I actually liked the Rerun Show. It brought me back to around 1996, when I was performing in a theater group known as the "Sick and Twisted Players". We put on plays like "A Very Brady Friday the 13th", where the Brady Bunch (and Davy Jones) got killed off one by one by the infamous Jason. Other plays were titled "The Facts Of Life Prom Night", "Texas Chainsaw 90210", and "The Funhouse Featuring Scooby-Doo". The videos might still be available at Leather Tounge Video on 18th and Valencia, but I haven't checked in a while.
Oops...I went off onto a tangent of shameless self-promotion. Sorry. My point was that all of the players (in Sick and Twisted and The Rerun Show) mostly kept true to the nature of the characters, except for that they were all played as perverts. If "The Rerun Show" takes off, it can't really last too long...after a year they're going to run out of shows to spoof.
The same thing is about to happen in the media. It has to be the final frontier to remake shows that never should have been done in the first place. Who knows, the new "Family Affair" might be good...Tim Curry is playing the gay manservant Mr. French, so it will at least be campy. But what happens when every popular show from the last fifty years is redone? Is this the end of creativity? Are the aliens about to finally show up?
On the other hand, this might not be a bad thing at all. Maybe on the new "Family Affair", Mr. French will have a boyfriend (most likely to be the kids' uncle). Then, some network can do a 21st century version of "The Facts Of Life" (in my opinion, one of the most spoofable shows in existence...I have other articles in the making involving this show), where Blair is a wealthy bisexual bulimic, Jo is her on again, off again out punk dyke lover, Natalie is a goth chick, and Tootie is still the wide-eyed innocent...only she rolls around on rollerblades in this version. Oh yeah, and Mrs. Garrett would be an anime.
Hey! I like this game! Here's some more ideas:
The Golden Girls: To be played this time by four gay male characters, the way it was so obviously meant to be. Also can be done with Sex and the City.
The Partridge Family: Would most likely be best as a movie...but as a TV show, my dream cast would have Justin Timberlake as Keith, Kelly Osbourne as Laurie, Cyndi Lauper as Shirley, and Danny Bonaduce as Ruben Kincaid, becuase, why not? Think of the possibilites!
Step by Step: Wait a minute, that's the Brady Bunch remake, isn't it? Only that's not what they said it was...you know, the widower and the divorcee with three kids each get married, with certain hijinks to follow? Am I right?
Family Ties: Characterized in reverse this time, with the parents as yuppies, Alex as a tree-hugging hippie, Mallory as an ecstacy-popping candy raver, and Jennifer without those unflattering shoulder pads.
Try some ideas yourself! have fun! Once we can figure out how many shows can be redone and in how much time, we can determine the exact time when the little blue gnomes are going to crawl out of the ground and beam us into their underground world.
