Friday, December 08, 2006

Muhammad The Bomber--Must See TV?

I read a parody recently that I had to expand and change.
For your consideration this is how pitching a brand new TV show involving a Muslim extremist.
Pitch Man--Okay, here's the pitch, I've got this great idea for a new TV show. It's a show about a terrorist bomber.
TV Executive--Does it have any dogs in the program?
Pitch Man--No, you see Muslims don't like dogs, they believe they are dirty...
TV Exec--No dogs, darn, I love dogs.
Pitch Man--We could put a couple of dogs in there if you want to.
TV Exec--Yeah, maybe a Rin Tin Tin, kind of dog, like the one at Petticoat Junction.
Pitch Man--Sure, that would work...anyway, these Muslims live in New York City, where they are taken care of by a Muslim grandma,
TV Exec--What's her name?
Pitch Man--Grandma Hamas...
TV Exec--Is that anything like humus? I love humus, especially those humus sandwiches, HEY SHELLEY, WHAT DO THEY CALL THOSE HUMUS SANDWICHES I LIKE?
Pitch Man--No that's humus, not Hamas, see it's kind of a play on words, Hamas is an extremist group that's into terrorism
Shelley-(faintly) falafel..
TV Exec--THAT'S IT, I love falafel sandwiches, they have the pita bread, the cucumber sauce and those crunchy little balls of falafel.
Pitch Man--Anyway, Grandma Hamas, loves to take care of her Muslim boys and is training them to be be suicide bombers.
TV Exec--Does the grandma make falafal sandwiches?
Pitch Man--She could, if that's what you want...
TV Exec--That would be great.
Pitch Man--Sure, if that's what you want, anyway the grandma is training the Muslim kids to be suicide bombers...
TV Exec--Does the dog like that humus stuff....SHELLEY--WHAT'S IT CALLED?
Shelley-FALAFAL...
TV Exec--Yeah, yeah...
Pitch Man--So the Muslims get a great meal from grandma...
TV Exec--Is it a falafal sandwich on peta bread?
Pitch Man--Yeah, and they get a full stomach...
TV Exec--Does the dog get any table scraps from the falafal sandwiches....I LOVE FALAFAL...
Pitch Man--Yeah, the dog is stuffed, and then the Muslim's strap bombs to themselves and go blow up a shopping mall, and airport and an oil refinery.
TV Exec--Sounds pretty good kid, let's get legal down here to draw up the contract for 18 weeks of programs and we got a deal.
Pitch Man--Wait, that won't work.
TV Exec--Why not, you got some teenage kids that are lonely, they have a grandma that takes care of them and a dog, they're ready to go blow themselves up for a cause bigger than themselves, what more could you want?
Pitch Man--That's the point, it's only a single episode.
TV Exec--Too bad kid, with your idea and my lack of any taste in programming, we coulda made a million dollars on the program alone, let alone the licensing rights for the falafal sandwich recipe. Well, anyway, you want to go to lunch? You like falafal?


Back to reality now. Is this perhaps the reason we aren't taking the terrorist threat seriously?

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