We were on the show over twenty five times and the friendship we developed with Stacy London led to her getting us our own show. But it seems the handwriting was on the wall. Make over shows are played out. There were too many copies and they wouldn't let us go in a different direction with our show as I wanted to do. So now the network is focusing on Honey Boo Boo, Sister Wives and midgets.
I do want to thank Stacy for everything she has done for us. She will be fine as she just published a popular book and has started her "Style for Hire" service. Clinton is on "The Taste" everyday and is doing fine.
Life goes on. The reruns will last forever so we will get a pump up every time they are on so there is that. Nothing lasts forever.
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I still think that if the producers had played up the "Big Brooklyn Style" differently--just by playing up the disgruntled bard behind the scenes whom every husband whose wife watches the show could identify with--they could have had a new hit on their hands.
I am bummed about Big Brooklyn Style.
Any chance it can be reconsidered by network things?
I think the best gay friend with the rare clumber cumming to the store has HUGE potential.
Every Reality show seems to have a gay. Even Honey Boo Boo is a big fag hag and talks about her fruity "Uncle Poodle".
I don't think so Titus.
We are not what they wanted.
Of course I didn't get to do the show I wanted.
I should have just hired a midget and had him walk in and work in the store. What were they gonna do?
The entire crew was gay.
The problem was the producer was a gay guy who hated women.
We were sunk before we started.
I don't watch enough TV to even know what"s out there now. Is there any comedy which approaches intergenerational "All In The Family" dynamics? It seems to me that producers just take it for granted that half the population are bigots to be ignored. I'll bet "Girls" just rips on white males.
I want to see a show that celebrates Bunker mentality regarding today's issues.
I want to see a makeover show where some protected urban species gets dropped in Wyoming or the South and is forced to admit that people are nice and helpful. He/she has to confront his own fears about immediately being tied to a fencepost, lynched, or raped.
In what order?
Actually, a TV show set in North Dakota would be a better setting than Wyoming, preferably in an oil boom town.
The story could be center around a 20 something NYT reporter who goes west to write an exposee on a strip bar she heard about called "Guysers." She winds up meeting a guy and falling in love like in "The Horse Whisperer."
Anything to get urbans and rurals into fracking each other instead of fighting....
The location costs for filming in ND have to be dirt cheap.
And Sixty, you wouldn't be able to play arborealist because there are no trees in North Dakota.
Girls does not rip on white guys at all.
They love white guys.
They are much harder on themselves than the white guy.
The main character admits to disliking herself constantly. And the other Girls have a very difficult time finding work. I think it speaks to the 20 somethings very well. No opportunity, working at coffee shops and as hostesses, and not living "fabulously".
Sorry Troop, very sad. I think you could have your own show-nothing against the wife and fashion-but you are fucking hilarious. They would need to let you be you though.
I love All In The Family too. It was my father's fave. He laughed his ass of at Archie and Dingbat.
He loves Everyone Loves Raymond too, especially the dad and mom.
When I was like 3 Soap came on and I loved it immediately.
New Chirbit
I loved Three's Company too but when I watch it now it makes me cringe.
My roommate in college used to say "I'm going to put that in my movie" all the time. What he had in mind was a collage of humorous scenes, independent of each other. Sort of like Kentucky Fried Movie. He had a pocketful of great ideas that were outrageously funny, but nothing worth developing into an entire movie.
These reality shows seem to have done is to squeeze every drop of drama and interest out of an idea that could have been depleted in a few episodes. Perhaps what they need to do is run with a short term plan. Take a funny idea, like displacing city people in the country, and come up with variations off the main idea. Put Northerners in the south, hippies at the mall, and watch the fun.
Maybe we should come up with something ourselves and videotape a few episodes? Catholics at a holy roller meeting and vice versa. The gang here on a gay cruise. Trooper at a NASCAR driving school. We could have fun with it.
Titus, the rare clumber and Black BMW with Mass plates in the Mississippi Delta?
chick - I think there was a short story written by Stephen Crane at the turn of the century (1900) on the very subject you talk about, the perception by a sophisticate that the people who lived on the frontier were only semi-civilized and always on the edge of violence. Except he substituted a European, whose entire experience of America had been books about the wild west, for today's Manhattanite or Washingtonian. Full disclosure: I never read the story but it was dramatized on PBS of all places, this was at least thirty years ago, and though I can't remember any details the dramatization marvelously captured the utterly unfounded fear that paralyzes the Swede as he disembarks the train in some cowtown in Montana or Wyoming and then the comic misunderstandings that pile up as he misconstrues every look and remark directed at him by a hotel clerk or drinkers in a bar as some kind of prelude to a violent attack. Sure wish I could name the show, but a blank. A segment of Omnibus?
@ricpic: Stephen Crane wrote another short story called "The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky" which also dealt with the clash between the "civilized" east and the untamed west. Same general theme as "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence." Troop has read every Western known to man, right? Maybe he could suggest a pre-existing plot that could be reworked.
Gays in Mississippi?
Rednecks in NYC?
FemNazis in Topeka?
Troop in Hickory, North Carolina?
Has anyone watched Buck Wild on MTV-I did, horrible.
Has there ever been a tele show about North Dakota? And no not Fargo the movie.
I thought about writing a book called The 50 Shades of Gray Pubes-with diagrams and pics, natch.
Mel Gibson does Williamsburg?
Jodi Foster learns to love cock in Alaska?
I think that Hickory is about mid-way between Sixty and me. We could put Trooper there and let us race toward him in homemade vehicles. Sixty's could be powered by kudzu and mine by moonshine.
I still have a copy of Bride Comes to Yellow Sky in my college lit book. Good story.
Sad. On the upside you got to do something 99,999 out of 100,000 never get to do.
They should have used more Trooper.
Just sayin'.
Midgets is hate speech, although if you go to their farm is it okay to call it "The Midget Farm"?
I liked your show. I still have it TIVOed.
It was a good show, Troop. Your wife is a treasure.
CL,
The Simple Life had a similar premise. Paris & Nicole paradropped into some part of the world where people actually have to work for a living ermagahd.
It mostly demonstrated what awful human beings they were. Interstingly, on the 2-3 episodes I saw, Nicole came off as irredeemable, with absolutely no interest in what damage or hardship she caused others. Paris at least appeared to have a sense right-and-wrong and even some level of embarrassment (which she could usually override facilely).
I couldn't watch more than 2-3 shows because it's the sort of thing that would turn you into a Communist and start you ranting about the 1%.
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