Trope Title Shows

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:

1. No changing the titles.
2. No screwing.

Compare Trope Names for a Band.

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• 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.
  • Karl Marx Hates Your Guts - The left-wing equivalent.
• Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male - a chilling expose' on battered husbands. Decried by the femenist movement as "male propoganda," but leads several counties to review and upgrade their domestic abuse laws.
• Action Girl - She is a superpowered girl that is a Teen Superspy. Can she survive in High School?
• Aerith and Bob - She's a half-elven soothsayer from the forests of Lothlorien. 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!
• Alien Lunch - A Fear Factor style show where they start with odd delicacies such as bugs and worms, and move on to animal genitilia, and eventually, monkey brains.
• Aliens of London - A sitcom about aliens living in London.
• Aliens Steal Cable - Aliens do a mixture of Mystery Science Theater 3000-riffing and flat out Gag Dubs of horrible, flash in the pan cable shows. Manimal features as the sole Earthling cultural representative.
• All Trolls Are Different - A sitcom about ethnic minority trolls(The mythical creature not the internet ones) living in the same neighbourhood.
• 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.
• Amazonian Beauty: Two geeks try to flirt with a hot buff girl in this sitcom.
• 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.
  • A show about Petting Zoo People terrorists, like Urban Vermin.
• 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.
• 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 Fan Fiction 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.
• 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.
• 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 - Better Than It Sounds. 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".
• 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.
• 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.
• Better Than It Sounds - A reality show about an instrument repair shop. Becomes a huge overseas hit in Germany.
• Big Applesauce - Cooking show from a studio inside the Empire State Building.
• 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.
  • A bit like the Sector General novels.
  • Or, like Futurama through the eyes of Zoidberg.
• Boobs of Steel - She's a feisty robot stripper. He's a Superhero without a clue. They Fight Crime!
• A Boy and His X - An alternatively amusing and harrowing look at the rave culture of The Nineties.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cat Fight - Like a fancy cat show, except the cats compete in claw-to-claw combat. Mysteriously cancelled after one episode.
• Cats Are Mean: A 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.
• 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. Many say it's even more hilarious than the Thembrians from Tale Spin.
• 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).
• 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.
• Media Research Failure - 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Darker and Edgier: A Mystery Science Theater 3000 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.
• 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.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? - Cthulhu's very own boxing match show. Professional boxers get to fight him.
• 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.
• 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 comedian's failures
• Easy Evangelism - A DIY show for missionaries.
• E=MC Hammer - Educational program in the same vein as Bill Nye the Science Guy, but with added urban youth appeal.
• Eighties 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.
• 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: Speed Channel 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?
• 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.
• Expospeak - a news show about conference and convention management.
• The Fair Folk - A reality show about the people who put on Renaissance Fairs.
• Fantastic Racism - Clip Show commends audacious acts of discrimination. Cancelled after one episode, ended several careers.
• 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?
  • That, or a Monkees rip-off.
• Five-Bad Band: five Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains start a band, because "Heavy Metal is the closest we ever get to doing evil".
• Five-Token Band - Spin-Off 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 - 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.
• 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.
• Franchise Zombie - A Zomedy Screwed by the Network spinoff in the vein of The 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.
• Furries Are Easier to Draw - A Mockumentary about abandoned, poorly drawn cartoon characters who's artists switched to drawing Petting Zoo People because they're harder to mess up. An "Absurdist metaphor for Parental Abandonment".
• Gadgeteer Genius - Animated show based on Girl Genius, but with anthropomorphic animals. Starring Gadget Hackwrench as Agatha.
  • 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ghost City - A fantasy/horror show about a city inhabited by spirits and how they torment the livng 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 shows lasts at all. Mel Brooks playing Hitler sure helps matters.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Codename 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.
• Hey, It's That Guy! - A game show where actors with long credit lists recreate scenes from movies they were in, using the characterization of a different character they played. Contestants have to guess the movie/show for cash and prizes.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ho Yay - A show about rap and hip hop. Never gets why people laugh at the name.
• Foe Yay - A dark comedy on Sho Time 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 Spin-Off, 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 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 Did Not Do the Research 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...
• How Would You Like to Die?: An Affectionate Parody of Gorn movies.
  • Featuring Eli Roth as a recurring character.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters - 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.
• 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.
  • Isn't that Young Dracula?
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face - the Darker and Edgier version of How I Met Your Mother.
• In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You - American amateurs attempt to perform traditional Russian folk songs and plays for money and prizes. Hosted by Yakov Smirnoff and Edouard "Trololo" Khil.
• 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.
• Joker Immunity - TV Spin-Off 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 Five-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.
  • Joker Immunity - One million dollars. One simple rule.... You laugh, you lose. Do you have... Joker Immunity?
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lone Dalek - Doctor Who spinoff starring one of the Humanized Daleks from The Evil of the Daleks.
• MacGuffin - A PI who can solve any crime from just one clue. It's just a matter of finding that one clue.
• 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 a Casanova and a Casanova Wannabe in Vegas, trying to pick up as many chicks as they can.
• 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.
• 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.
• Mega Manning - the Mega Man metaseries retooled as a 30 minute tv cartoon.
  • This 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.
• Metroidvania: 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?
  • The Office.
• Mighty Whitey - A racist superhero show that folded after a single episode. Ruined the director and the regular cast.
• Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher - A Sitcom about a kindergarten teacher who accidentally becomes a high school principal. 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.
• More Dakka - Top Gear with guns.
• 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 a story about an "Uplift" where this happened.
• 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 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.
• 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 lead 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.
  • Fighter, Mage, Thief - A spin-off of the above. Similar premise, but more kobold abuse.
• 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?
• Noodle Incident - Documentary about Guns N' Roses.
• 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.
• The Obi-Wan - 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.
• 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 Four Horsemen, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
  • A show like Walker, Texas Ranger, but reworked in a Swords and Sorcery setting.
• Pardon My Klingon: CBS does a sitcom about Trekkies.
• Patrick Stewart Speech - Patrick Stewart reads out text suggested by the audience and proves that Shakespearean training can make anything sound dramatic.
  • The audience is especially fond of ingredients lists found on food packages.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 in the Green Aesop department.
• 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.
  • Imposter Forgot One Detail: An episode about Satan disguising himself as an angel of light.
  • Redemption Equals Death: The Holy Week episode from season 4.
  • Stop Being Stereotypical: A Very Special Episode attacking the Holier Than Thou attitude.
• 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).
• Princess Curls - A royal abdicates her position to move to Canada and fulfill her dream of playing the popular broom-utilizing winter sport.
• 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.
  • This sounds a lot like what happened to Kanoi Watanabe in Power Rangers Ninja Storm
• 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.
• Recycled in Space - A documentary about recycling methods in the future.
  • Recycled in Space - a Mystery Science Theater 3000 style show where basic premises to bad TV shows are turned into sci-fis. Sci-fi's are turned into fantasies.
• Redshirt 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.
• Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies - A drama about the end of the dinosaurs.
• 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 Re Tooled as Rule of Cool- a show about people pulling outrageous stunts instead of telling jokes.
• Save Point - An anime about two 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 hairdoo.
• 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).
• Shonen Upgrade - The Animesque, ruthlessly mundane coming-of-age adventures of several young American otaku.
• Signature Style - A documentary on the historical significance of Signatures. Hosted by Will Smith, John Hancock himself.
• 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 The 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.
  • If you replace the Manic Pixie Dream Girl with an Adult Child with Super Strength, it sounds like the premise of Saiyuki.
• Space Whale - The long awaited Star Trek Spin-Off 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.
  • Would have happened if only Tony George had destroyed everything five years earlier.
• 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 Ten-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!!).
• 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 Eighties.
• Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven- A Twelve-Episode Anime about a Combining Mecha with seven pieces and seven different pilots, including the Tall, Dark and Bishoujo 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 Cosmic Horror. Better Than It Sounds; 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.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: An action-packed Summer Blockbuster movie about a mysterious girl who is Tall, Dark and Bishoujo armed with soul-slaying katana and Bottomless Magazine machine guns, directed by the Quentin Tarantino. She fights demons commanded by Orochi (who is an alien), because he killed her sort-of girlfriend. Yeah.
• Tear Jerker - American Dad beat me to this one.
• They Fight Crime: Genre Anthology of procedurals, cop shows, etc.
  • That sounds like a really awesome premise for a show!
• 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 Sparta - Two hapless geeks try to survive the Spartan army in this fish-out-of-water sitcom set in Ancient Greece. Although initially panned by critics, the show gathers quite a following and even spawns A Movie.
  • Alternatively, a promotional film commissioned by the city council of the 21st century Sparta, in order to attract foreign investors and tourists, as an attempt to battle the current financial crisis in Greece. Being somewhat successful, the concept was then copied by other Greek cities and eventually even by cities in other troubled EU countries.
• 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.
  • Partly sounds like the 1960's tv show Hogan's Heroes
• 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 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 and It Tastes Like Feet.
• 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, 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 MI 6 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.
• 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
  • But if Bulkhead is there, why are they walking?
    • Now if you were Luna or Kitt or even Tana, would you want to be riding in a army vehicle?
• 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.
  • When several cast members from Human Nature/The Family of Blood appear in the same episode, Jokes Ensue.
• 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
• 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.
• What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome? - Another show of videotaped wrecks and explosions.
  • What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome? - A critic show reviewing extremely normal things. All the critics are a Large Ham with a Hair-Trigger Temper.
• 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?
• 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.
• 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.
• You Suck - Sitcom about anthropomorphic vacuum cleaners. Got stale really quickly and died after the first season.
• Your Mileage May Vary - A reality show in which a team of pranksters siphon out the gasoline from people's car and monitor how far they can drive before their car breaks down. Hilarity Ensues.
• 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.