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Pitch an idea for an episode Posted by Jim_Goldblum | OCTOBER 29, 2010
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We need your help coming up with ideas that could grow into full blown episode storylines.
Here’s the challenge: Come up with a synopsis that could be an episode storyline.
Write up a paragraph with some of your ideas so that we have something to start with – but don’t worry about coming up with a full episode. The most intriguing storylines will be cherry-picked for further development.
Who knows, your idea could make it to TV!
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For comic relief - This can be a recurring comic moment 3 or 4 times a season with some slight variants [maybe every episode if its well received and members submit combos].
Make the beginnings of those bar jokes real!
Just have, for example, a priest, an imam, and a rabbi walk in... in the middle of an epsiode. Just interrupting the scene for a moment with the three main... more -
A mysterious man wearing a bow-tie and and a fedora enters the bar and sits in the corner. Throughout the episode, each main character has a brief but potent conversation with him. The man claims to be able to free one of them from the confines of their life if they find a small coin he has hidden somewhere in the bar. Whoever brings it to him first will get the thing they have always wanted.
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Setting: 1950s
When Doug stumbles across Occam's razor, he finds his luck returning swiftly. Against James's advice he becomes captivated with the relic. Things get weirder when a young woman named Natasha takes sudden interest in James, and when the G-men arrive inquiring about the razor. Dayna through over hearing private discussion discovers Natasha is indeed Russian spy. Natasha begins to have her doubts after getting close to Doug but her time is running out. Will Doug cast away his new luck, will the G-men escalate the conflict? Or will the Natasha erase her doubts and get away with the famed relic? -
Dayna and Doug are playing darts, the Jukebox kicks on playing an ominous tune. Surprised and confused both Dayna and Doug turn to see someone entering the bar.
Entering the bar is a sharply dressed man, suit, expensive overcoat, he gives off an air of confident and sleazy, as if he knows something you don’t and is going to use it to milk you of everything you’ve got. (Think Mark... more -
A man has met his wit's end, when he hits rock bottom. His former fiance has run off with another man, and consequentially, he has ended up getting fired from his job. He has run out of money, and his social life is non-existent. The man chooses to end his life. Inside his home, he prepares the materials he needs to finally "finish the job" in the bathroom. As he walks into the bathroom with a hopeless stumble, he finds himself in Bar Karma. Confused over what is going on, he wonders if he has already killed himself, and he is now in Hell. He meets the members of the Bar Karma, and the story unfolds.
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Bar Karma is hopping tonight. Marilyn Monroe enters alone. She takes the only empty seat at the bar, directly in front of James, and announces "champagne for everyone!" Now she takes a longer look at James....she knows him, but can't remember from where. James leans in closer, whispers fondly, "I told you someday you would get a second chance." We see a flash of... more
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A young woman enters the bar. She is a very average, unexceptional looking woman in her thirties. They quickly realize that she is very clever, however, and, in a moment of mischevious whim, she admits that she is a professional character assassin. "Not an assassin," she assures them. "I don't kill people. I just destroy credibility." She works to a strict... more
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Doug is still trying to figure out what is going on with the bar. He finds a door that leads somewhere new, its dark down a hallway there is a faint blue glow from a screen or a light or something else, Doug isn't sure. He looks back outside and sees Dayna talking to James as the bar door opens, he decides to leave it for now. In through the door comes a beautiful woman dressed in gold,... more
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A character should try to abuse the capabilities of the bar. He would seem innocent enough, but once he learned of what the bar was, he realizes the possibilities and wants to exploit them for his own gains.
When he takes action to initiate his plan, something dire should happen. All his worst memories flash before him, all his mistakes, regrets, worries.
Of course the... more -
Danya hits a song, but doesn't realize an old man is already in the bar passed out in the corner. Who is he? How did he get here? The door opens and a drunken frat boy stumbles out. Can the Bar Karma team stop the frat boy from getting stabbed by a campus killer? The frat boy, the old man, and Doug step into the wildest party school on the East coast during the biggest party of the year. Does Doug stop flirting with the college girls in time to save the kid? And what of the mysterious old man?
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A con man enters the bar, not realizing that it isn't the bar he thought he had entered. At first he tries conning James out of a few buck with bar tricks, but having been a bartender for quite some time, each attempt fails. After that, the conman asks James if he knows any good cons he could use, but James merely points out that there must be something more important to talk about. The conman reveals that he's pulling a long con, that will set him for life, but little does he know, that the outcome could end up worse than imagined.
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A lawyer enters the bar with another strange individual. The individual wears a muti-colored suit and has a wooden cane and round rim glasses. The lawyer explains that he was merely going to the restroom after attempting to defend a man who went on a killing spree of some former corrupt government officials. He's relieved to be in the bar and getting free drinks and insists that he knows nothing of... more
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The show starts out with a view of the bar at "night" (" " since there is really no sense of time in the bar), Doug, Dayna, and James are all asleep in their rooms. Then all of a sudden a yell is heard from the bar. Immediately the staff wake up and rush to see what the commotion is. As they reach the bar area they see a bright flash of light and suddenly there is a sailor on the floor... more
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A man enter the bar, gun in hand. he turns around shocked and raises his gun, clearly this is not the bar he was expecting to be in. It turns out he is is a gangster, working for Capone in the 20s. He seems generally concerned for his safety and wishes not to return to his life. Doug does not trust him, but Dayna feels that he should be trusted, to make the same choice she did. Shortly after he betrays them nearly killing Doug in an attempt to take control of the bar and is forced by the bar itself to leave, leaving Dayna hurt and questioning herself.
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A person walks in the bar in hospital clothes carrying a sense of awe, relief and surprise. Options:
1) He/she is having a "near death" experience while undergoing a surgery, and reaches Bar Karma.
2) In the case of option 1, here is some Karmic connection between this person and the surgeon or nurses participating in the surgery in past lives.
3) He/she is having a "lucid dream" while in the hospital bed.
4) He/she is actually (already) dead, and reaches Bar Karma as a disembodied "soul". -
A man (or woman) in a suit enters the bar carrying nothing put a pad of paper and a pen. He asks about the stories behind the photographs on the walls, disappearing to his room for days at a time. He turns out to be a world famous author in his own time who has become a bit of a has-been. He won't tell why, but he insists that he must be able to write an accurate account of the future. He soon learns that writing about the future may very well change the lives of those who are in it... For better or worse.
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A man (or woman) practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism enters in the bar feeling somewhat confused and distressed, while carrying "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" in his (her) hands. After interacting with the bartender and waitress a little bit, he (she) has a disturbing insight, and ask them (with a mix of awe, fear and curiosity ) if he (she) is actually dead and in the "Bardo" (note the coincidence of the word "Bar-do"), a word which in Tibetan Buddhism tradition that means the supposed intermediary period some people may experience between this life and their next life... The rest of the story unfolds from here...
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Richard Feynman (American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1965, assisted in the development of the atomic bomb) walks into Bar Karma. The date is August 6, 1945.
Feyman once said, "I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and... more -
In the future, an author's last work becomes a manifesto for a radical politcal movement that threatens global stability. James must bring him in and convince him to write a piece of best seller fluff instead. Will the old man sacrifice his legacy to save millions of lives?
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At the end of an episode, suddenly, a violent storm strikes outside. But not a normal, earthly storm. Green and purple lightening, rain pouring horizontally, dark red sky, deafening weird noises. The whole bar shakes as hit by an earthquake. Everyone in the bar has an end-of-the-world expression/reaction. That’s when the door slams open and an alien-esque figure... more
