Monday, May 14, 2007

2013: The Year of the Reunion Show

TV Show Reunion Plots

2013 will be the year of the reunion show. I’m calling it right now. Here are a couple reunion shows I’d like to see…

Heroes

It’s 2013. Heroes are no longer looked at as mutants and the world is at peace. Then, a new super-breed of Heroes comes to the surface, their powers: sexy! The fembot-esque ladies roll around the world on a whirlwind, grindhouse style deathmarch filled with bikinis, broken noses and bloodshed. It all ends when Hiro teleports to the year 2013, acts like a loveable little Asian guy and saves the world or was it the cheerleader? Ah fuck it.

One Tree Hill

After a long run on the WB (and later the CW) the kids from One Tree left, went to college and have now magically all congregated back in town as young adults. This reunion show brings the gang back together for Peyton and Lucas’ wedding. Mouth, now in law school blows into town to find that Haley and Nathan’s daughter, now 4 years old has been abducted by the weirdo that was stalking Peyton. In a twist Brooke Davis is actually now Brooke Davis-Scott after she married Lucas and Nathan’s father Dan. Both Lucas and Nathan try to cope with the fact that they slept with their mother. Deb and Karen kept with their business and are now a legal couple in the eyes of North Carolina. Whitie is represented as a basketball that talks to Lucas.

How I Met Your Mother

In the reunion episode titled “How Your Mother Met the Pool Boy” a surly Bob Saget begins narration by belching and tossing a whiskey bottle at his kid who is clearly not listening. The story begins with Ted and his wife (name being withheld until appropriate time) moving into their new house, two babies in tow. Marshall and Lilly show up with a housewarming present that involves heavy drinking since they’ve been married for 6 years and have discovered the peace and serenity found only at the bottom of a tequila bottle. Loveable Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) makes a short appearance (at this time his billing rate will be $598,000 per “suit up” and with CBS near bankrupt in the year 2013 they have to watch the purse strings. The episode concludes with the introduction of their step mother, you guessed it, Robin Sherbatzky. The episode ends with a quasi-gay line from Barney to the pool boy. The line trails, but I think it’s “jimmy suit up Pablo…” weird.

1 comment:

B said...

Other reunion shows worth considering:

Dougie Houser, MD.
After moving out of his parent house and finding a life of his own in the city, Dougie (NPH) spent about ten years getting published in the medical journals, nearly curing cancer, and nailing the orderlies.

He eventually got board, traveled to Nicaragua to study the anti-carcinogens ejaculated by a native beetle. However, after 5 long years in the jungle and a nasty bout with the Clap, Dogie eventually got hooked on thin white lines and cheep hookers. Enter present time in the reunion show.

Dogie moves to New York to salvage his medical practice. Still fighting a nasty coke and prostitute addiction, he takes up residence at a third-rate clinic.

Known for his daily antics, dirty mouth and total disregard for his patients, "Dogie Houser, MD, VD, and OBGYN" will surely get the critics raving!

Bevis and Butthead
Do I need to say anything else?

Moonlighting
Bruce Willis is about seventy, five-times divorced, paying alimony to the mother of his 18 children (there's actually 19, but his character refuses to acknowledge a child birthed from a drunken night in a parking lot). There's not a lot of crime solving here, but Bruce tends to shoot a lot of people, which gets good ratings with the 13-17 demographic.