Seven years later and I’m still re-watching episodes of the show hoping I stumble on one I haven’t seen.

Those title cards is why I come back to re-watch this episode every 3 months.

The 8 shows: Sympathetic anti-hero/anti-villain Rich white people problems Dysfunctional cast Quirky charming guy with a twist Aggressive, Inescapable good guy Bad boys that are right all the time and a holes Comedies few people see The Wire

at the end I thought they would come up with Community. It fits with all the conditions

Daniel (as always) shows incredible knowledge of even the most obscure sides of pop culture. 15 seconds pass. "Dan isn´t an expert at anything".

I really want to hear the other seven versions of Dinosaur Detective.

I love hearing Katie say HBO isn't going to "listen to some internet comedy dicks" now that we know that one of these four people went on to write for a multi-Emmy-winning HBO show.

I like how whenever Michael brings up a topic, everyone always ends up agreeing with him.

How about a show about World War II, and it would start with a certain soldier and follow him through his pains and greifs of fighting in the war, but then, a plot twist five or so episodes in. He dies. And a new character on another side of the war (Russian, British, German, Japanese, or any of the other countries that fought in WWII) would be the new main character, and it would show the war from their point of view. Sometimes the character would live and get sent home sometimes to wait out the war because he did enough or something. It could show the hardships of being a U-boat first mate, or a soldier on the front lines, or a soldier that flew in a plane. Every episode would be thrilling because you wouldn't know if the guy died or not. It would be hard in the fact that you would need historical accuracy for it to be good, and you would have to make the character likeable, and someone you would want to see survive the war. But maybe every now and then, there is someone you just hate because they had been changed by the war so much, that they lost all of their humanity. And sometimes their stories could cross together, with a German commander shown killing a previous character. Every episode the war would progress, and it could be shown somehow maybe in the beginning of each episode? I would really like to see a show like this with four or five seasons in it, and not to be carried out to long. And maybe a memorial at the end of each season for soldiers that had fought for their countries in WWII. I think if it was historically accurate, had likable characters, and correctly showed what it was like in WWII, I think everyone would love to watch it.

I am stupidly proud of how quickly I picked up that they were talking about The Wire in that last bit. And I do mean stupidly.

Dexter: Quirky, family man working as a blood splatter analyst in a police department who, TWIST, is a serial killer.

At 4:49 to 4:54 it's Lin Manuel Miranda from Hamilton I didn't know that until now

This is the smartest KZfaq show ever. Been 5-6 years they recorded their last episode, and still, this one show rules. Wish them the best, wherever these guys are, whatever these guys are doing

I thought it was going to end with them realizing that After Hours is the prefect different show. It's not really a protagonist or villain but just friends talking about what they loved and once and a while talk about something outside a diner.

"Did we just make The Wire?" And that's when I lost it.

1:57 it's called the "Pretty White Kids with Problems" genre

When I saw Die Hard as a kid on tv the phrase was, "Yippie Kai yay Mr Falcon."

All the variations of 'Vagina Whisperer' had me laughing so much. xD

Pretty sure TheGoodPlace has all the trope breaking attributes they were listing at the end. Phenomenal show.

Isn't Game of Thrones about rich white people in a fantasy world with problems no real-person would have?

"Theodore Rex" was about a dinosaur detective. Shit, everything has been done!

I'm I the only one who thinks Dinosaur Detective sounds kind of awesome in a chessy kind of way?

what we need is some kind of genre breaking space western with comedy charecters where the real protagonist we care about is their ship. Maybe they could pick up a couple of wanted fugitives from the evil space nazis. That would be shiny.

When they described The Wire i thought they were describing LOST

Can a network pick up "Hippy by Day" for a pilot?

Am I the only one that would watch "Sue me B****!"?

i'd watch dinosaur detective

Here's a concept that might work: the world after a Dr. Horrible type supervillain wins. It would be about his and the world's experiences as he discovers that conquering the world is the easy part. He would mostly make things better, but sometimes really screw up, and have all the usual card-carrying villain things (brutal dissent crackdowns, shark tanks, evil laughter, etc.) sometimes serious and dark and sometimes played for comedy. Throw in a romance arc (because what woman would turn down being queen of the world?) and you've got a show. (Actually, regarding the last sentence's parenthetical - why not make it a woman who does all this? She'd be motivated by the mistreatment of women the world over and stopping it.) The pilot would be the classic "villain downfall" scene, except the superhero gets killed instead of the villain and is never mentioned again, followed by "villain" and world realizing he/she has won.

I would watch a show about the four of you discussing pop culture for hours.

They kinda described Sense8.

Hippie by day, Ricky Martin!

eight years later this is still my favorite and most memorable episode of after hours

reboot of "The Twilight Zone" in the light of modern worlds problems. good sci-fi is whats really missing on tv.

How about "Dinosaur Whisperer"! It's about a man who can communicate with dinosaurs to fight against evil dinosaurs and.... DAMN CHRIS PRATT!!!!!

Actually both versions of the Dinosaur Detective have already been done. The short lived Fox show Terra Nova had Jason O'Mara as a detective who time travels to the Cretaceous period to solve dinosaur crimes. While the 90's movie Theodore Rex had a dinosaur detective teaming up with Whoopi Goldberg, (she tried everything to get out of making that movie,) to solve future crimes.

" a time period HBO hasn't used like the future or the civil war" you guys called Westworld four years before it came out

Their last idea for a TV show sounds like American Horror Story too and that's an awesome show

Six years later and I still want everyone of their ideas to get made.

I have an idea for a tv show about time traveling kids. The twist is that at the end of every episode, one of the kids has to stay in the past, to watch over the timeline.

"Different people- people on different sides of the law, people that cross the socio-economic spectrum. And they're all in the same place, stuck together, and they're learning, without even realizing it, that although they're very different, deep down inside they're just the same!" "Is it- did we just make- GILLIGAN'S ISLAND?"

The wire sounds a lot like lost the way they described it .-.

Honestly, what would make for a good tv is honestly, *The Purge*. Instead of it bein another boring, typical slasher and shooting flick, it could have been a tv show of countless people from all different walks of life from priests, drug dealers, business mangers, politicians, doctors, racists, petty thieves, mass murders, rapists, and of course the good people who don't even want to cause crime, all dealing with and acting out their lives during that 12 hour period where nearly everything is legal. That would make for an amazing and incredibly dark tv show depending on the perspective of the people we're watching. Talk about a wasted idea.

I love how much fun they had with the blurbs at the bottom. That's like 65% of the enjoyment of this one.

The title cards make this definitely my favorite episode of this show, so hilarious

The one thing Fox ever did right was Fringe. That was awesome.

"Yeah but Fox has a hard time canceling their shows too early. They either cancel good shows too early" You have no idea how much I thought of Raising Hope and the Mindy Project. I know there are other ones I could list but ah well.

Micheal: let’s pitch HBO a show in a time period they haven’t used yet, the future, the civil war... wait did Michael write west world?

These videos may have stopped years ago but I still put on a playlist of all of them, and fall asleep to them every night

Detective Dinosaur: a Kid's show about a Dinosaur who solves relatively simple mysteries. In other words, Blue's Clues with a dinosaur wearing tweed.

HIPPIE BY DAY RICKY MARTIN!

I miss these guys and gal.

1:41 This will prove his point just a little bit (and also that I waste a lot of time): Tony Soprano Jax Teller Walter White Don Draper Ray Donovan Jessica Jones Louie Lucas Hodd Matt Murdock Raylan Givens Frank Gallagher Lucas Hood Al Swearengen Oliver Queen Dexter Morgan Will McAvoy Pablo Escobar Jimmy McGuill Piper Chapman Tom Kane James McNulty Nucky Thompson Frank Underwood The detectives in True Detective Elliot Alderson Nucky Thompson Joe Teague Vic Mackey Lincoln Burrows Lester Nygaard Vic Mackey Lucius Vorenus Ragnar Lothbrok Thomas Shelby Rick Grimes John Luther Jim Gordon Alec Hardy Catherine Cawood Sarah Linden Carrie Mathison John Rayburn Raymond Reddington Jane Doe John Reese Ryan Hardy Hank Moody John Constantine Will Graham Norman Bates Frank Agnew Harry Bosch Spartacus Elliot Alderson Sarah Manning Ike Evans Ethan Chandler Dean Winchester Doug

hahahaha. this almost makes me feel like I have friends

How about a show that follows someone with depression. It goes through the number of stages, struggling with identifying the problem along with other people saying to simply be more happier, to suicidal thoughts, and struggles the protagonist will have with their family and friends, dating and the trying the number of therapies the protagonist will go through. It'll be more ironic to make it into s sitcom, like pushing daisies

Can you really call Walter White an anti-hero? Be the 3rd to 4th season I'd say he is more like a villain in disguise.

Sounds like American Horror Story...

I love the little pop ups on the bottom. Those are pretty amazing.

I really enjoy the After Hours bits.

The first time I watched this, with the part at the end, I was almost positive it was going to be Sesame Street, which (mostly) fits

I thought they were describing The Good Place. Now I want to watch the Wire.

Starting at 4:35 - She says Heroes was on Fox but I believe that was on NBC.

Homeless people traveling the nations highways looking for the best hand-outs; ensemble cast that is disposable, scenes change as needed(where ever filming is cheap or the producers what to hang for a while) and people singing are outcast along with teen-ages. You could call it "The Gutter-Snipes" or the "Lost Ones" or "Between the Cracks", which is a nice double entendre(sp) to bring up drugs and off-camera weirdness.

Soren said "UPN" and got no response to it. Lmaoooo

Hippie by Day Ricky Martin Is that real?

what about a sitcom show about a bunch of white people hanging out and getting into mischief every week? ...wait...

I personally subscribe to the theory that there is no such thing as an original idea. Everything was based on or inspired by other things and taken one step further. TV has been recycling plots since the beginning. Each new generation grows up without knowledge of the past so the recycled things appear to be new, but really it's only new to that generation. It's just been given a face lift or reupholstered. And before that, TV took from books which took from real life, and now every medium steals from others. I love poking fun at American television, but it's not as white washed- actually no it is. Even if the main cast is intentionally diverse, background characters are all white. It could just be that the pool of actors available to pick from are mostly white rather than institutional discrimination. Something that a lot of people forget is that 3.5 of the seven continents consists of white people. Did you know that a lot of American TV actors are actually Australian or British in origin? I watch Paley fest interviews and there they are talking in all their accented glory. There are also a lot of ethnic people on America's A-list of movie stars. In any case, I don't fault the US for having mostly white actors. It is a white people country (or was originally anyway). Do we accuse Koreans for not having more Japanese in their dramas or vice versa? No. Should we bash Bollywood for not incorporating more Pakistanis? Absurd. The race of the protagonist for most visual media will always be the dominant race of the country. In addition, if you really want to experience diversity, watch foreign films. That's a real breath of fresh air. I warn you though, Korean dramas don't just tug at your heartstrings, they break them.

Anyone missing this series, watch Michael's reboot called off hours

When they were pitching The Wire i kept imagining Community. Just me?

Ahaha! I was thinking The Wire even before it was shown at the end. Best tv show I've ever seen!

this is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps

I love this show guys. After Hours is my favorite out of all your different videos! Keep up the great work!

please keep making more of these your table banter is both funny and enlightening

How's about a show where the main protagonist isn't the central character? The main protagonist is just a member of the leader's entourage, like the jack-of-all trades, the secondary chick, or the strong/supposedly dumb guy. They have some things happen to them, of course; their parents or partner die, they get kidnapped, and so on. However, the show proceeds like it would if it was focused on the central character; all the stuff that usually happens to protagonists happen to the central character, not the protagonist.

I don't think I've ever seen The Wire cuz when people try to explain it to me and say how it's not like any other show I've ever seen, they end up kinda describing every other show I've ever seen. So.

Dudes, your channel is like college humor, but yours is smart, and humorous.

Hey it's the middle of 2021... make more of these now!!! Please and thank you

Their description of the Wire could also have been Orange is the New Black.

You haven't lived until you've seen Die Hard uncensored. Honestly.

That rap moment was an isolated incident. The insane asylum House arc was a masterpiece. Breaking up with Cuddy song episode was a crime against god and a cowardly backpeddle, but the show was still fantastic to the end. Before that stumble, EVERY episode was a masterpiece. Last season was the worst but the bar was so high that it was still really good

Came back after all this time to point out that Action Hospital was sort of actually made in the form of a new Netflix show called Medical Police

So we will never get anything better than the Wire?

"A strong, male, anti-hero's journey to redemption." That is the exact opposite of Walter White.

This is my favorite thing on the Internet. Thank you to all involved.

4:30 Dan nearly cracked at that Gordon Ramsey joke

So, the hero is either a quirky, or not quirky hero, or an antihero who either does or doesn't find redemption. They face problems that are either too problematic or not problematic enough, surrounded by characters that are similar to them or not similar to them. Or it's a comedy and they all end either before they should, at the right time, or they go on too long. Man, all shows are totally the same.

...also described American Horror Story...

8 years later... still amazing.

The Good Place. You just described The Good Place. I know it hadn't come out yet for years, but, FYI, we have The Good Place.

Is that what The Wire is about? I thought they were describing American Horror Story, lol

What about a TV show with people who have super powers, but are terrified of them. Like a guy who has the power to fly, but is afraid of heights.

That sounds a little bit like Community

The ketchup stays on the table when Michael keeps talking and Soren apparently keeps shaking the bottle lmao

Watching these After hours always makes me hungry.

Get these guys to cameo in Sunny in Philadelphia!! Ah, a guy can dream

I really LOVE these videos!!! You guys always make me smile.

I think it's hilarious that Swaim suggested Dinosaur Detective, because there actually was a made-for-tv movie called Anonymous Rex (2004) where dinosaurs disguise themselves as humans in the modern day. The protagonist is a strong, conflicted, male velociraptor who solves dino crimes with his triceratops best buddy. Seriously. Google it.

I'd like to see how they'd describe Hannibal. He's not the anti-hero looking for redemption because he's PURE FUCKING EVIL and NOT looking for redemption at all. It's partially a procedural like some of the CBS shows but instead of drug dealers and pedo's, it's different serial killers, but there's also a main overall story, this cat and mouse thing (and also kind of a weird bromance thing) between Will and Hannibal. And Will does actually care for Hannibal and in many ways doesn't want to really catch him.. so he's far from your usual protagonist too.

"vagina whisperer" had me rolling on the floor

Years later and I still miss them so much

Master of None ;)