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Sitcom Pitch..
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Good afternoon, NBC Producers! I have a great and very RADICAL idea for a new hit TV show. A sitcom named "Jack'o". Normally, you want a pitch made in ONE LINE, but I'm feeling so radical today -- just bare with me! Here's the pitch:
A guy named Jack Shoreman. Country bumpkin. He is quite a character, funny but realistic. He's not a model, nor is he the stereotypical stocky lout. He's just old Jack'o! K, Old Jack'o is a garbage man for a living. He rents a lousy, SMALL apartment. He doesn't date a model every week -- actually, he rarely dates and very rarely gets laid. He has a few friends, of whom he hangs out with SOMETIMES. He doesn't have his clothes tailor-made, nor does he go to a dentist, nor can he afford anything more than an old beat up pick-up. He does all sorts of things. Gosh, you never KNOW what Jack's day will entail. Shall I give an example? A-A-ALRIGHT! The pilot: Jack gets up and his car breaks down, so he waits for the tow truck. During which time a series of vehicles stop -- remember, this is the (nosy-nosy-nosy) country after all! -- and he talks with various relatives, neighbors, and other small-part reoccurring characters for the show. The comedy comes about by whit, humanity, and character. (Not to mention good writing and classic acting!)
In episode two, Jack goes web surfing and falls asleep -- where he daydreams about Cher, of all people, and falls into an abstract fantasy world of evil bosses, two-faced co-workers, and a super-pompous judge/neighbor, revealing various themes and values of his life.
Ep 3: Jack gets drunk and falls asleep on a bench. He wakes up in jail, and his taken before -- of course -- the judge, who lets him off but later demands something in return ... Jack pleads guilty!
Next Ep.: Jack is sentenced to community service, and one of his evil co-workers -- bitter because she didn't manage to get rid of him and hand the position to a friend (how dare he!) -- starts reporting that he isn't really doing his work. He puts in ANOTHER week of community service, and then another, until he finds out whose responsible and tells her off. He's charged with harassment, and is arrested.
Next Ep. He gets out of jail. Bailed out by his rich and quite senile old uncle. While at his place he discovers that his aunts are trying to knock him off, rewrite his will, and take the doe. Jack decides to help keep his uncle alive, and make him sign a new will before he croaks and leaves Jack with ought! The rest writes itself ...
So, did I make the sale, O MIGHTY Network Producers? 
Darn. By the way, by "co-workers" I meant that he has a part-time job in an office building. Doing what, I don't know. Anyway..
Er, also by the way, this is a joke. I would never, EVER, E-E-E-E-EVER write a sitcom! 
Posted By:  Magus Jan 07, 2005 - 09:15 pm |       | What about a musical about a guy who doesn't realize he's in a musical?
***Person Sings***
Man who doesn't know he's in a musical: "Why are you singing?"
I've done that before for a kick! 
| Posted By: Magus Jan 09, 2005 - 12:26 pm | | Really?
Yeah. Once I just sang and drove everyone nuts. Someone who didn't know me said, "What do you think you're in a musical?" and I said, "Aren't I?" I had him convinced that I was nuts. Everyone else just grinned.
I've always had fun with people who don't know me. I can seem pretty eccentric or even crazy to them. I've had several think I truly was nuts. Everyone would get a kick out of it, me most of all. But I can keep a perfect poker face.
And I used to be very annoying. I once kept humming the theme to "Jeopardy" over and over -- I think it was grade 8, in the "lunch room" -- and a group of 7 or so grade 12 guys grabbed me and pulled me to the back of the room, trying to throw me out the window. (We were on the first floor.) I just kept humming. They had me up in the air, my feet to the window sill, but they couldn't get me out. I kept humming. The bell rang, a teacher got after them. I went to my next class, still humming..
| Posted By: Magus Jan 09, 2005 - 06:39 pm | |
WOW! I never expected to meet anybody weirder, or even as weird, as myself. Ever.
But, man, you definately won this contest! But, then again, I do have a rubber mullet. That has to count for something.
| Posted By: Aldan Jan 09, 2005 - 10:58 pm | | I have a rubber pullet... and I shoot rubber bullets
Most people actually think I'm normal and boring, I guess because I'm (somewhat) shy and not that outspoken (usually.) I can act really crazy sometimes. What the heck, you only live once. I have a real knack at surprising people though, I guess because most people think I'm so boring, and really I'm pretty crazy underneath. 
| Posted By: Aldan Jan 10, 2005 - 06:02 pm | | I know where you're coming from, Neuro. Being a quiet and fairly shy person, when I do things that shock people (only occasionally), it makes people wonder just what sort of psychopath I am in my deepest recesses...
For example, I have crossdressed for a hide and find at a shopping mall with some friends. Now, I'm tall and fine-boned, and my hair was fairly long at the time (I'm growing it back out again, but back then it went down to mid-back), so i could pull it off. I got a dress from a Goodwill and some low heels (I'm 6'1" tall, so high heels wouldn't work well - too unrealistic), and then had my girlfriend do my makeup and hair (did it up like a bad perm), and I shaved my legs and stuff (got rid of my sideburns). Oh, I'd also found some glasses that had a similar prescription to my own in female fashion. It came off NICE, and I won, since nobody knew it was me (though most saw me, they didn't realize it was ME)...
Fun. Most guys WON'T crossdress, even on halloween... and this wasn't halloween...
| Posted By: Magus Jan 10, 2005 - 06:43 pm | | My friend's brother went as a girl for Halloween... for the past four years.
There's an image for us, Aldan! That takes guts. I could do many things, but cross dress is probably one thing I wouldn't. I'm not sure why. Some "male insecurity" I guess.
| Posted By: Magus Jan 10, 2005 - 06:56 pm | | OOOH, reminds me of James Bond movie.
"James, why do you carry that thing around." (refers to gun)
"Insecurity issues."
lol. James was a very good "undercover agent", as many of the ladies would agree.
| Posted By: Magus Jan 11, 2005 - 12:08 pm | | The true life of James Bond:
Aids, Syphilis, Gonorea...
| Posted By: Aldan Jan 11, 2005 - 06:01 pm | | Naw, he had the high-tech pills that Q invented for him...
| Posted By: Magus Jan 11, 2005 - 06:34 pm | | Why do you think they keep replacing the Bonds every couple of movies? They keep dying off from STD's.
lol. Did u know that Fleming actually got the name James Bond from a bird book? The author was James Bond! When the character became famous the real life James Bond should have gotten a "007" licence plate. Must have been hard for his career though. Imagine being a writer of zoology books and being named Ace Ventura, or trying to become a famous literary novelist with the name Billy Madison.
| Posted By: Magus Jan 13, 2005 - 12:25 pm | | Yeah, I heard about that. The author wanted the most boring name he could come up with for his suave spy. That's why he chose it.
Yup.
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