View Full Version : Summing up a TV show in one sentence


TMC
05-25-2016, 03:15 AM
What great and well-loved TV shows would come off sounding incredibly cheesy if you tried summing it up in one sentence?

pkripper001
05-25-2016, 05:59 AM
Matt Groening,creator of The Simpsons,has said,''If Police Squad! had been made twenty years later,it would have
been a smash.

Babalu
05-26-2016, 08:08 PM
Widow and widower raise six alternating age boys and girls.

William Hogan Jr
05-26-2016, 08:49 PM
A family of Hillbillies strike oil and move to Beverly Hills.

Regulus
05-26-2016, 09:00 PM
Former astronaut survives a crash in an experimental aircraft, gets patched up with six megabucks of prosthetics and becomes a professional @$$-kicker for the US Government.

dakert
05-27-2016, 11:08 AM
A horse that speaks to no one except his owner

MrCleveland
05-27-2016, 12:12 PM
There's a Do-It-Yourself TV Show with a host who breaks stuff!

Bonniegirl
05-27-2016, 02:03 PM
A New York city attorney grows tired of the "rat race" of the city and moves with his lovely wife to a farm in a very rural town!

opus
05-27-2016, 05:39 PM
Short redhead yells a lot.

Bonniegirl
05-27-2016, 05:41 PM
Short redhead yells a lot.


I'm stumped on that one. I have no idea what show this could be? :D

Edison
05-28-2016, 12:13 AM
A starship..with..a captain..who talks..a lot..like this.

MrCleveland
05-28-2016, 10:26 AM
A newly widowed police chief has to deal with his teenage daughters and his deceased wife's best friend!

Coffeecup
05-28-2016, 11:30 AM
Some ways a waste of time. But I couldn't live without it. . Well I have "tv" in general. A better way would be. "A look into someone life" . Let's face it, we all think, It would be nice to live like the character.

Nordy
05-28-2016, 04:21 PM
A 16 year old girl on her own moves to a small Connecticut town and raises her daughter on love, coffee and lots of pop culture references.

DJM77
05-28-2016, 07:08 PM
A 16 year old girl on her own moves to a small Connecticut town and raises her daughter on love, coffee and lots of pop culture references.

What show is that?

opus
05-28-2016, 07:48 PM
Jennifer Aniston found David Schwimmer good looking??

Nordy
05-28-2016, 08:01 PM
What show is that?


Gilmore Girls :)

DJM77
05-28-2016, 09:05 PM
Gilmore Girls :)

Okay, I was kind of guessing that in the back of my mind. I've never seen it.

MrCleveland
05-31-2016, 01:20 PM
A former maid from New York City moves to an upstate school for girls.

bgva
06-01-2016, 01:43 PM
1. Two black orphans get adopted by rich white people.

2. A black orphan gets adopted by rich white people. :D

3. Manhattan police detective deals with quirky characters on both his squad and from off the street.

4. Charo and a bunch of celebrities have fun aboard a cruise ship.

5. A widowed neat freak calls upon his rocker brother-in-law and overgrown adult friend to help him raise three daughters. 5a. Eventually, the rocker brother-in-law gets married and has twins, all of whom continue to live under the same roof.

6. Adventures of a loser shoe salesman, his wife, dimwitted daughter and mischievous son.

opus
06-01-2016, 05:25 PM
6 castaways surprisingly don't kill the seventh.

MrCleveland
06-02-2016, 02:06 PM
A Chicago cop tries to handle his family...and a nerdy neighbor who's a klutz!