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Well, this does not bode well. After the “success” of turning Shit My Dad Says into a terrible television show, Hollywood has now officially set its sights on the Internet as the killing fields for its next generation of hackneyed 95-percent water ideas. Today, the HollywoodReporter (via SideSplitter) is reporting that the blog AwkwardFamilyPhotos will be a show:
Contractually, ABC’s show will be based upon the “Awkward Family Photos” book, though the print version and year-old Web site were both created by Mike Bender and Doug Chernack and contain the same content — funny, embarrassing and, yes, awkward family portraits that have been submitted by readers.
How the concept will translate to series TV is still unclear.
NO KIDDING. Maybe the reason it is unclear is because it doesn’t? At least Shit My Dad Says had an actual, you know, centralized character around which one could construct one’s edifice of throwaway jokes and lazy truisms about family. This is just straight up DECONTEXTUALIZED photographs. Uncomfortable decontextualized photographs, to be sure, but decontextualized photographs nonetheless. Cool. Good show. “I liked the part where I didn’t know who the people were and they didn’t move or say anything. They looked so uncomfortable!” WE’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER DVR.
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This show’s going to end up having the stupidest setup. My guess, a couple of regular dudes work at a photo studio in a shopping mall, and they get the wackiest customers.
With Leonard Nimoy as their long-suffering boss?
i sincerely believe that that is a much better show idea than anything that they have actually considered.
Awkward Family Porn Photos?
I think that’s a niche market.
That girl in the center could very well be in porn.
I see the setup being more of an America’s Funniest Home Videos thing, where some hackneyed comic will narrate awkward commentary over the stills and then after, interview the families in the studio audience about why they are just so darned awkward!
Sounds like someone’s just bitter that BET still hasn’t greenlit the Videogum sitcom.
Shit My Great Great Grandpa Says
When (not if) that happens, I would like to portray myself. This could be my big break!
Bummer. I’m still trying to get my idea for 404 Page Not Found developed into a series for AMC and I can’t get them to return my calls.
I’m going to start a blog where I write scripts for a sitcom I want to have on the air. It should only take me 22 posts to sell a first season.
Look, I’m just glad they FINALLY came up with something to replace The Wire! It’s been a long couple of years.
A raw portrayal of what life on the blogs is really like.
It’s America. You gotta let him blog.
Where’s Wallace?
Down vote? This is a hard week for me on Videogum!
You gotta keep the devil way down in the troll… sorry, it’s early.
Shows about akward family photos, how do they work?
To start, this guy is the host:
It’s all bells and whistles after that.
that’s huge. sorry.
(TWSS, i know.)
Did I show you my Halloween costume yet, Huck?
YEOWZERS
Spoiler alert: The majority of the photos submitted after season 1 will have been staged.
Well, with the internet closing down, these blogs have to go somewhere. Did you hear about the Broadway adaptation of “Fail Blog?”
I am really excited about the sitcom based on lookatthisfuckinghipster.com. I imagine that irony will ensue.
We’ll call it Gossip GIrl
You mean “Look at this #$%&ing Hipster”?
Important Things already got canceled
Not the TV show we need, but the one we deserve.
We are getting closer and closer to making Idiocracy a reality. Can’t wait to see Ass:The Movie.
I don’t suggest Googling that one, by the way.
Us monsters need to come up with an acronym for this Idiocracy phenomenon, because this joke, while used only when necessary, comes up way too often. MLII? Any other ideas?
I like the way you think, sen_tankerbell.
Jackass 3D has a scene called Poocano in which an ass is painted like a mountain, exlax is taken, and yadda yadda yadda 2012.
WHAT? (I don’t know why I’m surprised, but…really??!?)
“Go away, I’m batin’!!”
i kinda don’t get what’s so weird about this photo. i thought all white people took pictures like that on their vacations. i thought that was kinda the point of loadin’ up the kiddos and headin’ down to the cement pond.
Coming next fall to CBS…”Google”, a hip new show about a couple of funky fresh dudes searching…for who they are.
GOOGLE:
“I’m feeling lucky”
I was going to pitch a show about shit my mom emails me, but it turns out Fox News already covers it.
i think best-case scenario, this will take the Antiques Road Show and have the weird people on and say “tell me a little bit about this photo…”
and then the host [probably Guy Fieri] just interrupts them by shouting “THIS IS AWKWARD!”
I thought this show already existed and everyone knew it was awful and it was called ‘the Middle’
awkwardfamilypromos.com
This could be great. Imagine a bunch of clips like “Living Photograph: Chris with Teacup.” No dialogue, no soundtrack, no narration. Just 3 or 4 minute “scenes” of people standing in awkward almost-but-not-quite-still poses.
Done. Air this 100 times and we’re talkin’ syndication, baby!
I bet every episode ends with an “Awkward Family Photo” and some sort of Modern Family like message about the lessons of being a family…. BARF.
That’s what I was thinking. It’s a couple of families, and they are so awkward plus hijinks! But they love each other and it’s heartwarming so give them some Emmys.
…but if this show gets made than we literally only have to wait seconds for lolcats, the musical!
Internet Meme: The Movie!!: Starring everyone and everything you hate from the last decade. (also Keyboard Cat)
You meant “deconSEXTualized.”