.jpg) By Jeremy Azevedo
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Everybody remembers Knight Rider, Airwolf, Miami Vice, the A-Team, etc…. The 80s were a hotbed of wisecracking, ass-kicking, action adventure and vigilante justice, goddamnit! |
The only problem is that the way we remember those shows is about 100 times more awesome than they actually appear today. This is something we’ve learned by enduring countless remakes and films that piss on the memory of our beloved shows by trying to pass off some nobody as The Hoff or Ice Cube as B.A. Baracus. Aw, hell no.
But what about all of the great comedies? Networks and studios are foolishly over-looking a barrel full of profitable IPs only because today’s sitcoms are crap. Comedy has more of an evergreen quality to it than Cold War era action shows do. All they require is a little tweaking here and there to update it for a modern audience. Here are five I came up with just now, and I’m not even a big-shot studio producer or anything:
Cheers
A whole bunch of alcoholics sitting around gabbing about how shitty their lives are is great and all, but they don’t even really act drunk or anything. It isn’t realistic. Nowadays, it’d make more sense if they all hung out at one of those places that sells you weed because you told the doctor your back hurts or whatever. I mean, if Pineapple Express can find mainstream success, Why not “Cheers & Chong”? Obviously, Judd Apatow would produce this, and all his little stoner friends would be part of the deal.
