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A simulated 3d dogfight competition with made up creatures

Basically competition to submit a model of a creature theyve came up with to an ai along with concept art and a detailed description, ai then tries it's best to simulate the animal and how it works using irl physics and biology, all the submissions get fair match ups and the creatures are made to fight eachother, the fight is simulated multiple times with the creatures being animated procedurally, and the most epic fights/parts of the fights are clipped and showcased with an indicator for what simulation you are watching at a time. It would be exported and rendered with full rtx and all the other fancy stuff. I came up with this after watching speculative biology and was like "but who would win?", idfk its weird ig

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2024/04/22
21:10 UTC

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future wakening

the season begins in the main´s character´s life and at the first season he is an bad person, but at the end of the season he wakes up 20 years in the future, when the episode ending, they wake up in the start of the season, every season the cycle repeats, the character starts getting better and better, but then he starts getting paranoid, when he finnaly escapes we get in the perspective of their best friend and it ends

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2024/04/15
02:21 UTC

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National Boobie Debate

It's like a political debate but with breasts.

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2024/04/10
23:01 UTC

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Boomer City

So we’ve all ran into that boomer and/or Karen that has screeched about technology and how they hate it.

Then we do what they did with Kid Nation; put a bunch of boomers in an “Old West Town” with no modern technology and see how long they’ll last.

Last one standing not only gets a monetary prize, but bragging rights.

Funny idea would be that NO ONE wins and some can quit realizing how much they miss their air conditioner.

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2024/04/10
11:52 UTC

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Ghost Rehab

A scary-looking but benevolent ghost, known only as The Warden, runs a "rehab" of sorts (think Alcoholics Anonymous but for ghosts) for ghosts of past sinners out of their own little pocket dimension, each spirit having their own little area which fits their past lives in some way. The show focuses on the varying exploits of a equally varied cast. Not exactly a Disney Junior show, but relatively lighthearted nonetheless. Everyone goes by "codenames", but only the Warden knows and is allowed to share their actual names with the ghosts.

We have...

Doc

Doc was a, well, doctor in the 1890s who was notoriously negligent, really only doing it for the check. He couldn't care less if the patient died. Also may or may not have breached the Hippocratic Oath at least once.

Born 1853. Died of pneumonia, 1899.

Area is a spooky, run-down hospital, each patient room locked, but with a sign detailing every patient Doc failed.

Patchy

Patchy was a pirate captain back in the 1700s, and as you can probably guess, was an absolute menace on the seas. Thief, murderer, sodomite, you name it, he probably did it. Bribed the hell out of the governor to look the other way.

Born 1682. Hanged 1717.

Area is a shipwreck smack-dab in the middle of a swamp, under permanent night.

Little Timmy

Little Timmy was a young boy in the early 1600s who had a bad habit of stealing apples from the orchard. He was eventually caught red-handed, and while he certainly wasn't doing good, execution was absolutely overkill. He's one of the few ghosts who actually shouldn't be here, but thinks he should, so he's stuck here.

Born 1601. Hanged 1611.

Little Timmy doesn't have his own area, but Patchy likes his style and is almost like a father to him, so he "lives" in his swamp.

And I'm already out of ideas. You people have ideas for more ghosts?

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2024/02/25
16:34 UTC

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Judge Booty

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2024/01/19
13:24 UTC

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A dwarf version of OZ

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2024/01/10
23:33 UTC

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The Bachelor but he smoke crack

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2024/01/08
21:56 UTC

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A Taz-Mania reboot, with Taz Skylar voicing the Tasmanian Devil.

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2023/12/25
21:15 UTC

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A show about kids versuses adults in a nerf war

So a kid named Steve Anderson his brother Micheal Anderson (both at 13) decide to get their neighborhood together and grab their nerf guns. They're tired of parents forcing them to do homework and chores (same with the school) so the kids decide to attack the adults with nerf guns. The adults retaliate by going to their nearby Walmart and buying a bunch of bikes nerf guns and nerf bullets. This causes a nerf war (this is my first version)

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2023/12/22
20:36 UTC

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A show/one episode special where the two jerkiest, angriest people in television go head to head in each other's realm...

Simon Cowell meets Gordon Ramsey and they each spend an hour (of TV time) training to impress the other in their area.

Start with a "performance" to set a baseline and let them both get their signature personalities out.

Cowell trains with, for example, one of the Iron Chefs and Ramsey trains with a vocal coach.

They come back and do another performance to see how they improved.

Then put it up to an audience vote who should "win"

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2023/12/05
01:23 UTC

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Imagine a tv show about a Talkshow with paranormal and magic guest.

I just had an Idea for a show which could be made animated ot not. Basically every episode is a Talkshow where the interviewer is human and the guests are paranormal for example: A fairy which is more like a fairy in tale made for children A dark seemingly evil fairy who is more like a dwmon An elve A dragonhunter An actual magician A ghost A demon A witch Easterbunny ... What do you think?

PS: a running gag in the show could be an in universe Talkshow about a fae interviewer interviewing humans which is referenced quite a lot by the Interviewees.

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2023/11/24
12:20 UTC

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A game show called “TOTALLY FU**ED”

So basically, a contestant will be put into a room with 2+ other people who are in a heated debate or argument. Either side can be right or wrong, that’s for you to decide. You have 20 minutes to deescalate the situation or else you’re TOTALLY FU**ED where then the arguing people start aiming there arguments towards you and charge you off stage. Simple, and I think it could be fun

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2023/10/17
01:12 UTC

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You know the elephant powerup in the new mario game? yeah, that, but an animated adult show.

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2023/09/01
02:57 UTC

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Show based on the song California Dreamin' (By the Mamas and the Papas)

So it starts out like kinda like what WandaVisions does, the whole classic black and white sitcoms. There is this group of friends who want to leave their town behind and chase their dreams to make it big in the city. The intro starts out with the gang singing the song in a convertible with the roof down while driving down the highway. The first couple of episodes are like the cheesey sitcoms, just friendly gang shenanigans. Then they are caught up in a murder plot and one by one the gang starts dying off. The intro for the episode following the first characters death gets a little bit faded and creepy. It's tragic and they mourn, but decide to keep going to fulfill their dream in honor of their fallen friend. This goes until the next character dies. The following intro is slightly more faded and distorted. This theme continues until it's the last character left, the final episode. The character is fataly wounded and is slowly dying by the end, as his/her life fades away, they hear their dead friends singing the intro song from the afterlife as it rolls to credits. The End

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2023/08/04
01:48 UTC

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A spin-off series of mst3k the return focusing on the boneheads.

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2023/06/18
19:52 UTC

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Squid Game, but set in Auschwitz.

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2023/05/30
05:12 UTC

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Euphonium. High school band nerds get high and have sex.

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2023/05/30
05:10 UTC

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Arrested Development. The 90s hip hop crew, not the show with Bateman.

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2023/05/30
05:06 UTC

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Star Trek but totally woke

Damn! Already taken. Star Trek Discovery.

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2023/03/21
04:37 UTC

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Black Mirror but set in the 1700s. The advent of the Industry Age brings new horrors to western Europe.

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2023/03/06
02:27 UTC

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Surprised Netflix hasn’t done a remake of friends

They should totally do an English remake of Friends called Mates.

Or a Scottish remake called pals

Or a Canadian remake called buddies

2 Comments
2023/02/20
14:36 UTC

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This is the Last of Us.

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2023/02/03
20:09 UTC

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Minecraft preschool show.

Here's the groundwork. I don't know a lot about Minecraft, but my brother is a big fan, and plenty other fans are on Reddit, so this'll probably catch at least one of them's attention.

Basically, children of the most common mobs (a Creeper, Enderman, Skeleton, and Zombie), and the child of the player avatar (the dad may or may not be good ol' Steve), hang out in kindergarten/daycare for both players and mobs, and while the kids get along great, their parents... aren't fond of the player. They have varying levels of acceptance to their kids being friends with their mortal enemy's kid, the Endermans being the nicest to this and the Skeletons being the least.

I even came up with rough ideas of the characters themselves.

The Creeper kid is pretty awkward, but generally nice and a good friend, a far cry from his gangster dad, who will blow himself up to prove his point. Speaking of blowing up, he explodes whenever he gets mad, only to, quite literally, pop back into existence 5 seconds later.

The Enderman kid is the only disabled one - he was born blind. He actually has a seeing-eye dog, it's named Cobblestone, but that sucks, got any better ideas? He always wears sunglasses, to both avoid his friends looking into his dangerous gaze, and because, well, he's blind.

The Skeleton kid is one of those characters who is obviously male, but so cartoonishly over-the-top that they act girly. Since Skeletons burn up in the sun, he brings a parasol wherever he goes until night. I was thinking of implying him to be gay, but I don't have a clue how.

The Baby Zombie is the youngest one, and, well, considering he lacks a brain, he isn't the brightest bulb. He is, however, stupidly fast, and occasionally pulls up on a chicken. He was once a human kid at some point, but like his parents, he since joined the hoard, not that he minds.

The human kid is the only girl here, and is a bit hyper and can be a little destructive, but her friends keep her under control most of the time. Her dad at first didn't like her being friends with his enemies' children, but after they proved themselves good kids, he softened up to them.

I haven't come up with names or particular plotlines for episodes, but it's edutainment - interesting the kiddies while also not-so-subtly pushing an Aesop or something.

What do y'all think?

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2023/01/26
01:03 UTC

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The Woods

Ok so there’s these kids (16-17) from The Appalachian Mountains from Virginia/West Virginia that area lets call them Steve, Logan, Adam, Ashley all go camping on the Lake on top of the Mountain they live on they Pack a rifle some Fishing poles a couple tents they take an old 1990s Pickup Truck and that night there hanging round the campfire they here a roar like a Bear but Not a bear like the dumb white kids they are but they do bring the rifle and they see a Mutated thing of a Human and a Bear it spots them and starts chasing them Logan takes the rifle off his shoulder shoots it dead in the eye it only slows it down they run to the Truck they start to drive away then I pops up beside the truck Adam puts the truck in reverse steve shoots at it again threw the window a piece of glass gets stuck in Ashley’s arm Adam slams the truck into it and knocks it out it ends with the kids staring over top of the Bear that’s the pilot. I fell like this could be really good or just a Walmart stranger things

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2022/12/23
06:04 UTC

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The frost

Basically there is a cloud that is the size of a small city.

Everywhere else is normal and this cloud moves with the wind currents, but everything underneath it drops to near absolute 0. Its trail forever cold until it warms up.

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2022/12/23
03:51 UTC

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Shits n' giggles. The stupidest, most unnecessary thing to ever grace humanity.

I'm ashamed that I ever thought of this

Ten people with chronic bowel conditions (ie, IBS, Lactose intolerance, etc.) who have struggled to find love sit on two toilets with a divider in the middle and get to know each other. In the middle, the contestants have to face difficult challenges like " 10 minutes without a divider" and "eat a trigger food." The last couple standing has to get engaged and wins a 50,000$ cash prize to pay for their wedding.

I understand how terrible it is, I just thought people should see it for some reason.

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2022/12/12
05:06 UTC

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Cimmerian Idol. Conan tries his hand at singing.

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2022/11/05
20:40 UTC

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The Peasley Jones Show Staring Peasley

He dies.

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2022/10/22
14:28 UTC

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Friday Night Wights. A football team in Texas attempts to play football despite being invaded by a zombie horde.

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2022/09/24
19:48 UTC

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