June 22, 2006
Thursday PossumblogTV Pilot Episode Previews!
As noted yesterday, the Thursday Three is in summer hiatus as the writers once again enter contract talks, so for the next few weeks we will be giving you sneak previews of upcoming shows that YOU will be able to watch on the fall season of PossumblogTV.
Obviously, this will be a bit difficult, in that we have no video production capabilities. We must, then, rely on the stack of show pitches on our desks that have a synopsis and some bits of exciting dialogue in them, and rely on YOU, the viewer/reader to use YOUR active imaginations and fill in all the minor details such as people and things moving around.
OUR FIRST EXCITING PREVIEW--MY MURTHA THE CAR!
My Murtha The Car follows the antics of lawyer Dave Crabtree (Jerry Van Dyke from 'Coach'), a typically hapless sitcom family man who discovers that his Democratic Pennsylvania congressman, John Murtha, has returned from Washington as a 1928 "Porter" convertible automobile. It just so happens that Dave was looking around the used car lot for a family station wagon when he made this startling discovery.
Dave (naturally) buys the car against the wishes of his family, who (naturally) think he's gone crazy!* Wacky hijinx ensue! Let’s take a look:
OPENING SCENE: Sunny day, MURTHA parked in front of suburban house. DAVE comes out of house, pats MURTHA on hood, and climbs in.
DAVE: Hiya, Murth! (Gets in, backs out of drive, and starts driving down street) Ready to go to the supermarket!? (Car suddenly does violent U-turn, heads in opposite direction) HEY, WHAT’RE YOU DOING!?
MURTHA: It’s my duty to protect you from that quagmire!
(Laughter)
DAVE: Uh, what ARE you talking about, Murtha! I’ve got to pick up some groceries and…
MURTHA: NO! It’s too dangerous--you might get hit by a shopping cart or the cashier might go crazy and plug you full of holes!
(Laughter)
DAVE: Roy?! But Roy always seemed so sane! Well, Mr. Murtha, just exactly where do you think you’re taking me?
MURTHA: Okinawa.
(Uproarious laughter)
DAVE: Okinawa!? But, don’t you think that’s a bit far away to go for groceries? And it’s going to be pretty hard to drive all the way across the Pacific!
(Laughter)
MURTHA: SHUT UP! Were you ever a Marine? No, of COURSE not! You seem not to have gotten the message that only people who served in the military get to have any say about going to the supermarket, and even then, only if they agree with me and my new pals at Kos Kustom Kars.
(Silence)
DAVE: Okinawa, huh?
(Silence)
DAVE: Oh well. I guess I’m just glad Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t come back as a car!
(Laughter, fade to black, insert sponsor spot)
Such merriment!
*Thanks to TV Party.com for the My Mother The Car reference.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 22, 2006 08:31 AM