limit.
I agree with you on the nudity thing, though. Jared and Jensen should be naked, and often. Prefereably with each other. While hugging.
One of the few shows where a character’s inability to swear really bothered me was Buffy. Because of Faith. IRL, every other word out of Faith’s mouth would have been “fuck”.
I’d like for Dean to get the occational “fuck” and “shit” as well, but I wouldn’t like him as much if he cussed all the time.
Taxi was planned to go to HBO in its fifth season. Apparently, the first episode was going to drive home the point of what a move to premium cable meant. It was supposed to just open with a shot of Marilu Henner’s tits.
I can’t find the cite for the quote (damn you to hell, Google) but I know I’m not just making that up. I want to say it might have been mentioned in passing around the time Man on the Moon came out.
I think Hill Street Blues could have benefitted from more violence, swearing, and nudity. That show was pretty ground-breaking for its time for realism, but I think more would have done nothing but improve it.
Damn! 1 post too late! Well, at the very least it wuld have been a lot har…more difficult to convince the landlords that Jack was gay if he was constantly fucking janet and Chrissy.
I picture every episode as Jack having a wild threeway with Chrissy and Janet, complete with moaning and porn-style dialogue.
Meanwhile, Mr. Roper eavesdrops through the wall, shaking his head. “They’ll never be able to fix that leaky pipe themselves. Why don’t they just call a plumber?”
The premise of the original show was basically about not having sex: Jack had to hide that he’s heterosexual or Mr. Roper will evict him. So the first move is to kill Mr. Roper- let’s say in the pilot episode that Helen Roper is newly widowed.
So the hook of the new version is that Jack is three-timing the women in the series: he’s paying the rent in bed with Helen, who’ll get jealous and kick him out if she finds out he’s doing his roommates. Chrissy is a spacey New-Age sex priestess who engages in Tantric sex with Jack once a week, rationalizing it as strictly for his Yang essence, while trying to entice Janet and Helen into joining her sex coven. And Janet is a conflicted bisexual unable to acknowledge her growing attraction to Chrissy and Helen, and who compulsively boffs Jack to reassure herself of her heterosexuality.
Larry’s really gay, but is pretending to be straight and - much to his displeasure - sleeping with Helen too for the rent reduction. His job is to keep her from finding out he’s gay which the roommates all know.
