Sitcom's Dumbest Ideas

[Sal]

Believe it or not, before it hit the airwaves, "I Love Lucy" was considered a stupid idea for a sitcom. Really! Think about this: A normal yet scatterbrained American housewife marries a Cuban bandleader and constantly pesters him to let her into his act. Now if you were a network executive back in 1950 or so would you have bought this idea? Lucy and Desi didn't think so, so they travelled across the country---with Lucy more than 6 months pregnant---and performed vaudeville routines in front of packed houses to convince their bosses at CBS that it would work, otherwise the series never would have aired. Think about that the next time you hear another farfetched sitcom idea, because you really never know.

[TVgen62]

Originally posted by Sal
Believe it or not, before it hit the airwaves, "I Love Lucy" was considered a stupid idea for a sitcom...Think about that the next time you hear another farfetched sitcom idea, because you really never know.

You raise a good point, Sal. I guess the dumb ideas (in TV shows) are more noticeable when the execution lacking. Then it really should be executed! If a show, based on a dumb idea, is performed and written well, people may call it "quirky" or "off-beat". When that same show is, or becomes, predictable or otherwise loses favor, we call it "dumb".

(Sorry for abbreviating your post in my reply. I just needed its essence.)