My sitcom: The Yuppies
Posted: 2004-04-12 04:34am
I dont know if this is the right forum but i thought that, since there are tons of sucky sitcoms out there, i could pull one out of my ass andprobably do better. This idea is for an animated sitcom, ala The Simpsons.
The Yuppies--
The main backstory/plot revolves around the young, liberal upper-middle class Rabinowitz family--consiting of computer programer Mick, his wife 'Kitty', and their two children 11-yr-old Haylie and 8-yr-old Bryan--move to a new neighborhood and happen to move next door to the ultra-conservitie McMahon family--consisting of white supremacist Carl, his biligerent chain-smoking wife Anita, and their three children 11-yr-old Miles, a little hell-child in an incestuous relationship with his 10-yr-old sister Trinity, and the youngest McMahon child the androgynous 8-yr-old Sasha (who may be a boy or girl, it isnt specified). The two clans cant agree on what color teh sky is, let alone anything else, but they bond and somehow forge a freindship nontheless, spearheaded by Cal and Mick's mutual watering hole, an establishment literally called the Smoking Pile. Meanwhile goody-two-shoes Honor student Haylie finds herself hopelessly attracted to the handsome-but-horribly-antisemitic Miles, and you can see the conflict there, spured on by the fact that Miles is kind of attracted to her too, and Trinity doesnt like that. Naturally, when the two girls are near one another the claws quickly come out. Also Bryan's budding relationship with Sasha is becoming more...complicated, and he doesnt know if he's in love with a girl, a boy, or what and he cant just out and tell Sasha he doesnt know what he'she is, so he makes efforts to try and 'trick' Sasha into revealing his/her gender. Add to this the Redman family--comprised of Daryl and Bonnie Redman and their 10-yr-old son Randy--who are perfect in every way: extremely goodlooking, wealthy, powerful. Politically they're neutral; they hold no political affiliation beyond who they like and who they dont, and try to remain as middle-of-the-road and evenhanded as they can...perhaps that makes them the smartest of them all. They genuinely want to be freinds with the McMahon and Rabinowitz clans, and for all Carl cares they might as well. Unfortunately, Mick hates Daryl who is his boss at OmniGloboTech, and tries (unsuccessfully) to sabotage Daryl's life. And the whitless Daryl is oblivious to this; think of him as the Ned Flanders to Mick's Homer Simpson.
The show would tear into various issues, taking none of it seriously, like South Park, but with a more political edge. No one side--conservitives or liberals--are portraied as better or worse; one could actually argue that liberal Mick is more of an asshole than Carl, as Carl seems somewhat repentant about his racist views after finally having met a non-white, while Mick is actively trying to detsroy the life of another person (Daryl), who honestly wants to be freinds, out of sheer penis envy. But generally it's a satiracal take on the various political happenings in the world seen through the eyes of three very different, sometimes opposing points of view--liberals, neutrals, and conservities. The viewer can find what few messages are implanted in the episodes at their own volition, nothing is 'forced', like on some shoes i've seen resently. There is no right side and no wrong, no good or evil, just people with some major flaws being our idiot proxy in teh political world and doing so humorously. And the title pretains to the fact that technically all three families fall into the category of 'yuppies'.
So, what do you think, would it ever make it on the air? Would it suck? Feel free to comment on whatever, i'm just trying to see how the idea would pan out. Take note: some of the characteristics of the people are exagerated, but remember it's strictly a comedy; none of the characters are played for anything but laughs. So dont get bent out of shape, ok. If anyone wants, i could give some info on the first episode, "There Goes the Neighborhood" the hilarious first meeting of our three families, and their established beleifs.
The Yuppies--
The main backstory/plot revolves around the young, liberal upper-middle class Rabinowitz family--consiting of computer programer Mick, his wife 'Kitty', and their two children 11-yr-old Haylie and 8-yr-old Bryan--move to a new neighborhood and happen to move next door to the ultra-conservitie McMahon family--consisting of white supremacist Carl, his biligerent chain-smoking wife Anita, and their three children 11-yr-old Miles, a little hell-child in an incestuous relationship with his 10-yr-old sister Trinity, and the youngest McMahon child the androgynous 8-yr-old Sasha (who may be a boy or girl, it isnt specified). The two clans cant agree on what color teh sky is, let alone anything else, but they bond and somehow forge a freindship nontheless, spearheaded by Cal and Mick's mutual watering hole, an establishment literally called the Smoking Pile. Meanwhile goody-two-shoes Honor student Haylie finds herself hopelessly attracted to the handsome-but-horribly-antisemitic Miles, and you can see the conflict there, spured on by the fact that Miles is kind of attracted to her too, and Trinity doesnt like that. Naturally, when the two girls are near one another the claws quickly come out. Also Bryan's budding relationship with Sasha is becoming more...complicated, and he doesnt know if he's in love with a girl, a boy, or what and he cant just out and tell Sasha he doesnt know what he'she is, so he makes efforts to try and 'trick' Sasha into revealing his/her gender. Add to this the Redman family--comprised of Daryl and Bonnie Redman and their 10-yr-old son Randy--who are perfect in every way: extremely goodlooking, wealthy, powerful. Politically they're neutral; they hold no political affiliation beyond who they like and who they dont, and try to remain as middle-of-the-road and evenhanded as they can...perhaps that makes them the smartest of them all. They genuinely want to be freinds with the McMahon and Rabinowitz clans, and for all Carl cares they might as well. Unfortunately, Mick hates Daryl who is his boss at OmniGloboTech, and tries (unsuccessfully) to sabotage Daryl's life. And the whitless Daryl is oblivious to this; think of him as the Ned Flanders to Mick's Homer Simpson.
The show would tear into various issues, taking none of it seriously, like South Park, but with a more political edge. No one side--conservitives or liberals--are portraied as better or worse; one could actually argue that liberal Mick is more of an asshole than Carl, as Carl seems somewhat repentant about his racist views after finally having met a non-white, while Mick is actively trying to detsroy the life of another person (Daryl), who honestly wants to be freinds, out of sheer penis envy. But generally it's a satiracal take on the various political happenings in the world seen through the eyes of three very different, sometimes opposing points of view--liberals, neutrals, and conservities. The viewer can find what few messages are implanted in the episodes at their own volition, nothing is 'forced', like on some shoes i've seen resently. There is no right side and no wrong, no good or evil, just people with some major flaws being our idiot proxy in teh political world and doing so humorously. And the title pretains to the fact that technically all three families fall into the category of 'yuppies'.
So, what do you think, would it ever make it on the air? Would it suck? Feel free to comment on whatever, i'm just trying to see how the idea would pan out. Take note: some of the characteristics of the people are exagerated, but remember it's strictly a comedy; none of the characters are played for anything but laughs. So dont get bent out of shape, ok. If anyone wants, i could give some info on the first episode, "There Goes the Neighborhood" the hilarious first meeting of our three families, and their established beleifs.
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