Written by Seth: Anything you guys want to debate this week? I am the proverbial well-run-dry. Is there a proverb with a dry well? If not, there should be!
Sherman: Have we done spin-offs? Because I would love to see one of Brother Mouzone and Lamar (from The Wire) driving from town to town, solving mysteries and settling old scores.
Brad: I don’t know. That first one is pretty good. I don’t know if I can do any better. Can they have a Scobby Doo-esque theme song?
Sherman: Yes. And wacky sound effects, with a laugh track. I’m thinking Disney Channel.
Seth: OK yes, I want this.
Chase: The current most obvious and rumored to be coming is a prequel to Spartacus…. The Rise of Crixus: Champion of Capua.
Seth: For me the most obvious recent one is from LOST: Jacob and MIB: The Early Years.
Sherman: Please let it be animated with them as toddlers, like Muppet Babies.
This IS actually a lot like something from LOST
Seth: Question for Lostie Babies: Do they retain 5 o’ clock shadows?
Sherman: Of course, and every time they open a door the smoke monster gets them via a clip from an episode of LOST.
Seth:I also think Gilmore Girls could have easily semi-spun off a show about the Inn that Lorelai and Sookie ran. It would have been likeNewhart just much wittier. And yeah, I said Gilmore Girls.
Brad: I think Gilmore Girls tried to spin off a show about Jess once and FAILED. I need equal parts Lorelai and Rory to make that show watchable. Though, with that being said, a spinoff show where Rory and I spend our life together traveling Europe and spending Old Yale money would be pretty on point.
Sherman: Sorry, Chase, I missed your Spartacus: Blood and Sand spin-off earlier. I think Rise of Crixus would be good, but perhaps better… Lucy Lawless: Boobs.
Jim: So far as I understand it, isn’t that pretty much what Spartacus: Blood and Sand is in the first place?
Seth: Chase mentioned Jesse and the Rippers show from Full House fame. And that would be great and all, but even better would be to seethe Zack Attack story from Saved By The Bell played out over a season of glorious television. It would be like Behind The Music. that would kill.
Jim:As great as The Wrestler was, I think it would be 10x edgier if there were a spin off that told the story from the perspective of The Ayatollah. I’m imagining a mix between WWE Smackdown and an Iranian themed Bend it Like Beckham. Who’s with me?Spun-off from Married with Children and In Cold Blood is Buried with Children: This HBO mini-series follows the tracking, capture, trial, and execution of Al Bundy after going nuts and murdering his family. Something like In Cold Blood, but starring Ed O’Neill.
Spun-off from CSPAN is Real World: CSPAN: Several Congressman live together in a house (not the House) with cameras on them and this one Senator that thinks he’s better than everyone. They will say stupid things and insult each other, just like regular CSPAN, but it will be accompanied by “confession” segments.
Spun-off from V is some show that is actually worth watching: it would star Elizabeth Mitchell. Maybe as a fertility scientist on a mysterious island, who beats the shit out of people.
