/r/badtvshowideas
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For all your crappy TV show ideas!
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1: Keep it at a decent length. Don't map out a season's worth of episodes, just describe the premise.
2: No harassment. Yes, the ideas are shitty, but don't purposely be a dick.
3: Have fun and make it a good experience.
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its a "the office" style show but with planes during the russia ukranie war in 2023
HEAR ME OUT. A show with good plot, sad moments, happy moments, omg wtf moments, yada yada, everything a really good show or anime plot could have, but one thing, its talkless, there be a scene where the MC's closest friend dies but its just *sob sob* "hmm, mmm hmm mm" *sob sob*
Think are you smarter than a fifth grader but with a crackhead twist
A guy is in like a chess tournament and all his opponents are like super powered chess geniuses doing really over the top moves while one guys (main character) is a normal guy who likes chess
So this agent has to go back in time to 1897 to kill a child Hitler before he inevitably becomes the füher so the agent goes into Adolf’s home expecting to see some bad kid who is always getting in trouble he sees a really innocent wholesome child who is very nice to the agent. So now the agent doesn’t want to kill Adolf but that goes against his orders so he’s very conflicted on what to do and his boss is really mad at him because he won’t kill this tyrant but the agent can’t bring himself to kill Adolf so he decides to rehabilitate Adolf to make sure he never never becomes the tyrant he does in WW2 then the agent does a little more hanging out around Adolf and finds out his father had been coming home drunk and beating young Adolf from time to time but the agent sympathizes with Adolf and puts his gun away he was gonna shoot Adolf with. Throughout the show the agent keeps getting calls from his boss and his boss his mad at him obviously for not getting the job done. And she gets mad because the agent keeps hanging up on her. And after three seasons of this we reach the finale in which the agents boss time travels to 1897 as well. To kill Adolf herself. The agent tries to talk her out of it but it doesn’t work she pulls out her gun aims it at Adolf pulls the trigger but the agent jumps in the way if the bullet as it’s passing saving Adolf but at a cost the agent soon dies in Adolf’s arms and Adolf is pissed he takes the agents gun that was in his pocket and shoots and kills the boss. Was this enough to change hitlers path? Or did the trauma consume him and this was all for nothing that’s for you to decide.
A normal guy who works at a normal office and has a normal life, but then he get's cancer and dies. After that it just shows a grave 24/7 with some oddities in the bg.
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
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
It's like a political debate but with breasts.
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.
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?
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)
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"
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.
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
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
Damn! Already taken. Star Trek Discovery.
They should totally do an English remake of Friends called Mates.
Or a Scottish remake called pals
Or a Canadian remake called buddies
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?