There must be a little-known proviso in the Writers Guild rules that permits striking TV writers to pen scenarios for shows other than their own in snarky magazine articles. So it is with New York magazine, which cross-assigned teams of writers from various strike-afflicted shows to dream up season-ending arcs for other strike-afflicted shows. (Hat tip to TV Barn and TV Tattle for the link.) The results aren’t as funny as I’d have hoped, though I did enjoy the Simpsons crew’s apocalyptic take on The Office. I’d still like to see what, say, Tina Fey’s 30 Rock-ers could do with House or Heroes. How about you, PopWatchers? What TV writer swaps would you like to see?
Bored, striking TV writers swap shows
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I don’t know about “swapping”, but all of today’s television writers need to be locked in a room for days and forced to watch classic television shows from decades past so they can learn what intelligent, witty and quality writing really was! The garbage that they’re writing today isn’t worth a damn, which is why I don’t care if they ever end the strike! The longer the strike lasts, the more people begin to realize how much time and brain cells they were previosuly wasting in front of the tube!
Eric Friedmann apparently has never watched “The Office” or “30 Rock.” I challenge him to watch either of these shows on DVD and then tell me that no writers today know what “intelligent, witty and quality writing” is.
I’d like the writers from Desperate Housewives to take a crack at the increasingly dismal Nip/Tuck. Add some real humor and warmth to these once likable doctors- STAT!!!
I know what the striking writers can pen! Their resumes- so sick of talking about these whining snivelling little brats while production staffs have no jobs and no incomes.
Um, did it seem to anyone else that the writers of “Ugly Better” were being a little too earnest in their take on “Gossip Girl”? That seriously could be the end of the season for that show (ok, so probably not he born again part, but still). I think only the “Daily Show” writers really got the spirit of the piece. “Me, not really and yes” was kinda perfect.
I thought the Friday Night Lights and Daily Show takes on 13 shows were pretty good. The rest were eh
How about a real news writers take on something like ‘Back to You’. Then perhaps we could see the kinds of things that happen (with a sense of humor) behind the scenes in a news room. That’s what makes 30 Rock so funny, they’re writing about something they actually know about.
I’m in favor of the writer’s strike, but what about the ultimate writerless cross-over last night with THE DAILY SHOW, THE COLBERT REPORT, and the LATE SHOW with CONAN OBRIEN. Comedy Gold!
I’d love to see the guys who write “Mad Men” to do an episode of the Shield. Although, since they are ex-Sopranos alums it might be a bad idea. Who wants to see Vick Mackey’s future fade to black in the last 30 seconds of the season finale?
I thought the Friday Night Lights imagining was pitch-perfect. Hilarious. Critics rave about this show, and I watched it for the first season, but it is overreliant on certain devices.
Dream Swaps:
-South Park does Pushing Daisies
-Desperate Housewives does Heroes
-Heroes does Grey’s Anatomy
-The Office does Dexter
I know those sound like random selections, but take a moment to actually think about it and please tell me what you think.
I’d like to see the writers of “Battlestar Galatica” take on “Two and a Half Men”. I like to see the writers of “House” manage writing “30 Rock” and vice-versa. I’d like to see the writers of “Lost” take on writing a very special “Law and Order” which involves everyone in the Law and Order franchise involved in some kind of case that ends up becoming more involved and convoluted into a Supreme Court challenge about the Patriot Act. I’d also love to see Mel Brooks and Buck Henry give a go to South Park.
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