If it's a CSI-ish plot, I volunteer to be one of the witnesses/leads whose deviant lifestyle the investigators trivialize and wax moralistic about.
Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us
Saturday? You could feel indispensable.
'Dirty Girls'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 19, 2006 10:41:56 pm PST #7636 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2006 3:28:19 am PST #7637 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Now I'm just waiting for someone to do an assassination in a drive thru.
Chris Isaak beat you to this one in MARRIED TO THE MOB. Dressed as a clown.
Kristen - Jan 20, 2006 3:44:11 am PST #7638 of 10001
It doesn't count if it's not TV.
Betsy HP - Jan 20, 2006 5:11:09 am PST #7639 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I wanna be the evil computer genius. I've always aspired to becoming an evil genius.
Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2006 5:37:12 am PST #7640 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Betsy, don't be evil!
Kristen - Jan 20, 2006 6:39:17 am PST #7641 of 10001
Dude. It's set in 1966. The only way there's an evil computer genius is if there's a time machine.
ETA: And, no, before anyone asks, there isn't a time machine.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2006 6:41:03 am PST #7642 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Computers in 1966 were evil by default. There was no Apple.
Jessica - Jan 20, 2006 6:41:12 am PST #7643 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
ETA: And, no, before anyone asks, there isn't a time machine.
A true evil genius would have built a time machine.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 20, 2006 6:43:44 am PST #7644 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hey, by 1966 there can be evil geniuses who use armies of robots...
Kristen - Jan 20, 2006 6:51:58 am PST #7645 of 10001
You guys understand that the whole purpose of writing samples is to get jobs on shows that do not star Pamela Anderson, right?