Life After ... Sitcoms

[jaF0]

Ever think about how to carry a Sitcom past the end we knew?


Imagine the war ending and the Heroes, Klink, Schultz, Burkhalter, Hochstedter and a few others all moving to the US. Hogan starts a flying school and air cargo operation with Burkhalter. LeBeau opens a Euro style a cafe' with Tiger as Manager and Concierge. Kinch opens a radio repair shop. Carter develops a new industry of building implosions. Schultz moves his toy factory and hires Klink as his #2 and overall lackey with Hochstedter as head of security.




(OK, so the MASH one didn't work out so well.)

 

[Jada59]

Ever think about how to carry a Sitcom past the end we knew?


Imagine the war ending and the Heroes, Klink, Schultz, Burkhalter, Hochstedter and a few others all moving to the US. Hogan starts a flying school and air cargo operation with Burkhalter. LeBeau opens a Euro style a cafe' with Tiger as Manager and Concierge. Kinch opens a radio repair shop. Carter develops a new industry of building implosions. Schultz moves his toy factory and hires Klink as his #2 and overall lackey with Hochstedter as head of security.




(OK, so the MASH one didn't work out so well.)

I think that's what Spin-Offs are.

 

[ericrodman101]

Pinky Tuscadero opens a bondage dungeon.

 

[Jada59]

Pinky Tuscadero opens a bondage dungeon.

Now I might actually start watching TV again to see that!

 

[ericrodman101]

Brady Bunch

This thread is actually a great idea. My problem is that all my imagined sitcom endings will involve the characters in lifetimes of alarmingly frequent, humiliating and degrading sex. I'm quite stimulated at the prospects for every member of the Brady Bunch as I type....

 

[jaF0]

My problem is that all my imagined sitcom endings will involve the characters in lifetimes of alarmingly frequent, humiliating and degrading sex.

Apparently you DO have a problem you should seek help for, but that's not the purpose of this (or any other) thread.

 

[ericrodman101]

Apparently you DO have a problem you should seek help for, but that's not the purpose of this (or any other) thread.

Man I'm just clickbaiting. I actually fantasise about Cindy Brady becoming a nun...

 

[Carnevil9]

I like the idea a lot, but I'm having trouble thinking of very many sitcoms that "ended." Generally, when a series ends its run, it is kind of implied that the character's lives will go on as before, unless we are specifically told otherwise. For example, I assume that Cliff and Norm are still sitting at the end of the bar guzzling beers, and that Alex and Elaine and Bobby and Tony are still driving cabs.

The ones that you know must "end" within the context of the show are basically the military ones, like the aforementioned Hogan's Heroes, or MASH, and the ones set in high school or college.

 

[jaF0]

True, but the Castaways got rescued and turned the island into a resort in some of the movies..

Suppose hard times and Urban Sprawl encroached on the Shady Rest and it turned into a Bordello with Drucker's General Store becoming a internet cafe' where Ebb starts a sports betting ring?

Or Alf fixes his ship, gets homesick, kidnaps the Tanners and takes them home with him?

 

[KarenS1975]

Schultz moves his toy factory and hires Klink as his #2 and overall lackey with Hochstedter as head of security

And NewKirk becomes a Television Gameshow host.

 

[Kantarii]

I don’t know about sitcoms, but tv/movie series like Breaking Bad or Hell on wheels would offer up some decent stuff. I loved Sons of Anarchy, but the spinoff Mayan M.C. holds no interest to me. The first two seasons of The Last Ship were awesome. I think it should have went a different route. There was another cool show called Nikita which had a great storyline, too.
Anyway, something could have been done better with Gillian’s Island, other than what they actually did.
Kant

 

[jaF0]

And NewKirk becomes a Television Gameshow host.

They played with that kind of thing in Married With Children when Jefferson was added to the case. Every once in a while somebody would toss a zinger about him having been a photographer on a cruise line (which Ted McGinley played on The Love Boat).