Back in 2005 I had the fortune of sharing a dorm unit with a pretty interesting fellow, who ends up being one of my best friends. Our tastes in movies and TV shows are so much alike that we ended up spending most of our weeknights watching movies or TV together.
Since then we have also shared many many incidents in which we collaborate on various different things (from making art pieces to writing papers or scripts)... mainly due to the fact that we always leave our schoolworks till the very last minute (since we spend the rest of our time watching movies/shows) , and for a desperate man, any help would be welcomed.
Because we are such lazy bastards, we have "allowed" ourselves many opportunities to exercise our creativity in a very team-oriented kind of way; passing through each week like Bo and Luke on Dukes of Hazzard; muscle car and hot chicks replaced with beer guts and Asian-fro.
Eventually we realize that perhaps it is time for us to get serious and start off a project of our own. Lots of random ideas were flowing around at first, but eventually we come down to collaborating on writing various scripts that would be shot and presented as short comedy skits for youtube or the likes.
We had a few premises that we were working on, but overall they all revolve around the idea of "roommates", since FRIENDS was still fresh in our minds. But anyhow, one of the premises is about the weird and funny situations a group of nerdy and socially awkward guys would share with a hot girl who lives next to them. Another one would be about a group of WoW addicts trying to help each other function socially. The third one would just plainly be about a diverse group of random people living together as roommates... nothing too original... but based on how much random crap we ran into on a daily basis, there is quite a bit of potential...
We have went as far as writing down ideas and dialogues onto papers and notebooks, and came up with how to shoot a certain scene at a certain location with the limited resources that we have. But due to the extreme lay back and lazy nature that we share, nothing ever truly came out into the light of day... Months and years went by as if nothing have ever happened...
Then one day during our normal TV watching time...
we saw the premiere of The Big Bang Theory
Not long after, we heard about Felicia Day's The Guild
Several months later ABC picked up the pilot of Roommates
2/3 of them became quite successful
On a brighter side... we are glad that nothing of ours ever came out... cause if you haven't noticed yet, our writing sucks... or at least mine is :(
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