FS&R - Contributing to Hollywood's Lack of Creativity
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A movie version of Welcome Back, Kotter is being made. It will star Ice Cube. This should alarm you.
Could there be a more defiant way for Hollywood to say, "We're short on ideas" than this? That's a tough call.
I figure I might as well jump into this dazzling display of ZERO creativity and offer a few ideas of my own.
Listen up, Hollywood! Here are five old sitcoms whose original concepts you can totally abandon and "spice up"
to present to a new audience. Have fun.
5. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Starring: Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey
Premise: Mark Cooper (Fallon) is a single high school teacher and tennis coach
who once played professionally. Between helping his tennis players deal with life's struggles and living with
two female roommates (Poehler and Fey) hijinks are guaranteed to ensue.
4. Growing Painz
Starring: Mike Epps, Beyonce, three young black kids
Premise: Raising children is not fun, especially in the ghetto. Epps stars as
Jason Seaver, a father who agrees to work from home (selling faux jewelry) while his wife Maggie (Beyonce) goes
back to work at her beauty salon after taking off a few years to raise their kids.
It doesn't take long for Jason to realize just how hard a job parenting can be as he deals with the trials
and tribulations of his three children: gang-banger Mike, precocious Ben, and brainiac Carol.
3. The Cosby Show
Starring: Steve Martin as Cliff Huxtable, Bonnie Hunt as Clair, Sean William
Scott as Theo, Hilary Duff as Vanessa, and Dakota Fanning as Rudy
Premise: Follows the hijinks and shenanigans of a successful, affluent
Caucasian family.
2. Who Da Boss?
Starring: Bernie Mac, Joan Allen, Shirley MacLaine, Dakota Fanning, and
Haley Joel Osment
Premise: Former NBA player Tony Micelli (Bernie Mac) and his inexplicably
white daughter Samantha (Fanning) arrive at the house of executive Angela Bower (Allen) where Tony has
taken a job as live-in housekeeper.
Tony and Samantha must learn to adapt to the unusual Bower family - uptight Angela, her hormonally awkward
son Jonathan (Osment), and her man-crazed mother Mona (MacLaine). Interracial romantic tensions ensue.
1. Sanberg and Son
Starring: Billy Crystal, Adam Sandler, Barbra Streisand
Premise: Fred Sanberg (Crystal) is a cantankerous, bigoted Jewish man who runs
a high-class and profitable junkyard with his son Lamont (Sandler) in an upscale part of town. Father and son
often clash, but Fred's blood really boils whenever Aunt Esther (Streisand) comes for a visit.
Care to add your own? Have fun with it - your ideas can't be any worse than what Hollywood's giving us.
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On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 6:51:42 AM Full House mused:
Two producers (played by John Travolta and Tom Cruise) fall in love on the set of "America's gayest home videos".
They marry and adopt a bunch of girls with the help of hetero womanizing 'Uncle Jesse'(George Clooney). Jesse has recently been dumped by his supermodel wife, who is now having some success in a comic-book movie franchise and dating the fat kid from "Stand By Me".
The older adopted daughter (Katie Holmes) becomes a reclusive born-again Christian, the middle one (Dakota Fanning) becomes a crackwhore and the baby identical twins (Paris Hilton & Nicole Ritchie) develop anorexia and a children's lingerie line.
The family's problems are resolved after the use the crackwhore's savings for a personality test from the Church of Scientology (TM) and discover that all their woes are caused by the lingering spirits of dead aliens in their bodies. They mortgage the house in order to become fully fledged thetans. |
On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 6:53:01 AM Australian Ann mused:
PS The above movie is "Full House" |
On Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 9:22:30 PM Lou mused:
You forget that "Sanford and Son" was the American version of the British series "Steptoe and Son," which had a white cast... |
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