This morning's sitcom idea
Posted by David on Monday, December 12, 2005 at 8:08 AM.
Waking up to the unusual sound of seagulls suggested this idea:
A couple wakes up one morning to discover that global warming has happened calamitously overnight. While they slept, the polar ice caps melted, the ocean waters rose, and their house that was formerly well inland in a temperate environment is now semi-tropical oceanfront property.
Hilarity ensues.
I'm thinking "Northern Exposure" meets "Magnum, PI". The opening credits sequence could show the ice caps melting to some swinging Sinatra number, eventually morphing to ice in a cocktail glass.
Laura Zeigen, on Monday, December 12, 2005 at 9:27 AM:
Actually what this brings to my mind is "Northern Exposure" meets "Magnum, PI" meets "Gilligan's Island" meets "Lost". Hey! We could even through in some "Masterpiece Theatre" there just for good measure ("Last week when we left our heroes, they were valiantly trying to make it across the lagoon to string up the other line of coconuts to construct the cross-island communications network...").
Laura Zeigen, on Monday, December 12, 2005 at 9:28 AM:
I meant "throw in some" (not "through in some"). Ack! Just finished the school term and clearly my brain is still tired...