sitcoms

After the "success" (really?!?) of their new show "$#*! My Dad Says," news has come that CBS is turning a second Twitter account into a sitcom, @ShhDonTellSteve.

Let's let The Hollywood Reporter tell the story:

"The Twitter feed's premise is a guy who secretly Tweets the actions of somebody he lives with (in this case, his jobless, drunken roommate). The feed has drawn more than 13,000 followers."

That actually seems like–  Wait…  13,000 followers?!?  That's it???

@ShitMyDadSays had over 700,000 followers when it got picked up as a sitcom.  All it takes now is 13,000 followers??  We should all get in on that gravy train…

That's why I've created a new Twitter account: @JohnnySitcom.

The Twitter feed's premise is simple: It follows the hacky, TV-ready tripe of a made-up idiot, Johnny Sitcom.

And here's the best part: If we cross the 13,000 follower mark, I'll go sell the Twitter account to CBS and we'll all split the giant profits!  Too easy, right?

So go follow @JohnnySitcom and then sit back and wait for the checks to start rolling in!  FREE MONEY!!!

While most people agree that the Twitter account @shitmydadsays is mildly funny, we can't all justify it's creator, Justin Halpburn, getting a TV deal with CBS for it's own TV show. A show based off a Twitter account? Even we know that's a bad idea.

If we all knew our tweets had the potential do to anything more than fill everyone in on our mundane statuses, I'm sure we'd all try harder. Or we wouldn't; because Twitter is – and always will be – completely pointless. There's not much more depressing than someone getting paid ridiculous amounts of money for having a mildly entertaining Twitter account… or is there?

After the jump, I've come up with a few more ridiculous Internet-related TV deals that could be pitched so we (me) can stop feeling bad about our (my) Tweets being anything less than television show worthy.

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Here I was, thinking that Microsoft's attempt at a viral video marketing campaign for Windows 7 a couple weeks ago was the worst thing I'd ever seen, but ah! Not true!

THIS is Microsoft's worst marketing video I've ever seen.

Someone actually wrote this! If you don't feel like listening to crappy mid-90's sitcom dialogue combined with a Windows '95 tutorial for ten minutes, here's my favorite snippet:

Lady: Now let's load up the task bar; I'll show you what it does.
Jennifer Aniston: Task bar? Is that anything like a Snicker's bar? Does that have nougat?
(beat)
Matthew Perry: What is nougat, does anybody know that?
[insert Seinfeld bass riff]

Matthew Perry is really at the height of his Chandler-ness in this video– it's intense.

And Jennifer Aniston too!? I'm so excited I'm going to go get "The Rachel" and avoid buying anything Microsoft makes for the rest of my life.

Thanks Bill Gates!

[via Reddit]

Sometimes you run across diamonds in the internet rough. Case in point: this video of a scene from Wonder Years that takes out the narration and proves that without it, the sitcom is just people staring at each other.  A lot.

You can't see that on television! Hilarious.

You'd think watching a show without all that extra detail would be completely boring, but then you're forgetting that any man alive doesn't care if footage of Winnie Cooper has sound– they just want to stare at her.  And what did they give us gals to stare at?  Wayne.  Hmpf.  

[via Rejection Show]