Just For Fun / Trope Title Shows

Here's a Just for Fun list of Tropes that would make a cool title for a TV Show (any kind), with a brief description of what the resulting show would be like.

To any writers or TV executives who may be reading this, you are free to help yourself to these pitches (or turn them into Show Within a Show examples in your projects) under these conditions:

1. No changing the titles (unless, of course, you really, REALLY want to).
2. No Screwing.

Compare Trope Names as Episode Titles, Trope Names for a Band, Trope Title Video Games, TV Tropes Superhero Team, TV Tropes Supervillain Team and TV Tropes Neutral Team.

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• 0% Approval Rating: A power-mad leader in a tiny incredibly obscure country annoys his citizens to no end with his crazy edicts. Somebody should depose him, but nobody's willing to replace him because they know their country sucks and that would mean having to rule it.
• 20% More Awesome: American sitcom about a bunch of Bronies.
• 24-Hour Party People: Comedy series about a bunch of ravers who show up in unwanted places to party, and nobody seems to be able to get rid of them.
• Abridged for Children: A host reads shorter, cleaner adaptations of popular literature to kids. The segments inside the book are 2D animated, but the rest is live-action.
• Absurd Phobia: A Reality TV series starring a renowned psychotherapist who specializes in the study and treatment of phobias. Every segment focuses on a patient who is suffering from an embarassing, exaggerated, uncommon, or otherwise unusual fear that is causing difficulties in their everyday life. During their sessions, they discuss the potential origins of their phobias and attempt varying methods of treatment depending on cause and symptoms. Gained some controversy due to advertisements giving the false impression that the premise was to make fun of people with weird fears, but has since become praised for helping to normalize discussion about mental illness.
• Academia Elitism: Parody series set in a snobby, upper-class college: the Academia Elitism. All the classes simply involve bragging about how you got into such a good school.
• Academy of Evil: Up-and-coming supervillains have to go to school to learn how to be evil.
• Acme Products: A parody of How It's Made set in the world of Looney Tunes, illustrating how the titular improbable products are made. Narrated by Bugs Bunny, with other Looney Tunes characters playing the part of production line workers (with all the Amusing Injuries and resigned frustration on their part that implies).
• Acting Out a Daydream: Inspirational film with a "dreams come true" message.
• Action Dad: He's just a normal dude raising his two kids alone, but when the kids get taken away, he must become an action hero to get them back.
• Action Dress Rip: Rip Parker, a somewhat peculiar(but very very competent) superspy— and transvestite— in his never-ending struggle to save the world from the evil forces of S.N.E.E.R. while doing his damnedest to develop a pinafore that can survive his being blown out of a six-floor plate glass window... again.
• Action Girl: She is a superpowered girl that is a Teen Superspy. Can she survive in High School?
• Action Horror: A group of action-survivors try to live through an apocalypse where 80% of the population have snapped and turned into Slashers, animals are mutating into rabid monsters and monsters that have existed since before the apocalypse (vampires, werewolves, products of mad science) have come out of hiding. The show is famous for its dark sense of humor and its Gorn, a heavy dissonance compare to the dark as hell premise.
• Action Mom: Comedy cartoon, where a woman juggles being a superhero with being a mom.
• Action Bomb: A superhero cartoon about a talking bomb. Not very successful.
• Actually, That's My Assistant: Comedy show about a workplace assistant who does everyone's work and is arguably the most qualified one there, and his attempts to get recognition.
• Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: A talk show of the openly hostile variety.
  • Karl Marx Hates Your Guts: The left-wing equivalent.
• Adorable Abomination: An Eldritch Abomination appears on our planet to destroy mankind, but ends up taking on the form of a naive young woman who is unsure of what it is like to be a human. By the end, she has a boyfriend and a baby on the way.
• Adult Fear (now defunct): Horror anthology series about the fears of parents and guardians.
• Aerith and Bob: She's a half-elven soothsayer from the forests of Lothlórien. He's an Ambiguously Jewish insurance salesman from Wayne, New Jersey. They meet in an online chat room, arrange to meet in person and marry impetuously. Can they get over the culture shock and live Happily Ever After?
• Aesop Enforcer: The main cast struggles with a newcomer who keeps forcing events to have morals.
• Aesoptinum: a retelling of Aesop's fables, IN SPACE!
• The Afterafterlife: A man dies and winds up in Hell. He finds out that his wife who died in the same car crash as he did is not there in Hell with him, he escapes to Heaven through Purgatory and finds out that while his wife is dead, no one knows where she is. The plot thickens...
• After the End: A group of Disaster Scavengers search for-and (try to) profit from-Lost Technology from before a nuclear war. Hilarity Ensues. Similar to Desert Punk, but set in America. So, more or less "Fallout: The Animated Series."
  • Alternatively, a Life After People clone.
• Against the Grain: The arduous tale of one man's battle against the farming industry.
• Agony of the Feet: The main character's feet are cursed.
• Airplane Arms: Young boy Billy Bailey wakes up one morning and finds that his arms are now airplane wings, allowing him to take flight and see the world! Aimed at a young demographic.
• Alien Among Us: 8 people are put into the same group. One of them is an alien. They have to find out who it is.
• Alien Lunch: A Fear Factor style show where they start with odd delicacies such as bugs and worms, and move on to animal genitalia, and eventually, monkey brains.
  • Alternately, an alien cooking show.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Sitcom about a foul-mouthed couple and their obnoxious alien neighbours.
• Aliens of London: A sitcom about aliens living in London.
  • Aliens in Cardiff: Regional Spinoff where the Ensemble Dark Horse moves to Wales.
• Aliens Steal Cable: Aliens do a mixture of Mystery Science Theater 3000-style riffing and flat out Gag Dubs of horrible, flash in the pan cable shows. Manimal features as the sole Earthling cultural representative.
• All Amazons Want Hercules: A Harem Anime loosely based on Greek Mythology.
  • Alternatively, a Wonder Woman episode in which Diana is tasked with procuring a Lockheed C-130 “Hercules” cargo aircraft for her home island, and investigates government contract corruption.
• All-Ghouls School: Cartoon about a silly cast of fictional creepy creatures having ordinary adventures at school.
• All Men Are Perverts: A woman struggles with perverted male coworkers.
• All Trolls Are Different: A sitcom about ethnic minority trolls (The mythical creatures, not the internet ones) living in the same neighborhood.
  • Alternately, a family of mythical trolls find themselves living next to a group of internet trolls. Hilarity Ensues.
• Allegory Adventure: True Art Is Incomprehensible anthology series. Each episode focuses on a story that subtly represents something going on in the world.
• Alphabet News Network: Kids All-CGI Cartoon about living letter blocks who manage a news station.
• Alternate Reality Game: A Five-Man Band of teenagers find a new PC game and put it in their computer. They begin playing, and then they find that the game actually transports them to different dimensions, and a new dimension is featured each week. Despite its popularity, it is cancelled Firefly-style, but also gathers a huge cult following and gets its own Big Damn Movie as well as several sequels.
• Amazon Chaser: An action-packed series about a CIA agent chasing after a Super Villain who is hiding out in the Amazon rain forest.
  • Alternatively, a man is sent on a quest to find an Amazonian princess.
  • A Survivor-esque Reality TV show set in the Amazonian rain forest.
• Amazonian Beauty: Two geeks try to flirt with a hot buff girl in this sitcom.
  • Alternatively, an Amazonian beauty pageant that's supposed be based on five criteria: talent, intelligence, inner beauty, physical beauty, and badassery. However, the judges usually end up choosing the winner or Miss Amazonian Beauty based on physical beauty alone.
  • Alternatively, a female bodybuilding contest which actively opposes the idea that femininity equals weakness or that muscular women are automatically ugly.
• Ambiguously Gay: A peppy film featuring a man's Coming-Out Story as he checks off all of his subconsciously "gay" behaviors.
• Ambiguously Human: A series where the underlying plot is the mystery of whether our protagonist has alien blood.
• Ambiguously Trained: A Buddy Cop Show about a cop being promoted into the Amateur Sleuth partner of a Hardboiled Detective that always gets his perp. Throughout the show, details about the Detective’s past are kept secret, with his partner doing everything he can to investigate the truth. The series ends before the truth is revealed, but he show implies that he was either a Highly-Trained Black-Ops War Veteran, Master Criminal who's identity was never revealed, a Nazi, an Immortal, an Alien or a Superhero from the Golden Age of Supers.
• Americans Hate Tingle: Wackiness ensues as a shampoo company tries to come up with a product Americans will buy.
• Am I Right?: A Game Show where contestants don't know their score until the very end, leaving them guessing their standing as they solve the questions.
• Amphibious Automobile: A family of frogs take their Cool Car on the road! Animated kids movie.
• Amusement Park of Doom: Documentary about Action Park.
• Androids and Detectives: A team of pro detectives faces off against some hyper-intelligent robots to see who can solve crimes faster.
• Angels, Devils and Squid: The angels want to stop the demons from taking over the world. The demons hate the angels for spoiling their fun. Can they put aside their differences when Cthulhu awakens?
• Animals Hate Him: A man seeks to find out why animals seem to hate his guts and if he can change their minds.
• Animal Wrongs Group: A documentary on PETA.
  • A show about Funny Animal terrorists, like Urban Vermin.
• Anti-Sue: Mad Scientist and Super Hero Sue Smith attempts to make a clone of herself. So she can pull off an Identity Impersonator, instead ends up with not only a clone but her very own evil opposite. It has very well rounded 3-dimensional characters and is considered a Cult Classic because of it. However, much like Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue", people still like to make fun of the name.
• Anyone Remember Pogs?: A VH1 series that acts as a Self-Parody of their C-list celebrity shows and I Love the Exties specials from the 2000s. A group of aspiring comedians looking for their big break and washed-up celebrities in desperate need of a paycheck attempt to make snarky comments about stuff from prior decades, the key word being "attempt". In an installment that covered the 2000s, they actually got meta and covered the I Love the... specials.
• Apocalypse Anarchy: A sitcom taking place After the End starring a family who were on vacation in Thailand during the apocalypse living in a nearly empty Arkansas. The family lives with their pet Cat Girl, who was mutated from their pet cat and has a Verbal Tic of saying "Nya" almost every sentence a la Japanese neko girls, and a Lovecraftian demon voiced by John Cleese.
• Apocalypse How: A documentary about weapons of mass destruction.
  • Alternatively, a TV show on the Discovery Channel about end of the world scenarios that slowly reveals itself to be a parody as the more insane ones are discussed.
• Apocalypse Not: A documentary on Harold Camping's May 2011 rapture prediction and the effect of the aftermath on his followers.
  • Alternatively, a drama about the Mayan doomsday prediction (or the discovery of an ancient prophecy "foretelling" the end of the world) and the chaos that ensues... only for nothing to happen.
  • Alternatively (again), a Work Com set in New York City (filmed in California) about the sons of Jesus Christ and Satan working in a undisclosed location to plan the fight between Good and Evil in Armageddeon. Hilarity Ensues as things such as one of the Four Horsemen calling in sick and God holding a debate with an atheist (of whom He kills afterwards) proceed to happen.
• Apocalypse Wow: An End Of The World show, similar to Aftermath.
  • Alternatively, a spoof of Life After People from the producers of Childrens Hospital and NTSF:SD:SUV::.
• Appropriate Animal Attire: Animated sitcom about a nudist colony in a World of Funny Animals.
• Armed with Canon: A historical drama set during the Crusades. A small band of soldiers struggle to reconcile their Christianity with the horrors of war being committed in the name of their God.
  • A fanfiction where the canon characters put aside their differences to either begin a merciless crusade to slay every Original Character that has entered their 'verse, or (if it's a Mad Science setting) build a giant can(n)on which will revert their world to a canon-only version, while a group of sympathetic Original Characters try to escape or stop them. Was written as a Troll Fic by the writer just to see who would take it seriously.
  • A web show where geeks tear apart disliked sequels and spin-offs of popular media and point out parts that don't fit with the canon of the original story.
• Argentina Is Nazi-Land: A sitcom taking place in Argentina (but is shot in Toronto) following the shenanigans of an elderly Adolf Hitler and his Argentinian wife. Most known for the show's most famous line "Buenas noches, mein Fuhrer!". Cancelled after one season.
• Ascended Extra: An extra on a TV show longs to become a major character and tries every episode to make their way to the top.
• Ascended House Rules: Suburban housewife Mrs. Miller just can't seem to get her bratty, disrespectful kids under control. But when she gets elected mayor, now everyone in the county has to eat their vegetables and clean their rooms!
• Asian Cleaver Fever: A Japanese Game-Show/Cooking Show where contestants from various sushi restaurants compete to create the perfect dish. The title itself is a mistranslation of its actual Japanese title, something weebs canceled it over in the States.
• Asmodeus: A Mockumentary documenting a day in the life of Asmodeus, Demon-Prince of Lust, as he grows older and starts suffering from age-related performance issues and a midlife crisis.
• Athletically Challenged: A Work Com about America's most inept baseball team and their idiot management.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: An Affectionate Parody of monster movies. Its sequel is Giant Space Flea from Nowhere.
• A-Team Montage: A cable access show featuring nothing but Fan Vids devoted to The A-Team. Becomes the highest-rated cable access show ever in its local area.
  • Alternatively, a show where teams have to build working assault vehicles and rigs out of parts they find lying around.
• Author Appeal: Writers try to defend their work to a hostile crowd of fans. Those Running the Asylum don't go on there anymore after a couple were beaten up.
• Auto-Kitchen: A man hates his cooking job, and hires a robot duplicate to work for him instead. It turns out to be better than he could ever dream... but eventually automates the entire kitchen, putting his co-workers out of their jobs.
• Awful British Sex Comedy: Early-season Seinfeld with ordinary characters in their early 20s, having as much sex as average people in real life. Produced in the UK on a comparatively small budget.
  • Alternatively, an intentionally So Bad, It's Good parody of Sex Comedies.
  • Alternatively, a TV stand up special where most of the jokes are about awful sex, self-deprecating humor about Great Britain, or both.
• The Baby of the Bunch: A show about a bunch of people raising a baby, and they've not a clue how. The baby is smarter than they think, and has detailed internal monologues.
• Baby's First Words: A sitcom about a Brainy Baby who can speak in full sentences.
• Baby Planet: A Preschool Show about an alien daycare center and all of the wacky adventures its attendants go on.
• Babysitter's Nightmare: Supernanny clone.
• Backfire on the Witness Stand: Comedy film about an inept lawyer who is desperate to prolong a trial by continually calling in witnesses: ranging from his parents, his pets, and even people he doesn't know.
• Back to School: A Reality TV show where 20 high school drop-outs compete for a single degree. Remembered for its Elimination Catchphrase, "I'm sorry, You Fail Biology Forever".
  • Alternately, a reality show in which adults of various ages return to high school and live as present-day teenagers do. Basically, a concept flip of the British reality show That'll Teach 'Em.
• Badass Preacher: The first self-parody flick from Pure Flix, wherein a Dolemite-esque pastor seeks to rid his church of fundamentalists and extremists via a "holy army" of martial artists. Was controversial with both sides of the aisle, but it later gained fame as a midnight movie.
• Bad Boss: A Reality TV parody, specifically of The Apprentice, where the contestants believe themselves to be in a simple clone show. The Boss, who is always shown as a silhouette, sets them ludicrously impossible tasks every week. Cancelled after the first season when the 'winner' sued the TV company that made it.
  • But probably would have been cancelled anyway, unless the contestants were told the title was something other than Bad Boss.
• Bad Date: Reality show about some of the worst dates people have been on, and how they got out of them.
• Badly Battered Babysitter: A drama regarding stressed out members of Child Services and other public servants that work with children.
  • Alternatively, a sitcom or cartoon show about a cranky babysitter having to watch the children of a mad scientist and other villains; she has to try to keep them under control while also protecting them from vigilant "heroes" who Would Hurt a Child.
• Bad Humor Truck: A reality show on the Food Network about ice cream truck drivers in Toronto. The ice cream men include a winner of The Next Food Network Star from Toronto, a middle-aged man also from Toronto, a really hot chick from Ottawa, a Fez-esque Indian immigrant from Dharamshala, a Quebecois independence activist from Montreal, a Haitian-Canadian from London, a Stratford Festival actor from Hamilton, a retired school bus driver from Thunder Bay, an American expat from South Carolina, and a on-parole-convict from Winnipeg. Later had a spinoff set in Los Angeles and a foreign remake set Oop North in the United Kingdom.
• Bald of Evil: a reality show where flowing-locked heroes are shaved and sent into difficult situations to test their moral fiber.
• Balkanize Me: What If? scenario about a state's people trying to see how many smaller locales it can divide into.
• Balls of Steel: After one Groin Attack too many, a man gets a metal implant to shield his private parts. Known for its incredibly crass humor.
• Bang, Bang, BANG: A dramedy about a bisexual male prostitute and a female assassin navigating the seedy underworld together. Despite the title, they are Platonic Life-Partners.
  • Alternatively, a "weapons exhibition" show copying (the late) R. Lee Ermey's "Mail Call" or Forgotten Weapons.
• Barbarian Hero: A Sword and Sorcery epic series about a band of warriors who are all candidates for the role of The Chosen One, set to unite all of their tribes against the Evil Overlord.
• The Bard on Board: A medieval bard finds himself on board a modern luxury cruise. Hilarity Ensues.
• Based on a Great Big Lie: Talk show. The host comes up with a story incorporating both real events that happened to them and false details, and the interviewee has to pick out which is which.
• Battle Couple: Two gladiators must balance out their work lives with their relationship. Known for its awesome fight scenes depicting the two of them working together to attack enemies.
• Batty Lip Burbling: A Young Children's animated series meant to help children with grammar. Stars a talking bat with a lisp that likes to end his sentences with "squeak squeak".
• Become a Real Boy: A family comedy about a boy who is bullied for being too girly, so he enlists the help of his father to teach him "manly" skills and hobbies. Notable for presenting the contrast between toxic (the bullies) and not toxic masculinity (the boy and his father bonding over fishing, hiking, and fixing cars).
• Becoming the Mask: Behind the scenes documentary about The Mask.
• Best Beer Ever: A British game show about holding your liquor. Japanese execs sue because they had a similar show planned, and claim elements were stolen.
• Beyond the Impossible: An action comedy series that is based around extremely over the top antics. Much Artistic License is involved due to supposedly impossible stunts. It requires a strong Suspension of Disbelief since the antics are absolutely unrealistic.
• Big Applesauce: Cooking show from a studio inside the Empire State Building.
• Big Damn Heroes: Superheroes work at a sandwich shop on their off time.
  • Alternatively, a show about a group of fledgling superheroes trying to make it big... while working in a sandwich shop?
  • Also the behind-the-scenes comedy that involves a group in charge of the logistics necessary for heroes to always be where they need to be Just in Time (so it's a double-meaning title, in a "The Real Heroes" sort of way).
• The Big Rotten Apple: A newlywed couple must deal with having to live in New York in the 1970's.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: A Kitchen Nightmares-esque show where a expert therapist travels across America helping very dysfunctional families in an effort to keep them from falling apart.
• Big Town Boredom: A girl lives in the largest city in America, but she longs for somewhere smaller. Trouble ensues as she tries to break free from her family to live in another town.
• Bishōnen Line: A reverse harem show about an innocent girl surrounded by beautiful men from various transportation companies.
• Bit Part Bad Guys: Saturday morning cartoon about a bunch of tiny brick-shaped villains. They can assemble themselves to form different shapes, relevant to whatever evil plot of the week they're doing.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: A medical drama set in the far future in a fledgling human colony on a distant planet. The human doctors in the emergency constantly receive alien patients from passing ships, nearby planets, and the planet's native communities, and they struggle each week as they try to figure out how to diagnose and treat such unusual beings.
  • A bit like the Sector General novels.
  • Or, like Futurama through the eyes of Zoidberg.
• Blade Enthusiast: A man shows off his collection of rare swords, giving detailed historical facts about where they came from and who used them.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: A Jeopardy!-style game show where contestants are given such a phrase, and must figure out what the original phrase was. Feature the title as one of the phrases of the first episode.
• Bloody Smile: 90s anime about a Yandere vampire.
• Body Sushi: A new sushi restaurant opens up, but horror ensues as it turns out that it's made from people.
• Bombers on the Screen: A period drama centered around the lives of U.S. Strategic Air Command personnel throughout The '70s and The '80s (filmed in Sydney). Received multiple accolades for its exceptionally accurate representation of the period and U.S. nuclear doctrine, as well as managing to make the plot legitimately tense despite the Foregone Conclusion of "the Cold War ends peacefully".
• Bonus Space: The discovery of an entirely new solar system sends astronomers into a frenzy.
• Boss Bonanza: A group of Corrupt Corporate Executives throw a party together.
• Boss Button: Sitcom about the life of a man known as Mr. Button (named for his many Berserk Buttons), who manages a Wacky Startup Workplace. He does his best to be reasonable and keep a good relationship with his employees, but even the slightest mishap will set him off.
• Both Sides Have a Point: A Point-and-Laugh Show wherein a debate between two people of differing political or ideological positions is overdubbed with a laugh track that grows louder each time one of them states a more strawman-like thing. Richard Dawkins once debated a creationist on the show, thinking it was a normal Christian vs. Atheist debate he'd "win". When he found out it had been overdubbed with a laugh track, he unsuccessfully sued the producers.
• A Boy and His X:
  • An alternatively amusing and harrowing look at the rave culture of The '90s.
  • A reality show about kids and the unusual pets that they have.
  • A Pokémon rip-off with a twist... Homaging one of the greatest examples of a story with this kind of title (thanks to Harlan Ellison) and thus setting it in a Fallout-esque post-apocalyptic wasteland.
• Brains Evil, Brawn Good: A comedy about a Knight Templar who assumes all smart people are evil and deals with them accordingly. Speaking which, anyone uses a word longer than 2 syllables is a witch and according to the main character, problems are best solved by brute force. Always.
  • Alternatively, AntiIntellectualist propaganda
• Brainy Pig: He's a pig on a farm. He's also a genius. His biggest problem he needs to solve is avoiding being cooked and eaten on Christmas.
• The Breakfast Plot: Kids comedy cartoon. A group of mice plot to steal their owners' breakfast, using a different plan in every episode. It never works out for them, though.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • A documentary on sieges.
  • A talk show for fledging writers.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: A cooking show where the contestants are presented with multiple ingredients picked more or less randomly and challenged to come up with a dish that incorporates all of them at once.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: A Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?-type game show. Each round, contestants are given four items; three are ordinary, and one is weird and doesn't fit. No lifelines.
  • Actually, there was a game show based on the premise of finding the odd one out of 4 things way before Millionaire. It's called Odd One Out.
• Breast Plate: Pile fruit cocktails, whip cream, and whatever else, on a lovely girl's bare breasts, and see which guy can eat fast enough to expose both her nipples. A show that's only officially aired in Sweden, and an American pastor was forced to retire when he was caught with recordings of this show. (Close to the idea of Body Sushi. From Japan, naturally.)
  • Alternatively, a show about the first openly female knights in a traditionally male-dominated kingdom who strive to prove that they can kick ass and still be feminine.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A successful attorney wakes up one morning to find that he has sprouted bunny ears. He then decides to start defending Mad Scientists as he searches for a cure.
• The Burlesque of Venus: A light-hearted Sitcom about a free-spirited woman that likes skinny-dipping and is an expert matchmaker.
• Busy Beaver: All-CGI Cartoon aimed at young children. Teaches general life lessons, such as how to get along with others and knowing when to make time for fun.
• But What About the Astronauts?: The apocalypse strikes Earth, and it's up to astronauts to unite and find a way to restore society.
• Cain and Abel: A Gender Flipped Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry between two brothers named Cain and Abel, known for its use of biblical references and Lampshade Hangings and was actually made by a theologian/troper.
• Call-Back: A Reality TV program which randomly pairs up Loser Guys with Alpha Bitches. The guys ask the women out, and the women all tell them to wait by the phone because they'll call "sometime before Saturday night" to let them know. In an inversion of the usual "endurance" contest, the first guy to realize he's being played, gain self-respect and do something more productive with his time, is the winner.
• Camera Abuse: Ever wonder just what cameramen go through to get that perfect shot? Watch as courageous film crews risk life and limb to bring the action to your living room. Reality TV, along the lines of Deadliest Catch or Dirty Jobs, but with cameramen, and focuses on the lack of respect or recognition as well as the discomfort and physical danger.
• Captain Space, Defender of Earth!: 80s superhero cartoon. Was widely successful when it was new, but is regarded as a Cliché Storm now.
• Capture Balls: We'd love to go into this one, but it wouldn't be appropriate.
• Cards of Power: Superhero show about a group of heroes who draw their strength from a deck of cards: each one gives them a new weapon or power to use.
• Career Not Taken: A Reality TV show where the hosts help a downtrodden volunteer live out a childhood dream.
• Cassette Futurism: A hard Science Fiction series about a crew of space-junkers who find themselves banished to a far-off part of the galaxy that The Federation, The Empire and MegaCorp were forced to abandon after a three-way galactic war unleashed something terrible, all three sides erasing all evidence of what had happened that caused it. The show is done in a Retraux futuristic style the evokes 80's pop culture; Magic Floppy Disk, giant bulky screens instead of holograms, Zeerust, Fantastic Plastic, Mutagenic Goo, a Synthwave soundtrack, '80s Hair, VHS tapes, cartridge-based 8-bit video games, aliens and Eldritch Abominations done in gooey practical effects.
• Catfight: Like a fancy cat show, except the cats compete in claw-to-claw combat. Mysteriously cancelled after one episode.
  • Alternatively, a sitcom about a "normal" girl being forced to move in with her Crazy Cat Lady friend, Odd Couple style arguements and shenanigans ensue.
  • Or, a sitcom taking place in Florida (but shot in Toronto) about an anthropomorphic cat girl who lives with a middle-class family and her shenanigans which are almost just scene-by-scene remakes of AlienMyth64's "Squidward's House in the House" videos.
• A Cat in a Gang of Dogs: A Fish out of Water comedy revolving around a student from a preppy private high school adjusting to life in an inner-city public school, where she stands out awkwardly among her friends. Hilarity Ensues.
• Cats Are Mean: A My Cat from Hell clone.
• Cats Are Superior: A show that televises cat shows.
• Cat Scare: A mischievous cat tries to scare all the humans in the neighborhood.
• Cattle Drive:
  • Farm animals form a racing team. They end up fighting crime.
  • A Rawhide modern-day clone.
• Caught Up in a Robbery: Our protagonist, an innocent man, finds himself on the scene of a robbery. While trying to stop it, he is mistaken for being the thief, and must clear his name.
• Cephalothorax: A Medical Drama about strange, unrealistic, but believable illnesses, where the main character is a doctor suffering from the titular birth defect, making his head part of his chest. And his patients are all weirder.
• Character Name and the Noun Phrase: A character quite literally titled Character Name must search for the Macguffin, the Noun Phrase.
• Chekhov's Gun: A western about a bloodthirsty outlaw who escaped from a Russian prison and fled to America. Almost everything that appears in the first few episodes turns out to be significant.
• Chekov's Gun: A Star Trek rerun block counterprogrammed against Chekhov's Gun.
• Children Are a Waste: Dystopia where children are made to work due to their lack of employment being seen as "wasteful".
• Children Do the Housework: A very biased talk show where the host believes Children Are a Waste. Every week, he brings on some unhappy parents who wish that their kids would help out more.
• CIA Evil, FBI Good: A Get Smart rip-off starring FBI agents having to clean up stupid CIA projects that are resurging nowadays, long after the Cold War is over, and are more dangerous (or embarrassing) that they would be useful in the current world state. The Big Bad (or at least most reccuring one) is a General Ripper CIA higher-up that has probably seen The Bourne Series way too many times.
• City of Adventure: An animated fantasy anthology series in which every episode tells the story of a different character in the eponymous city. Becomes an instant cult smash hit due to being a true love letter to classic fantasy adventure, but its failure to achieve a mainstream audience leads to an early cancellation before we're able to learn the true identity of the one recurring character - the enigmatic barkeep (whom everyone calls Barkeep) who seems to know far more than a humble tavern owner should.
• The City vs. the Country: A reality show where they take 5 music artists who haven't had success in quite a while or became one/two-hit wonders, make them record covers of country songs and have the audience determine which will win a recording contract with a top Nashville label.
• Clear My Name: Drama movie. An Unlucky Everydude, upon learning that the world would be better if he never existed, tries to erase every trace of himself and everything he has done.
• Closer to Earth: drama about a retired jet pilot
• Cloneopoly: A city is run by clones who fight over ownership.
• Cloudcuckoolander - A documentary series about Devo, complete with a score by Mark Mothersbaugh. Wins 5 Emmys and a Teen Choice Award.
• Clueless Aesop: A Know-Nothing Know-It-All tries to learn a lesson from everything that happens to him.
• Colonel Badass: The TV prequel/Spinoff about Col. Hans Landa's exploits in Nazi-occupied France.
• Comedy Ghetto: The hilarious exploits of a group of poor people in a dirty slum.
• Commie Land: A satirical sitcom depicting the Soviet Union in the early 1980s (but is shot in 2010s Southern California). Many say it's even more hilarious than the Thembrians from TaleSpin.
• Companion Cube: The exploits of a little kid and his inanimate cube sidekick.
• The Compliance Game: A Sugary Malice parent uses disturbing-yet-wholesome techniques to get her children to behave. Mostly amounts to Lightmare Fuel.
• Complaining About Shows You Don't Like: Brought to you by Something Awful and featuring panelists Simon Cowell, Maddox (of The Best Page in the Universe) and John Solomon (of Your Webcomic Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad). Cancelled after the mid-2010s concluded.
• Continuity: A show about fiction, and one man's attempt to sort out the Continuity of all fiction ever written. Also, he's trying to stay sane. A shocking twist came in the second season when he realized the existence of the the fourth wall by recognizing that his theory can't work otherwise. Takes place in the Young Wizards sub universe.
• Conveniently Empty Building: Our host and a crack team of designers help relocate businesses that have lost their building due to fire, condemning, or foreclosure by taking a standard, empty (but structurally intact) building and designing it to the business's needs.
• Cooking the Live Meal: A web series where the host streams himself cooking meals. Viewers in the chat vote on ingredients that he has to use.
• Cooking Mechanics: An old auto repair garage is renovated into a short-order restaurant. Hilarity Ensues.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Game show in which contestants have to watch people undergoing fake tortures and choose which one to endure for themselves. Cancelled after the "iron maiden incident" in the second episode.
• Cool Car: A car-decorating competition.
• Cool Garage: Celebrities and other people showing off their rides. The first episode features Jay Leno.
• Cool Pet: A teenage boy realises his dog has superpowers and they go on to fight crime.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Japanese live-action sitcom about a straight couple in their late 30s, both with corporate jobs, constantly getting into trouble, only for the day to be saved by their neighbor, a Japanese male college student obsessed with American popular culture, known only as Cowboy Bebop.
• Crisis of Faith: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? clone where atheists attempt to answer ridiculously easy questions about religion. The "good" losers (who got all the questions right) are given a copy of a Richard Dawkins book, the "bad" losers (those who either deliberately or actually got most or all of the questions wrong) are forced to convert (or if they just de-converted, forced to re-convert). Some fans consider the "bad" losers being forced to convert to be the best part of the show. Controversial with both sides of the argument the show shines a light on, and the leader of a well-known atheist group was forced to step down after he appeared on the show. Appears on either the Game Show Network or a religious TV channel (TBN, Daystar, EWTN, etc.)
• Criminal Convention: A Reality TV series centered around the various contraband and illegal substances (weapons and drugs) commonly found on the Black Market.
• Crying After Sex: A Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy special by a loud and obnoxious American comedian.
• Crying Critters: A documentary about animal sounds.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus: A Christian Fantasy show, where the hero sees the gospels of Jesus after trying to steal a sacred statue from a temple. He then goes about converting everyone, human or otherwise.
  • Alternatively, a parody of a Christian Fantasy show about a staunch priest who gets transported into a Dungeons and Dragons type fantasy world as punishment after he persecutes a groups of kids playing a roleplaying game, and him trying to figure out how to get home in-between trying to convert people and dealing with the fact that there are a bunch of active gods in this world and none of them are his. Contrary to popular belief, the show's creator is a devout Lutheran with a positive attitude to Christianity, which turned off many atheist and humanist fans.
• Cure Your Gays: A fifties sitcom about a cynic who thinks everyone else should be as jaded as he. Hilarious in Hindsight due to Have a Gay Old Time.
  • Alternatively, a conservative Christian TV show seeking to find an actual cure for homosexuality, on a weekly basis. Extremely controversial outside its target demographic.
• Cute and Psycho: A nature show about animals which are cute, but dangerous.
• Cute Bruiser: That's the English name for it, anyway. It's a gag manga about a normal kid who finds out a girl is moving in next door. She's cute. She's smart. She has a thing for manga. She can...punch holes through reinforced steel??? Yes, wouldn't you know it, she's actually a superhero in disguise. She fights crime, giant monsters and the Vice Principal of the high school by night and as the author would have it, our poor protagonist is caught up in the craziness with no hope of escape.
• Cyber Ninja:
  • An early 2000s cartoon about a regular teenage kid who also happens to be an elusive and infamous hacker known only as the Cyber Ninja. He has balance his social life with hacking into Evil Corporations to save the day, all the while hiding his identity from his dad, the chief of police. Used excessive amounts of Hollywood Hacking and Cyber Space.
  • A retro-style Anime that essentially melds Naruto and Robocop. Hiro Sanada, ninjitsu student, is secretly kidnapped by Evil, Inc. and turned into a Nigh-Invulnerable cyborg with a variety of ninja-based integral weapons (rapid-fire shuriken launcher, laser katana, holographic projector, etc). Things start to go bad for them when Hiro breaks free and swears to bring them down.
• Cyborg: A sitcom about a man whose college roommate is a cyborg.
• Cycle Of Virtue: An Unlucky Everydude goes about town trying to help people, in hopes of kicking off other good deeds.
• Darker and Edgier: A Mystery Science Theater 3000-type show, spun off Recycled In Space. Basic premises to crappy tv shows turned into Film Noir dramas.
• Darkest Africa: Documentary about the goth scene in Cape Town.
• Darkest Hour: A psychological reality show where in 20 real people are unknowingly trapped in a large building. The electricity, internet and phone lines are cut-off from 9pm to 7am, all exits are locked from the outside, and one of them may be a serial killer. Tension between the contestants rises and suspicion mounts as the contestants slowly begin to disappear. The worst part? None of them know it's all just a show. Cancelled after the contestants sued the producers for emotional trauma and deception. The controversy promptly ruined the career of the host and the show's creator.
  • Alternatively an Are You Afraid of the Dark? clone/spin-off where all the stories are set or have their climax happen around midnight.
• Dark Reprise:
  • A fantasy novel series about a generic evil corrupting the modern world, reverting it to a past era, yet darker, to better suit the evil's tastes.
  • A mini-series spin-off of a highly-acclaimed fantasy anime, giving the villains A Day in the Limelight, because the writers couldn't find a good way to shove these episodes inside of the regular arcs without turning them into unwanted Filler.
• Dark Is Not Evil: A documentary by metalheads for metalheads with a Stop Being Stereotypical moral.
• The Dead Guy Did It: Horror-Drama series about a homicide detective who, after solving a crime, sets out to murder the perpetrator — and soon begins to question his own morality.
• Deadly Graduation: A Horror-Drama series where, due to a clerical error, the US Government believes that a High School in Wisconsin is secretly a terrorist training camp and has the entire campus walled off and turned into an internment camp with below-standards living conditions. The series runs on Hanlon's Razor; there are laws that slow down the due process of the situation out of America's paranoia towards terrorism, there are parents who genuinely believe that their kids are terrorists with no proof because of their warped sense of patriotism, the man overseeing the whole operation — General Ripper — wants to send his men in to massacre all of them before it goes to trial but can't because of "Woke Washington", and the whole thing is one big metaphor for America's foreign policy, the Uvalde Mass-Shooting Incident and Law-Enforcement. Think Battle Royale in a post-Trump America.
• Death by Falling Over: Protagonist dies from a fall and the show follows his ghost, who tries to get the living people to stop seeing him as "the guy who died from falling over".
• Death of Personality: A documentary show about how much it sucks to have a Soul-Crushing Desk Job.
• Death Takes a Holiday: A dramedy about a doomsday prediction going sour when it is discovered the Grim Reaper has retired and nobody is able to find a replacement in time for everything to go according to the prediction. Think Salvation but if the giant space rock missed due to an error in God's algorithms.
• Death Is a Sad Thing: Adult animated sitcom about a chronically-depressed Grim Reaper.
• Death Is Cheap: A sitcom about the personification of Death having to deal with roommates who constantly complain about Death's miserliness or frugality, depending on who's describing Death's penny-pinching.
• Death Throws: A Cop Show about a PD trying to uncover a Fight Clubbing conspiracy.
• Death Wail: A Historical Fiction mini-series set during The Troubles where people begin to go missing because a banshee is kidnapping people on both sides of the conflict.
• Deck of Wild Cards: Anime about a group of superheroes whose powers switch at random.
• Deface of the Moon: Kids' comedy film about a Mad Scientist who wants to colonize the moon for himself, but his bumbling lackeys ruin his plans at every turn.
• Demoted Memories: Drama series. After a detective is fired from his job, he sadly resigns to erasing every trace of his old life and starting over.
• Depraved Kids' Show Host: A British biopic of Jimmy Savile. Ends with a psychiatrist analyzing the Doctor's dream.
• Diagnosis: Knowing Too Much: A doctor subtly murders his patients whom he suspects to be moles working for his enemy.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Cthulhu's very own boxing match show. Professional boxers get to fight him.
  • Alternatively, superheroes versus Lovecraftian horrors.
• Disappointing Promotion: A reality show interviewing white-collar workers who have been Kicked Upstairs into worse positions.
• Discount Lesbians: An independent romantic comedy about the owners of a retail store, who start to see each other as more than just business partners.
• Disguised in Drag: A Fundamentalist Christian is trying to prosecute the LGBT community by infiltrating various bars and clubs in-disguise as a trans woman to find evidence of illegal practices, only to become enamored with their lifestyle and becoming lovers with a recurring patron. Known for its use of biblical references and its mockery of fundies and vocal atheists (two of the side characters are No Celebrities Were Harmed versions of Kirk Cameron and Richard Dawkins respectively); it was created by a devout Christian who is also a theologian and troper. Won five Emmy Awards and was nominated for six more.
• Dish Dash: Who can wash and dry the dishes fastest? Short-lived Game Show that was criticized for basically focusing on watching people do chores.
• Don't Try This at Home: A game show where people perform various dangerous stunts... which weirdly enough, is a premise of a ITV game show that aired in the late 1990s, with that exact name. What a coincidence!
• Doom Troops: A Steampunk show set in the trenches of an alternate-reality World War I (but filmed in modern-day Vancouver), following a squad of Imperial German Super Soldiers, and their efforts to end a war that's gone on for fifty years. Comparable to Neon Genesis Evangelion in it's use of Deconstruction and Cerebus Syndrome. Needless to say, quite the Tear Jerker. Adapted into a Broadway Jukebox Musical, which was well-remembered for The Lancer's heartbreaking rendition of Sabaton's The Hammer Has Fallen.
• Dr. Fakenstein: Comedy movie, in which Frankenstein's great-great nephew has to live up to his legacy, but isn't that good at the whole "bringing monsters to life" thing.
• Drives Like Crazy: American spinoff of Canada's Worst Driver.
• Driving Stick: A Game Show filmed in real-time, with one contestant at a time and only one prize - a brand-new car equipped with a manual transmission. To win it, the contestant must drive it over an urban course to a predetermined finishing point, to driving-test standards, within the show's 22 minute runtime.
• Dude, Not Funny!:
  • Caustic Critic makes snarky comments of other comedians' failures. Cancelled after one season.
  • Talk show with a central gimmick of people analyzing how current media is full of insensitive jokes. Low ratings because many people believe that the hosts are running on Political Overcorrectness, but has a strong political presence.
  • A biopic of Seth Green. Begins and ends with a psychiatrist analyzing various skits from Robot Chicken, and features interviews with staff of the shows & films he's worked on and the creators of the material parodied in Robot Chicken.
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma: A hippie is mistaken for a doctor and asked to treat a comatose woman. He ends up joining an emergency ward dealing with comatose patients. This memey Cult Classic was cancelled after 15 episodes, but was later Uncancelled for Amazon Prime Video years later.
• Dying Town:
  • Docudrama about a small Midwest factory town (filmed in California) where the sole factory has shut its doors. Cancelled after one season, despite being critically acclaimed.
  • A mystery thriller set in a small Midwestern Town with a Dark Secret (filmed in Vancouver) that has seen a sudden uptick in unexplained deaths, prompting newly-arrived teen Tom Locke to find out what the heck's going on.
• Easy Evangelism: A DIY show for missionaries.
• Eagleland:
  • A man reads government press releases with a Laugh Track added.
  • Or, a documentary about eagles that live in America.
  • Michael Moore's newest talk show. The title is meant to be highly ironic.
  • A Perspective Flip of Warrior Cats, from the point of view of the eagles which share the mountains with the Tribe of Rushing Water.
  • A Sitcom about an American soldier who was discharged due to incompetence and moves to the quant little villa of Everytown, America (filmed in California). The soldier possesses an obsessive Patriotic Fervor and every episode has him expressing it in some way (hosting the best July 4th party for his neighborhood, becoming a tour guide at the local History Museum, protesting an Anti-Nationalistic work of art) with hilarious results.
• Eat That: Game Show where contestants are forced to eat gross things for money. Competes in the same timeslot as Alien Lunch.
• Eco-Terrorist: A documentary about the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
• Enemy In The School: A group of delinquient high school students are convinced that someone is cheating off their tests, and it's up to them to find out who.
• Escalating War: A Candid Camera Prank show similar to Fameless where people are pranked in situations usually involving celebrity guests. Cancelled after 6 episodes.
• E = MC Hammer: Educational program in the same vein as Bill Nye the Science Guy, but with added urban youth appeal.
• Eight Deadly Words: An execution method for the worst of the worst criminals involves a tightly guarded spell eight words long. However, someone has stolen the spell, and now they must find whoever it was. Whether it's a ripoff or spiritual successor to Death Note is hotly debated among fans and haters.
  • Alternatively, a drama series which focuses on a tightly guarded eight-word long spell that is a method for stopping doomsday from happening, no matter the Apocalypse How class/doomsday scenario. However, in the midst of a growing Zombie Apocalypse, someone has stolen the spell, and a team of U.S. secret agents go Walking the Earth (despite the entire series being filmed in Vancouver) trying to find it. They fight crime and slay zombies on the way as well. The finale ends with them finding the spell and deciding to team up with the person who stole it and various others, and they use it and The Power of Friendship combined to wipe the zombies clean off the face of Earth.
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000 rip-off. The central plot is that the Joel/Mike/Jonah rip-off is a Seinfeld-level apathetic jerk and a lot of his jokes revolve around how he doesn't cares about the dumb people on the screen (and everybody else. The Mads are trying to literally torture kindness into him).
• '80s Hair:
  • A battle of the best hair metal revival bands. Cancelled after one season by CBS, but was Uncancelled successfully for VH1 a year later.
  • A That '70s Show (well, would be more like That 80s Show, but it wasn't as good) clone that has most of its characters work at a barber shop during The '80s. Cancelled after one season despite critical acclaim, but was Uncancelled for Amazon Prime Video several years later.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: A magical girl anime about a refined Perky Goth girl named Lolita, who proudly fights evil with her magical Frills of Justice.
• The End of the World as We Know It: Society goes down the tubes (war, famine, cyanide-flavored ice cream) to the point somebody decides to destroy everything. Cancelled after 20 episodes and before he could have one last go at trying to annihilate everything and everyone because it was just that bad.
• Enforced Method Acting: A down-on-his-luck actor by the name of Jim Malcolm has just gotten a small acting gig, and his Deadpan Snarker roomie, Razz Foredhoeder soon finds out that Jim has a bizarre form of Dual-Personality Disorder, in which his secondary persona becomes whomever he is playing! Hilarity Ensues.
• Enslaved Elves: A dark fantasy about a race of elves enslaved by humans and the cruel, inhuman treatment they suffer, as well as their attempts at slave rebellions and slave liberation. Despite critical acclaim, ratings remain low due to Too Bleak, Stopped Caring.
• Epiphora: An anthology series where viewers can submit ideas for the plot of the episode, but it can only be a sentence long in 30 characters or less.
• Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: A sitcom about a top-notch wicket-keeper who is Omniglot.
• Every Car Is a Pinto: TV series about cars that are just now being seen as classics. It originally focused on cars from the 70s (hence the title) and went on to cover cars from the 80s, 90s and the 2000s. Was originally cancelled after it's original network, Speed, was converted to Fox Sports 1, but subsequently Discovery bought the rights to the show and had it uncancelled, and it moved to Velocity/MotorTrend where it has stayed since.
• Everybody Hates Hades: A British Work Com set in Hell where Hades, Greek God of the Underworld has to act as the assistant to Satan when the Greek Underworld gets bought out by him. Now Hades is forced to be someone else's underling and high-jinks ensue.
• Everybody Loves Zeus:
  • A High-Concept Fantastic Comedy where Zeus was banished from Olympus after a drunken bender and ends up becoming the honorary member of a Nuclear Family in Minnesota (filmed in California). He acts as the womanizing self-important jackass he was in the original myths and the family just wags their fingers and give him an "oh, you" followed by a laugh track. Cancelled after three seasons despite positive reviews from critics, but gained a cult following.
  • A romance film in which Zeus, King of the Gods, takes on human form and seduces a particular group of friends in the big city, all the while avoiding the notice of his wife Hera.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: A couple of televangelists try to find religious subtext in numerous pop culture franchises and use these revelations to convert people.
• Everyone Is Satan in Hell: A virtuous spirit is wrongly sent to Hell and must find a way to get to Heaven before becoming as bad as Satan.
• Everything Dances: Sweet Dreams Fuel kids' show. A Cheerful Child lives in a house where all of his furniture dances, and every episode ends with a big musical number.
• Everything's Better with Cows (now defunct): A sitcom about a neurotic city boy who inherits a large cow farm from his eccentric uncle.
• Everything's Better With Penguins (now defunct): An animated parody sitcom involving anthropomorphic rockhopper, yellow-eyed, and little blue penguins.
• Everything's Better with Spinning (now defunct): Who can be spun around in various ways the longest without getting sick?
  • Alternatively, a show about people whose job it is to "spin" stories for politicians and large companies to make them look good to the public.
• Every Pizza Is Pepperoni: A pizzeria is frustrated with their customers' repetitive orders of only pepperoni pizzas. The head of the restaurant adds a variety of weird ingredients to get them interested, while his employees do ridiculous marketing stunts.
• Evil Feels Good: A family of Villain Protagonists who run a Wretched Hive with Totalitarian Gangsterism are struggling to keep their foothold on their territory due to a mix of uncorrupt politicians being voted in (and their assassination attempts failing), benevolent vigilante gangs fighting back and the FBI closing in on them, Season 1 ending with their criminal empire in shambles and the family being on the run. Season 2 is about them trying to find a safe place out in the country, ending with them vowing to return to reclaim the throne, and Season 3 has them returning to find that the city is now in the grips of a gang war from the remnants of their Vestigial Empire.
• Evil Principal: Comedy show about a very strict principal who enforces ridiculous rules that his students have to follow.
• Evil Tower of Ominousness: A Dark Fantasy miniseries where various misfits from all-over try to scale the ruins of a long-dead Evil Overlord, the land supposedly cursed to drive any who walk there to go mad. Are the characters all being driven mad by this curse, or are they all trying to kill each other over Greed, paranoia, envy, survival, etc?
• Evil Weapon: Documentary on nazi superweapons.
• The Exact Center of Everything: Fantasy drama. A man and his wife ponder existence and the meaning of the universe. Their religion says that it's contained in the "exact center of everything"... but it may be closer than they think.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin - A hard-hitting documentary about what's really going on in the canning industry. The conclusions are dismissed by all but a die-hard fringe of vegans.
• Expo Speak: a news show about conference and convention management.
• Faceless Goons: Ever thought about all those rank-and-file bad guys who get gunned down by Action Heroes during badass fight scenes or chase sequences? Well, here's your chance to see a few of them, trying to earn their paycheck, showing Character Development... and then desperately attempting to survive as the heroes show up and it all inevitably goes to hell. Anyone Can Die is a given, and characters who manage to stick around for a whole season are considered extremely lucky. The original title for the series was "Mook Horror Show", but was rejected for being too cheesy for the intended mood.
• The Fair Folk: A reality show about the people who put on Renaissance Fairs.
  • Alien Fair Folk: Spin-off focusing on sci-fi conventions.
• Fairy Devilmother:
  • An anthology show adapting famous fairy tales, with an Evil Fairy acting as its narrator who tends to walk into the stories and ruin everybody's day.
  • Anime Black Comedy about how an Unfazed Everyman is saddled with a sadistic, unreliable fairy godmother who won't leave until she gives him one single good wish, but she is way too used to twisting them around for her own good.
• False Credit:
  • A man becomes famous for supposedly "acting" in an action film. This is despite the fact that he had no involvement in it. He tries to take advantage of his fame, but since he's never actually seen the movie he was apparently in, it's harder than it looks.
  • Con Man tries to buy as many things as he can with an expired credit card.
• Fan Dumb: Protagonist is the Only Sane Man in a group of Loony Fans.
• Fanservice: Exactly what you think it would be.
  • Alternatively, a show about different recipes and types of cheesecake.
  • Alternatively, a show made by fans for fans. Fans submit their Fan Films to the show. The show later got their own team of actors after some Fan-Servers asked to see live-action reenactments of Fan Fic Web Serial Novels.
  • Or, a show about a repair shop that people go to when they need their fans and air conditioners fixed.
• Fanfare: A Loony Fan of an Idol Singer also works as a bus driver.
• Fancy Camping: Reality TV stars use all kinds of modern gadgets to revolutionize the "roughing it" experience, defeating the point in the purpose.
• Fantastic Plastic: A documentary on the history and science of plastic, the kind of thing British public schools and old people would watch and no one else.
  • A Mockumentary about a Mad Scientist who uses his new Magic Plastic Surgery procedure to turn costumers into literally anything they want, including animals, robots, vehicles, plants and other things.
• Fantastic Racism: Clip Show commends audacious acts of discrimination. Cancelled after one episode, ended several careers.
  • Alternatively, an adult cartoon comedy about a fantasy world where the races - Elves, Dwarves, Humans, Orcs, etc. - all hate each other but have to trade and ally with each other in the face of a greater threat.
• Fast-Food Nation: Animated comedy about different types of living fast food living in a city. Protagonists include Benny Burger, Frieda Fry, and Tiffany Taco. Runs on Flintstone Theming.
• Fat and Proud: Show focusing on a group of big, beautiful men and woman.
• The Fat Episode: Talk show featuring overweight people who discuss body positivity.
• Femme Fatale - French action thriller show about a professional killer woman starring Isabelle Adjani as the killer.
• Finishing Move: A family of four ends embarks on a cross-country move... only for the evil moving company to have stolen their stuff. Now, they have to survive while fighting their way to the company's CEO.
• Fireworks of Love: A Hallmark Presentation. A lonely fireworks operator falls in love with a Nice Girl he meets at a Fourth of July festival.
  • Fireworks of Victory: The more comedy-oriented sequel; the two get married and raise their young kid, who turns out to be an unstoppable Instant Expert at everything he tries.
• Fights Crime With X: A documentary on the evolution of crime-fighting TV shows and the strange gimmicks they have based their characters around.
• Five-Man Band: They've been together since they were a teenage garage band, but it's ten years later, and their failure to break out of the local scene is slowly causing the band to fall apart. Can they make it big, or are they doomed to lose their dream, and the best friends they ever had along with it?
  • That, or a Monkees rip-off.
  • Or, Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
• Five-Second Rule: A man is determined to fix all of his city's corruption and bring it back to its former glory. His campaign is a hit... until it turns out that due to odd legal loopholes, he can only be president for five seconds. He must make a plan of action to do as much good as he can in that short timeframe.
• Five-Token Band: Spinoff of Glee. Fed up with Finn and Rachel always getting the solos and wanting to try an edgier sound, Kurt, Mercedes, Artie, and Tina quit show choir and form their own garage band along with a blind drummer. Didn't sell as many copies of the soundtrack(s) as the show it spun off from and was cancelled after 2 seasons.
• Flesh and Bombs: A surgeon and a demolitions expert. They fight crime.
• Flight: Documentary about the history of aviation.
• Flying Brick:
  • A Sitcom about a stone golem trying to make it as a pilot in the airline industry.
  • A superhero TV show. The twist: it's a Cape Punk and the protagonist, a Superman Pastiche, is practically homeless because people think his powerset is too cliche.
• Flyover Country: A documentary on either a premium cable network or a streaming service on the space between the Northeast Megalopolis, California and Chicago and how politicians (especially conservative ones), activists and the media use their distrust of "coastal elites" and feelings of being ignored for their own gain. Known for its Brutal Honesty and Both Sides Have a Point message, especially in regards to politics in the region, and relatively fair and sympathetic treatment of those in the stereotypical "flyover country" regions, it earned several Emmys.
• A Foggy Day in London Town: Victorian era crime drama.
• Follow Your Nose: Game Show where contestants are put in a room with a distinct odor, and have to figure out what they're smelling to win a cash prize.
• Foot Focus (now-defunct): A crime show about a brilliant investigator who is able to deduce minute details about people simply by looking at their feet. To make the plot work, the show is set in Hawaii and practically all the characters encountered wear sandals. After too many complaints about people being forced to have bare feet by fans, the detective becomes proficient in shoes as well, leading to a higher rating when the plots become more original.
• Foreigner for a Day: Reality show in which one person is granted diplomatic immunity for 24 hours.
• For the Evulz: An Animesque French cartoon about a teen general who gets all his plans for invasion by playing RTS and FPS games and defeats the Evil Empire... to promptly take the empty spot of emperor and run down the field the other way (and proceeds to switch sides whenever they win). The good and bad guys are dumbstruck and an under-the-table plan begins. Said to be a comedy, but political intrigue keeps the Code Geass fanbase watching and allows the first story arc to finish.
• For Science!: Dystopia where science is illegal, but our protagonist is a scientist anyway and must hide from suspicious law enforcement.
• The Four Chords of Pop: Top Gear (UK) for music fans, hosted by four music geeks (hence the title) covering every known music genre in existence, and then some. Known for having the Rock 'n Pop Board, where they place covers for albums the hosts think are the coolest, and Star with an Mini Strat, where celebrities see how well they can perform each Epic Riff from a set of famous rock songs with a standard Squier Mini Strat. Suprisingly, boy bands, girl groups, Nu Metal and Hair Metal are not among the acceptable targets (The Big Guy/Jeremy Clarkson equivalent lists Dr. Feelgood as among his favorite albums ever, and The Heart is a fan of the Backstreet Boys), and The Big Guy/Jeremy Clarkson equivalent shows a dislike of Nirvana and frequently interrupts the other presenters' praise for the band with objections, such as calling them a "glorified Neil Young cover band."
• Four-Point Scale: About a group of four hysterical women who are obsessively concerned with their weight.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Monsters from horror movies come to life and start wreaking havoc on a city.
• Fox News Liberal: MSNBC's latest political commentary program.
  • Fox News but with a Laugh Track added to the lines of their "liberal" news reporters.
  • A sitcom about a man who is forced to reconcile his liberal beliefs with his job.
• Franchise Zombie: A Zomedy Screwed by the Network Spinoff in the vein of The Book of Bunny Suicides, featuring "Those shows that clearly want to lay down and die, but The Network keeps ressurecting them 'cause they're so popular" as zombies wearing their show's costume. Cancelled after 3 episodes because it wasn't funny.
• Free Prize at the Bottom: Documentary exploring the history of cereal prizes and giveaways.
• Fridge Brilliance: An eccentric scientist builds machines out of old refrigerators.
• Fridge Horror:
  • A horror series about a boy who, upon opening his refrigerator, was exposed to a ray of pure energy that boosted his intelligence and caused him to realise how cruel the world he lives in is. Now, he has to live everyday life knowing all the horrors of it.
  • Darker and Edgier Monsters, Inc. copycat that had the gateway to the monsters' world changed to refrigerators because of Serial Numbers Filed Off legalese.
• Frills of Justice: Designers try dressing up cop uniforms. Only good for the laughs.
  • Alternatively, hard-boiled female cop has to join a team of younger anime Magical Girls to help fight monsters on a crime spree. Takes place in Japan (but is shot in Chinatown, Toronto).
  • In a World of Funny Animals, a police force composed of Lawful Stupid frill lizards attempts to combat crime. Hilarity Ensues.
• Frivolous Summoning: A man can summon all sorts of magical beings, such as elves and dwarves, to do his bidding. The thing is, he's not going on any sort of quest that would require such assistance, so he just has them do mundane tasks and household chores.
• Frog Ninja: Action cartoon aimed at young kids. Our hero, the Frog Ninja, fights off villains sent by the evil Frightening, Loathsome, Yucky (F.L.Y.) organization. Local Tagalong Kid, the Tadpole, sometimes joins as well. Has become a Cult Classic for its creative character designs and surprisingly good writing.
• From My Own Personal Garden: Gardening-cooking show combo. Very lighthearted and mainly watched by the elderly.
• From Russia with Nukes: A Bombers on the Screen spinoff shining the light on the other side of the Cold War and demonstrating the perspective of the USSR's Strategic Missile Troops and Air Defense Forces throughout The '70s and The '80s (also shot in Sydney). The Man Who Saved Humankind is considred to be the single most tense episode of both series, and pure Nightmare Fuel, for showing just how close the world came to complete nuclear obliteration.
• Fruit of the Loon: Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island ripoff.
• Fur and Loathing: Two roommates decide to get a dog, but the dog and one of the protagonists don't get along.
• Furries Are Easier to Draw: A mockumentary about abandoned, poorly drawn cartoon characters whose artists switched to drawing Funny Animals because they're harder to mess up. An "absurdist metaphor for Parental Abandonment".
• Furry Confusion: A debate game show with furries pitted against their critics. Losers (always the critics) get mocked for getting every fact wrong. One of the first contestants was a Something Awful user. Very few people from that website have been on since. Counterprogrammed against Complaining About Shows You Don't Like.
• Furry Denial: A sitcom about a strict stepmother who is kicked out of her own home by her abused children and transformed into an anthropomorphic cat (of the Furry Female Mane variety) who lives with a middle class family.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Animated show based on Girl Genius, but with anthropomorphic animals. Starring Gadget Hackwrench as Agatha. Goes on to get a Big Damn Movie.
  • How'd you get the Krosp character to work?
    • He is now a small human, and emperor of all humans, but since humans are so independent-minded, none of them actually listen to him.
• Gaia's Vengeance:
  • Game show in which five CEOs are thrown into the wilderness for three weeks. Whoever avoids injury wins. Appears either on MSNBC or a Ted Turner station.
  • A copycat of Apocalypse How revolving around "nature-gone-mad" events. Lasted less than the other series because 1) it had less scenarios to choose from and 2) it was a lot less even-handed in terms of Green Aesop talking heads.
• Gainax Ending: A western-animated adventure show about a optimistic young girl with psychokinesis and her pet lizard-bird, who is on a journey to stop the intergalactic Mad Scientist from destroying her home world, Gainax. Is an Affectionate Parody of the shonen fighting genre which is, fitting enough, filled with weird imagery and nonsensical characters. Produced by George Krstic and C.H. Greenblatt.
• Gayborhood: A wacky indie comedy where an Unlucky Everydude moves into a new apartment and realizes too late that he's in the local gay neighborhood. He eventually befriends a group of gay guys, falls for one of them, meets a sweet girl at his new job, and discovers his own bisexuality. The film becomes a Sundance darling.
• Gender Bender:
  • Reality show, where a guy or girl goes on five dates on five nights (nothing further), and wins a prize by correctly guessing who always was this gender and who wasn't. Some exec keeps it on, no matter how low the ratings, admitting it's just to piss off the gay community.
  • Alternatively, a show where people are transformed by make-up artists and have to live as the opposite sex for a day.
  • A Ranma ½ copycat aiming to cater to the "alternative lifestyle" crowd more. The main character is not only bisexual but also more okay with having become genderfluid.
• Genius Bruiser: Mixed Martial Arts action with William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Aristotle and other giants of history fighting it out in the cage for the gold.
  • Alternatively, a show hosted by intelligent martial artists who teach the audience fighting moves and the science and reasoning behind why they have to be or should be done a specific way and will sometimes debates about which technique is better.
  • Alternatively, a kid named Bruiser aspires to become a Mad Scientist or might just already be one.
• Genre Savvy: Unpopular YouTube series where the smug, obnoxious host inserts himself into the protagonist's position in popular movies, TV shows, anime and videogames, and explains how he would effortlessly solve every problem they face through Medium Awareness, Loophole Abuse and Taking a Third Option. After some initial success, presently languishes at only a couple of thousand views per episode.
• Geographic Flexibility: A hilarious game show that reveals just how inept many people are at finding locations (including their own country) on a map. Thrill to the sight of contestants searching for Chicago in Antarctica, or trying to find the edge of the world on a globe.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: A spoof comedy about a desperate burglar who enlists the help of a idiotic policeman to help him rob people's houses.
  • Alternatively, a show where people try to test security officers and devices by trying to smuggle in things they're not supposed to have. The team includes an inventor, a magician/sleight-of-hand expert, and a smooth-talking con artist.
• Ghibli Hills: Fan-made animated sitcom with characters from Hayao Miyazaki films living as neighbors in the suburbs. Pulled off YouTube after the second episode.
• Ghostapo:
  • A Nazisploitation movie from Italy about a Jewish community defends itself from an army of undead Nazis.
  • A World War II Weird World War drama in which Allied spies check out the supposedly supernatural research the Nazis are doing and destroying it whenever it seems to be making headway into creating an actual weapon. Praised (and occasionally ridiculed) by audiences as attempting to be "Wolfenstein: The Series" with a pinch of The X-Files, even when some of the crazier Wonderwaffen are based on actual research the Germans tried to make work.
• Ghost Butler: Lady Reverencia keeps finding her dishes cleaned and her pillows fluffed even after the tragic death of Jeeves... and things only get weirder from there.
• Ghost City: A fantasy/horror show about a city inhabited by spirits and how they torment the living who enter their domain.
• Ghost Town: People investigate towns for possible hauntings.
• Give Geeks a Chance: A Kitchen Nightmares-esque show where a expert convention organizer rescues failing comic cons and other fan conventions.
• God Is Dead: An Urban Fantasy Drama (a live-action American show in one universe, an Anime in another) where an object falls to Earth. That object is revealed to have been the corpse of God, having died from old age. Overcome with despair that their creator is gone, The Armies of Heaven and The Legions of Hell throw down their weapons and call off their Forever War, deciding to emigrate to Earth among humanity.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: A Comic Fantasy where the King suddenly dies and, thanks to his syphillis-riddled mind, he accidentally made his unwed daughter his heir, something everyone finds horrifying because it's the Dark Ages and women are considered subhuman.
• Godwin's Law: Alternate History where Adolf Hitler joins a law firm. It's only because of the combination of Refuge in Audacity and making him an extreme Butt-Monkey that the show lasts at all. Mel Brooks playing Hitler sure helps matters.domain.
• Good Old Robot: Parody of those schmaltzy 80s family shows, except the entire cast is robots.
• The Goggles Do Nothing: A magazine programme testing the effectiveness of safety equipment and investigating work safety scandals.
• Grand Theft Me: A man kidnaps himself for a large sum of money and tries to see how long he can keep up the ruse.
  • Alternatively, a reality contest show where people who are good at the game try to pull off fake heists and challenges based on Grand Theft Auto. Critics hated it and it was cancelled after one season.
• Greedy Televangelist: An It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia-style sitcom about a group of "friends" managing a megachurch. They try to franchise it with faith-healing tents, selling "holy artifacts" they make themselves, protest pride parades while one of them is secretly renting male prostitutes, spreading rumors about a local soup kitchen because their manager is running as a Democratic candidate, etc.
• Green Aesop: Aesop's Fables as retold by a Martian, in a Martian setting. Hilarity Ensues.
• Guy on Guy Is Hot: A Teen-Comedy Coming of Age Story Netflix-original about a nerdy introvert that makes fanart and fanfiction who conspires to hook up the two guys she likes with each other to make her sexual fantasies a reality.
• Hammerspace: Late night talkshow with MC Hammer as the host.
• Have You Seen My God?: One day, the Holy Trinity disappears from heaven and the apostles and archangels (who are next in the chain of command) send a ragtag team of misfit angels to find them, believing they'll never complete their mission. The misfit angels wander through alternate dimensions, large and confusing cities, and even go to Disney World as they go on their quest.
• Hated by All: An Affably Evil supervillain wants to make his mark on the world by being the most hated villain worldwide.
• Hate Dumb: A documentary series about members of the furry fandom, made to attack critics of the fandom. Cue Encyclopedia Dramatica closing down, unable to make fun of the series' attacks on them.
• Healing Boss: Drama series. An overworked employee hates his job and just wishes that his boss was dead. When his boss, through sheer happenstance, winds up in the hospital, the employee has to cope with his guilt and help his boss recover.
• Healing Shiv: A Prison Drama starring a doctor, on HBO. Has to deal with Prison politics, and mysterious diseases and injuries. Critically acclaimed. Contains at least one F-word per minute in an average episode.
• Heart Drive: 80s anime. A college-aged woman falls in love with a hot new student, who turns out to be a professional racer. She enlists in super hardcore races to win his respect.
• A Hell of a Time: Office comedy series set in Hell. Came out at the same time as Hazbin Hotel and was accused of being a ripoff.
• Helicopter Parents: Mom's a Boeing and Dad's a Sikorsky. You'll never be late to school again!
• Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": A surprisingly well written spy drama, with a three-dimensional protagonist, who stays competent, and only turns into The Ace several seasons in, when it's clear she has the experience to be this good. Fans still mock the title, though.
• Here There Were Dragons: Gritty HBO drama. Our stoic protagonist and his clan of badasses set out to explore the ruins of their civilization, which was ravaged by violent and destructive dragons.
• Heroic Mime: A show about a superhero who doesn't talk, and has the power to create any invisible object he can think of (usually boxes). He battles his arch nemesis, who has the ability to control the wind.
• Hidden Depths: Exploration show featuring deep dives to the bottom of the ocean.
• Hide Your Lesbians: A tacky reality show about trying to pass off gay women as straight. Those who don't think it's offensive are just unimpressed. It's canceled after just a few episodes.
  • Hide Your Lesbians: Girl moves away and gets into an all-female Love Dodecahedron. Hilarity Ensues when her intolerant family comes to stay.
  • Alternatively, a sympathetic nun who works at a Christian all-girls boarding school tries to help her students keep their love secret from the other students and workers.
• High-Class Cannibal: Meet Caledonia McCalabaza: she's got a taste for fine dining, a fancy dress for every day of the week, and she's chewing on your right arm. How will Caledonia hide her uncouth cravings and maintain an air of sophistication when she's taking her boyfriend out for dinner to the fanciest restaurant in town? Find out in High-Class Cannibal!
• The High Queen: A story about a royal who has to hide her un-queenly addiction to... marijuana!
• Hijacked by Jesus: Christ returns to Earth and commandeers a bus of unloved young misfits bound for summer camp, so that he may recruit them as his disciples. Hilarity Ensues, as well as Crowning Moments of Heartwarming.
• Hilarity Ensues: Soap Opera about a stand up comic... diagnosed with Hilarititus. Dramedy that quickly develops a Broken Base since nobody can determine which situations are deliberate parodies and which are not. Particularly the series finale, wherein the comic has a psychotic breakdown on stage and dies.
  • Alternatively, a show where a team sets up funny scenarios based on viewer suggestions and waits to see if hilarity does indeed ensue.
• Hilarity in Zoos: Reality show about the amusing antics of zoo animals.
• Hitler Ate Sugar:
  • Lighter and Softer take on Nazi Germany, yet a very ill-advised short that explains that Hitler started World War II just as an excuse to invade Poland to get a box of sugar cereal, after a selfish Pollock stole the last box in all of Germany, thus ruining his breakfast, and he decides to invade Poland for more. Surprisingly, no deaths or mentions of the Holocaust.
  • Yet another documentary about Hitler, his life, and how his horrors live on. Kinda heavy-handed in the "things we take for granted were developed by Germany during wartime" department, and definitely not in the "you should deem this fact interesting" way.
• Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: A group of time travelers come up with a different way of killing Hitler in every episode, but they always fail.
• Hive City: A Cyberpunk drama set in a Mega City run on class-disparity.
• Home Porn Movie: An Indie flick about a bunch of teens who want to make of movie are talked into writing, directing and filming a low-budget pornographic production in the garage, desperate to make sure their parents don't find out. Expect to see a lot of casual nudity, softcore sexual content, use of marijuana and teens being awkward because low-budget teen dramas that talk about sex are popular among artsy critics.
• Honorary Princess: A Edutainment cartoon show created by the same person as Mole Miner about a ordinary American girl who gets teleported to Ancient China and becomes a honorary princess for a village magistrate. She has adventures while teaching the audience elementary school-level knowledge about Chinese history and culture. Think of it as Dream Star Button Nose meets Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat. Was initially cancelled after one season due to pitifully low ratings but was Uncancelled after a Channel Hop from Playhouse Disney to PBS (which also resulted in the show switching it's voice recording location from Los Angeles to New York City, resulting in the entire cast getting replaced with 4Kids Entertainment dub regulars and various well-known NYC-based voice actors).
• Ho Yay:
  • A show about rap and hip hop. Never gets why people laugh at the name.
  • A chaste but attractive woman accidentally enters a brothel and, due to a series of noodle incidents, is mistaken for a prostitute. This causes her to discover her awakening sex drive, and also develop feelings for one of her coworkers. Starts out as being plot-driven with some nudity, but due to Executive Meddling is gradually derailed into pure Fanservice bordering on outright porn, with the protagonist becoming a Walking Shirtless Scene. This culminates in the last episode, which is entirely taken up by an orgy involving all the prostitutes and their clients. The second half of the show is banned in most countries due to excessive nudity.
  • Foe Romance Subtext: A dark comedy on Showtime where a superhero and a supervillain are forced to share an apartment. Over the course of the series, they discover that they could be more than just enemies.
• Holier Than Thou: Game Show in which religious fundamentalists compete to answer trivia questions about their holy books, deliver impromptu sermons, and convert atheists. Wild Mass Guessing is a Catholic-specific Spinoff in which Catholics have to answer questions regarding the most obscure points of their church's theology and practice.
• Hollywood Atheist: Atheist tries to become a Hollywood star.
• Hollywood Chameleon: Animated sitcom about an anthromorphic chameleon acting in Hollywood films.
• Honorary Princess: What happens when a fairytale princess decides to go to a university?
• Honor Before Reason: A group of Vikings, one of whom tries to play the voice of reason but the others never listen.
• Horrorscope: Horror drama series about astronomists who discover something strange in the galaxy.
• How Would You Like to Die?: An Affectionate Parody of Gorn movies.
  • Featuring Eli Roth as a recurring character.
• Human Jungle Gym: Horror B-Movie. A new playground is built, but it turns to have a dark secret...
• Humans Are Bastards: History channel show chronicling the lowest points of human brutality, torture, mistreatment, genocide, and other general bastard-ness. Each episode has at least one segment about the Nazis. It's the History Channel after all.
• Humans Are Cthulhu: An epidemic breaks out where people across the globe inexplicably start transforming into Eldritch Abominations. Can our heroes figure out how to stop it?
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: A Spin-Off show of Humans Are Monsters, which focuses on current events, psychology, and sociology as well as history and much like its precedessor has a example involving nazis at least Once per Episode. But unlike Humans Are Bastards, it also focuses on stupidity just as much as cruelty and has many Take Thats at the series Rousseau Was Right. It had started as an environmentalist show which usually talked about dangerous animals being hunted near extinction.
  • Alternatively, a show about monsters trying to survive against mobs of angry humans.
• I Hate You, Vampire Dad: A sitcom about a vampire single father and his rebellious teenaged son.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: The Darker and Edgier version of How I Met Your Mother.
  • Alternatively, a South Park episode in which Cartman shoots Starvin’ Marvin and brags about it.
• I Love the Dead: Horror movie marathon channel.
• ...In That Order: Comedy movie about a Perfectionist who's made a plan for his life since kindergarten, and is insistent on following it to a T.
• Incompetence, Inc.: A Work Com set in Boston (but shot in Montreal) about people who work at a family-run department store. Everybody is so incompetent the facts on how it's stays in business are highly classified by the U.S. government. Was a critical flop on ABC and lasted only 1 season of 45 episodes there but was popular enough in the United Kingdom to allow The BBC to fund three more seasons, all of which aired stateside on [adult swim] to great success.
• Incompetent Guard Animal: A wholesome Saturday-Morning Cartoon from The '90s about an overly nice (and incredibly naive) puppy living at a boot camp designed to train dogs into Angry Guard Dogs run by a Drill Sergeant Nasty. The Sergeant does everything he can to turn the puppy into a savage beast, but all attempts hilariously fall flat or end up redirected at him.
• Infernal Fugitives: A Work Com mockumentary series about a group of inept mercenaries hired by Satan to hunt down demons, Fallen Angels and other rogued damned that escaped Hell and are out causing havoc.
• The Inspector Is Coming: The health inspector is coming, and it's up for Mr. Hunker, the leader of the local Greasy Spoon, to whip his restaurant into shape or risk being shut down!
• Instant Wristwatch: Comedy series about the life of a clockmaker, who does everything very fast and doesn't tolerate his workers lollygagging.
• Invisible Aliens: The studio was a little short on funds.
• Invisible Main Character: A goofy Sitcom about a protagonist who is always invisible to both their peers and the audience, so their voice is the only evidence of their existence (other than the large amounts of junk food that go missing from the pantry).
• It's A Small Net After All: Prequel series to Silicon Valley set during the mid-to-late-1990s/early-2000s. The show's final season depicted the consequences and fallout from the dot-com bubble's bursting in great detail.
• It Just Bugs Me: Participants in this wacky show think they're entering a support group for their entomophobia... until they look inside the snack box! Cancelled after 5 episodes.
• It Tastes Like Feet: A game show where people have to eat cooked animal feet.
  • Alternatively, a really bad TLC show about sexual fetishes.
• It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans: A It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia spin-off where Cricket cleans up his act and moves to New Orleans, only to end up forming his own Gang.
• Jack of All Trades: A sitcom about a man named Jack who will trade absolutely anything for wealth. Hilarity Ensues as this leads to some complications.
• Jail Bake: Prison-themed sweets cooking competition.
• The Jailer: A Mockumentary series done in the style of COPS-style Reality Show set in a Police State where the cops arrest innocent people on bogus charges and nonsensical laws. Sometimes they are brought to a Kangaroo Court that evokes Kafka's The Trial, other times they play sadistic games with the people they're "arresting" before executing them on sight. As the show goes on, we get a peek into the Dystopian world the show is set in and we learn bits and pieces of how it became the way it is.
• Joker Immunity: TV Spinoff of The Dark Knight (ignoring Death During Production). A Torchwood-esque TV show that focuses on the Joker's antics in Gotham City (but filmed in Atlanta). The twist is that the Joker is immortal and dies in increasingly creative ways at least five times an episode and tries to hide it from his Five-Man Band of followers as they wreak havoc in Gotham. James Marsters makes appearances as Mr. J's ex-boyfriend, with whom he has a torrid affair behind Harley Quinn's back.
  • Joker Immunity: One million dollars. One simple rule.... You laugh, you lose. Do you have... Joker Immunity?
• Jungle Princess: A pulpy, late-90's Sword and Sorcery adventure series in the same vein as Hercules, Xena and Beastmaster about a scantily clad, leopard-skin clad Warrior Princess deep in the jungle who defends her adoptive tribe from all who threaten it, including Ape-Men, evil spirits and gods who seek to be freed of their imprisonment, Adventurer Archaeologists who seek to steal their sacred (and very dangerous) mystical artifacts for profit, etc.
• Kent Brockman News: A The Simpsons Spinoff that actually happens.
• Kensington Gore: Produced in the 2010s but stylized like a 1960s show. The titular protagonist is a high-class Serial Killer in an old London town, and must stay undercover lest the police find out.
• Kicked Out of Heaven: Adult comedy film. An angel is kicked out of heaven for his sins, and has to do good deeds on Earth to get back in.
• Killer Game Master: Tabletop RPG meets Jumanji.
• King of All Cosmos: The life of a former royal living in Cosmos, Minnesota (filmed in Rural Vancouver).
  • Alternatively (or expanding on that idea), a wacky sitcom about a quirky all-powerful alien king and his family moving to earth and their dealings with their ordinary next-door neighbors.
• Lampshade Hanging: A game show where contestants have to hang as many actual lampshades as possible before time runs out. The losers then have to explain why they didn't win.
• The Legions of Hell: An apocalyptic comedy about a band of demons sent to destroy earth and their wacky hijinks that occur as they try to complete their mission.
• Lesbian Vampires: Bravo series about... lesbian vampires. Gets criticized by the media as "exploitative fluff" but quickly spawns a series of related franchises.
  • Goes on HBO and breaks ratings records, as the plots boil down to "90% Girl on Girl Is Hot, 10% vampire stuff."
• Lethal Diagnosis: A medical drama, set in twelfth-century Europe, in which a team of physicians diagnoses every case, from ingrown toenails to cancer, as "imbalanced humours" and invariably prescribes massive doses of emetics, laxatives and leeches, or torturing out the demons.
• Let's See YOU Do Better!: Viewers who are convinced that a job is easy or talentless are made to do it themselves, often realizing the levels of effort and hard work involved.
• Like You Would Really Do It: For some reason, I'm thinking Japanese game show.
• Little Miss Badass: A six-year-old girl must battle monsters before it's time for her dinner without her parents knowing.
• Little Miss Con Artist: Deliberately Cute Child and Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist, Emma Timsonners is a Jerkass High-School Hustler. Depending on the Writer, she's either a Justified Criminal Jerk with a Heart of Gold, a Karmic Loveable Rogue, or a downplayed Villain Protagonist.
• Little Jimmy: A self-aware parody of those "wholesome family values" sitcoms.
• Lone Dalek: Doctor Who Spinoff starring one of the Humanized Daleks from The Evil of the Daleks.
• Loser Protagonist: A movie franchise detailing an unpopular dude nicknamed Loser.
  • Loser Buys Lunch: Loser is too incompetent to pay for his bill at a restaurant and gets hired to Work Off the Debt.
  • Loser Leaves Town: In the sequel movie, Loser has become so infamous for his bad service that he's run out of town. But what kind of place would want him as a resident?
  • Loser Gets the Girl: In his new hometown, Loser meets a girl who's perfect for him... except she doesn't like him back. Has a Surprisingly Happy Ending.
  • Loser Son of Loser Dad: They get married and have kids. However, Loser's son is ridiculed for his similarity to his dad, who has to shape up to save his son's reputation.
• Love Confessor: Two people are perfect for each other, and do have feelings, but never directly speak to each other. Everyone Can See It, and their mutual friend takes it upon himself to get them to confess.
• A Love to Dismember: A serial killer usually enters relations just for the sake of murdering the unlucky victim... until he falls in love for real.
• Lovecraft Country: Alternate History series where H. P. Lovecraft tries to balance running the USA with saving the world from Eldritch Abominations.
• Lumber Mill Mayhem: A Zany Cartoon about a group of silly people working in a lumber mill.
• MacGuffin: A PI who can solve any crime from just one clue. It's just a matter of finding that one clue.
• Machine Blood: A man has to cope with the horrifying discovery that he's part-cyborg.
• Macho Camp: A group of super tough men go through brutal training at a boot camp.
• Made of Indestructium: A reality-TV documentary on the incredible survival stories man's best-manufactured products.
• Made of Iron: A warrior deals with the emotional weight of becoming a cyborg after an accident.
• Made of Plasticine: A MythBusters-type show, where the hosts test out horror movie deaths. An HBO original, since Discovery Science Channel turned it down.
• Magic Pants: The misadventures of The Casanova and a Casanova Wannabe in Vegas (filmed in Atlanta), trying to pick up as many chicks as they can.
  • Alternatively, a show about a pair of magic pants that grant their owner's (a ragtag bunch of students) wishes - the catch is that the pants shrink a size for every wish you make in a 24 hour period so you have to Be Careful What You Wish For.
• The Magic Poker Equation: A small group of poker-playing witches and wizards travel the globe and use their magic to win poker games in the world's swankiest casinos.
  • The Magic Poker Equation: A camera crew follows Antonio Esfandiari (aka The Magician) around as he wins obscene amounts of money playing poker.
• Magical Girlfriend: 80s anime about a Tagalong Kid who falls in love with a Magical Girl and comes along on her adventures.
• Magical Girl Queenliness Test: It's a known fact that every up-and-coming magic girl must pass their test to be crowned an official Magical Girl. But how will our Tomboy hero pass?
• Magically Delicious: About a Supreme Chef who uses his magic to make his food taste good.
• Maid Corps: Think G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero but with Japanese maids.
• Mailman vs. Dog: A crafty mailman and a rabid dog duke it out in short animated skits. To keep the show interesting, both of them tend to win an equal amount of times.
• Make an Example of Them: A Sadist Teacher props his students up to get in trouble, leaving them in constant fear... until one of them decides to fight back and give the teacher a taste of his own medicine.
• Make Games, Not War: An analysis on Murder Simulators, talking about games that teach positive ideals and messages rather than just being pointlessly violent.
• Mandatory Line: Construction workers appeal for their transportation line to be installed to run everywhere.
• Mars Wants Chocolate: Comedy cartoon. A chocolate company seeks to expand their market, so they begin selling to aliens on other planets.
• Martial Arts and Crafts: He's a karate instructor looking to open his own dojo. She sells crocheted cats on Etsy and wants a brick-and-mortar shop. They share commercial space - will they come to share their lives?
• Masked Luchador: An action show about the exploits of a Lucha Libre wrestler who uses his strength and righteous heart to clean the mean-streets of Mexico City.
• Master Race: Who can win the grand circuit around the globe and prove themselves the best racer in the world?
• Math Rock: A sentient rock teaches kids about math. Not the most exciting program.
• May Contain Evil: Supervillains run a delivery company to infiltrate heroes' secret lairs.
• May–December Romance: Romantic Anthology series on the Hallmark Channel.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Christmas love story where the characters are mayflies.
• McNinja: Mc Donalds-sponsored Saturday-Morning Cartoon about a ninja who lurks in the shadows... of deliciousness! He's always trying to sneak McDonald's food into other peoples' meals.
• Meaningless Lives: A Follow the Leader style Soap Opera. Ridiculously depressing, featuring excessive Wangst and asinine plot twists. Unpopular with the Primary Demographic, has a cult following with College Students. They think its hilarious.
• Meat Versus Veggies: Educational short film about healthy eating, where some sentient meat fights against sentient veggies to see who should really belong on kids' plates. In the end, they come to realize that both are important for a balanced meal and form a truce.
• Medicinal Cuisine: When an amateur doctor is in danger of losing his license, he confides in his wife, who's a world-class chef. She comes up with the idea of Medicinal Cuisine, a food that can cure common illnesses. It strengthens their relationship, but could this "medicine" actually be a sham?
• Medieval Morons: A sitcom where 3 Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists from medieval times stumble upon a time machine and are sent to the present. Hilarity Ensues.
• Mega Manning: the Mega Man metaseries retooled as a half-hour TV cartoon. The show would spend time on major events in the series such as Dr. Wily betraying Dr. Light, Haruka Hikari giving birth to twins and the oldest one (Hub) dying, and finally, Sonia Strumm being blackmailed into working for the bad guys.
  • Alternately, a story about hitting Peyton Manning with a gigantor ray.
  • More alternately, Peyton Manning's weekly NFL talk show on HBO, featuring himself, always wearing turtlenecks and suit jackets, and a weekly alternating guest in wing chairs in front of a black wall.
• Mega Neko: A documentary on cats, including the various roles, and ways they have affected mankind throughout history.
  • Alternatively, a documentary specifically about the history of cats in Japan.
  • Alternatively, a wacky anime about a normal family and their size-changing cat who fights kaiju in Tokyo.
  • Alternatively, a Japanese version of Clifford the Big Red Dog, but with a giant cat instead of a dog.
• Meganekko: Spinoff of Action Girl, showing that a woman can wear glasses, look beautiful and still kick ass. Takes the "guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses" myth and destroys it.
• The Mentor: A comedic series about a man who makes his living mentoring epic heroes and superheroes and how it stunts his personal life. An instant cult classic.
  • Alternatively, a heartwarming series about a Big-Brothers-program volunteer who helps at-risk kids, most of whom don't make it easy for him, and the lessons he learns along the way. (But the other one sounds better.)
  • Or an old, very highbrow and dry BBC comedy about an obscure character from the Iliad, who has developed such an ego that he Spells His Name With A The. (Canceled after a few episodes.)
• Metroid Vania: An installment of both franchises in which Samus Aran inherits the Vampire Killer. Like Metroid Prime: Pinball but with the grapple beam taking centre stage.
• Middle-Management Mook: an ordinary guy is put in charge of... a low-level corporate office. What madness will occur next?
  • The Office.
• Mighty Whitey: A racist superhero show that folded after a single episode. Ruined the director and the regular cast.
  • Mighty Whitey: A cartoon on Adult Swim. 100 years ago, a small white alien who looks like Play-Yan-Kun visited Earth. Now, he came back, and discovered the Creativity Movement. Thinking that the religion was founded because they thought he was a deity after seeing "The White Man's Bible", he decides to become the title superhero to live up to his standard as a superhero. Of course, as it is in real life, the Creativity Movement is a white supremacist religion, and both his superhero identity and his human identity, Sam White, spread the idea that Creativity isn't racist. Hilarity Ensures.
• Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: A Sitcom about a kindergarten teacher who accidentally becomes a high school principal. Hilarity Ensues. It's the second-highest rated TV show on it's network.
• Missing White Woman Syndrome: A The Disaster Artist-esque miniseries about the making of Megan is Missing.
• Mistaken for Aliens: A mix-up at a maternity ward leads to some human babies and alien babies being switched.
• Mistaken for Dying: Black Comedy, where the world is convinced that our protagonist has a terminal illness and he tries to set everyone straight.
• Mistaken for Gay: Documentary about how assuming that a man must be gay because of his job, interests, etc is unhelpful to both straight and gay men.
• Mistaken for Murderer: Our protagonist is wrongly jailed after being framed for murder.
• Mistaken for Romance: Cringe Comedy about a pair of Platonic Life-Partners who everyone else assumes are a couple.
• Mister Muffykins: Subverted Kids' Show about a adorable golden retriever who turns out to be murderous.
• Moment of Awesome: An idealistic show about a boy named Awesome gets crowned king after a series of tests.
  • Alternatively, a show hosted by Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, and Nick Offerman where they interview martial artists, boxers, wrestlers, and heroic badasses after showing a bunch videos of badass stunts. Noteworthy examples include a woman saving her son by fighting off a bear with a zucchini and a roll of toliet paper and a guy wrestling a tiger with a knife in its mouth.
  • A Fear Factor-style stunt contest.
• Model Museum: Comedy-drama about a married couple: he's a humble museum tour guide, she's a world-famous model. When the museum's attendance dwindles, his wife takes it upon herself to save the business.
• Mole Miner: An Edutainment All-CGI Cartoon about an anthropomorphic mole miner who works the mines in a mineral-rich region alongside other moles and at the same time teaches the audience middle-school-level knowledge about geology, engineering, history of mining, and industrial uses of different minerals. Was canceled after one season in the US due to low ratings, but was subsequently revived with a Sequel Series made in Germany.
  • Alternatively, a series about counterintelligence operatives who “dig out” moles.
• Monster Closet: A Kid-Friendly Horror Anthology, with the Boogeyman as the Horror Host. He lives in an old closet with his neighbors; a monster under the bed, a monster under the stairs, a monster in the attic, a monster in the basement and a Genki Girl that actually owns the house.
• Monster Fangirl: Loony Fan the series.
  • Alternatively, a documentary about female fans of serial killers and other criminals real and fictional.
    • Alternatively, a documentary about girls who are fans of Monster High and other series/toylines where the characters are weird and different.
  • Alternatively, a horror/comedy show about a perky girl who becomes a fan of a monster after he unintentionally saves her from a human bad guy. He is forced to live with her when he gets injured and the monster hunters come after him, and then his monster "friends" show up and move in with them too. Hilarity Ensues.
• Monster of the Week: Nostalgic documentaries about famous fictional monsters, from Japanese rubber suits to B-movie legends.
• Moral Guardians: Animesque action/adventure series in which a Five-Token Band, all Christian fundamentalists armed with the power of faith, fight the forces of Satan, science, sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. Hilarity Ensues.
• More Dakka: Top Gear (UK) with guns. Known for having the Gun Board, where they place guns the hosts think are the coolest, and Star with an Average Gun, where celebrities see how accurate they can be with a bog standard pistol.
  • Alternatively, a long advertisement put together by the Tourist and Visitor Board of Dacca, the capital of Bangladesh.
• Most Common Superpower: Hero derives his powers from having no class. His weaknesses are culture and sophistication.
• Most Writers Are Adults: Child novelist struggles to be taken seriously.
• Most Writers Are Human: A show about a group of writers, but one of them might actually be an alien.
• The Mountains of Illinois: One day, mountains randomly appear in the middle of Illinois, and a Five-Man Band of plucky, quirky, but incredibly attractive people decide to investigate why it happened. Eventually, they fight crime in the mysterious mountains while they search for their cause.
  • Terry Bisson wrote a story about an "Uplift" where this happened.
• Multiple-Choice Past: Every character has conflicting backstories and the mystery is finding out which ones are true.
• Mummies at the Dinner Table: Defanged Horrors comedy film. In ancient Egypt, a family of mummies prepares for their boss coming over for dinner, and the Bumbling Dad wants his family to be on their best behavior.
• Mundane Made Awesome: A parody of YouTube reviewer shows which involves reviewing extremely normal things. All the critics are Caustic Critics with a Hair-Trigger Temper.
• Museum of the Strange and Unusual: An anthology series with stories based on an artifact or exhibit housed in the titular museum.
• Murderous Mannequin: An evil mannequin breaks free from a store display and tries to kill the employees.
• murder.com: The New '20s horror/sci-fi mashup film. Our protagonist, an anonymous hitman for hire, organizes a website as an easier way to get requests while not exposing their identity.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Members of a nightmarish street gang learn trigonometry.
• Murder Simulators: To vent their rage and frustration, teenage students as a specialized school are allowed to enter "Murder Simulators". Conflict ensues as one of our leads begins taking his violent impulses outside of school, while another suspects that they might really be killing people instead of just using simulators.
• Murder Water: B-Movie about a water monster who tries to kill people who swim in the public pool.
• My Beloved Smother: There's actually a movie based on this trope, titled, of course, Smother. Maybe a followup sitcom?
• My Car Hates Me: A comedy about a group of auto mechanics.
• My God, What Have I Done?: A drama about a fundamentalist Christian who changes his interpretations of his faith to reconcile with his estranged family members.
• My Hero, Zero: A crossover of Mega Man X and Code Geass that involves Zero and Lelouch teaming up saving the world.
• Naked in Mink: Any lady can win a fur coat of her choice if she is willing to wear nothing else (save for shoes, jewelry, a purse, and panties if it's a jacket), in public for a certain amount of time, depending on the value of the coat. Bodyguards for the contestants stay mostly off screen, unless PETA harasses her, or if some guys try to rough her up. Some fans consider the bodyguards beating up those people to be the best part of the show.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: A series about the high school adventures of Maximilien Robespierre, Typhoid Mary, Joseph Stalin, and Ted Bundy, drawn together by their unfortunate names and the social isolation as a result.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: A Black Comedy about a gang of neo-Nazis travelling to different European countries, trying to dupe people into joining their cause by dressing up their goals in fancy rhetoric and pretending to be more heroic and respectable than they really are. Very unflattering in its portrayal of nationalism and authoritarianism.
• Neuro-Vault: a modern-day series which uses the resident Journey to the Center of the Mind phlebotinum on a minimum of Once an Episode basis, for various reasons: to communicate with comatose individuals, to act as a Mind Probe, all sorts of things. Could become very imaginatively-used Phlebotinum.
• Never Say "Die": Horror-comedy about perseverance during a zombie apocalypse.
• Never Sleep Again: Horror film about a group of friends who must survive a sleepover with a Spree Killer going after them.
• New House, New Problems: An unlucky family that are Hated by All try to live in houses all over the world, but everywhere they go, someone recognizes them from their past and tries to kick them out.
• Newspaper Dating: Serialized drama. A newspaper editor uses his position to send hidden messages to his Love Interest.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: A reality show about ex-cons who run a house flipping business. Airs on either HGTV or the Mangolia Network.
• Nice Kitty...: Anime where the main character is a cute house cat.
• Nightmare Fuel: A look at cars that are supposedly cursed or haunted. But after the retool, it's just a ripoff of Pimp My Ride, but the cars are "scary".
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: A group of small town people fight monsters while led by the mutilated ghost of the local gas station owner.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: An animated version of The Odd Couple, just with four characters. So popular, it's remade in Japan, just with a Ninja chick, a Magical Girl Warrior, an Ojou, and a Robot Maid.
  • Fighter, Mage, Thief: A spin-off of the above. Similar premise, but more kobold abuse.
• No Fourth Wall: A lucky couple wins a free house... little realizing the incompetence of the architects building it! But the fine print says they must stay in their new home for at least two years before moving out. Will they survive when the neighbors can see everything that goes on in their family? And more importantly, will their marriage?
• NO INDOOR VOICE: Comic wackiness where EVERYONE IS AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE!
  • After a Crossover with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, it becomes BIG WORDS IN ALL CAPS!
• No Party Given: High school Alpha Bitch Tasha Tanner's parents won't let her hold her big end-of-the-year graduation bash! To avoid disappointing her posse, it's up to her to find a way to host it in secret.
• No Plot? No Problem!: A reality game show where contestants have to perform a heist in a maximum security vault using only their wits, their strength, and their improvational skills.
• "No Rules" Racing: Wacky Races with the Serial Numbers Filed Off.
• No Woman's Land: In a dystopian future where heterosexuality is considered a criminal offense and the genders have been divorced from each other on a national scale. One day, a man ends up discovering a woman far into male territory looking for her husband, eventually striking an illegal sexual-relationship of their own. She discovers that her husband has long since died for being a political prisoner and the man tries getting her back to the Female territory for her own safety.
• Noisy Duck: An Edutainment Show aimed at younger viewers. The protagonist, Noisy Duck, always makes noise that interrupts others. His friends tell him that there's a right time to be loud, and he becomes more considerate.
• Noodle Implements: People are challenged to cook using unorthodox tools.
• Noodle Incident: Documentary about Guns N' Roses.
  • Alternatively, a sitcom set in an Italian restaurant.
• Not Actually the Ultimate Question: People send in deep questions and the hosts of the show answer, interpreting the question in a mundane way.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: Reality TV series about helping people overcome their fears.
• Not in My Backyard!: Documentary on the NIMBY phenomonon.
• Not Safe for Work: A TV-MA rated rapid fire Sketch Comedy show presented as a collection of internet clips that REALLY push the boundaries of its rating. Cancelled after two seasons, and often considered a cult classic.
• Not So Above It All: A sitcom about a teenage princess who must act prim and proper but is secretly a huge goofball.
• Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Sitcom in which an Unlucky Everydude moves to a neighborhood full of assorted weirdos and has to carefully avoid offending them at every turn.
• Now How Much Would You Pay: The Price Is Right clone.
• Ode to Apathy: A reality show about people talking about struggles they had with not being interested in various popular things (such as asexuals with sex, non-smokers with smoking, unathletic people with sports, etc).
• Ode to Food: A musical about food.
• Ominous Television: Genre Roulette channel of horror shows that are themed around TV and technology: usually analogue horror and found-footage style films.
• One Bad Mother: A family of Massive Numbered Siblings are bossed around by their incredibly controlling mother. One day, they find that she's gone too far, and the siblings (and their Bumbling Dad, who gets dragged along) have to take her down and restore equality in the household.
• One-Winged Angel: An anime/ manga in which a minor angel loses one of her wings in a battle with a powerful demon. her wing is shattered into seven pieces, and placed in the care of Lust, Gluttony, Pride, Wrath, Envy, Sloth and Greed. Can she defeat not only the Seven Deadly Sins, but the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, regain her wing, save the world, and the ghosts caught between their final rest and their Unfinished Business? Spawns a videogame. Considered quite noteworthy in that the creator is aware that Christianity isn't shinto with crosses and Jesus held on with glue.
  • And sometimes, not even Jesus.
  • Broken Angel: The english dub
• One-Wheeled Wonder: A game show where two teams of professional engineers compete in building Rube Goldberg Devices, with one caveat: the teams are only allowed to use one wheel per machine.
• Only in Florida: Sitcom set in Florida (filmed in California) about a neighborhood full of wacky neighbors and one sane family to provide a Straight Man for the comedy that follows.
• Only Sane Man: Sitcom about a successful stockbroker who accidentally gets on the wrong bus one day and ends up in an insane asylum. Hilarity Ensues as he tries every episode (and fails) to either escape or prove his sanity.
• Only You Can Repopulate My Race: Nerdy teenaged boy gets abducted by a group of alien space-babes. They tell him that all of their men have become infertile and that they have chosen him (humans possessing the right chromosomes to breed with them, he himself matching the specific parameters they are looking for in a male) to be the savior of their species.
• Our Monsters Are Different: A Horror Comedy show about a team of mad scientists' attempts to create and/or modify various monsters, For Science!!
• Orion Drive: The Kessel family appear to be a regular nuclear family who just moved into the house next door on the eponymous road in Neptune, Florida (filmed in California). But they're actually three extra-terrestrials and a human scientist who worked together to escape a government holding facility, trying to lay low for a while until they can figure out a way to return the extra-terrestrials home. The second episode establishes their home system to be somewhere in the Orion constellation.
• Paladin: A crime scene procedural drama like CSI or Bones for some reason.
  • A show like Walker, Texas Ranger, but reworked in a Swords and Sorcery setting.
  • The syndicated title of Have Gun – Will Travel
• Pardon My Klingon: CBS does a sitcom about Trekkies.
  • Alternatively, a sitcom set in the actual Star Trek universe about a bunch of average people of different races working on a space station. Think Star Trek: Deep Space Nine meets Scrubs.
• Parody Commercial: A Sketch Comedy show on [adult swim]. As the name would imply, each episode is "sponsored" by a fake product.
• Patrick Stewart Speech: Patrick Stewart reads out text suggested by the audience and proves that Shakespearean training can make anything sound dramatic.
  • The audience is especially fond of ingredients lists found on food packages.
• Personal Gain Hurts: Would you expect any less from spitting cobras? But while you're avoiding their painful venom, don't forget to watch out for the spikes, tigers and other hilarious hazards as you attempt to grab dollars from a pile of money before it sinks into the quicksand (smart players realize it just makes the money wet, and it's still legal tender).
• Pest Controller: Show about a supervillain of the same name, who can summon and control bugs to do his bidding.
• Picky Eater: Cooking show where the contestants must cook for picky toddlers.
• Pimped-Out Cape: Some superheroes need help to make their Costume Evolution as grand as possible.
• Pimped-Out Dress: The style channel's answer to Pimp My Ride. Socialites and noblewomen appear to have their dresses be the most outstanding at their next event.
• Player Character: A Comic Fantasy series where various random people find themselves trapped as their characters at the latest Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.
• A Plot in Deed: A man suddenly inherits a plot of land for reasons he can't quite grasp, and uses it to build his dream house. His jealous family members try to prove that he got it fraudulently.
• Trolling Creator: A documentary about Internet trolls. Includes a rare interview with Hans Von Hozel.
• The Plague: HBO medieval historical drama set during Black Death. Critics adored it, but many viewers complained that so many likable characters rather anticlimactically succumbed to bubonic plague. The producers later admitted it was made as a Stealth Parody of historical dramas.
• Plastic Bitch: Like The Six Million Dollar Man, but a particularly disagreeable woman who's made out of cheap materials.
• Platforming Pocket Pal: A cartoon set within a Fictional Video Game from the perspective of the Player Character's sidekick, who feels like his partner is an Idiot Hero and that he himself gets no respect from anyone.
• The Points Mean Nothing: A comedy Quiz Show where contestants answer questions from a variety of subjects with the host constantly reminding them that the points mean nothing and that the questions they answered are irrelevant. The method of choosing a winner is different each episode.
• Polar Bears and Penguins: Cute animated show in which adorable creatures from both poles team up to fight global warming and its causes with The Power of Friendship and snowballs. Second only to Captain Planet and the Planeteers in the Green Aesop department.
• Polar Penguins: Animated kids' comedy show about a family of penguins who live in Antarctica.
• Polly Wants a Microphone: A sitcom about the daily life of a family that owns a wise-cracking parrot with dreams of stardom and making it as a big comedian in Hollywood. Hilarity Ensues. The parrot is portrayed by a puppet a la ALF and voiced by a famous Real Life comedian.
• Pony Tale: An attempt to cash in on the popularity of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, that didn't quite work as well.
• Poor, Predictable Rock: In an anime where Everyone Is a Super, the protagonist is maligned for having Dishing Out Dirt powers, something considered Boring, but Practical in a world full of more interesting powers. Part of the anime's appeal is him discovering that he actually won the Superpower Lottery and he's smart enough to be the first to figure it out, uncovering new and impressive utility for his ability.
• Posthumous Character: Mockbuster/Affectionate Parody of The Crow.
• Power-Up: A Japanese attempt at creating an American-style Superhero drama. An Ordinary High-School Student transforms into a superhero by shouting the show title as his Catchphrase and fights crime (and sometimes monsters).
• The Power of Apathy: A Seinfeld-esq Sitcom starring the Only Sane Man in a world otherwise exclusively populated by the insane and the stupid.
• The Power of Love: Similar to Moral Guardians above in that a Five-Token Band of devout Christians take on the forces of Satan. However, science and rock are not classified as such—in fact, The Smart Girl has a degree in biochemistry and The Big Guy is a big rock fan. Furthermore, the heroes and villains alike are complex characters.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: Delves into the late Doctor Demonic's backstory. A cautionary tale about bitterness. The writers intended that you pity Doctor Demonic, and you will.
  • Imposter Forgot One Detail: An episode about Satan disguising himself as an angel of light.
  • Mysterious Past: The one foray into the creation debate, where the moral is that anybody can have their own opinion on how the Earth was formed, whether it be science-based or religion-based. Scentific skeptics (and New Atheists like Richard Dawkins), young-earth creationists, old-earth non-evolutionists, and old-earth theistic evolutionists alike were dissatisfied.
  • Redemption Equals Death: The Holy Week episode from season 4.
  • Stop Being Stereotypical: A Very Special Episode attacking the Holier Than Thou attitude and depictions of all Christians as fundamentalists or politically conservative.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: One of the regular non-Satantic enemies of the Five-Token Band, a werewolf, undergoes a Heel–Faith Turn and defects to the good side.
• Pretend We're Dead: Those Two Guys are mistaken for dead after an insane accident. They just roll with it to freak people out.
• Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Which princess can plan, organize, and supervise the building of her new palace: her power house?
• Princess Classic: A European princess takes a day job as the conductor for her country's orchestra. Although a drama, it draws in a lot of viewers for its biting humor in the vein of Frasier (the Small Reference Pools inversion, not the screwball plots).
• The Problem with Pen Island: A series set in a provocatively named Gay Bar near Penn Island in New Brunswick; focuses on the difficulties of being gay in such a rural setting.
• The Prom Plot: Teen comedy movie. A group of teenagers try to ruin the school prom for the resident Alpha Bitch and her obnoxious boyfriend.
• Professor Guinea Pig: A professor accidentally turns himself into a guinea pig. Hilarity Ensues.
  • This sounds a lot like what happened to Kanoi Watanabe in Power Rangers Ninja Storm
• Protect This House: A woman inherits a house and must prevent anyone from getting in, lest they uncover a dark secret about her family history.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: A Comic Fantasy series about a stereotypical Horny Viking trying to live the 21st-century ideal of a Viking (pillaging, wearing horned helmets, excessive drinking) in a more historically accurate Viking village who finds his antics annoying.
• Psycho for Hire: Docudrama about the challenges faced by the mentally ill as they try to find gainful employment.
• The Public Domain Channel: 24/7 public domain footage.
• Pungeon Master: A man in a clown suit cheers up strangers he thinks look depressed by haranguing them with a non-stop barrage of puns. The only way to make him stop is to laugh. Which do you value more... your sanity, or your dignity?
• Pure Energy: Stereotypical "manly" show where a group of crazy guys take basic appliances and try to add MORE POWER. Occasionally features Tim Allen.
  • A product placement laden 90s cartoon made by Pure Energy brand batteries about a superhero who fights crime by using said batteries to power himself up and transform into the grotesquely muscular powerhouse of a man that was depicted on the packaging of the batteries at the time.
• Put on a Bus: A bunch of people get on a bus and realize that while it's always moving, it never actually goes anywhere, leaving them stuck in a state of limbo. At the end of the series, they finally get to their destination to find that no time has passed in the outside world, but they've changed a lot.
  • 1996 Argentinian film Moebius minus the ending.
• Rather Inn-Accessible:
  • Reality show discussing the best places to build fledging lodges, cabins, and hotels.
  • A man tries to check into every hotel in the world, until he finds one in a far off place that leaves him stumped. Hilarity Ensues as he tries to get there.
• Real Men Cook: a cooking show with manly macho men learning to cook on a ranch in the woods, culminating in a competition of the skills they learned. The first edition's winner was chili-and-beer pork ribs.
• Recycled In Space: A documentary about recycling methods in the future.
  • A Mystery Science Theater 3000-style show where basic premises to bad TV shows are turned into sci-fis. Sci-fi's are turned into fantasies.
• Reasoning with God: Gritty drama show. In a dystopian world where religion is outlawed, an agnostic man hopes that one day, he'll be convinced of God's existence.
• Red Live Lobster: Indie comedy film. A man aims to put Red Lobster out of business by sneaking dangerous living things into peoples' food, only for his plans to backfire every time.
• Red Shirt Army: A comedic sci-fi show about a small, quirky, Mildly Military platoon of soldiers aligned with would-be heroes, but otherwise wouldn't be memorable. Occasionally someone gets killed off, but a new person joins the group. The cast changes completely at least three times.
  • Alternatively, a sports drama about a “redshirted” plebe football playing West Point cadet.
• Redheads Are Uncool: A Kid Com about the life and times of a ginger-kid who's bullied and ridiculed for having hobbies and interests that would be common-place in Real Life, but are typically short-hand for losers in the world of fiction.
• Refuge in Audacity: A show specifically designed to give Moral Guardians aneurysms. After cancellation, it lives on in internet distribution.
• Religion Is Wrong: A documentary on the New Atheist movement. Two leaders in the movement were charged with fraud relating to use of Patreon for their blogs after broadcast.
• Retail Therapy: A series about a psychiatrist who lost her license, her marriage and all her life savings over a costly misdiagnosis, and is now forced to work as a store clerk to make ends meet. She observes people’s shopping habits, identifies any psychological issues they might have, and helps them deal with it.
• Rewarding Vandalism: A game show set in a Conveniently Empty City Block, where contestants aim to commit over-the-top acts of vandalism (up to and including torching parked cars and shattering windows with explosion shockwaves) in order to rack up points while avoiding the attention of the show's "policemen". Folded after three episodes due to massive outcry from Media Watchdogs and law enforcement agencies.
• Robo Family: Faux-retro domestic Sitcom starring a family of Real Life non-humanoid robots. Dad's a welding arm in a car factory, Mom's a bread slicer, teenage son's a FIRST competition 'bot and the baby of the family's made out of Lego.
• Robot Religion: Comedy show focusing on a group of robots who have a bizarre religion. The pilot episode is called "Thank the Maker" and introduces the idea that robots worship and pray to "the Maker" rather than God.
• Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: A drama about the end of the dinosaurs.
  • Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: A Wipeout-inspired game show. Five contestants work together to navigate a giant maze. Another contestant works the traps and sends in the monsters. If the navigators complete the maze, they win. If they "die", the dungeon-master wins. Ten thousand dollars per winner on the line.
    • So basically Team Fortress 2 Deathrun?
• Role Association: A game show where actors with long credit lists recreate scenes from movies or TV shows they were in, using the characterization of a different character they played. Contestants have to guess the movie/show for cash and prizes.
• Rousseau Was Right: A show focusing on random Acts of Kindness both from history and current events. It features psychological and sociological facts. Dueling Shows with Humans Are the Real Monsters.
  • Alternatively, evidence (or propaganda depending who you ask) for Rousseasu's philosophies.
• Rubber Face: A Slice of Life anime about a boy that's an expert at making funny faces and his adventures with his fellow misfit friends.
• Ruins of the Modern Age: A docu-series made by a Right-Wing Think-Tank explaining why the West is dying due to "degeneracy".
• Rule of Fun: An All-Loving Hero becomes the leader of a Cloudcuckooland. Plots deal with his visits from ambassadors of other, more normal countries, and how he gets along with the other members of his cabinet.
• Rule of Funny: A comedian competition show, where three comics compete Once an Episode to find out who will be the King of Funny. Notably tanked because the comics weren't very good. Executive Meddling demands that this be Retooled as Rule of Cool: a show about people pulling outrageous stunts instead of telling jokes.
• Rule of Sean Connery: Sean Connery is named King of the World. Do you need any more?
• Running Gag: A struggling comedian becomes a fitness guru.
  • Running Gagged: The Hotter and Sexier sequel.
• Running the Asylum: An animated sitcom about a group of committed lunatics who overpower the orderlies and run the asylum. Think 6teen in a loony bin and with more Comedic Sociopathy.
  • Or a show about the people who work at Arkham Asylum and their interactions with the villans/patients.
• Russian Reversal: A series about the Russian Olympic Wrestling Team.
• Safety Freak: A comedy movie. The eccentric safety inspector of a power plant goes to drastic-yet-hilarious measures to make sure it's up to code.
• Santabomination: The Christmas Episode to a particularly dark Fantastic Noir where various murders of high profile criminals are happening around Christmas, evidence pointing to Santa Claus murdering them, only to reveal that it is The Krampus doing all of the killing.
• Santa's Existence Clause: A group of children are having their doubts about Santa's existence, but are worried that it makes them bad people.
• Save Point: An anime about two boys, a girl, and a robotic dog who travel into 'The Elektrik Network', a realm in cyberspace under attack from a mysterious type of virus known as Virek. Getting into 'The Elektrik Network' is done through use of computer terminals known as 'Save Points'.
• Scare Chord: A special looking at some of the best horror film tunes.
• Science Marches On: History of science.
• Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!: A zoomer-centric Horror Comedy series where mismanagement cascades into the collapse of the society and while the old people wind up killing each other out of paranoia and general human idiocy, the younger generations realize that their futures are no longer doomed from the start and start their own rad society full of punk-fashion, music, art and Totally Radical slang. Much of the conflict comes from military and law enforcement trying to regain their former ranks and glory in a world that no longer acknowledges them and does all the wrong things (like unprovoked aggression) to regain it, only for it to fail from a mix of bad luck and a lack of empathy.
• Screwed by the Network: Documentary series about TV shows which fell victim to this trope.
  • Screwed by the Network: a porn parody of "those awesome shows you loved as a kid, but they got f**ked by The Network." Shows are represented by hot girls in the show's most reconizable costume (skintight, semitransparent, and crotchless, of course), and The Network is represented by an old guy with a pointy hairdo. A show that's only officially aired in Belgium, and a production staff member for Robot Chicken was fired when he was caught with recordings of this show.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Fear Factor meets Let's Make a Deal. The longer you stay on the show, the more prizes you get. But to get them, you have to face frightening, gross, or embarrassing, etc. situations. Make it to the end, and you get them all. Fail any of them, and you lose some or all of them. Or you can say, "Screw This, I'm Outta Here!" and get a well-deserved consolation prize.
  • Alternatively, a documentary on the 2019 YouTube COPPA kerfuffle and how some content creators quit the site in protest of being forced to mark their content as either "for kids" or "not for kids"
• Secretary of Evil: Action comedy series. The secretary of a surprisingly civil group of villains assigns them evil plans, arch-nemeses, and gadgets to use.
• Secret Project Refugee Family: Anime about a family of genetically engineered super soldiers that escaped from a top secret government facility, and must stay one step ahead of their pursuers. Often called "The Incredibles AS AN ANIME" by the people doing the dub (4Kids, who else?), though few of its actual fans, who feel that comparison is looking at the "family" aspect and nothing else (not the least of which is the decidedly non-kid-friendly subject matter, necessitating the Macekre to end all Macekres).
• Serendipitous Survival: I Shouldn't Be Alive clone interviewing people who survived in the wilderness.
• Sexiness Score: Game show where contestants are ranked by how attractive the judges find them. Was called out for being "inappropriate, sexist drivel" and canceled after its first episode.
• Show Within a Show: A series where the actors in it put on a different performance in every episode. Sort of like The Backyardigans, but they do actual stage plays on occasion.
• Siblings Wanted: Kids' comedy movie. An only-child girl is desperate for younger and older siblings to hang out with, and puts out a newspaper ad without her parents knowing. As new "siblings" keep showing up and moving in, she has to hide them all from her real family.
• A Side Order of Romance: Drama movie. She's a humble, soft-spoken waitress at the local restaurant who can't resist the charming bad-boy regular... and the way to a man's heart is Through His Stomach, right?
• Signature Style: A documentary on the historical significance of Signatures. Hosted by Will Smith, John Hancock himself.
• The Snark Knight: A bitterly (some might say acidly) sarcastic, chain-smoking Knight in Sour Armor swordsman and his Too Dumb to Live Manic Pixie Dream Girl sorceress companion fight generic evil. Hilarity Ensues. Think Slayers if Goury was an asshole and Lina was an idiot, with a little bit of Discworld for spice, made by a western animation firm.
  • If you replace the Manic Pixie Dream Girl with a Manchild with Super-Strength, it sounds like the premise of Saiyuki.
  • Alternatively: A That Nostalgia Show-type sitcom set in mid-to-late-2000s/early-2010s Lincoln, Nebraska, but filmed in early-2020s California. The show revolves around a snarky online Caustic Critic, like the many that thrived at the time, who runs the titular YouTube channel and tries to make it big via viral fame. Hilarity Ensues. Features guest appearances by many 2000s celebrities and online figures, such as 50 Cent and Seanbaby.
• Solve the Soup Cans: "Blind Idiot" Translation of a TV show about kitchen pantry organization.
• Soviet Superscience: A Genre-Busting TV series about a group of Soviet Reluctant Mad Scientists in a 1947 closed city, doing research into secret technologies that could allow the USSR to win the Cold War... or cause The End of the World as We Know It. Mixes the historical, the speculative, and the fantastic to the point that it's not clear where Aluminum Christmas Trees end and Hollywood Science begins, and features the period political jokes and Gallows Humor aplenty. Despite taking place in the Soviet Union during the Cold War era, it's filmed in post-Cold War Toronto.
• Space Whale: The long awaited Star Trek Spinoff about that probe from The Voyage Home.
• Spaghetti and Gondolas: A Sitcom set in 1960s Italy, but actually filmed in 1990s Southern California. Lasted for three seasons, and is mainly remembered for being So Okay, It's Average.
• Spike Of All Trades (now-defunct): A fantasy show about a magical pointy rock gets passed down through the ages and lives of its numerous owners.
• Spiteful Spoiler: Two white-collar employees are looking forward to watch a new movie, but their killjoy boss attempts to spoil the ending for them.
• Springtime for Hitler: Adapted from the play of the same name in The Producers, a hilariously bad musical that becomes an immediate cult hit.
• Spy Fiction: A prestige-television Conspiracy Thriller about various espionage organizations — an antiquated Cold War-era Government Agency of Fiction, a modern tech-savvy N.G.O. Superpower, a thought-to-be-dead Sinister Spy Agency and The Syndicate — are all duking it out on ideological principles and trying to dismantle each other's operations. As the series goes on, the main characters all realize that all of these organizations all secretly work for the same Shadow Government.
• Stable Time Loop: A man tries to go back in time to change history, but every time he does, he comes back to find that nothing has changed, so he starts losing his sanity. Cancelled after three episodes.
• Step One: Escape: Two bitter rivals are mysteriously locked in a strange house. They have to work together to escape, but refuse to put aside their differences.
• Stock Dinosaurs (now-defunct): Animated show for kids from the early 1990s about dinosaur heroes whose hobby is 8-figure racing. Cattle Drive knock-off.
  • Would have happened if only Tony George had destroyed everything five years earlier.
  • Stock Dinosaurs: Animated show about intelligent, articulate dinosaurs working IN THE STOCK MARKET!
• Stock Footage: A show about guys who film their crazy stunts for YouTube, as a "guide" for others.
  • Alternatively, Renfaire attendees get their feet tickled while trapped in stocks.
• Starship Luxurious: Pimp My Spacecraft.
• The Strawman Strikes Back: An action drama about a former secret agent, codename Strawman, ending up back in the field after a 10-Minute Retirement.
• Strawman Political: A comedy about a scarecrow who runs for president. He runs into a lot of prejudice and many, many The Wizard of Oz jokes (Yes, he has a brain!!).
• Stunt Casting: A reality show about trying out to be the next Hollywood stuntman.
• Stupid Jetpack Hitler: An animated Two Fisted Tale take on World War II, with the plucky cartoon heroes fighting Those Wacky Nazis all over the globe. Both sides utilize Dieselpunk technology, and the catchphrase of the show is, of course, "Oh, stupid jetpack Hitler... not again!", spoken whenever another doomsday weapon is rolled out for the heroes to thwart.
• Stupid Sexy Friend: A blonde, promiscuous woman is best friends with a Brainy Brunette, but she starts to fear that everyone else just sees her as the brunette's bimbo friend.
• Stylistic Suck: A mid-2000s VH1 show where a bunch of fashion critics and designers bash any dresses they don't like. The audience rarely agrees with them unless it's a dress from The '80s (usually). Cancelled after one season.
• Summer School Sucks: Live-action Disney Channel comedy series from the 2000s. A rebellious boy and his brother are sent to the worst summer school in the state, and try everything to make it more interesting.
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: They're adorable Robot Maid girls... who patrol the city looking for parking violations. Mostly a Slice of Life show that focuses on the main cast of robots: Deka, Nixie, Neo, Coro, and Kath!
• Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven: A 12-Episode Anime about a Combining Mecha with seven pieces and seven different pilots, including the lead pilot, Nana, who is involved in a Love Dodecahedron with both genders of her fellow pilots. Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven, the titular combined mecha, fights a Eldritch Abomination. Spawned a manga Spinoff and drama CD's in Japan.
• Super Special Move: A Shonen anime Affectionate Parody about a martial arts prodigy competing to be the Stock Shōnen Hero, having over a dozen rivals who are themselves potential protagonists of their own ongoing stories.
• Surfer Dude: Wilson from Orange County, CA is riding the waves when a thunderstorm moves up. He is hit by lightning while still surfing, but he survives and discovers he got super powers which he uses to fight crime, and at the same time, he's working on winning the heart of the girl he loves who until then prefers to hang out with her friends and the jocks from school. Either animated or a sitcom.
• Survival Horror: A how-to/ documentary on making survival horror games.
  • A Mockumentary about the adventures of a Survival Horror protagonist, the wierd stuff they encounter and the Cult/Corporation that orchestrated all of it.
• Take That!: A late-night talk show featuring sharp criticism of whatever currently has the attention of the masses. Also known to frequently wonder what kind of sick people actually enjoy watching them bashing people and things. Cancelled after their bashing of Warrior Cats caused the books' fanbase to riot against the producers, the controversy promptly ruined the career of the host and his sidekicks.
• Tan Lines: A contestant-style Reality Show about surfers and surfer culture.
• Tear Jerker: American Dad! beat me to this one.
• Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats: Archer-esque intended-for-adults cartoon TMNT parody starring a quartet of... well, read the title.
• The Teetotaler: Comedy movie following a guy who doesn't drink who lives in a college dorm with a bunch of guys who do.
• Tenor Boy: The life and times of a boy in music class, who is known for his beautiful singing voice.
• That One Component: Comedy movie about a Mad Scientist going to the ends of the Earth to find the last thing he needs to finish an invention.
• Themed Wedding: A Reality TV series about unorthodox weddings.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: Horror Comedy movie about letting The Antichrist crash on your sofa.
• They Fight Crime: Genre Anthology of procedurals, cop shows, etc.
  • That sounds like a really awesome premise for a show!
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: A procedural about a private investigator who specializes in faked life insurance claims. She drops the title at least Once an Episode, usually while digging up an empty casket.
• 30-Sue Pileup: A tense legal drama about a group of associates in a big shoe law firm, trying to defend their client from a class action lawsuit brought about by survivors of a massive traffic pileup.
• This Is Going to Be Huge: Aspiring inventors and artists pitch their upcoming creations.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: Advertisement vignettes created to advertise shows. It takes shows and a drug or two, recommended on the internet, and show what X show would look like if on Y drugs. Not necessarily if all the characters are on those drugs, but sometimes.
• Those Two Guys: Sitcom about two men named "Guy" and their run ins with amazing people in an ordinary town.
• Those Wacky Nazis: A sitcom with Nazis as main characters. Idiot Nazis. Lasted maybe half a season, and considered lucky to last that long.
  • Partly sounds like the 1960's tv show Hogan's Heroes.
  • Alternatively, a failed reboot of Heil Honey I'm Home! that was somehow even worse than the original.
• Three Shorts: An anthology series. Each episode tells three stories around a specific topic.
• Thriller on the Express: A murder mystery set aboard a train. There are six suspects with their own alibis, and a detective tries to figure out who's telling the truth.
• Tipis and Totem Poles: A sitcom set on a Native American plantation in New Mexico (but is shot in California), featuring actual Native American actors and actresses.
• Timber!: PB&J Otter spinoff where Munchy Beaver goes to live with his father, who's working for a tree-cutting company.
• Time and Relative Dimensions in Space: A dry-as-hell show about Physics from The BBC.
• Time Police: A late-90's Syfy show about a police officer who nearly dies trying to stop a criminal with access to advanced technology. She winds up being recruited by the Time Police, an N.G.O. Superpower tasked with protecting the space-time continuum from criminals who mess with history, with a Myth Arc surrounding the machinations of a Moriarty-esq Mastermind.
• Too Dumb to Live: This show invites the audience to nominate their less than intelligent acquaintances, then sets lethal traps in and around the home and office of the chosen candidate! Will Bob fall for the "Do Not Step On" signs marking the new minefield in his backyard? It doesn't matter, there are so many he can't help but trigger one sometime! Cancelled after one season.
• Too Kinky to Torture: A game show on HBO that tests just how far peoples BDSM tastes can go. Based on a Swedish show with a completely different name... and a sexier host.
• Too Sexy For This Time Slot: Lighthearted Fanservice-fueled Sketch Comedy wackiness that, unfortunately, lived up to its name, as it couldn't find an acceptable spot on a network. Ended up on Cinemax.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: A cooking show hosted by everyone's favourite eldritch horror, Chef Cthulhu, specializing in Szechuan, Tex-Mex and Indian cuisine. Much more successful than his previous cooking shows, Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, It Tastes Like Feet, and Tastes Like Diabetes.
• Toros y Flamenco: American sitcom that takes place in Spain (but is shot in Toronto). Doesn't really have the budget to show actuall bull fights.
  • Alternately, a Telenovela about a family of bullfighters, whose youngest son wants to quit bullfighting to marry a beautiful flamenco dancer. Hilarity Ensues.
• Totally 18: 2000s sitcom about a bunch of middle school students who try to hang out with high schoolers.
• Totally Radical: Reality show in which people with radical political and religious views (such as the leader of an Animal Wrongs Group, a far-left New-Age Retro Hippie, a gun-loving Libertarian Crazy Survivalist, a Straw Feminist, an Al-Qaeda terrorist, a Hard on Soft Science skeptic, a pro-Palestinian activist, a Zionist, a Conspiracy Theorist, a conservative fundamentalist Christian preacher, a liberal "Jesus freak" Christian hippie, an anti-globalization activist, an anti-vaxxer, a psuedoscience-promoting quack doctor, a fat shaming anti-obesity activist, a Banksy-esque culture jamming artist, a Eco-Terrorist, Richard Dawkins, and Jack Chick) are made to share a house and hold nightly roundtable debates on current issues. Cancelled after Jack Chick's death but later Uncancelled with Li Hongzhi in his place.
• Toy Tales: Sweet Dreams Fuel kids' show about living toys.
• Translation Convention: An inside look at what really goes on at linguistics meetings... mostly, erudite discussions about how to render the word "Schaudenfreude" in nearly-extinct Native American languages.
• The Treachery of Images: A 90's-era HBO drama about the Seattle Art Community, including the staff of an art museum, an up and coming gallery and many of the starving artists there.
• Tricked Out Time: The adventures of a radical skateboarder teen and his snarky dog sidekick as they travel through time.
• Trojan Prisoner: A sci-fi series about technologically advanced aliens and the prisons that contain them ("Mr Warden... one of these new men is actually an android from Mars. You have less than a week to find out which one.. and you'd better not break procedure.")
  • Alternately, an O.J. Simpson biopic.
• Trope Repair Shop: A group of pretentious art critics discuss how to make media better by using better tropes.
• Tropey the Wonder Dog: Low grade Lassie knockoff, sadly.
• True Love Is a Kink:
  • A cheap Rom Com about a group of sex addicts going into rehab to cure themselves of their appetites and getting into zany shenanigans along the way. Also they find love.
  • A Cinemax romantic drama that's a bit of a comeback to the "Skinemax" era and is loaded with hard-core sex scenes. The twist (if it could be considered to be one) is that the title is not ironic: the production does take incredible care to keep the romantic plot at a high quality and when a sex scene occurs it's between two people who truly love each other and the sex is a bonus and not two people who fuck and can barely do anything else. It's gotten some surprisingly good reviews because of this.
• Turn of the Millennium: Early-2020s sitcom set in the 2000s that's a bit of a pastiche of the reality shows of that era. Was originally promoted as "The Goldbergs BUT SET IN THE 2000s!" by the network, but the show would eventually come into it's own by the end of it's first season.
• Tuxedo and Martini: British animated show about an MI6 super-spy couple. Produced by the same people as Count Duckula and Danger Mouse.
• Uncertain Audience: A Slice of Life Dramedy about 5 young adults who are chosen to be part of a TV focus group. Through each show they watch, they discover something about themselves, and each other.
• Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000: Just your average Japanese game show.
• Unfit for Greatness: Pre-teen comedy show. A delusional high school student is convinced that he's going to be the world's next hero, but fails at everything he tries.
• Values Dissonance: A knockoff on The Price Is Right.
• Vampire's Harem: An Erotic-Drama Max original miniseries starring Dracula and his three wives and all the drama being that sort of family. The series begins when Dracula shows interest in a fourth bride (Mina Murray) and the other brides feel conflicted about it, feeling unappreciated by their domineering husband. Recurring arcs includes: one of the brides shows interest in a human man who doesn't know who she is, the second bride being sexually attracted to the first bride, but is reluctant to admit this to her sister wife, the origins of the three brides, the vatican sending a cavalry of vampire slayers to kill them and so on. Don't let the premise fool you, the show takes itself very seriously.
• Vaporwave: A drama about the Techno music scene. Kids wanting to become a DJ, a jaded professional DJ on a downward spiral, the emergence of dubstep, etc.
• Vegetarian Carnivore: A sketch-comedy YouTube Vlog Series about a commune of hippies trying to train carnivore animals to take up vegan diets. Naturally, it usually ends horribly and it's hilarious.
• Victorious Chorus: A spoof of Glee from the producers of Childrens Hospital and NTSF:SD:SUV::. A high school teacher named Mr. Clarkson (played by Jeremy Clarkson) "attempts" to direct a high school glee club, which is full of people with tragic pasts, people with disablities, minorities who suffer racial abuse, LGBTQ+ people, and Andrew Rannells As Himself. Hilarity Ensues (as well as mocking of the average Glee plots). Oh, and all the students are played by 20-to-50-year olds.
  • Straw Critic: An episode where Leonard Maltin As Himself becomes the high school principal, angering Andrew Rannells As Himself. Meanwhile, one of the students is discovered to be blind and if her myopia was to be corrected she'd go on a murderous rampage.
  • Pop-Star Composer: An episode where the members of Metallica team up with Mr. Clarkson's glee club to "write some original songs". Head-banging ensues. Meanwhile, there are 10 gay weddings (including a wedding between two of the cameramen and two lesbian weddings).
  • You Are Grounded!: An episode where the cast sings songs from old Canadian cartoons such as Toad Patrol and The Country Mouse And City Mouse Adventures, ending with them singing the Caillou theme (and getting grounded by GoAnimate!Boris as a result, hence the title). Holly Gauthier-Frankel makes a guest appearance as Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat. Meanwhile, one of the students (Andy X.Z.Z.Z.Z.Z.Z.Z.; played by Paul Scheer) finds out he has Syphilis, which Mr. Clarkson declares "the best of the sexually transmitted diseases" (a Call-Back to a episode of Jeremy's old show Top Gear (UK)).
• Video Game Tools: Openly mocking documentary about gamers... made by gamers.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Showing off the lighter side of everyone's favourite villains.
• Villain Ball: A villain-centric sitcom about a group of lovable but idiotic villains who try to take over the world using only leftover sports balls. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Alternately, a reality show where prisoners play dodgeball in exchange for parole.
  • Alternately, a cartoon about a ball that wants to become a super-villain.
• Visual Calculus: Math experts use visual simulations to explain complicated calculus procedures.
• Walking the Earth:
  • A group of cartoon and video game characters consisting of Ash Ketchum, Luna Platz, Bulkhead, Shikamaru, Kitt Wonn and Princess Tana of Frelia decide to go on a long journey around the world. Some of their destinations include Cerulean City, Caelin, and Dinobot Island. Before starting out, they elect Ash as the leader and Tana as the second in command of the group.
  • But if Bulkhead is there, why are they walking?
    • Now if you were Luna or Kitt or even Tana, would you want to be riding in a army vehicle?
  • Alternatively: An outdoors activity channel "edutainment" show about living on the road — Everyday Carrying Gear item reviews, safety lessons, tips for budget-stretching, articles on interesting travel destinations.
• Wandering Culture: A traveling group of friends report on the culture of every country they come across.
• The War on Straw: a Five-Man Band travels the world fighting the little-known menace of walking scarecrows. "Strawman Political" is an episode wherein one of the scarecrows becomes President and gets his own spinoff.
  • When several cast members from Human Nature/The Family of Blood appear in the same episode, Jokes Ensue.
  • It could also be a documentary about the banning of plastic straws following Blue Planet II's broadcast.
• Wasted Beauty: Drama about a washed-up beauty pageant winner, who has fallen from grace and become an alcoholic.
• Weirdness Coupon: Reality tv show in the style of Trigger Happy TV, whoever picks up the coupon has entered the game and will spend the next hour suffering in ways inexplicable to them at the hands of the show's crew
  • While wildly popular the show gets canceled after one season due to legal troubles
    • Or, Genre-Busting True Art Is Incomprehensible craziness where weirdness is actually a commodity and the Weirdness Coupon helps characters save money on...WEIRDNESS! The Twilight Zone (1959) meets Sketch Comedy. Maybe.
• We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: A Canadian Work Com about a small family-run TV station in Toronto. Think KYTV meets Scrubs with a dash of Schitt's Creek. There is a Kitschy Local Commercial before each of every episode's commercial break.
• Wedding Smashers: A Queer Eye-esq Reality TV series where the hosts try to give engaged couples their dream wedding.
• Wham Line:
  • Authors discuss some of the most impactful lines they've read on this talk show.
  • A wrestler starts working at a railroad company.
• What a Piece of Junk: A reality TV show about a "buy here, pay here" used car lot.
• What Could Have Been: A documentary series on HBO that talks about famous Hollywood projects that were/are stuck in Development Hell, and the lives of actors and directors that didn't make it big there. Won a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Emmy.
  • Alternatively, a TV show that looks at different events in history and what the world might be like if things went different. Was panned for being a derivative of Life After People and was cancelled after 6 episodes (the unaired 15 other episodes were shown only in Israel with Hebrew subtitles).
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?: A documentary about sexism in raising girls.
• What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: A documentary on Terry Pratchett.
• Wheel of Pain: Game shows. Medieval torture. Two great tastes together at last.
• When Trees Attack: Are we certain Fox didn't actually air this one?
• White-Dwarf Starlet: An Urban Fantasy about an albino dwarf trying to make it big in Hollywood.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: An Improv/Sketch Comedy show where panelists act out scenarios suggested to them by viewers, no matter how outlandish and/or insane they are.
• Who You Gonna Call?: A live-action sitcom based on Ghostbusters.
• Why Am I Ticking?: Because you're on Action Bomb!
• Witch Hunt: A controversial documentary on pedophile hunting. The even more controversial sequel focuses on the #MeToo movement.
• Wild Mass Guessing: A game show where the three players complete against the audience to guess how many items are in a large clear box.
• Wild Wilderness: A comedic Perspective Flip spinoff of Toad Patrol focusing on the lives of the other inhabitants of the Great Forest such as Hera, Morton, Medea (who speaks in Tonto Talk as well as her normal bird noises), Erebus, Calypso, Barnaby, Orpheus, Cleopatra, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. Each day, the animals attempt to do some activity, only for something such as Erebus and Medea chasing the Toad Patrollers causing issues, and Hilarity Ensues.
• Worst News Judgement Ever: A documentary about fake news, with conservative-oriented news outlets and the Taboola and Outbrain advertising platforms as heavy focuses. After the documentary was released, the aforementioned advertising platforms filed for bankruptcy.
• Word of God: A televangelist show.
• World of Funny Animals: A show similar to America's Funniest Home Videos, but focusing exclusively on animal videos.
• Wrestling Monster: Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Wolf Man, the Mummy, Jason, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Leatherface, zombies and others take it to the mat.
• Wrote the Book: A talk show interviewing famous authors.
• X Meets Y: It's a dating show, of course.
• Y2K: A That Nostalgia Show-type sitcom set in the very-late-1990s/very-early-2000s in Birmingham, Alabama (filmed in 2020s Southern California), hence the title.
• You Can't Make an Omelette...: Kitchen Nightmares rip-off that specializes in breakfast foods.
• You Fail Biology Forever: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? clone with psuedoscience supporters attempting to answer the most ridiculously easy questions on biology. Side perk: Cheapest prize indemnity insurance ever. Counter-programmed against Crisis of Faith.
• You Fail Logic Forever: A debate game show. Losers get mocked for being so dumb. One of the first contestants was a fox news commentator. No one from that channel has been on since.
• You Know What They Say About X...: A documentary about the rise and fall of the Maverick Hunters.
• Your Mom: Mothers deal with negative judgments from strangers (being told off for breastfeeding in public, being labelled a "soccer mom", etc.)
• You Shall Not Pass!: Can genuine footage of actual crossing guards make for exciting programming? Tune in and find out!
  • You Shall Not Pass!: Highschool slacker comedy.
  • Alternately a comedy about a group of nerds in high school who have problems getting good grades despite their intelligence.
• You Suck: Sitcom about anthropomorphic vacuum cleaners. Got stale really quickly and died after the first season.
• You Will Be Beethoven: Educational kids show where each episode transports the viewer to a day in the life of a famous artist or composer. The first episode is about Beethoven.
• Your Size May Vary: A show helping obese people lose weight. Highly successful on American TV.
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: A documentary about the Irish Republican Army. Banned in the UK
• Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: A bizarre medical show where a team of experimentally-minded doctors tries to impregate a different male organism every week. Lasts two seasons, much longer than anyone expected, what with all the protesting from the Religious Right.
  • And the environmental left.
• Yodel Land: American sitcom that takes place in Switzerland (but is shot in British Columbia). Doesn't have the budget to show people yodeling, so the producers use stock footage from whatever stock footage archive websites they can find.
• Zen Slap: Adult comedy show. A wise old man seems like a trusting guru... but it turns out he hates being asked questions and dishes out violence instead, wanting everyone to just solve their own problems.
• Zombify the Living: A Mockumentary about a Hollywood Voodoo Witch Doctor showing off his zombie-making enterprise.

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