More Time to Kill
TV SHOW IDEAS:
PHILOSOPHY YOU KNOW: A man and a woman discuss aesthetics, spirituality, and sensuality using only cliches and banter fodder, gathered by a Google-searching program. No sources are cited, no points are refuted, no one wins or learns anything. Hosted by Wanda Sykes and Dane Cook.
DURESS: Contestants are asked if they could withstand physical stress via mild torture. They are then told it’s a beautiful day outside, and asked if they’d still like to go through with the torture. Those who say yes get waterboarded and shocked. Those who say no are given a “Duress” frisbee and get the day off.
LOVE: Strangers (male and female) are separated from each other by a wall. They live for one year in solitary confinement, with only a small chink in the wall through which to talk to each other. At the end of the year, they are moved into a shared cell full of sharp weapons. The episode ends when one kills the other.
CAR JACK GARAGE: Ordinary cars are turned into “dream machines” in Car Jack Garage. The personalities of his misfit pit crew clash at times, but ultimately Car Jack’s leadership, the crew’s hard work and the spirit of collaboration coalesce into the ultimate dream machine. The dream machine is then sarcastically appraised by embittered environmental and medical researchers who have lost their jobs due to cuts in governmental funding.
CELEBRITY METAPHYSICIAN: Celebrities explain how they found God, salvation, redemption, and other cosmic fallacies in sit-down personal interviews.
LOSTER: A Qantas airliner gets lost over the Pacific and flies somehow into space, then somehow into a wormhole, then somehow through time and back to earth, where it collides somehow with itself, killing everyone on board (twice). Their ghosts must then unravel the mystery of why on earth they were going to the Australian capital, Sydney (Spoiler alert: although they were on a plane for Sydney, they weren’t going to the capital at all!).
ACTUALLY…!: Paranoid schizophrenics must prove to a panel of black-clad judges that they actually do exist before time runs out and they discover that they don’t.
BETTY WHO IS IN FACT QUITE UGLY: A draconian group of handsome high schoolers rightly keep an ugly girl from participating in high-visibility activities, such as student government and field trips. She grows to understand her ugliness, and starts a blog dedicated to female poets.
