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Doug Loves Movies; TV Pitch

I am an avid listener of Doug Benson's podcast Doug Loves Movies, and frankly I think this shit is needs to be a TV show. So, instead of trying to email him this, I am going to blog it and then tweet the link to him about 1,000 fucking times. A lot of you will be lost in what I am talking about here, because you have lives and don't listen to podcasts like me.

Dear Mr Benson,

I enjoy your stand-up, your movie Super High Me, and of course, your podcast. Obviously, you probably already assumed most of this, because you read the italicized section above, unless you are really high right now and just skipped down to the portion that started with, Dear Mr Benson. I wouldn't blame you.

Anywhat! I believe your podcast has the makings for a solid TV game show. It would, it could, it will be, this generations Remote Control.

If you are still not seeing it, let me break it down for you like this right here...

The Pitch, or at least how I think pitches might go.

Show opens to the Hard & Firm (spelling) theme song, with visuals ie, pictures/clips of you indeed not liking crying babies, gum, and all the other shit they list.

Cut to you, behind a podium, dressed retardedly like an old school usher. A flashlight will be disguised as your microphone. You say your patented, "Hiiiiiii everyboday," and then introduce the semi-famous contestants.

I thought about not having the contestants be famous comedians and what not, but I want to keep it more like your podcast and less like an actual game-show. The contestants will be sitting in movie theater chairs and their buzzers will be boxes of popcorn that they have to push down on.

You ask them what movies they've seen recently and bullshit about it for a few moments. All while giving and taking away points from them for no particular reason; similar to those dumb sports shows on ESPN. (A big key to this show is that points mean absolutely jack shit.) The same type of guests you currently have on the podcasts would be the best. Stand-ups and so on, people that are quick on their feet.

After they all talk about a movie they've seen recently, you start the game. Now, I think a good first round would be the TIVO description game that you play with Bald Bryan. I know your thinking that it's not your game, but It's cool though, we can bring him in as an executive producer, pay for hair plugs, or whatever.

Every time you introduce this portion of the show, it will be proceeded by a clip of someone in a TIVO Mascot costume doing something very disturbing. Such as, yelling at a fat guy on the couch, 'What! you don't like what I recorded for you! You get to go out all god damn day, and I am stuck in here trying to find you something you'll enjoy! I thought I would add a little class by recording Mad Men but all you want is a steady diet of SPIKE TV. I fucking quit." Then the TIVO smashes the TV over the guys head. Or you can just have the TIVO blow coke off of Ms. Piggy's tit.

When a contestant gets a question correct you give them however many points you feel necessary. You could make it so the winner is the first person to get to 420 if you'd like.

Once, the TIVO round is over you start the Lightning Round. The Lightning Round is just a few big flashes of light with no sound, and then you say, "Lightning Round Over... but you know what comes after the lightning round? The Thunder Round!" Play a bunch of loud thunder sounds. The Thunder round is where you introduce a quote from a famous movie and then have the contestants scream it. Whoever screams the line the best wins, however many points you want to give them.

I am also working on other segments similar to the Thunder Round, such as the Unphysical Challenge. In which the contestants have to not do anything.

Then you of course start the Leonard Maltin (once again, questionable spelling that could be checked with just a google search, which I am to lazy to do) round. Play it exactly like you would the podcast but maybe try and get Leonard to give the clues or maybe just the intro clip to the segment.

So, you get what I am going for here. Just really loosey goosey show. A few stand ups having a good time while competing in a non-important game, that players at home have fun laughing at while also playing along with. I think we could sell this to either, Comedy Central, G4, or the Independent Film Channel and then get picked up by the Game Show Network to play our reruns.

All I ask is to be listed as a Co-Creator with you and to be part of the writing team. Think about it, and get back to me at brad@bradassnews.com

Thanks.

Brad Ass

UPDATE: It only took one tweet to Doug to get him to respond, and he responded in about 10 minutes. He basically said, 'Thanks for your enthusiasm! If I do decide to pitch a show I think I am alright doing it on my own." I would have said the same thing if I was him. I wouldn't be to enthralled if I were him and read this thing that I farted out in 15 minutes and didn't even spell check or link to things. I also really need to figure out how to fucking make ME an actual important part of MY ideas.