Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Idea #1

I would love to brainstorm and then write a comedy show. A comedy show of any kind - TV pilot, sketch or even a play. It is hard for me to do since I am not 'just a writer' (inside joke), but every now and then I have ideas. Ideas that can work. Tonight, I had an idea, that if brainstormed, could work.

I was at the mall today and since it was cold and rainy, I through on a hooded sweatshirt (or a hoody, as the kids call 'em these days). It was an 'Under Armour' sweatshirt, that had the 'X (u/a)' logo on it - nothing fancy.

As I walked in the mall to the store, I saw an Army recruiting station. Then, the idea popped in my head. Me, sitting down on a mall bench talking on my cell because I hate the "Walk and Talk." Right when I hang up, Mr. GI Joe comes up to me with saying, "Son, do you want time it is? It's time to protect this house. This house being the USA."

I don't know where I would go from there, but the episode would include an Army recruiter using the Under Armour slogan ("we must protect this house!") to pull in a new recruit, who he thinks is young because of the sweatshirt.

I have ideas from there - maybe the guy he recruits gives him BS for a while and screws with him, then gets detained for messing with the Armed Forces. Maybe that is the end of the episode where the guy gets mistaken for a youngster the whole day and that is the cherry on top. I don't know. But it will work. And Uncle Sam wants YOUR help!