Hey, I've got an idea for new show for NBC - check this out:
Two gay lovers are visited by an angel in their bedroom one night and have a change of heart. They both begin to read the bible and each episode centers around a bible lesson where they learn something new, repent of their sins, and make changes in their lives. In the last episode of season one, they discover Exodus International (an ex-gay) ministry and cry tears of joy as they realize the sinful nature of their lifestyle. In the last few minutes, they cry together and say their final goodbyes to each other as the last burning embers of their rainbow flag and ACLU membership cards smolder in the trashcan.
The gnashing of teeth and sheeking from the left would be deafening...
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Well, to be fair, this piece of crap hypothetical TV show doesn't really sound any worse than a lot of the crap already on TV.
In other words, I still wouldn't watch it.
Well, to be fair, this piece of crap hypothetical TV show doesn't really sound any worse than a lot of the crap already on TV.
In other words, I still wouldn't watch it.
I would watch that you could make it pretyy funny actually. You could have the reformed gays more sterotypical then the crew from Queer Eye. Everyone would know the hadn't really changed, and were just denying themselves. For season two you could have one of the guys "acidentally" keep looking at men's butts, and stuff. I could do wonders writing a pilot for a show like this.
P.S. Anyone watch "The Shield" that is sorta like what happened with Julian. Not my scenariom but the OP's.
Hey, I've got an idea too, there's this straight couple, see and, get this, the wife is LIBERATED!!!!!! she DOESN'T submit to her husband in all things!!!!!! This couple is visited by an angel of the Lord, they both begin to read the bible and learn something new each week. In episode three the wife learns that woman is responsible for the fall of mankind; she flips out and shoots the angel after telling him he's a mysogenistic dolt .
"The gnashing of teeth and shrieking from the fundies would be deafening"
Hey OnionPeel,
I got an idea. the angel comes down into these gay guys bedroom one night and the jump him and gang bang him and after the angel is all "what the hell?" and the gay guys are all "the hell did you expect coming in here in those white robes, all those feathers and that nancy-boy blonde hair, blue eye, no facial hair look". Think that would work?
Hey, i've got an idea for a new show on NBC.
Two fundies are visited by a rational person, and they get a change of heart. And in each episode, they will read a segment out of a Dawkins book. At the end of season one, they cry tears of joy as the last embers of their Bible's and church membership cards are smoldering in the trashcan.
Dude, purchase a gun. Then kill yourself. It will make the world a better place. Thank U.
Not gonna happen. Why? Well...
Firstly, a television show about a couple of people sitting around reading is the most boring idea I have ever heard. Hell, even if they were reading hard core porno it would still be boring.
Second, you have described a mini-series, not a series. Once our repentant homos have "found" your ex-gay group, isn't the story over? Heck, you even have them making their "final goodbyes" in the last episode of the first season? What are you gonna do in the second season?
Third, this isn't a TV show, it's an infomercial for Exodus International. It didn't work for Cher, it won't work for you, either.
Fourth, there would be no "gnashing of teeth" or "shrieking" from the left because we would be way, way, way too busy laughing our asses off at the sheer stupidity of your "show."
And besides all that, why do they have to say their "final" goodbyes? Are you saying that these two new Godfearing, righetous individuals can no longer be friends? That's pretty heartless.
Nekbet, Ted: I'd totally watch those shows. In fact, I'd even be willing to play the husband in Nekbet's show, if I didn't have this crippling stage phobia. Of course, if I was at all involved with the show, the husband would be handing his wife the gun.
I have an idea for season two: They both find a couple of strong, intelligent, independent women.
Then, by the end of the season, they are both reduced to cattle, beaten and humiliated into staying at home, making dinner and having babies.
i don't know why the gnashing of teeth and "sheeking" would be deafening; imo they just would never, ever take you seriously again?
such a stupid idea, and can be altered to suit whoever wants to make fun of Mr Onion the best :P
The second season could be them finding wives, like Freboy said; except these wives are everything fundies seem to hate (think Mrs Debbie?), and the season is spent trying to explain to them why they're being terrible,sinning whores.
Third season could be a run-in with athiests!
exciting, really.. ¬_¬
Well, it couldn't be that much worse than reality shows...
BTW, what IS the problem everyone has with the ACLU? It's a group dedicated to PROTECTING civil liberties. How the fuck is that un-American/sinful/evil/undesirable?!
@Dagger
They defend people that the Fundies don't like. Thus, since they are the living embodiments of the U.S., complete with Mom's apple pie liquefied running through their veins, the ACLU are treasonous, evil and must be disbanded or destroyed. The fact that they've defended Christian groups is either a liberal lie or a front, depending on who you ask.
How to turn this into a show worth watching: the gay lovers are largely happy the way they are and turn out to be impossible to convert. And the angel isn't allowed to leave their apartment until he succeeds in doing so. By around halfway through season two, a regular secondary character is bumped up to primary when he becomes the boyfriend of the angel, who is learning a lot and beginning to question things he's been told.
Hey, I've got an idea for a new drama-documentary for the BBC - check this out:
A man buys crystal meth from a man who just happens to be a rent-boy, and accidentally he takes said crystal meth, and for some unfathomable reason, all their clothes fall off!
Then, a la one of those West End farces (usually starring Brian Rix), they're in flagrante delicto in a compromising position. Then later, the rent-boy happens to hear said john say that what they did was wrong - according to an ancient book of farytales - so he takes extreme umbrage at this, and exposes him.
...oh wait, that's already happened, re. Ted Faggard:
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The gnashing of teeth in hypocritical rage and shrieks of denial from the Religious Right has been deafening...
Dude, too many spoilers. Nobody's gonna produce it now! How you gonna build a fan base like that?? You suck at pitching ideas, you really do. It would have been the World's greatest comedy! And you managed to ruin it!
each episode centers around a bible lesson where they learn something new, repent of their sins, and make changes in their lives.
Do these reprobates backslide during the week, and have to get reborn every Friday? I want to see the in-between episodes.
@Anon-e-moose
Yeah, But instead of a Docu-Drama you could take Haggards life and build a great sitcom around that! Skit shows have already done a few bits. A sitcom could introduce his staff and flock as supporting wackadoos, could be hilarious.
What's Scott Thompsons number? Let's get the ball rolling on this.
So that's the happy ending you envision? The two of them lose each other's love and go their separate ways? I've gotta tell you, Oscar, that's a real downer. How long have you been clinically depressed? Maybe it's time you stop all that sheeking.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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