Here's a
Just for Fun index of Tropes that would make a cool title for a TV Show (any kind), with a brief description of what the resulting show would be like.
To any TV executives who may be reading this, you are free to help yourself to these pitches under these conditions:
- No changing the titles.
- No Screwing.
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- 20% More Awesome - American sitcom about a bunch of Bronies.
- 0% Approval Rating: A power-mad leader in a tiny incredibly obscure country annoys his citizens to no end with his crazy edicts. Somebody should depose him, but nobody's willing to replace him because they know their country sucks and that would mean having to rule it.
- Acme Products - A parody of How It's Made set in the world of Looney Tunes, illustrating how the titular improbable products are made. Narrated by Bugs Bunny, with other Looney Tunes characters playing the part of production line workers (with all the Amusing Injuries and resigned frustration on their part that implies).
- Action Girl - She is a superpowered girl that is a Teen Superspy. Can she survive in High School?
- Action Bomb - A superhero cartoon about a talking bomb. Not very sucessful.
- Adam Smith Hates Your Guts - A talk show of the openly hostile variety.
- Aerith and Bob - She's a half-elven soothsayer from the forests of Lothlórien. He's an Ambiguously Jewish insurance salesman from Wayne, New Jersey. They
fight crime meet in an online chat room, arrange to meet in person and marry impetuously. Can they get over the culture shock and live Happily Ever After?
- Aesoptinum - a retelling of Aesop's fables, IN SPACE!
- After the End: A group of Disaster Scavengers search for-and (try to) profit from-Lost Technology from before a nuclear war. Hilarity Ensues. similar to Desert Punk, but set in America. So, more or less "Fallout: The Animated Series."
- Alien Lunch - A Fear Factor style show where they start with odd delicacies such as bugs and worms, and move on to animal genitalia, and eventually, monkey brains.
- Alternately, an alien cooking show.
- Aliens of London - A sitcom about aliens living in London.
- Aliens Steal Cable - Aliens do a mixture of MST3K-riffing and flat out Gag Dubs of horrible, flash in the pan cable shows. Manimal features as the sole Earthling cultural representative.
- All Amazons Want Hercules: A Harem Anime loosely based on Greek Mythology.
- All Trolls Are Different - A sitcom about ethnic minority trolls (The mythical creatures, not the internet ones) living in the same neighborhood.
- Alternately, a family of mythical trolls find themselves living next to a group of internet trolls. Hilarity Ensues.
- Alternate Reality Game - A Five-Man Band of teenagers find a new PC game and put it in their computer. They begin playing, and then they find that the game actually transports them to different dimensions, and a new dimension is featured each week. Despite its popularity, it is cancelled Firefly-style, but also gathers a huge cult following and gets its own Big Damn Movie as well as several sequels.
- Amazon Chaser: An action-packed series about a CIA agent chasing after a Super Villain who is hiding out in the Amazon rain forest.
- Alternatively, a man is sent on a quest to find an Amazonian princess.
- A Survivor-esque Reality TV show set in the Amazonian rain forest.
- Amazonian Beauty: Two geeks try to flirt with a hot buff girl in this sitcom.
- Alternatively, an Amazonian beauty pageant that's supposed be based on five criteria: talent, intelligence, inner beauty, physical beauty, and badassery. However, the judges usually end up choosing the winner or Miss Amazonian Beauty based on physical beauty alone.
- Alternatively, a female bodybuilding contest which actively opposes the idea that femininity equals weakness or that muscular women are automatically ugly.
- Americans Hate Tingle: Wackiness ensues as a shampoo company tries to come up with a product Americans will buy.
- Angels, Devils and Squid - The angels want to stop the demons from taking over the world. The demons hate the angels for spoiling their fun. Can they put aside their differences when Cthulhu awakens?
- Animal Wrongs Group - A documentary on PETA.
- Anti-Sue: Mad Scientist and Super Hero Sue Smith attempts to make a clone of herself. So she can pull off an Identity Impersonator, instead ends up with not only a clone but her very own evil opposite. It has very well rounded 3-dimensional characters and is considered a Cult Classic because of it. However, much like Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue", people still like to make fun of the name.
- Apocalypse How - A documentary about weapons of mass destruction.
- Apocalypse Not - A documentary on Harold Camping's May 2011 rapture prediction and the effect of the aftermath on his followers.
- Apocalypse Wow - An End Of The World show, similar to Aftermath.
- Appropriate Animal Attire: Animated sitcom about a nudist colony in a World of Funny Animals.
- Armed with Canon - A historical drama set during the Crusades. A small band of soldiers struggle to reconcile their Christianity with the horrors of war being committed in the name of their God.
- A fanfiction where the canon characters put aside their differences to either begin a merciless crusade to slay every Mary Sue and Original Character that has entered their 'verse, or (if it's a Mad Science setting) build a giant can(n)on which will revert their world to a canon-only version, while a group of sympathetic Original Characters try to escape or stop them.
- A web show where geeks tear apart disliked sequels and spin-offs of popular media and point out parts that don't fit with the canon of the original story.
- Argentina is Nazi-Land - A sitcom taking place in Argentina (but is shot in Toronto) following the shenanigans of an elderly Adolf Hitler and his 20-year old hot Argentinian wife and their lesbian daughter and adopted Jewish son. Most known for the show's most famous line "Buenas noches, mein Fuhrer!" Produced by an American studio on a comparatively small budget (so small Hitler's wife is played by a American actress of Jordanian descent who has a skin tone that looks like a stereotypical Latino woman's), and somehow wins 20 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series. It has become the highest-rated politically incorrect show ever worldwide. It's surprisingly popular in Israel.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever - An Affectionate Parody of monster movies. Its sequel is Giant Space Flea from Nowhere.
- A-Team Montage: A cable access show featuring nothing but Fan Vids devoted to The A-Team. Becomes the highest-rated cable access show ever in its local area.
- Alternatively, a show where teams have to build working assault vehicles and rigs out of parts they find lying around.
- Author Appeal - Writers try to defend their work to a hostile crowd of fans. Those Running the Asylum don't go on there anymore after a couple were beaten up.
- Awful British Sex Comedy - Early-season Seinfeld with ordinary characters in their early 20s, having as much sex as average people in real life. Produced in the UK on a comparatively small budget.
- Back to School - A Reality TV show where 20 high school drop-outs compete for a single degree. Remembered for its Elimination Catchphrase, "I'm sorry, You Fail Biology Forever".
- Alternately, a reality show in which adults of various ages return to high school and live as present-day teenagers do. Basically, a concept flip of ''That'll Teach 'Em".
- Bad Boss - A Reality TV parody, specifically of The Apprentice, where the contestants believe themselves to be in a simple clone show. The Boss, who is always shown as a silhouette, sets them ludicrously impossible tasks every week. Cancelled after the first season when the 'winner' sued the TV company that made it.
- But probably would have been cancelled anyway, unless the contestants were told the title was something other than Bad Boss.
- Badly Battered Babysitter - A drama regarding stressed out members of Child Services and other public servants that work with children.
- Alternatively, a sitcom or cartoon show about a cranky babysitter having to watch the children of a mad scientist and other villains; she has to try to keep them under control while also protecting them from vigilant "heroes" who Would Hurt a Child.
- Bald of Evil - a reality show where flowing-locked heroes are shaved and sent into difficult situations to test their moral fiber.
- Bang Bang BANG - A dramedy about a bisexual male prostitute and a female assassin navigating the seedy underworld together. Despite the title, they are Platonic Life Partners.
- Best Beer Ever - A British game show about holding your liquor. Japanese execs sue because they had a similar show planned, and claim elements were stolen.
- Beyond the Impossible - An action comedy series that is based around extremely over the top antics. Much Artistic License is involved due to supposedly impossible stunts. It requires a strong Suspension of Disbelief since the antics are absolutely unrealistic.
- Big Applesauce - Cooking show from a studio inside the Empire State Building.
- Big Damn Heroes: Superheroes work at a sandwich shop on their off time.
- Alternatively, a show about a group of fledgling superheroes trying to make it big...while working in a sandwich shop?
- Bishonen Line - A reverse harem show about an innocent girl surrounded by beautiful men from various transportation companies.
- Bizarre Alien Biology - A medical drama set in the far future in a fledging human colony on a distant planet. The human doctors in the emergency constantly receive alien patients from passing ships, nearby planets, and the planet's native communities, and they struggle each week as they try to figure out how to diagnose and treat such unusual beings.
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: A Jeopardy!-style game show where contestants are given such a phrase, and must figure out what the original phrase was. Feature the title as one of the phrases of the first episode.
- Boobs of Steel - She's a feisty robot stripper. He's a Superhero without a clue. They Fight Crime!!
- Bombers on the Screen - A period drama centered around the lives of U.S. Strategic Air Command personnel throughout The '70s and The '80s. Received multiple accolades for its exceptionally accurate representation of the period and U.S. nuclear doctrine, as well as managing to make the plot legitimately tense despite the Foregone Conclusion of "the Cold War ends peacefully".
- A Boy and His X - An alternatively amusing and harrowing look at the rave culture of The '90s.
- Brains: Evil; Brawn: Good: A comedy about a Knight Templar who assumes all smart people are evil and deals with them accordingly. Speaking which, anyone uses a word longer than 2 syllables is a witch and according to the main character, problems are best solved by brute force. Always.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: A documentary on sieges.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick - A Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?-type game show. Each round, contestants are given four items; three are ordinary, and one is weird and doesn't fit. No lifelines.
- Breast Plate - Pile fruit cocktails, whip cream, and whatever else, on a lovely girl's bare breasts, and see which guy can eat fast enough to expose both her nipples. A show that's only officially aired in Sweden, and an American pastor was forced to retire when he was caught with recordings of this show. (Close to the idea of Body Sushi. From Japan, naturally.)
- Alternatively, a show about the first openly female knights in a traditionally male-dominated kingdom who strive to prove that they can kick ass and still be feminine.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer - A successful attorney wakes up one morning to find that he has sprouted bunny ears. He then decides to start defending Mad Scientists as he searches for a cure.
- Cain and Abel: A Gender Flipped Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry between two brothers named Cain and Abel, known for its use of biblical references and Lampshade Hangings and was actually made by a theologian and troper.
- Call-Back - A Reality TV program which randomly pairs up Loser Guys with Alpha Bitches. The guys ask the women out, and the women all tell them to wait by the phone because they'll call "sometime before Saturday night" to let them know. In an inversion of the usual "endurance" contest, the first guy to realize he's being played, gain self-respect and do something more productive with his time, is the winner.
- Camera Abuse: Ever wonder just what cameramen go through to get that perfect shot? Watch as courageous film crews risk life and limb to bring the action to your living room. Reality TV, along the lines of Deadliest Catch or Dirty Jobs, but with cameramen, and focuses on the lack of respect or recognition as well as the discomfort and physical danger.
- Catfight - Like a fancy cat show, except the cats compete in claw-to-claw combat. Mysteriously cancelled after one episode.
- Alternatively, a sitcom about a "normal" girl being forced to move in with her Crazy Cat Lady friend, Odd Couple style arguements and shenanigans ensue.
- Or, a sitcom taking place in Florida (but is shot in Toronto) about an anthropomorphic cat girl who lives with a middle-class family and her shenanigans which are almost just scene-by-scene remakes of Alien Myth 64's "Squidward's House in the House" videos.
- Cats Are Mean: A My Cat From Hell clone.
- Cattle Drive - Farm animals form a racing team. They end up fighting crime.
- Chekhov's Gun - A western about a bloodthirsty outlaw who escaped from a Russian prison and fled to America. Almost everything that appears in the first few episodes turns out to be significant.
- Chekov's Gun - A Star Trek rerun block counterprogrammed against Chekhov's Gun.
- Closer to Earth - drama about a retired jet pilot
- Colonel Badass - The TV prequel/Spinoff about Col. Hans Landa's exploits in Nazi-occupied France.
- Commie Land - A satirical sitcom depicting the Soviet Union in the early 1980s (but is shot in 2010's Toronto). Many say it's even more hilarious than the Thembrians from TaleSpin.
- Complaining About Shows You Don't Like - Brought to you by Something Awful and featuring panelists Simon Cowell, Maddox (of The Best Page in the Universe) and John Solomon (of Your Webcomic Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad)
- Continuity - A show about fiction, and one man's attempt to sort out the Continuity of all fiction ever written. Also, he's trying to stay sane. A shocking twist came in the second season when he realized the existence of the the fourth wall by recognizing that his theory can't work otherwise. Takes place in the Young Wizards sub universe.
- Conveniently Empty Building - Our host and a crack team of designers help relocate businesses that have lost their building due to fire, condemning, or foreclosure by taking a standard, empty (but structurally intact) building and designing it to the business's needs.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment - Game show in which contestants have to watch people undergoing fake tortures and choose which one to endure for themselves. Cancelled after the "iron maiden incident" in the second episode.
- Cool Garage - Celebrities and other people showing off their rides. The first episode features Jay Leno.
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer - Japanese live-action sitcom about a straight couple in their late 30s, both with corporate jobs, constantly getting into trouble, only for the day to be saved by their neighbor, a Japanese male college student obsessed with American popular culture, known only as Cowboy Bebop.
- Crowning Moment of Awesome: An idealistic show about a boy named Awesome gets crowned king after a series of tests.
- Crystal Dragon Jesus - A Christian Fantasy show, where the hero sees the gospels of Jesus after trying to steal a sacred statue from a temple. He then goes about converting everyone, human or otherwise.
- Alternatively, a parody of a Christian Fantasy show about a staunch priest who gets transported into a Dungeons and Dragons type fantasy world as punishment after he persecutes a groups of kids playing a roleplaying game, and him trying to figure out how to get home in-between trying to convert people and dealing with the fact that there are a bunch of active gods in this world and none of them are his.
- Cure Your Gays - A fifties sitcom about a cynic who thinks everyone else should be as jaded as he. Hilarious in Hindsight due to Have a Gay Old Time.
- Alternatively, a conservative Christian TV show seeking to find an actual cure for homosexuality, on a weekly basis. Extremely controversial outside its target demographic.
- Cute Bruiser - That's the English name for it, anyway. It's a gag manga about a normal kid who finds out a girl is moving in next door. She's cute. She's smart. She has a thing for manga. She can...punch holes through reinforced steel??? Yes, wouldn't you know it, she's actually a superhero in disguise. She fights crime, giant monsters and the Vice Principle of the high school by night and as the author would have it, our poor protagonist is caught up in the craziness with no hope of escape.
- Cloudcuckoolander - A documentary series about the band Devo. Complete with a score by Mark Mothersbaugh. Wins 48 Emmys and a Teen Choice Award. Early episodes focus on the band's beginnings in Akron, Ohio (but are shot in Boston) and later episodes focus on their move to Los Angeles (but are shot in Toronto) and rise to fame.
- Darker and Edgier: A MST3K type show, spun off Recycled In Space. Basic premises to crappy tv shows turned into Film Noir dramas.
- Darkest Africa - Documentary about the goth scene in Cape Town.
- Darkest Hour - A psychological reality show where in 20 real people are unknowingly trapped in a large building. The electricity, internet and phone lines are cut-off from 9pm to 7am, all exits are locked from the outside, and one of them may be a serial killer. Tension between the contestants rises and suspicion mounts as the contestants slowly begin to disappear. The worst part? None of them know it's all just a show. A show that's only officially aired in the Philippines and portions of Canada, and MeMe Roth was humiliated by the internet when she was caught with recordings of this show.
- Dark Reprise - A fantasy novel series about a generic evil corrupting the modern world, reverting it to a past era, yet darker, to better suit the evil's tastes.
- Depraved Kids' Show Host - A biopic of Jimmy Savile. Ends with a psychiatrist analyzing the Doctor's dream.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? - Cthulhu's very own boxing match show. Professional boxers get to fight him.
- Alternatively, superheroes versus Lovecraftian horrors.
- Discount Lesbians - An independent romantic comedy about the owners of a retail store, who start to see each other as more than just business partners.
- Does Not Like Shoes: The adventures of a twenty-something girl who is always barefoot, no matter what, due to hating shoes and socks because of her rural upbringing. A Running Gag is everyone and their brother tries to offer her shoes, and she never accepts.
- The Dog Shot First - Black Comedy Reverse Whodunnit about a murder committed by a dog, told from the perspective of the suspect, a paranoid schizophrenic who believes that animals speak to him. Despite (or because of) the bizarre premise and prose, it becomes a ratings hit, getting renewed for five seasons and spawning a spinoff...
- Doom Troops: A Steam Punk show set in the trenches of an alternate-reality World War I (but is shot in the English countryside), following a squad of Imperial German Super Soldiers, and their efforts to end a war that's gone on for fifty years. Comparable to Neon Genesis Evangelion in it's use of Deconstruction and Cerebus Syndrome. Needless to say, quite the Tearjerker. Adapted into a Broadway musical, which was well-remembered for The Lancer's heartbreaking rendition of Sabaton's The Hammer Has Fallen.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male - a chilling expose' on battered husbands. Decried by parts of the feminist movement as "male propaganda," but leads several counties to review and upgrade their domestic abuse laws. The leader of a feminist/masculinist relations council was forced to step down when she was caught with recordings of the show.
- Driving Stick - A Game Show filmed in real-time, with one contestant at a time and only one prize - a brand-new car equipped with a manual transmission. To win it, the contestant must drive it over an urban course to a predetermined finishing point, to driving-test standards, within the show's 22 minute runtime.
- Dude, Not Funny! - Caustic Critic makes snarky comments of other comedians' failures
- Dying Town: Docudrama about a small Midwest factory town where the sole factory has shut its doors. Cancelled after one season, despite being critically acclaimed.
- Easy Evangelism - A DIY show for missionaries.
- Eagleland - A man reads government press releases with a Laugh Track added.
- E = MC Hammer - Educational program in the same vein as Bill Nye the Science Guy, but with added urban youth appeal.
- '80s Hair - A battle of the best hair metal revival bands.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita - A magical girl anime about a refined Perky Goth girl named Lolita, who proudly fights evil with her magical Frills of Justice.
- The End of the World as We Know It: Society goes down the tubes (war, famine, cyanide-flavored ice cream) to the point somebody decides to destroy everything. Lasts only one episode, because he succeeds on the first try.
- Enforced Method Acting - A down-on-his-luck actor by the name of Jim Malcolm has just gotten a small acting gig, and his Deadpan Snarker roomie, Razz Foredhoeder soon finds out that Jim has a bizarre form of Dual-Personality Disorder, in which his secondary persona becomes whomever he is playing! Hilarity Ensues.
- Even the Subtitler Is Stumped - A sitcom about a top-notch wicket-keeper who is Omniglot
- Every Car Is a Pinto: Fox Sports 1 series about 1970s cars that are just now being seen as classics.
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory - A couple of would-be televangelists try to find religious subtext in numerous pop culture franchises and use these "revelations" to convert people. Doesn't even last a season.
- Everything's Better with Penguins - An animated parody sitcom involving anthropomorphic rockhopper, yellow-eyed, and little blue penguins.
- Everything's Better with Spinning - Who can be spun around in various ways the longest without getting sick?
- Alternatively, a show about people whose job it is to "spin" stories for politicians and large companies to make them look good to the public.
- Evil Weapon - Documentary on nazi superweapons.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin - A hard-hitting documentary about what's really going on in the canning industry. The conclusions are dismissed by all but a die-hard fringe of vegans.
- Expo Speak - a news show about conference and convention management.
- Faceless Goons: Ever thought about all those rank-and-file bad guys who get gunned down by Action Heroes during badass fight scenes or chase sequences? Well, here's your chance to see a few of them, trying to earn their paycheck, showing Character Development... and then desperately attempting to survive as the heroes show up and it all inevitably goes to hell. Anyone Can Die is a given, and characters who manage to stick around for a whole season are considered extremely lucky. The original title for the series was "Mook Horror Show", but was rejected for being too cheesy for the intended mood.
- The Fair Folk - A reality show about the people who put on Renaissance Fairs.
- Fanservice: Exactly what you think it would be.
- Alternatively, a show about different recipes and types of cheesecake.
- Alternatively, a show made by fans for fans. Fans submit their Fan Films to the show. The show later got their own team of actors after some Fan-Servers asked to see live-action reenactments of Fan Fic Web Serial Novels.
- Fantastic Racism - Clip Show commends audacious acts of discrimination. Cancelled after one episode, ended several careers.
- Alternatively, an adult cartoon comedy about a fantasy world where the races - Elves, Dwarves, Humans, Orcs, etc. - all hate each other but have to trade and ally with each other in the face of a greater threat.
- Femme Fatale - French action thriller show about a professional killer woman starring Isabelle Adjani as the killer.
- Five-Man Band - They've been together since they were a teenage garage band, but it's ten years later, and their failure to break out of the local scene is slowly causing the band to fall apart. Can they make it big, or are they doomed to lose their dream, and the best friends they ever had along with it?
- 5 Bad Band: five Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains start a band, because "Heavy Metal is the closest we ever get to doing evil".
- Five-Token Band - Spinoff of Glee. Fed up with Finn and Rachel always getting the solos and wanting to try an edgier sound, Kurt, Mercedes, Artie, and Tina quit show choir and form their own garage band along with a blind drummer.
- Flying Brick - A Sitcom about a stone golem trying to make it as a pilot in the airline industry.
- Foot Focus (now-defunct) - A crime show about a brilliant investigator who is able to deduce minute details about people simply by looking at their feet. To make the plot work, the show is set in Hawaii and practically all the characters encountered wear sandals. After too many complaints about people being forced to have bare feet by fans, the detective becomes proficient in shoes as well, leading to a higher rating when the plots become more original.
- Foreigner for a Day - Reality show in which one person is granted diplomatic immunity for 24 hours.
- For the Evulz - An Animesque French cartoon about a teen general who gets all his plans for invasion by playing RTS and FPS games and defeats the Evil Empire... to promptly take the empty spot of emperor and run down the field the other way (and proceeds to switch sides whenever they win). The good and bad guys are dumbstruck and an under-the-table plan begins. Said to be a comedy, but political intrigue keeps the Code Geass fanbase watching and allows the first story arc to finish.
- Fox News Liberal - MSNBC's latest political commentary program.
- Fox News but with a Laugh Track added to the lines of their "liberal" news reporters.
- A sitcom about a man who is forced to reconcile his liberal beliefs with his job.
- Franchise Zombie - A Zomedy Screwed by the Network Spinoff in the vein of The Book of Bunny Suicides, featuring "Those shows that clearly want to lay down and die, but The Network keeps ressurecting them 'cause they're so popular" as zombies wearing their show's costume.
- Fridge Logic - A show hosted by Alan Fridge about the how logic really works, odd in that he keeps bring up rumors about TV shows he's supposedly in the know about and celebrities he supposedly knows.
- Fridge Horror - A horror series about a boy who, upon opening his refrigerator, was exposed to a ray of pure energy that boosted his intelligence and caused him to realise how cruel the world he lives in is. Now, he has to live everyday life knowing all the horrors of it.
- Frills of Justice - Designers try dressing up cop uniforms. Only good for the laughs.
- From Russia with Nukes - A Bombers on the Screen spinoff shining the light on the other side of the Cold War and demonstrating the perspective of the USSR's Strategic Missile Troops and Air Defense Forces throughout The '70s and The '80s. The Man Who Saved Humankind
is considred to be the single most tense episode of both series, and pure Nightmare Fuel, for showing just how close the world came to complete nuclear obliteration.
- Furries Are Easier to Draw - A mockumentary about abandoned, poorly drawn cartoon characters whose artists switched to drawing Petting Zoo People because they're harder to mess up. An "absurdist metaphor for Parental Abandonment".
- Furry Confusion - A debate game show with furries pitted against their critics. Losers (always the critics) get mocked for getting every fact wrong. One of the first contestants was a Something Awful user. Very few people from that website have been on since. Counterprogrammed against Complaining About Shows You Don't Like.
- Furry Denial - A sitcom about a strict stepmother who is kicked out of her own home by her abused children and transformed into an anthropomorphic cat (of the Furry Female Mane variety) who lives with a middle class family. Takes place in Los Angeles (but is shot in Cleveland with some episodes/scenes filmed in Akron).
- Gadgeteer Genius - Animated show based on Girl Genius, but with anthropomorphic animals. Starring Gadget Hackwrench as Agatha. Goes on to get a Big Damn Movie.
- How'd you get the Krosp character to work?
- He is now a small human, and emperor of all humans, but since humans are so independent-minded, none of them actually listen to him.
- Gaia's Vengeance - Game show in which five CEOs are thrown into the wilderness for three weeks. Whoever avoids injury wins. Appears either on MSNBC or a Ted Turner station.
- Gainax Ending - A western-animated adventure show about a optimistic young girl with psychokinesis and her pet lizard-bird, who is on a journey to stop the intergalactic Mad Scientist from destroying her home world, Gainax. Is an Affectionate Parody of the shonen fighting genre which is, fitting enough, filled with weird imagery and nonsensical characters. Produced by George Krstic and C.H. Greenblatt.
- Gayborhood - A wacky indie comedy where an Unlucky Everydude moves into a new apartment and realizes too late that he's in the local gay neighborhood. He eventually befriends a group of gay guys, falls for one of them, meets a sweet girl at his new job, and discovers his own bisexuality. The film becomes a Sundance darling.
- Gender Bender - Reality show, where a guy or girl goes on five dates on five nights (nothing further), and wins a prize by correctly guessing who always was this gender and who wasn't. Some exec keeps it on, no matter how low the ratings, admitting it's just to piss off the gay community.
- Alternatively, a show where people are transformed by make-up artists and have to live as the opposite sex for a day.
- Genius Bruiser: Mixed Martial Arts action with William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Aristotle and other giants of history fighting it out in the cage for the gold.
- Alternatively, a show hosted by intelligent martial artists who teach the audience fighting moves and the science and reasoning behind why they have to be or should be done a specific way and will sometimes debates about which technique is better.
- Alternatively, a kid named Bruiser aspires to become a Mad Scientist or might just already be one.
- Geographic Flexibility - A hilarious game show that reveals just how inept many people are at finding locations (including their own country) on a map. Thrill to the sight of contestants searching for Chicago in Antarctica, or trying to find the edge of the world on a globe.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar - A spoof comedy about a desperate burglar who enlists the help of a idiotic policeman to help him rob people's houses.
- Alternatively, a show where people try to test security officers and devices by trying to smuggle in things they're not supposed to have. The team includes an inventor, a magician/sleight-of-hand expert, and a smooth-talking con artist.
- Ghibli Hills - Fan-made animated sitcom with characters from Hayao Miyazaki films living as neighbors in the suburbs. Pulled off YouTube after the second episode.
- Ghostapo - A Jewish community defends it self from an army of undead Nazis.
- Ghost City - A fantasy/horror show about a city inhabited by spirits and how they torment the living who enter their domain.
- Godwin's Law - Alternate History where Adolf Hitler joins a law firm. It's only because of the combination of Refuge in Audacity and making him an extreme Butt-Monkey that the show lasts at all. Mel Brooks playing Hitler sure helps matters.
- The Goggles Do Nothing: A magazine programme testing the effectiveness of safety equipment and investigating work safety scandals.
- Grand Theft Me - A man kidnaps himself for a large sum of money and tries to see how long he can keep up the ruse.
- Alternatively, a reality contest show where people who are good at the game try to pull off fake heists and challenges based on Grand Theft Auto.
- Green Aesop: Aesop's Fables as retold by a Martian, in a Martian setting. Hilarity Ensues.
- Hammerspace - Late night talkshow with MC Hammer as the host.
- Have You Seen My God? - One day, the Holy Trinity disappears from heaven and the apostles and archangels (who are next in the chain of command) send a ragtag team of misfit angels to find them, believing they'll never complete their mission. The misfit angels wander through alternate dimensions, large and confusing cities, and even go to Disney World as they go on their quest.
- Hate Dumb - A documentary series about members of the furry fandom, made to attack critics of the fandom. Cue Encyclopedia Dramatica closing down, unable to make fun of the series' attacks on them.
- Healing Shiv - A Prison Drama starring a doctor, on HBO. Has to deal with Prison politics, and mysterious diseases and injuries. Critically acclaimed. Contains at least one F-word per minute in an average episode.
- Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" - A surprisingly well written spy drama, with a three-dimensional protagonist, who stays competent, and only turns into The Ace several seasons in, when it's clear she has the experience to be this good. Fans still mock the title, though.
- Heroic Mime: A show about a superhero who doesn't talk, and has the power to create any invisible object he can think of (usually boxes). He battles his arch nemesis, who has the ability to control the wind.
- Hide Your Lesbians - A tacky reality show about trying to pass off gay women as straight. Those who don't think it's offensive are just unimpressed. It's canceled after just a few episodes.
- Hide Your Lesbians - Girl moves away and gets into an all-female Love Dodecahedron. Hilarity Ensues when her intolerant family comes to stay.
- Alternatively, a sympathetic nun who works at a Christian all-girls boarding school tries to help her students keep teir love secret from the other students and workers.
- Hijacked by Jesus - Christ returns to Earth and commandeers a bus of unloved young misfits bound for summer camp, so that he may recruit them as his disciples. Hilarity Ensues, as well as Crowning Moments of Heartwarming.
- Hilarity Ensues - Soap Opera about a stand up comic... diagnosed with Hilarititus. Dramedy that quickly develops a Broken Base since nobody can determine which situations are deliberate parodies and which are not. Particularly the series finale, wherein the comic has a psychotic breakdown on stage and dies.
- Alternatively, a show where a team sets up funny scenarios based on viewer suggestions and waits to see if hilarity does indeed ensue.
- Hitler Ate Sugar - Lighter and Softer take on Nazi Germany, yet a very ill-advised short that explains that Hitler started World War II just as an excuse to invade Poland to get a box of sugar cereal, after a selfish Pollock stole the last box in all of Germany, thus ruining his breakfast, and he decides to invade Poland for more. Surprisingly, no deaths or mentions of the Holocaust.
- Ho Yay - A show about rap and hip hop. Never gets why people laugh at the name.
- Foe Yay - A dark comedy on Showtime where a superhero and a supervillain are forced to share an apartment. Over the course of the series, they discover that they could be more than just enemies.
- Holier Than Thou - Game Show in which religious fundamentalists compete to answer trivia questions about their holy books, deliver impromptu sermons, and convert atheists. Wild Mass Guessing is a Catholic-specific Spinoff in which Catholics have to answer questions regarding the most obscure points of their church's theology and practice.
- Hollywood Chameleon - Animated sitcom about a anthromorphic chameleon acting in Hollywood films.
- Hollywood Nerd: Kid Com about a teen idol who's One of Us. Veers between Gender Flip Expy of Hannah Montana with the occasional poorly researched Tabletop RPG set-up on the kitchen table and much better than it sounds depending on which of the three rotating writer/directors did this week's episode. Danny Bonaduce and Polly Draper play the parents...
- Honorary Princess - What happens when a fairytale princess decides to go to a university?
- How Would You Like to Die?: An Affectionate Parody of Gorn movies.
- Featuring Eli Roth as a recurring character.
- Humans Are Bastards - History channel show chronicling the lowest points of human brutality, torture, mistreatment, genocide, and other general bastard-ness. Each episode has at least one segment about the Nazis. It's the History Channel after all.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: A spin off show of Humans Are Monsters, which focuses on current events, psychology, and sociology as well as history and much like its precedessor has a example involving nazis at least Once per Episode. But unlike Humans Are Bastards, it also focuses on stupidity just as much as cruelty and has many Take Thats at the series Rousseau Was Right. It had started as an environmentalist show which usually talked about dangerous animals being hunted near extinction.
- Alternatively, a show about monsters trying to survive against mobs of angry humans.
- Hypnotize the Princess - A Disney Channel comedy where it turns out the women playing the Disney Princesses at the Disney Theme Parks aren't just acting. They've been brainwashed by an evil witch into thinking they actually are these princesses. Well, the witch is evil, but not competent, so Hilarity Ensues.
- I Hate You, Vampire Dad - Sitcom about a vampire single father and his rebellious teenaged son.
- I Just Shot Marvin in the Face - the Darker and Edgier version of How I Met Your Mother.
- Invisible Aliens - The studio was a little short on funds.
- Invisible Main Character - A goofy Sitcom about a protagonist who is always invisible to both their peers and the audience, so their voice is the only evidence of their existence (other than the large amounts of junk food that go missing from the pantry).
- It Just Bugs Me - Participants in this wacky show think they're entering a support group for their entomophobia... until they look inside the snack box!
- It Tastes Like Feet-A game show where people have to eat cooked animal feet.
- Alternatively, a really bad TLC show about sexual fetishes.
- It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans - An American sitcom taking place in New Orleans (but is shot in Toronto). The producers go to US territories to film cockfights for the show (since cockfighting is now illegal almost everywhere, even in the United States and some Spanish countries it was popular in (thanks Animal Wrongs Groups!)
- Jack-of-All-Trades- A sitcom about a man named Jack who will trade absolutely anything for wealth. Hilarity Ensues as this leads to some complications.
- Joker Immunity - TV Spinoff of The Dark Knight (ignoring Author Existence Failure). A Torchwood-esque TV show that focuses on the Joker's antics in Gotham City. The twist is that the Joker is immortal and dies in increasingly creative ways at least five times an episode and tries to hide it from his 5 Bad Band of followers as they wreak havoc in Gotham. James Marsters makes appearances as Mr. J's ex-boyfriend, with whom he has a torrid affair behind Harley Quinn's back.
- Kent Brockman News - A The Simpsons Spinoff that actually happens.
- Killer Game Master - Tabletop RPG meets Jumanji.
- King of All Cosmos - The life of a former royal living in Cosmos, Minnesota.
- Alternatively (or expanding on that idea), a wacky sitcom about a quirky all-powerful alien king and his family moving to earth and their dealings with their ordinary next-door neighbors.
- Lampshade Hanging: A game show where contestants have to hang as many actual lampshades as possible before time runs out. The losers then have to explain why they didn't win.
- The Legions of Hell - An apocalyptic comedy about a band of demons sent to destroy earth and their wacky hijinks that occur as they try to complete their mission.
- Lesbian Vampires - Bravo series about... lesbian vampires. Gets criticized by the media as "exploitative fluff" but quickly spawns a series of related franchises.
- Goes on HBO and breaks ratings records, as the plots boil down to "90% Girl-on-Girl Is Hot, 10% vampire stuff."
- Lethal Diagnosis - A medical drama, set in twelfth-century Europe, in which a team of physicians diagnoses every case, from ingrown toenails to cancer, as "imbalanced humours" and invariably prescribes massive doses of emetics, laxatives and leeches, or torturing out the demons.
- Like You Would Really Do It - For some reason, I'm thinking Japanese game show.
- Little Miss Con Artist: Deliberately Cute Child and Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist, Emma Timsonners is a Jerkass High School Hustler. Depending on the Writer, she's either a Justified Criminal Jerk with a Heart of Gold, a Karmic Loveable Rogue, or a downplayed Villain Protagonist.
- Lolicon - A show about a girl who gets magical powers from a special lollipop flavor her father invented. The writers are surprised by how well the show is doing in Japan.
- Alternatively, a darkly humorous anime where a creepy Genre Savvy eternally young girl cons and manipulates pedophiles into doing what she wants before she reveals their secret to everyone and/or brutally murders them. The narrator/main character is a normal young girl who was being abused by her uncle before Loli killed him and tries to befriend and aid her even though she's disturbed by her methods.
- Lone Dalek - Doctor Who Spinoff starring one of the Humanized Daleks from The Evil of the Daleks.
- Lovecraft Country - Alternate History series where H.P. Lovecraft tries to balance running the USA with saving the world from Eldritch Abominations.
- MacGuffin - A PI who can solve any crime from just one clue. It's just a matter of finding that one clue.
- Made of Indestructium - A reality-TV documentary on the incredible survival stories man's best-manufactured products.
- Made of Plasticine - A MythBusters-type show, where the hosts test out horror movie deaths. An HBO original, since Discovery Science Channel turned it down.
- Magic Pants - The misadventures of The Casanova and a Casanova Wannabe in Vegas, trying to pick up as many chicks as they can.
- Alternatively, a show about a pair of magic pants that grant their owner's (a ragtag bunch of students) wishes - the catch is that the pants shrink a size for every wish you make in a 24 hour period so you have to Be Careful What You Wish For.
- The Magic Poker Equation - A small group of poker-playing witches and wizards travel the globe and use their magic to win poker games in the world's swankiest casinos.
- The Magic Poker Equation - A camera crew follows Antonio Esfandiari (aka The Magician) around as he wins obscene amounts of money playing poker.
- Martial Arts and Crafts - He's a karate instructor looking to open his own dojo. She sells crocheted cats on Etsy and wants a brick-and-mortar shop. They share commercial space - will they come to share their lives?
- May–December Romance - Romantic Anthology series on the Hallmark Channel.
- Meaningless Lives - A Follow the Leader style Soap Opera. Ridiculously depressing, featuring excessive Wangst and asinine plot twists. Unpopular with the Primary Demographic, has a cult following with College Students. They think its hilarious.
- Medieval Morons: A sitcom where 3 Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists from medieval times stumble upon a time machine and are sent to the present. Hilarity Ensues.
- Mega Manning - the Mega Man metaseries retooled as a half-hour TV cartoon. The show would spend time on major events in the series such as Dr. Wily betraying Dr. Light, Haruka Hikari giving birth to twins and the oldest one (Hub) dying, and finally, Sonia Strumm being blackmailed into working for the bad guys.
- Alternately, a story about hitting Peyton Manning with a gigantor ray.
- More alternately, a recently-retired Peyton Manning's weekly NFL talk show on HBO, featuring himself, always wearing turtlenecks and suit jackets, and a weekly alternating guest in wing chairs in front of a black wall.
- Mega Neko - A documentary on cats, including the various roles, and ways they have affected mankind throughout history.
- The Mentor - A comedic series about a man who makes his living mentoring epic heroes and superheroes and how it stunts his personal life. An instant cult classic.
- Alternatively, a heartwarming series about a Big-Brothers-program volunteer who helps at-risk kids, most of whom don't make it easy for him, and the lessons he learns along the way. (But the other one sounds better.)
- Or an old, very highbrow and dry BBC comedy about an obscure character from the Iliad, who has developed such an ego that he Spells His Name With A The. (Canceled after a few episodes.)
- Metroid Vania: An installment of both franchises in which Samus Aran inherits the Vampire Killer. Like Metroid Prime: Pinball but with the grapple beam taking centre stage.
- Middle-Management Mook - an ordinary guy is put in charge of... a low-level corporate office. What madness will occur next?
- Mighty Whitey - A racist superhero show that folded after a single episode. Ruined the director and the regular cast.
- Mighty Whitey - A cartoon on Adult Swim. 100 years ago, a small white alien who looks like Play-Yan-Kun visited Earth. Now, he came back, and discovered the Creativity Movement. Thinking that the religion was founded because they thought he was a deity after seeing "The White Man's Bible", he decides to become the title superhero to live up to his standard as a superhero. Of course, as it is in real life, the Creativity Movement is a white supremacist religion, and both his superhero identity and his human identity, Sam White, spread the idea that Creativity isn't racist. Hilarity Ensures.
- Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher - A Sitcom about a kindergarten teacher who accidentally becomes a high school principal. Hilarity Ensues. It's the second-highest rated TV show on it's network.
- Mole Miner: An Edutainment All-CGI Cartoon about an anthropomorphic mole miner who works the mines in a mineral-rich region alongside other moles and at the same time teaches the audience middle-school-level knowledge about geology, engineering, history of mining, and industrial uses of different minerals. Was canceled after one season in the US due to low ratings, but was subsequently revived with a Sequel Series made in Germany.
- Monster Fangirl: Loony Fan the series.
- Alternatively, a documentary about female fans of serial killers and other criminals real and fictional.
- Alternatively, a documentary about girls who are fans of Monster High and other series/toylines where the characters are weird and different.
- Alternatively, a horror/comedy show about a perky girl who becomes a fan of a monster after he unintentionally saves her from a human bad guy. He is forced to live with her when he gets injured and the monster hunters come after him, and then his monster "friends" show up and move in with them too. Hilarity Ensues.
- Monster of the Week - Nostalgic documentaries about famous fictional monsters, from Japanese rubber suits to B-movie legends.
- Moral Guardians - Animesque action/adventure series in which a Five-Token Band, all Christian fundamentalists armed with the power of faith, fight the forces of Satan, science, sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. Hilarity Ensues.
- More Dakka - Top Gear with guns. Known for having the Gun Board, where they place guns the hosts think are the coolest, and Star with an Average Gun, where celebrities see how accurate they can be with a bog standard pistol.
- Most Common Superpower - Hero derives his powers from having no class. His weaknesses are culture and sophistication.
- The Mountains of Illinois - One day, mountains randomly appear in the middle of Illinois, and a Five-Man Band of plucky, quirky, but incredibly attractive people decide to investigate why it happened. Eventually, They Fight Crime! in the mysterious mountains while they search for their cause.
- Terry Bisson wrote a story about an "Uplift" where this happened.
- Mundane Made Awesome - A critic show reviewing extremely normal things. All the critics are a Large Ham with a Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Museum of the Strange and Unusual - An anthology series with stories based on an artifact or exhibit housed in the titular museum.
- Murder the Hypotenuse - Members of a nightmarish street gang learn trigonometry.
- My Beloved Smother: There's actually a movie based on this trope, titled, of course, Smother. Maybe a followup sitcom?
- My Car Hates Me - A comedy about a group of auto mechanics.
- My Hero Zero - A crossover of Mega Man X and Code Geass that involves Zero and Lelouch teaming up saving the world.
- Naked in Mink - Any lady can win a fur coat of her choice if she is willing to wear nothing else (save for shoes, jewelry, a purse, and panties if it's a jacket), in public for a certain amount of time, depending on the value of the coat. Bodyguards for the contestants stay mostly off screen, unless PETA harasses her, or if some guys try to rough her up. Some fans consider the bodyguards beating up those people, to be the best part of the show.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast - A series about the high school adventures of Maximilien Robespierre, Typhoid Mary, Joseph Stalin, and Ted Bundy, drawn together by their unfortunate names and the social isolation as a result.
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: A Black Comedy about a gang of neo-Nazis travelling to different European countries, trying to dupe people into joining their cause by dressing up their goals in fancy rhetoric and pretending to be more heroic and respectable than they really are. Very unflattering in its portrayal of nationalism and authoritarianism.
- Neuro-Vault - a modern-day series which uses the resident Journey to the Center of the Mind phlebotinum on a minimum of Once an Episode basis, for various reasons: to communicate with comatose individuals, to act as a Mind Probe, all sorts of things. Could become very imaginatively-used Phlebotinum.
- Nice Hat - Monty Python's mockumentary about the British Royals.
- Nightmare Fuel - A look at cars that are supposedly cursed or haunted. But after the retool, it's just a ripoff of Pimp My Ride, but the cars are "scary".
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant - A group of small town people fight monsters while led by the mutilated ghost of the local gas station owner.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot - An animated version of The Odd Couple, just with four characters. So popular, it's remade in Japan, just with a Ninja chick, a Magical Girl Warrior, an Ojou, and a Robot Maid.
- No Fourth Wall - A lucky couple wins a free house... little realizing the incompetence of the architects building it! But the fine print says they must stay in their new home for at least two years before moving out. Will they survive when the neighbors can see everything that goes on in their family? And more importantly, will their marriage?
- NO INDOOR VOICE: Comic wackiness where EVERYONE IS AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE!
- Noodle Incident - Documentary about Guns N' Roses.
- Alternatively, a sitcom set in an Italian resturant.
- Not Afraid of You Anymore - Reality TV series about helping people overcome their fears.
- Not That There's Anything Wrong with That - Sitcom in which an Unlucky Everydude moves to a neighborhood full of assorted weirdos and has to carefully avoid offending them at every turn.
- Olive Garden: A Sitcom set in 1960s Italy, but actually filmed in 1990s Southern California. Lasted for three seasons, and is mainly remembered for being So Okay, It's Average.
- One-Winged Angel: An anime/ manga in which a minor angel loses one of her wings in a battle with a powerful demon. her wing is shattered into seven pieces, and placed in the care of Lust, Gluttony, Pride, Wrath, Envy, Sloth and Greed. Can she defeat not only the Seven Deadly Sins, but the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, regain her wing, save the world, and the ghosts caught between their final rest and their Unfinished Business? Spawns a videogame. Considered quite noteworthy in that the creator is aware that Christianity isn't Shin-To with crosses and Jesus held on with blu-tak.
- One-Wheeled Wonder - A game show where two teams of professional engineers compete in building Rube Goldberg Devices, with one caveat: the teams are only allowed to use one wheel per machine.
- Only in Florida - Sitcom about a neighborhood full of wacky neighbors and one sane family to provide a Straight Man for the comedy that follows. Despite taking place in Florida, it's filmed in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
- Only Sane Man - Sitcom about a successful stockbroker who accidentally gets on the wrong bus one day and ends up in an insane asylum. Hilarity Ensues as he tries every episode (and fails) to either escape or prove his sanity.
- Our Monsters Are Different - Horror-themed show about a team of mad scientists' attempts to create and/or modify various monsters, For Science!!
- Paladin: A crime scene procedural drama like CSI or Bones for some reason.
- Pardon My Klingon: CBS does a sitcom about Trekkies.
- Alternatively, a sitcom set in the actual Star Trek universe about a bunch of average people of different races working on a space station. Think Star Trek: Deep Space Nine meets Scrubs.
- Patrick Stewart Speech - Patrick Stewart reads out text suggested by the audience and proves that Shakespearean training can make anything sound dramatic.
- Personal Gain Hurts - Would you expect any less from spitting cobras? But while you're avoiding their painful venom, don't forget to watch out for the spikes, tigers and other hilarious hazards as you attempt to grab dollars from a pile of money before it sinks into the quicksand (smart players realize it just makes the money wet, and it's still legal tender).
- Pimped-Out Cape - Some superheroes need help to make their Costume Evolution as grand as possible.
- Pimped-Out Dress - The style channel's answer to Pimp My Ride. Socialites and noblewomen appear to have their dresses be the most outstanding at their next event.
- The Plague: HBO medieval historical drama set during Black Death. Critics adored it, but many viewers complained that so many likable characters rather anticlimactically succumbed to bubonic plague.
- The Points Mean Nothing: A comedy Quiz Show where contestants answer questions from a variety of subjects with the host constantly reminding them that the points mean nothing and that the questions they answered are irrelevant. The method of choosing a winner is different each episode.
- Polar Bears and Penguins - Cute animated show in which adorable creatures from both poles team up to fight global warming and its causes with The Power of Friendship and snowballs. Second only to Captain Planet and the Planeteers in the Green Aesop department.
- Pony Tale - An attempt to cash in on the popularity of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, that didn't quite work as well.
- Posthumous Character: Mockbuster / Affectionate Parody of The Crow.
- Power-Up - A Japanese attempt at creating an American-style Superhero drama. An Ordinary High-School Student transforms into a superhero by shouting the show title as his Catch-Phrase and fights crime (and sometimes monsters).
- The Power of Love - Similar to Moral Guardians above in that a Five-Token Band of devout Christians take on the forces of Satan. However, science and rock are not classified as such—in fact, The Smart Girl has a degree in biochemistry and The Big Guy is a big rock fan. Furthermore, the heroes and villains alike are complex characters.
- Pretty Princess Powerhouse - Which princess can plan, organize, and supervise the building of her new palace: her power house?
- Princess Classic - A European princess takes a day job as the conductor for her country's orchestra. Although a drama, it draws in a lot of viewers for its biting humor in the vein of Frasier (the Small Reference Pools inversion, not the screwball plots).
- The Problem with Pen Island - A series set in a provocatively named Gay Bar near Penn Island in New Brunswick; focuses on the difficulties of being gay in such a rural setting.
- Professor Guinea Pig - A professor accidentally turns himself into a guinea pig. Hilarity Ensues.
- Psycho for Hire - Docudrama about the challenges faced by the mentally ill as they try to find gainful employment.
- Pungeon Master - A man in a clown suit cheers up strangers he thinks look depressed by haranguing them with a non-stop barrage of puns. The only way to make him stop is to laugh. Which do you value more... your sanity, or your dignity?
- Pure Energy - Stereotypical "manly" show where a group of crazy guys take basic appliances and try to add MORE POWER. Occasionally features Tim Allen.
- A product placement laden 90s cartoon made by Pure Energy brand batteries about a superhero who fights crime by using said batteries to power himself up and transform into the grotesquely muscular powerhouse of a man that was depicted on the packaging of the batteries at the time.
- Put on a Bus - A bunch of people get on a bus and realize that while it's always moving, it never actually goes anywhere, leaving them stuck in a state of limbo. At the end of the series, they finally get to their destination to find that no time has passed in the outside world, but they've changed a lot.
- 1996 Argentinian film Moebius minus the ending.
- Rare Guns: A Forgotten Weapons style gun show where they find the most rare guns, good or bad, and test them at all types of targets.
- Recycled In Space - A documentary about recycling methods in the future.
- Recycled In Space - a MST3K style show where basic premises to bad TV shows are turned into sci-fis. Sci-fi's are turned into fantasies.
- Red Shirt Army - A comedic sci-fi show about a small, quirky, Mildly Military platoon of soldiers aligned with would-be heroes, but otherwise wouldn't be memorable. Occasionally someone gets killed off, but a new person joins the group. The cast changes completely at least three times.
- Refuge in Audacity - A show specifically designed to give Moral Guardians aneurysms. After cancellation, it lives on in internet distribution.
- Rewarding Vandalism: A game show set in a Conveniently Empty City Block, where contestants aim to commit over-the-top acts of vandalism (up to and including torching parked cars and shattering windows with explosion shockwaves) in order to rack up points while avoiding the attention of the show's "policemen". Folded after three episodes due to massive outcry from Media Watchdogs and law enforcement agencies.
- Robo Family - Faux-retro domestic Sitcom starring a family of Real Life non-humanoid robots. Dad's a welding arm in a car factory, Mom's a bread slicer, teenage son's a FIRST competition 'bot and the baby of the family's made out of Lego.
- Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies - A drama about the end of the dinosaurs.
- Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies - A Wipeout-inspired game show. Five contestants work together to navigate a giant maze. Another contestant works the traps and sends in the monsters. If the navigators complete the maze, they win. If they "die", the dungeon-master wins. Ten thousand dollars per winner on the line.
- Rousseau Was Right: A show focusing on random acts of kindness both from history and current events. It features psychological and sociological facts. Dueling Shows with Humans Are the Real Monsters.
- Alternatively, evidence (or propaganda depending who you ask) for Rousseasu's philosophies.
- Rule of Funny- A comedian competition show, where three comics compete Once an Episode to find out who will be the King of Funny. Notably tanked because the comics weren't very good. Executive Meddling demands that this be Retooled as Rule of Cool- a show about people pulling outrageous stunts instead of telling jokes.
- Rule of Sean Connery - Sean Connery is named King of the World. Do you need any more?
- Running the Asylum- An animated sitcom about a group of committed lunatics who overpower the orderlies and run the asylum. Think 6teen in a loony bin and with more Comedic Sociopathy.
- Or a show about the people who work at Arkham Asylum and their interactions with the villans/patients.
- Russian Reversal - A series about the Russian Olympic Wrestling Team.
- Save Point - An anime about two boys, a girl, and a robotic dog who travel into 'The Elektrik Network', a realm in cyberspace under attack from a mysterious type of virus known as Virek. Getting into 'The Elektrik Network' is done through use of computer terminals known as 'Save Points'.
- Scare Chord - A special looking at some of the best horror film tunes.
- Science Marches On - History of science.
- Screwed by the Network - Documentary series about TV shows which fell victim to this trope.
- Screwed by the Network: a porn parody of "those awesome shows you loved as a kid, but they got f**ked by The Network." Shows are represented by hot girls in the show's most reconizable costume (skintight, semitransparent, and crotchless, of course), and The Network is represented by an old guy with a pointy hairdo. A show that's only officially aired in Ireland (on RTÉ One at times when the viewing audience is asleep), and a member of the production team for The Loud House was fired when he was caught with recordings of this show.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here! - Fear Factor meets Let's Make a Deal. The longer you stay on the show, the more prizes you get. But to get them, you have to face frightening, gross, or embarrassing, etc. situations. Make it to the end, and you get them all. Fail any of them, and you lose some or all of them. Or you can say, "Screw This, I'm Outta Here!" and get a consolation prize (usually a trip to the Bahamas, courtesy CheapCaribbean.com).
- Secret Project Refugee Family - Anime about a family of genetically engineered super soldiers that escaped from a top secret government facility, and must stay one step ahead of their pursuers. Often called "The Incredibles AS AN ANIME" by the people doing the dub (4Kids, who else?), though few of its actual fans, who feel that comparison is looking at the "family" aspect and nothing else (not the least of which is the decidedly non-kid-friendly subject matter, necessitating the Macekre to end all Macekres).
- Signature Style - A documentary on the historical significance of Signatures. Hosted by Will Smith, John Hancock himself.
- The Snark Knight - A bitterly (some might say acidly) sarcastic, chain-smoking Knight in Sour Armor swordsman and his Too Dumb to Live Manic Pixie Dream Girl sorceress companion fight generic evil. Hilarity Ensues. Think Slayers if Goury was an asshole and Lina was an idiot, with a little bit of Discworld for spice, made by a western animation firm.
- Soviet Superscience - A Genre-Busting TV series about a group of Soviet Reluctant Mad Scientists in a 1947 closed city, doing research into secret technologies that could allow the USSR to win the Cold War... or cause The End of the World as We Know It. Mixes the historical, the speculative, and the fantastic to the point that it's not clear where Aluminum Christmas Trees end and Hollywood Science begins, and features the period political jokes and Gallows Humor aplenty. Despite taking place in the Soviet Union during the Cold War era, it's filmed in post-Cold War Toronto.
- Space Whale - The long awaited Star Trek Spinoff about that probe from The Voyage Home.
- Spike Of All Trades - A fantasy show about a magical pointy rock gets passed down through the ages and lives of its numerous owners.
- Springtime for Hitler - Adapted from the play of the same name in The Producers, a hilariously bad musical that becomes an immediate cult hit.
- Stable Time Loop - A man tries to go back in time to change history, but every time he does, he comes back to find that nothing has changed, so he starts losing his sanity. Cancelled after three episodes.
- Stock Dinosaurs - Animated show for kids from the early 1990s about dinosaur heroes whose hobby is 8-figure racing. Cattle Drive knock-off.
- Stock Footage - A show about guys who film their crazy stunts for YouTube, as a "guide" for others.
- Starship Luxurious - Pimp My Spacecraft.
- The Strawman Strikes Back - An action drama about a former secret agent, codename Strawman, ending up back in the field after a 10-Minute Retirement.
- Strawman Political - A comedy about a scarecrow who runs for president. He runs into a lot of prejudice and many, many The Wizard of Oz jokes (Yes, he has a brain!!).
- Stunt Casting: A reality show about trying out to be the next Hollywood stuntman.
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler - An animated Two Fisted Tale take on World War II, with the plucky cartoon heroes fighting Those Wacky Nazis all over the globe. Both sides utilize Dieselpunk technology, and the catchphrase of the show is, of course, "Oh, stupid jetpack Hitler... not again!", spoken whenever another doomsday weapon is rolled out for the heroes to thwart.
- Stylistic Suck - A bunch of fashion critics and designers bash any dresses they don't like. The audience rarely agrees with them unless it's a dress from The '80s (usually).
- Suetiful All Along: A girl feels that her sister, Susan is favored by her parents and better than her at everything. She struggles and strives to be be more like her and gain the love and appreciation of her own family, only to realize not only is Susan just another flawed human being, but that family loved her all along and that in many ways she is just like her sister.
- Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven- A 12-Episode Anime about a Combining Mecha with seven pieces and seven different pilots, including the lead pilot, Nana, who is involved in a Love Dodecahedron with both genders of her fellow pilots. Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven]], the titular combined mecha, fights a Eldritch Abomination. Spawned a manga Spinoff and drama CD's in Japan.
- Surfer Dude - Wilson from Orange County, CA is riding the waves when a thunderstorm moves up. He is hit by lightning while still surfing, but he survives and discovers he got super powers which he uses to fight crime, and at the same time, he's working on winning the heart of the girl he loves who until then prefers to hang out with her friends and the jocks from school. Either animated or a sitcom.
- Survival Horror: A how-to/ documentary on making survival horror games.
- Sweater Girl - A magic angora sweater hypnotizes any girl who wears it, and makes her put on a mask and fight crime. This easily allows a new girl when the current actress moves on. A long running hit in Japan.
- Take That! - A late-night talk show featuring sharp criticism of whatever currently has the attention of the masses. Also known to frequently wonder what kind of sick people actually enjoy watching them bashing people and things.
- Tearjerker - American Dad! beat me to this one.
- Tastes Like Diabetes: Essentially an Iron Chef knockoff focusing on a dessert theme.
- Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats: Archer-esque intended-for-adults cartoon TMNT parody starring a quartet of... well, read the title.
- They Fight Crime!: Genre Anthology of procedurals, cop shows, etc.
- That sounds like a really awesome premise for a show!
- The Thing That Goes "Doink!": Genre Anthology about Gadgeteer Geniuses and the machines they make.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave - Horror/comedy movie about letting The Antichrist crash on your sofa.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot - A procedural about a private investigator who specializes in faked life insurance claims. She drops the title at least Once an Episode, usually while digging up an empty casket.
- This Is Your Premise on Drugs - Advertisement vignettes created to advertise shows. It takes shows and a drug or two, recommended on the internet, and show what X show would look like if on Y drugs. Not necessarily if all the characters are on those drugs, but sometimes.
- Those Two Guys - Sitcom about two men named "Guy" and their run ins with amazing people in an ordinary town.
- Those Wacky Nazis - A sitcom with Nazis as main characters. Idiot Nazis. Lasted maybe half a season, and considered lucky to last that long.
- Tipis And Totem Poles: A sitcom set on a Native American plantation (but is shot in Whitehorse, Yukon), featuring actual Native American actors and actresses.
- Too Dumb to Live - This show invites the audience to nominate their less than intelligent acquaintances, then sets lethal traps in and around the home and office of the chosen candidate! Will Bob fall for the "Do Not Step On" signs marking the new minefield in his backyard? It doesn't matter, there are so many he can't help but trigger one sometime!
- Too Kinky to Torture - A game show on HBO that tests just how far peoples BDSM tastes can go. Based on a Swedish show with a completely different name... and a sexier host.
- Too Sexy For This Time Slot: Lighthearted Fanservice-fueled Sketch Comedy wackiness that, unfortunately, lived up to its name, as it couldn't find an acceptable spot on a network. Ended up on Cinemax.
- Too Spicy for Yog Sothoth - A cooking show hosted by everyone's favourite eldritch horror, Chef Cthulhu, specializing in Szechuan, Tex-Mex and Indian cuisine. Much more successful than his previous cooking shows, Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, It Tastes Like Feet, and Tastes Like Diabetes.
- Toros y Flamenco - American sitcom that takes place in Spain (but is shot in Toronto). Doesn't really have the budget to show actuall bull fights.
- Totally Radical - Reality show in which people with radical political and religious views (the leader of an Animal Wrongs Group, a far-left New-Age Retro Hippie, a gun-loving Libertarian Crazy Survivalist, a Straw Feminist, an Al-Qaeda terrorist, a pro-Palestinian Muslim man, an fat shaming anti-obesity activist, and Jack Chick) are made to share a house and hold nightly roundtable debates on current issues.
- Translation Convention - An inside look at what really goes on at linguistics meetings... mostly, erudite discussions about how to render the word "Schaudenfreude" in nearly-extinct Native American languages.
- Trojan Prisoner - A sci-fi series about technologically advanced aliens and the prisons that contain them ("Mr Warden... one of these new men is actually an android from Mars. You have less than a week to find out which one.. and you'd better not break procedure.")
- Alternately, an O.J. Simpson biopic.
- Tropey the Wonder Dog: Low grade Lassie knockoff, sadly.
- Tuxedo and Martini: Animated show about an MI6 super-spy couple. Produced by the same people as Count Duckula and Danger Mouse.
- Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 - Just your average Japanese game show.
- Values Dissonance - A knockoff on The Price Is Right
- Video Game Tools: Openly mocking documentary about gamers.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Showing off the lighter side of everyone's favourite villains.
- Villain Ball: A villain-centric sitcom about a group of lovable but idiotic villains who try to take over the world using only leftover sports balls. Hilarity Ensues.
- Alternately, a reality show where prisoners play dodgeball in exchange for parole.
- Alternately, a cartoon about a ball that wants to become a super-villain.
- Walking the Earth - A group of cartoon and video game characters consisting of Ash Ketchum, Luna Platz, Bulkhead, Shikamaru, Kitt Wonn and Princess Tana of Frelia decide to go on a long journey around the world. Some of their destinations include Cerulean City, Caelin and Dinobot Island. Before starting out, they elect Ash as the leader and Tana as the second in command of the group.
- The War on Straw - a Five-Man Band travels the world fighting the little-known menace of walking scarecrows. "Strawman Political" is an episode wherein one of the scarecrows becomes President and gets his own spinoff.
- Weirdness Coupon Reality tv show in the style of Trigger Happy TV, whoever picks up the coupon has entered the game and will spend the next hour suffering in ways inexplicable to them at the hands of the show's crew
- While wildly popular the show gets canceled after one season due to legal troubles
- We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties - A sitcom about a small family-run TV station in a sleepy rural New England village (but is shot in Unalaska, Alaska). There is a Kitschy Local Commercial before each of every episode's commercial break.
- What a Piece of Junk - A reality TV show about a "buy here, pay here" used car lot.
- What Could Have Been - A documentary series on HBO that talks about famous Hollywood projects that were/are stuck in Development Hell, and the lives of actors and directors that didn't make it big there. Won a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Emmy.
- Alternatively, a TV show that looks at different events in history and what the world might be like if things went different.
- Wheel of Pain - Game shows. Medieval torture. Two great tastes together at last.
- When Trees Attack - Are we certain Fox didn't actually air this one?
- White-Dwarf Starlet: An Urban Fantasy about an albino dwarf trying to make it big in Hollywood.
- Why Am I Ticking? - Because you're on Action Bomb!
- Wild Mass Guessing - A game show where the three players complete against the audience to guess how many items are in a large clear box.
- Word of God - just another show as an excuse for a televangelist to prattle on for an hour or so.
- Wrestling Monster: Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Wolf Man, the Mummy, Jason, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Leatherface, zombies and others take it to the mat.
- X Meets Y - It's a dating show, of course.
- You Fail Biology Forever - Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? with creationists attempting to answer the most ridiculously easy questions on biology. Side perk: Cheapest prize indemnity insurance ever.
- You Fail Logic Forever - A debate game show. Losers get mocked for being so dumb. One of the first contestants was a fox news commentator. No one from that channel has been on since.
- You Know What They Say About X... - A documentary about the rise and fall of the Maverick Hunters.
- You Shall Not Pass - Can genuine footage of actual crossing guards make for exciting programming? Tune in and find out!
- You Shall Not Pass - Highschool slacker comedy.
- Alternately a comedy about a group of nerds in high school who have problems getting good grades despite their intelligence.
- You Suck - Sitcom about anthropomorphic vacuum cleaners. Got stale really quickly and died after the first season.
- Your Size May Vary - A show helping obese people lose weight. Highly successful on American TV.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters - A documentary about the Irish Republican Army. Banned in the UK
- Your Tomcat Is Pregnant - A bizarre medical show where a team of experimentally-minded doctors tries to impregate a different male organism every week. Lasts two seasons, much longer than anyone expected, what with all the protesting from the Religious Right.
- And the environmental left.
- Yodel Land - American sitcom that takes place in Switzerland (but is shot in the towns of Princeton and Westminster in Worcester County, Massachusetts and Bryson City, North Carolina). Doesn't have the budget to show people yodeling, so the producers use stock footage from whatever stock footage archive websites they can find.
